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.
Hollywood loves Joe Biden because it's kind of like Joe Biden
I use the term "Hollywood" to refer to the numerous actors, actresses, singers, and other entertainers such as the NFL and NBA — and alsothe media, which are a major wing of the Democratic Party. All of these loudly, openly, and obnoxiously support Joe Biden.
Why do they support a corrupt, lying career politician who has never had a real job in the private sector but has been on the public payroll for 47 years enriching himself and his family?
Let us be honest. Actors read lines written by others, make faces, and change their voices to suit the scene. Some singers write their own songs. But again, most sing tunes written by others.
Athletes such as basketball and football players are born with gifts of physical ability that they hone to play sports. They can run, jump, catch and throw a ball, and dribble and shoot a ball.
What does any of the above qualify these people to lecture us on abortion, immigration, and who to vote for for president?
They "entertain." There is nothing wrong with entertaining us, but do we need them to lecture us?
Hollywood comprises a bunch of phony hypocrites who earn more than they ever dreamed they could. They live in mansions, drive expensive cars, and have no regular real contact with normal working Americans. They have not invented or improved any machines, products, medicine, or other items that enhance our way of life.
For example, every day, we get lectured by Rob Meathead Reiner, Barbra Streisand, Alyssa Milano, etc. The worst is Hanoi Jane Fonda, who laughingly told us that the China virus is a gift from God to the left.
There are many examples of Hollywood lecturing us. On Sunday, October 11, 2020, the ABC local station in Pittsburgh ran an interview with Michael Keaton that was essentially an ad for Biden. The supposed reason for the interview is that Keaton was born in the Pittsburgh area. But it was a slobbering Biden ad to influence the vote in a key state, Pennsylvania. He said Joe Biden looks you in the eye and tells the truth. He said this is a moment of history. Keaton, acting as a regular blue-collar working guy, said he is from a town between two mill towns, McKees Rocks and Coraopolis.
The truth is that Keaton is from Robinson Township, a middle-class suburb, and attended a good suburban school, Montour. He has a net worth of over $15 million and owns and resides on a ranch in lily-white Montana.
Keaton, as a representative of the Hollywood hypocrites, did not buy a house to live in McKees Rocks or Coraopolis. These towns are run-down old factory towns with population diversity that reflects Hollywood's lectures on how we should live. Keaton, though, opts for 89%-white, 0.06%-black Montana.
The bottom line is that these hypocrites know they make lots of money doing nothing of any real importance. So they want to feel important by lecturing us on how to live. They are attracted to the redistributionist polices of the left to assuage their conscience about the money they make for the relatively insignificant work they do.
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.
The manager of DBOT-I LLC was
listed as John Hynansky. The car
dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady
brother half a million dollars and
had received $20 million in
government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in
the Ukraine.
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.
The deal would impose no review
of human rights and impose no conditions for democratic reforms, supervised
multi-party elections and such. All that, and more, is already a done deal with
China, like the USSR a one-party Communist dictatorship that never produced a
single product the United States needs. This has come about, in large part, due
to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Democrat.
LLOYD
BILLINGSLEY
https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/04/americas-china-dependency-syndrome-lloyd-billingsley
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
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL
LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY
VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT
"CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION" BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2019/07/she-ranks-as-one-of-most-corrupt-and.html
IN THE November 2006 election, the
voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed
chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly
in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many
years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say
congressional ethics experts.
“All in all, it was an incredible victory for
the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any
serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
“Our entire
crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a
kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the
way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
Senator Who Employed Chinese Spy
Endorses Joe Biden for President
A high-profile U.S. senator with professional
and personal ties to China — including once employing one of its spies — is
backing former Vice President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s
business dealings with the communist regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a former chairwoman of the Senate
Intelligence Committee, announced her endorsement of the former vice president
on Tuesday, claiming to have witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership
during their overlapping tenures in Congress.
Feinstein said in a
statement:
I’ve worked closely with Vice President Biden and I’ve seen
firsthand his legislative ability, his statesmanship, and most importantly his
moral fortitude (NO, IT’S NOT A JOKE, BUT THEN FEINSTEIN IS THE MOST
SELF-SERVING CORRUPT POL IN U.S. HISTORY). During his time in Congress and in
the White House, Joe Biden has been a tireless fighter for hard working (ILLEGALS)
MEXICAN families.
