During an interview with Cleveland’s Fox 8 on Tuesday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden vowed that if he is elected president, the United States won’t depend on China or any other nation for medical supplies and that he’ll use the federal government’s production power to make medical supplies in the U.S., eliminate tax incentives to move production to other countries created by President Trump, and increase investment in U.S. manufacturing to increase production capacity.
Biden stated, “When I’m president, we’ll never again be dependent on China or any other country for our medical supply. First, look, I’ll use the power of the federal government, which is the largest producer of medical products in the United States, to make sure critical supplies, medical supplies, equipment, ventilators, masks, swabs, reagent, all of it are produced in the United States of America, we never have to rely on another country again. Secondly, I’m going to eliminate the Trump tax incentives for offshoring this material, offshoring this work…and third, I’ll invest in U.S. manufacturers in every part of the country. So, we build up the production capacity we need right here at home, in the United States.”
Biden Sold Out America to
China While Working for Hollywood
Biden: "There is no
question that you've got the right guy with the right influence."
May 8, 2020
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the
Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the
radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Outside the JW Marriot in Los Angeles, Rev. Eddie Perez Romero was
being handcuffed by the LAPD.
Rev. Romero was holding up a “Free China” sign outside a Chinese Ministry of Commerce conference. Inside was the LAPD's
boss Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, along with Governor Jerry Brown, and Vice
President Joe Biden, who were palling around with China’s future dictator, Xi
Jinping.
“My hope is that Vice President Joseph Biden, Governor Jerry Brown
and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will rise above any pandering spirit, but as
true statesmen, intentionally blur the artificial line between the economy and
human rights,” Rev. Romero said.
Biden though had a very different agenda on his mind.
It was 2012 and Joe was thinking about his future. A year earlier
his best friend, Senator Chris Dodd, had left the Senate to run the MPAA. The
MPAA was Hollywood's trade association and the movie industry, reading its own
writing on the wall, wanted into China, and was willing to sell its soul to
make a deal.
Biden wanted Hollywood cash for a future presidential campaign.
Dodd had been one of the sleaziest figures in the Senate, even by
the low standards of the era, eager to do favors for any well-heeled industry
from finance to entertainment. His friendship with Biden gave him a direct
pipeline into the Obama administration. And Dodd gave Biden a pipeline into
Hollywood.
“Joe was our champion inside the White House,” Dodd later said .
Two years later, in 2014, Biden began an address to the MPAA by
joking, "there have been the rumors all those years when Chris and I
served in the Senate that although I was chairman, he controlled me."
"We've just given new life to those rumors," he
continued, describing how he had left a meeting with Obama and Chancellor
Merkel, telling Obama that he had to address the MPAA.
"There is no question that you've got the right guy with the
right influence," Biden concluded.
And that’s exactly what Biden had been proving in Los Angeles as
he surrounded Xi with Hollywood tycoons, especially Jeffrey Katzenberg, a major
donor to his 2020 campaign, and cut a deal with the Chinese thug to increase
the quota of Hollywood movies allowed in by the Chinese Communist regime.
"Some of you were there. Literally when by end of that lunch
we had a handshake," Biden boasted to the MPAA. “The next year the number
of blockbuster foreign films showing in China has increased by over half and
our share of the box office revenue has doubled -- or your share of the box
office revenue has doubled.”
“Keep me in mind for Chris' assistant later,” he joked.
Biden understandably lost track of the difference between “your
share” and “our share” because Hollywood has been a reliable fundraising
machine for Biden. What was good for Hollywood was also good for Biden.
Katzenberg got Oriental Dream Works, a $330-million joint venture with the PRC,
and eventually hosted Biden's first Southern California fundraiser which
brought in $700K.
2012 was a big year for the adulterous nuptials of Hollywood and
the Chinese Communist Party.
A few months after the meeting between Biden and Xi, China’s Wanda
Group bought AMC Theaters for $2.6 billion. The Wanda Group, run by a
billionaire Communist oligarch with close ties to regime officials, is working
on a Communist theme park, and its investors allegedly include Xi’s sister.
Beyond just owning the theaters, Wanda owns the Legendary Group which has a
hand in a long list of movies from Spike Lee's BlacKKKlansman, to Pokemon,
along with the King Kong and Jurassic Park sequels.