BLOG: FEINSTEIN LOVES BIDEN BECAUSE SHE WALLOWS IN
CORRUPTION. BIDEN HAD SPENT HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL LIFE SUCKING OFF BRIBES.
“He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of
his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not
personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his
position. He
thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all over the globe. After all,
that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the benefits package for being in the
liberal elite. And all these people fussing and fighting about the paternity
test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally out of line. How dare they? HOW
DARE THEY!”
He wants to raise taxes, open the borders, let you pay for illegal
aliens’ sex changes, and spark a civil war by taking guns from the people who
don’t commit crimes.
THE OLD WHORE FEINSTEIN IS
NOT ONLY ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING, SHE HAS BEEN A MAJOR
INSTRUMENT IN THE FALL OF AMERICA AS SHE TUCKS THEIR BRIBES DEEP INTO THE
BOTTOMLESS POCKETS OF HER PIMP HUSBAND RICHARD BLUM!
America’s China Dependency Syndrome
Lessons from the USSR.
April 28, 2020
Lloyd Billingsley
“Made in China” has been a
familiar label on products for years but it wasn’t until March of 2020 that
Americans learned of the perils that might entail. China threatened to
impose export controls on pharmaceuticals that would plunge America
into “the
mighty sea of coronavirus.”
Sen. Marco Rubio told reporters
the United States was “dangerously reliant” on China for critical goods,
including parts for technologies needed to fight COVID-19. Since 2004, Chinese
pharmaceutical companies have been supplying 80-90 percent of U.S. antibiotics.
Americans might wonder how they landed in such a dependent position, and that
invites a comparison with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The world’s first socialist
state, established in the world’s largest nation, never produced a single
product the West wanted or needed. For all its vast natural resources, the USSR
was an economic basket case, and by the mid-1980s in serious trouble.
Suppose that some U.S. senator
had then offered a trade deal that ignored the regime’s human rights violations
and allowed state-owned Soviet companies to manufacture goods for the American
market, all marked “Made In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.” These
would include vital pharmaceuticals and the deal would allow the use of Soviet
steel, and Soviet labor, in major infrastructure projects in the United States.
The deal would impose no review
of human rights and impose no conditions for democratic reforms, supervised
multi-party elections and such. All that, and more, is already a done deal with
China, like the USSR a one-party Communist dictatorship that never produced a
single product the United States needs. This has come about, in large part, due
to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, San Francisco Democrat.
On a visit to Shanghai in 2006
Feinstein told James
Areddy of the Wall Street Journal, “I’ve
been coming to China for 31 years, so I’m not a newcomer.” That would put her
first visit in 1975, one year before the death of the Great Helmsman Mao Zedong
his own self. Feinstein was then a San Francisco supervisor, and as mayor
struck up a sister-city relationship with Shanghai. On the 2006 trip Feinstein
spent time with former Shanghai mayor Zhu Rongji, “a good friend.”
Areddy asked about the
Tiananmen Square massacre then turning 21. Feinstein said it was a “a great
setback for China in the view of the world,” a public-relations problem for
China, not a human rights issue. “It was just the PLA (People’s Liberation
Army)” and China “learned lessons from it.” Still, Feinstein admitted, “we did
not discuss it.”
As Ben Weingarten noted in
the Federalist
in 2018, Sen. Feinstein’s ties to China are “way deeper” than any Chinese
spy in her office. Feinstein maintained a “strictly apologist line” on China’s
human rights atrocities, and Feinstein’s husband has “profited handsomely”
during her career in the Senate. Sen. Feinstein “served as a key intermediary
between China and the U.S. government, while serving on committees whose work
would be of keen interest to the PRC.” For two decades and three election
cycles, Feinstein harbored a Chinese spy who fed “political intelligence” to
Beijing’s Communist regime. Since that article, the dossier has grown longer.
As Rosemarie
Ho noted in The Nation,
Dianne Feinstein failed to support the democracy protesters in Hong Kong. When
the coronavirus hit these shores, Feinstein was uncritical of China and one
of the first to cry “racism” against those who pointed out the
pandemic’s origin in Wuhan, China.
Ben Weingarten wondered how a
motivated and empowered prosecutor would operate if tasked to explore “any
links and/or coordination” between the Chinese government, Feinstein and
individuals associated with her office. Such an investigation never took place
with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the most servile apologist of Communist China
since Anna
Louise Strong, and certainly the most influential. On the other hand, Donald
Trump was thoroughly investigated for “collusion” with Russia, which turned out
to be a hoax.
It was the president’s tweet
that brought Feinstein’s Chinese spy to public attention. President Trump has
access to all U.S. intelligence, a major reason domestic and foreign foes alike
are desperately trying to remove him from office. In his April 19 press
conference, the president called the upper reaches of the DOJ and FBI “human
scum,” and their inattention to Feinstein, Hillary Clinton and other
high-profile Democrats confirms that the rot continues.
President Trump is now throwing
down with the invisible enemy of coronavirus and making progress despite
opposition from Democrats and their media allies. As they parrot Chinese
propaganda, the president has already started the decoupling process.
“We cannot outsource our
independence,” the president
said last Monday. “We cannot be reliant on foreign nations. I’ve been saying this
for a long time. If we’ve learned one thing it’s let's do it here, let’s build
it here, let’s make it here.”
As with the USSR, we don’t need
China for anything. And as Chuck Berry said, anything you want they got right
here in the USA.
Joe Biden? Seriously?
The establishment narrative on Joe Biden is, to put it mildly,
malarkey. Gropey J actually is everything the liberals accuse Donald Trump of
being – bizarre, vulgar, dumb, corrupt, incompetent, and utterly unfit to be
president. But yet the Creepy Veepy is so much more. In the last month, this
totally not-senile, not-at-all-weird guy has assembled a track record of freaky
behavior that would put mid-eighties Crispin Glover to
shame.
Let’s review…
Corn Pop is old news. Biden’s latest rambling onion-on-the-belt monologue
was something about little kids at a pool rubbing his leg hair or something –
it’s so random I’m not even linking to it. There’s no best-case scenario here –
he’s just creepy.
Then, for no other reason than I guess he felt like a snack, he
started gnawing on his wife’s fingers in public and on camera. You know, like
people do. You wonder what the thought process there was…
“Hey, sure
are lots of cameras…gosh, I’m kind of hungry…oh look, an index finger. Yum.”
I’m a little surprised he didn’t pull out a packet of ketchup.
But the best part was when some guy pointed out that, you know,
Biden’s loser son Lil’ Crackpipe is the poster child for corruption and Sane
Joe started spazzing out and calling him “fat” and challenging him to a push-up
contest for some reason.
This is just odd. And this is the candidate who, amazingly, is
still in the lead for the Democrat nomination.
And then there’s the groping females thing. He still does it
occasionally, though the media does its best to curtail coverage of his
lecherous creeping. Do you believe there’s any chance at all that he is not
going to, at some point, have some horrifying incident with some female at the
White House, you know, like grabbing the Queen for a hug n’ rub, or walking
absent-mindedly into the press room in a flapping robe with Little Joe and the
gang in effect?
And let’s be charitable. No one has ever called Joe Biden “smart.”
Well, maybe as a joke. The fact is that he’s a 40-watt guy in a 100-watt world.
Haters say Trump is dumb, but he is demonstrably not dumb. The thing about
Trump is that because our garbage elite hates him it tends to ascribe all
possible negative characteristics to him regardless of whether they apply.
Trump is cunning, crafty and has a keen sense of strategy. You may dislike him,
but that does not change the fact that alone, against the full force of the
elite and its media serfs, he prevailed and continues to prevail. If Trump, who
managed to figure out that it would be a good idea to campaign in Wisconsin, is
dumb, what does that make Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit and the sobbing losers
who supported her?
No one can seriously argue that Joe Biden is smart, and no one
does. They’ll either call you “racist” or start complaining about Trump. But
you won’t get anyone comparing the former veep to Stephen Hawking. They just
sort of elide past his staggering stupidity, perhaps hoping that whoever he
picks for his veep will give him a rubber ball to play with and lock him in an
Oval Office closet when it's time to do some presidenting.