The only reason Hollywood movies can play in China is because the
Communist leadership directly profits from them and controls what goes into
them, either directly through ownership, or by forcing the industry to submit
scripts for the approval of its Communist censors. HUAC would be superfluous
today. The big studios who make up the MPAA are all working for the Communists.
And they’re proud of it.
That’s why a Tibetan character vanished from Doctor Strange
(Disney has been the worst offender when it comes to appeasing the Communist
leadership), why Taiwanese and Japanese flag patches vanished from Tom Cruise’s
jacket in the Top Gun sequel (the movie was backed by Tencent, the PRC social
media monopoly whose social media controls allow the regime to censor dissent and which has its paws on
Wonder Woman, Venom and many other blockbusters), and why World War Z erased references to China covering up the origin of the zombie outbreak. That
act of censorship now appears prophetic.
Biden’s brokering of the relationship between Hollywood and the
Communist elite was more than financial, it was also cultural. Hollywood traded
access for control, not just over what Chinese people saw, but what Americans
were likely to see. Biden’s donors got richer and American movies were reduced
to a bunch of CG cartoons with limited dialogue that had to win Communist
approval.
And it wasn’t just Hollywood.
In 2013, a year after the Xi event at the Marriot, Joe and Hunter
Biden flew on Air Force Two to China. BHR Partners was founded that year and
included Hunter Biden as a board member. Underneath all the rhetoric about the
ennobling virtues of globalism was some very parochial and familial
profiteering.
The big Chinese partner in the BHR arrangement was Harvest Fund
Management which, coincidentally
enough, in 2012 was targeting Hollywood with an $800 million investment fund. That same year, you
could find Bruno Wu, who had been working with Harvest, and Chris Dodd, along
with Harvey Weinstein, playing roles at the Asian Film Summit in Toronto. And
the money didn’t just go one way.
The Delaware Board of Trade was incorporated in 2013. Despite its
name, the DBOT was not a government agency, but a penny stock startup which
received a $3 million loan from New Castle County.
New Castle County had approved the issue of $15 million in revenue
bonds to fund the DBOT
"stock exchange" by touting the "globally recognized leaders in
the financial services industry" running it. DBOT’s founders included
people with experience in stock exchanges and financial services, and Dennis
Toner, who was described as a "top aide to Vice President Joe Biden."
Toner, Biden's deputy chief of staff, is in the news for denying
that Tara Reade ever told him anything.
Reade’s decision to tell Toner and Ted Kaufman was a pretty poor
one. Both are longtime Biden men and considered as close to the boss as family.
And they’ve reaped the benefits of that closeness.
Emperor Caligula appointed his horse to the Roman Senate. After
Obama won, Ted Kaufman was temporarily appointed to the Senate. If there was
anything odd about appointing a Biden advisor to sit in the Senate, it became
odder when Senator Kaufman delivered the opening
statement in favor of Toner’s
appointment as Post Office Governor, by vouching for his “loyalty” working for
Joe Biden.
Reade might as well have taken her complaint to Biden, as to Toner
and Kaufman.
The current New Castle County exec has since called DBOT’s
founders criminals and threatened to sue after the company was disposed of as a
"distressed asset" in exchange for shares of Ideanomics. Ideanomics
is a Chinese crypto company trading as a penny stock and the software that
served as collateral for the loan has been described as worthless. The chairman
of Ideanomics is Wu.
Biden’s vaunted foreign policy expertise has consisted of
brokering deals between family members, donors, and foreign interests. These
deals haven’t been good for America, but they’ve worked out very well for
members of his crooked family, as well as assorted donors, camp followers, and local
boys.
But his biggest deal was helping broker the Chinese takeover of
the American entertainment industry.
Xi’s visit to Los Angeles hit on all the right cultural notes. He
schmoozed Hollywood bigwigs and their errand boys, like Dodd and Biden,
he watched a Lakers game , and cheered Obama’s 100,000 Strong China initiative to have a hundred thousand American students
study in the Communist dictatorship.
"I can say with confidence my visit has been a full
success," Xi declared.
In China, culture serves the agenda of the Communist government.