He’s a totally corrupt swamp thing, and here’s the worst part of
his manifest corruption – he doesn’t seem to realize that he’s corrupt, if not
personally than in terms of allowing his bum kid to leverage his
position. He
thinks it’s A-OK for his boy Hoover to cash in all
over the globe. After all, that’s what you do, right? That’s part of the
benefits package for being in the liberal elite. And all these people fussing
and fighting about the paternity test-failing dirtbag getting rich are totally
out of line. How dare they? HOW DARE THEY!
Understand that Biden sees nothing wrong with this. Nothing. And
that means there will be exponentially more of it. Hell, the useless DoJ under
Trump won’t prosecute obvious graft. Do you think a DoJ that’s thrilled to have
a fellow traveler back in the White House is going to root out Biden's business
badness? You do? Well, then meet my unicorn Chet.
And SloJoe is utterly incompetent. This is the guy who thought
they should let bin Laden skate. As Robert Gates, no Trumpie, said, "I
think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national
security issue over the past four decades.”
This is the guy who wants to take your doctor, again, and impose
another brilliant healthcare reform idea, again – all designed to unscrew the
last big healthcare reform the Democrats passed, which he praised as “a big [vulgarity] deal.”
He wants to obey that tiresome Swedish teenager’s commands to
sacrifice at the altar of the weird weather cult. He wants to appoint all
Hawaiian and Scat Franciscan judges.
He wants to raise taxes, open the borders, let you pay for illegal
aliens’ sex changes, and spark a civil war by taking guns from the people who
don’t commit crimes.
When you think of a calm, steady, wise presence guiding the
nation, you do not think of Joe Biden, though that’s what is allegedly needed
to end the nightmare of the Trump presidency – you know, the record job numbers
and the lack of stupid new wars. You think of Obama and Stumbles McMyturn, only
dumber and touchier.
Just recently, Biden’s campaign ran an ad alleging that foreigners
were “laughing” at Donald Trump. Is there any Democrat anywhere who takes
America’s side in a dispute with malicious aliens? In any case, those tin pot
euroweenies had plenty to cry about – Donald Trump has forced them to pay up
for NATO. Of course, that will end too if Joe takes office. We’ll
return to business as usual – the business as usual of being shafted for the
benefit of the global bigshots.
Basically, we’ll get rid of all the peace and prosperity that
Trump has brought and get back to normal – that is, people like us being
plundered by the garbage elite.
Trump has a track record of success, and Democrats hate him. Joe has
a track record of failure, corruption, and creepiness. Well,
I guess we know why the Democrats seem to love him.
It’s out now, my new novel Collapse, the
action-packed yet hilarious sequel to People's Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire.
Friendless loser Never Trumpers hate it, so you’ll love it.
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And here's the biggest laugh of all: the Democrat
party's only hope is a confused old man whose corruption is oozing
into the
open only because the Democrats wagered everything
on impeaching President Trump.
What to do About China
Much the same way that the Nazis invasion of Poland in the 20th century,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) assaulted the world with a biological agent.
Instead of Panzer divisions rolling down the streets of Warsaw, Communist
China’s invisible biological warfare has stricken the world with economic and
human misery, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and forcing
millions into unemployment lines globally.
Expansionist China is clearly a military, economic, and health
threat to the world. But it’s reckoning time for the Chinese communist
dictatorship. Washington should exert diplomatic, economic, and military
pressure on Beijing that will put China’s dictator Xi Jingping, and the evil
and corrupt CCP under enormous strain.
Here are four suggestions to counter China’s biological, military
and economic threats:
Economic Distancing: Seize China’s U.S. Treasury Notes
For America, the China virus attack was a 21st century
medical Pearl Harbor, inflicting tens of thousands of casualties and placing
our healthcare system under enormous strain. To counterattack China’s criminal
negligence and mishandling of the coronavirus epidemic, the U.S. needs to hit
our communist comrades where it hurts the most -- their pocketbooks.
China owns approximately $1.07 trillion in U.S. Treasury bonds,
according to the Treasury Department. The
United States government should seize the Chinese treasury obligations that
Beijing holds in their name, and inform the CCP that this is a down payment for
the death of tens of thousands of American citizens and the economic
devastation Beijing has unleased on the U.S. economy. And the U.S. should
encourage Canada, the U.K., Japan, Switzerland, and other allies to do the
same.
Academic Distancing: Shutter China’s Confucius Institutes in the U.S.
The nefarious CCP pumps over $10 billion into its Confucius
Institute propaganda machine, funding over 500 Confucius Institutes on high
schools, colleges, and university campuses around the world. In the U.S., there
are over 100 Confucius Institutes on high school, college, and university
campuses, receiving over $150 million from the Chinese communist dictatorship,
according to National Association of Scholars.
The Chinese Ministry of Education, which is run by the CCP’s Central Propaganda
Department, infiltrates high schools, colleges, and universities,
brainwashing American students into accepting communist China propaganda,
textbooks and operating funds to enhance its own image abroad. Beijing-funded
Confucius Institutes lack transparency, threaten academic freedom and give the
Chinese communist despots access to the U.S. education system that China does
not extend to American programs, according to a 2019 report by the U.S.
Senate’s Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations.
All Confucius Institutes in the United States should be shut down,
and all Chinese “teachers” deported. America must end China’s unfettered access
to our research centers and universities. Also, the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, based
in Washington, D.C., should be shuttered.
Seize and Sell all CCP Property in the U.S.
The Chinese Communist Party is our enemy, so why don’t we treat
them that way? Let’s start by seizing all CCP property in the United States and
selling it as reparations for the damage they have caused to our economy. The
U.S. federal government should impound and sell all CCP property in the U.S.,
including companies, real estate, bank accounts, aircraft, ocean-going vessels,
and all other CCP assets in the USA.
Bring Back “Made in the USA”
The U.S. federal government should pay U.S. manufactures to leave
China and return to the USA. It’s time to bring U.S. manufacturing back home.
Americans want to buy high-quality “Made in the USA” products; not cheap Chinese
junk that breaks right away. To encourage U.S. manufactures to make products in
the United States, the U.S. federal government should offer companies a 100
percent federal tax relief for 10-years if they open and produce products here
in the USA.
It won’t be easy or painless, but America ought to fundamentally
reconsider its relationship with China. It is imperative that we have a “hard
decoupling” of the U.S.-China relationship, according to political scientist
Andrew A. Michta, writing in the American
Interest. It’s time to reduce our reliance on China as a manufacturing
base.
Only one adversary poses a truly mortal challenge to the United
States; that adversary is China.
Now that the Chinese Communist Party has murdered tens of
thousands of people globally, the U.S. and its allies are being held
hostage by the criminals that run the CCP. China is repeatedly singled out
for its unfair trade practices, currency manipulation, support for rogue
regimes like North Korea and Iran, proliferation of nuclear arms, cyberattacks
on free societies, widespread human rights abuse at home, and undermining
international institutions. And now, you can add bioterrorism to the list.
It’s time to cut our ties with Communist China. This is a very
dangerous time for the world. We should expect that the CCP will become
more repressive domestically, aggressive internationally, and confrontational
in the wake of the China virus.
And one final thought: Let’s make the China plague the last
Chinese import into the U.S.A.
Octavio
Nuiry is a former New Orleans Times
Picayune columnist. He can be reached at onuiry@gmail.com or
(562) 537-2901.
The Democratic Party Is Wounded and Dangerous
By J.B. Shurk
Beware
the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent
things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on
Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening
conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe
Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats
and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is
a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his
best days, Joe Biden was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his
adversaries in the back. When he wasn't using his position of power
for financial gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family
line their own pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling
shell of an unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife
does his fighting for him. If you've ever
wondered what happens to the shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic
swindler, just cast your eyes upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking
effigy of Democratic corruption and amorality. He's what the
Democratic Party usually keeps far off the main stage for the back-alley
entertainment; now he's the main event, but no amount of stick-prodding by
Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going to turn Joe Biden into Fred
Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival attraction at best, amazing
onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble audible words together into a
sentence. The Democrats needed a man who could command a movement;
all they got was a man who can barely control his own.