Unlike the Russians, who struggled vainly to stem the impact of American
culture, their Chinese counterparts decided to control it at the source. Biden
was a key figure in negotiating the terms on which the PRC would control
Hollywood.
In 1962, the Manchurian Candidate depicted an effort by Communists
in China, Russia, and elsewhere to kidnap and brainwash American soldiers. The
modern remake replaced the Communists with a corporation and the Chinese doctor
with a South African geneticist. China could not be offended.
While Biden, Katzenberg, and Xi were partying at the Marriot,
human rights protesters were calling for freedom, and being arrested by the
henchmen of a one-party Democrat city and state for their trouble.
Even while Biden was falsely claiming that the Hollywood sellout
would improve human rights in China, the rise of China was already violating
human rights in America. Now, as Chinese drones fly over American cities,
police stalk empty streets, social media monopolies monitor every single phone,
and Democrat officials dismiss the Bill of Rights while locking up millions of
people, our rights are gone.
And Joe Biden is the Manchurian Candidate who long ago sold out
the country he now seeks to rule.
JUST FOLLOW THE DIRTY RED
CHINA MONEY RIGHT INTO THEIR GREEDY TRAITORS’ POCKETS.
"The Chinese Communist Party's vision for
the future is global domination," Cruz said. "Unfortunately, Joe
Biden isn't even aware that a battle is waging. After decades in Washington, he
has dismissed China over and over again and has allowed his family to make
money off their tyranny and deception. The United States can prevail in this
contest of nations so long as we have a president — like President Trump
— who is willing to stand up to China and hold them accountable."
After Feinstein was
elected to the Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to
China. A the same time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China
hand” to colleagues, even once claiming “that
in my last life maybe I was Chinese.” HARIS ALIC
Ted Cruz Describes Joe
Biden's
'Sophisticated Corruption'
Cortney O'Brien
"Remember simpler
times when corruption was just $10,000 in a paper bag handed secretly under a
table in a smoky bar in Washington?" Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reminisced on
Sunday.
"Corruption sadly
has gotten much more sophisticated in Washington," Cruz continued in his
conversation with Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. "With
Joe Biden there is just a lot of questions about his family enriching
themselves in order to get policy decisions from Joe Biden."
A lot of this year's
impeachment trial focused on Hunter Biden and his conduct in Ukraine, where he
sat on the board of a corrupt gas company. They paid him $1 million a year.
"I don't know about
you but I've never had a Ukrainian gas company call me up and say, 'Hey come
serve on our board of directors,'" Cruz said. "That's kind of out
there."
Which is strange, Cruz
noted, because Hunter didn't speak Ukrainian and the only thing he probably
knows about gas is that he routinely filled up the gas tank in his car. They
only cared who his daddy was.
Cruz then repeated President
Trump's claim that Hunter got greedy and asked for $1.5 billion from China when
he accompanied his dad on a trip to Beijing in 2013. According to Trump and
others, Hunter negotiated a deal to create a joint-investment fund between his
company, Rosemont Seneca, and a Chinese state-run bank. Wanting influence with
the vice president, they reportedly gave him the money.
President Trump:
"China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened
in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine. So, I would say
that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an
investigation into the Bidens."
"They've gotten
sophisticated in this shakedown," Cruz said of the Bidens.
The senator alleged that
Biden's weak position on China has tainted his foreign policy agenda. Murtaugh
asked Cruz to expand on Biden's history of siding with China and dismissing the
CCP as a threat on the 2020 campaign trail, all of which has earned him the
nickname, "Beijing Biden."
"The Chinese
Communist Party's vision for the future is global domination," Cruz said.
"Unfortunately, Joe Biden isn't even aware that a battle is waging. After
decades in Washington, he has dismissed China over and over again and has
allowed his family to make money off their tyranny and deception. The United
States can prevail in this contest of nations so long as we have a president —
like President Trump — who is willing to stand up to China and hold them
accountable."
Biden also accused
President Trump of being "racist" and "xenophobic" when he
banned travel to and from China in January when we first learned of the
coronavirus. The former VP would backtrack on those remarks and eventually come
to find that Trump was right. It was one of Biden's signature flip flops.
"In what universe is
Joe Biden going to be able to do stand up with strength, with fortitude, and
combat China?" Cruz wondered.
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