I'm not
saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from
it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to
take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of
the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump
Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan
Europe, global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and
domestic Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge
President Trump from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of
our intelligence agencies and clandestine services retired into relative
obscurity, cognizant that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages
of history. After orchestrating a coup against the American
president, however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA,
FBI, and NSC all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each
night. The corporate news media and institutional government have
spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings
of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer
theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So, no,
the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on November
3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western
civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent
manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I
am saying is that Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion
for resurrecting their oligarchic power. They
wanted a formidable presidential nominee, someone who could check all the right
identity politics boxes while stringing words together that were substantively
meaningless while singularly inspiring. Instead, they're settling
for a politician past his expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and
more soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on
dead voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing
altogether.
So just
because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving each
other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple of
Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by the
beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at
heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic
Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness
of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home
after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is
celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016
because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years younger. The vice
president during the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, the
wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being strangely "articulate" for
a black guy, and the obtrusive shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct
was to sniff the hair of the wives and daughters of White House officials and
visiting dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the
previous Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over
a thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that
the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make
it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical
or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by
default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers
have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's
head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling
hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like "Come
back, Joe!"
The
Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the
greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up
the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing
the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering
that Brennan and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling,
they've been remarkably successful. But the Mueller
obfuscation and Schiff circus are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying
down, and the Democrats' and Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their
day of reckoning is coming to an end. If they don't win in 2020,
they cannot keep justice at bay, regardless of how stacked in their favor it
has always been in the past. And standing in the gap as their
last-ditch prospect to save them from President Trump's re-election and spare
them from long delayed judgment is none other than Corn Pop's
archenemy. The one "reasonable" Democrat in the race who
has already burnished his "moderate" credentials by fully embracing
Bernie's Green New Deal, Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's
what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
Image: Lorie
Shaull via Flickr.
Cruz: China ‘the Single-Greatest
Political Threat the United States Faces over the Next Century’
JEFF POOR2 May 2020111
1:30
Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) outlined the threat communist
Asian superpower China poses to the United States, calling it the “single-great
political threat” to the country over the next 100 years.
“China is in my judgment the single-greatest political threat
the United States faces over the next century,” he said. “They engage in
espionage. They engage in censorship. They engage in torture and murder of
their own citizens. They cover up free speech.”
Cruz pointed to legislation that he was introducing. One imposes
sanctions on Chinese government officials for the coronavirus “coverup,” as he
deemed it. Another he was introducing took aim at Hollywood for
kowtowing to the Chinese government in movie scripts.
“The Script Act says we’re not going to allow the Pentagon to
cooperate with moviemakers, to let them use ships and jet airplanes and
equipment if they are going to allow the Chinese government to censor,” he
said. “And so it uses the power of government to stop Chinese censorship
through Hollywood.”
The Texas Republican U.S. Senator pointed to the soon-to-be-released
sequel to “Top Gun,” which stars Tom Cruise. Reportedly, the Japanese and Taiwanese flags were removed from a jacket worn by Cruise’s “Maverick” in the sequel at
the behest of Chinese censors.
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Sen.
Ted Cruz is laying out a zero-tolerance policy for Hollywood studios that
willingly censor their movies to please Chinese Communist officials, proposing
new legislation that will block all federal assistance to the studios behind
those film productions.
The senator called China “the
single most dangerous geopolitical threat” in the world in a speech on the
floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
Chinese officials want “to
shape what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think,” Cruz said. Because
Hollywood studios voluntarily change characters and plot points in order to
gain access to the Chinese market, Chinese officials “control not just what
audiences see in China but also what Americans see.”
In a bill he introduced
Thursday, Sen. Cruz (R-Texas) is calling for Congress to cut off
Hollywood studios from the federal assistance they receive if those studios
censor their films for screening in China.
The senator had previously called for the
elimination of Pentagon assistance to studios that cooperate with Chinese censors.
But the version of the SCRIPT Act that he unveiled Thursday goes even further
by suspending all federal assistance. Movie productions often request access to
federal property and military equipment for filming purposes.
The SCRIPT Act — Stopping Censorship,
Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act — will almost certainly face
opposition from the major Hollywood studios, whose blockbuster movies often depend on the Chinese
market to make money.
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2012)
Sen. Cruz noted a few recent
examples of Hollywood’s voluntary self-censorship, including Paramount’s
upcoming Top Gun: Maverick,
which eliminated the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from Tom Cruise’s
iconic flight jacket . The sequel is a co-production with China’s Tencent
Pictures.
“What message does it send
that Maverick, an American icon, is apparently afraid of the Chinese
communists? That’s ridiculous,” Cruz said.
The Disney-owned 20th Century
removed all references to Freddie Mercury’s sexuality in Bohemian Rhapsody in order
to gain access to Chinese cinemas. Disney also cast Scottish actress
Tilda Swinton in a role that was originally meant to be a Tibetan monk in
Marvel’s Doctor Strange.
Sandra Bullock in Gravity (Warner Bros. Picture, 2013)
Sen. Cruz said that he wants
the SCRIPT Act to serve as a “wake up call for Hollywood.”
“Studios would be forced to
choose between the assistance from the federal government or the money that
they want from China,” he said.
Sen. Cruz introduced two
other bills on Thursday that are intended to curb Chinese influence in the U.S.
The Blocking Evasive Attempts
to Manipulate Signals Act — or BEAMS Act — would prevent China from exploiting
FCC loopholes to broadcast Communist party propaganda to Americans from radio
stations in Mexico or Canada.
The law would also apply to
partially state-owned stations, such as Phoenix Television.
The Ending Chinese Medical
Censorship and Cover Ups Act would sanction Chinese officials involved in the
ongoing suppression of medical experts, journalists, and political dissidents.
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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
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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.
The manager of
DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car
dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady
brother half a million dollars and
had received $20 million in
government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in
the Ukraine.
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.
Hong
Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon at Protesters
24 May 2020108
HONG KONG
(AP) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and a water cannon at protesters in a
popular shopping district Sunday, as thousands took to the streets to march
against China’s move to impose national security legislation on the city.
Pro-democracy
supporters have sharply criticized a proposal, set to be approved by China’s
rubber-stamp parliament this week, that would ban secessionist and subversive
activity, as well as foreign interference, in the semi-autonomous Chinese
territory.
The
pro-democracy camp says the proposal goes against the “one country, two
systems” framework that promises Hong Kong freedoms not found in mainland
China.
Crowds of
demonstrators dressed in black gathered in the Causeway Bay district on Sunday,
chanting slogans such as “Stand with Hong Kong,” “Liberate Hong Kong” and
“Revolution of our times.”
The
protest was a continuation of a monthslong pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong
that began last year and has at times descended into violence between police
and protesters.
Police
raised blue flags, warning protesters to disperse, before firing multiple
rounds of tear gas. They later fired a water cannon at the demonstrators.
At least
180 people were arrested, mostly on charges of unlawful assembly, police said.
They also
said that some of the protesters threw bricks and splashed unidentified liquid
at officers, injuring at least four members of the police media liaison team.
They warned that such behavior is against the law and that police would pursue
the matter.
Earlier
in the afternoon, prominent activist Tam Tak-chi was arrested during the
protest for what police said was unauthorized assembly. Tam said he was giving
a “health talk” and was exempt from social-distancing measures that prohibit
gatherings of more than eight people.
The bill
that triggered Sunday’s rally was submitted at the opening of China’s national
legislative session on Friday. It would bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and
could allow mainland agencies to be set up in the city, sparking concern that
Chinese agents could arbitrarily arrest people for activities deemed to be
pro-democracy.
Speaking
at an annual news conference during the legislative session, Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi said Sunday that Hong Kong affairs were an internal matter for
China, and that “no external interference will be tolerated.”
“Excessive
unlawful foreign meddling in Hong Kong affairs has placed China’s national
security in serious jeopardy,” Wang said, adding that the proposed legislation
“does not affect the high degree of autonomy in Hong Kong.”
“It does
not affect the rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents. And it does
not affect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors in Hong
Kong,” he said.
U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called the proposal “a death knell for the high
degree of autonomy” that Beijing promised the former British colony when it was
returned to China in 1997.
Chris
Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong prior to its handover to China,
lamented what he called “a new Chinese dictatorship.”
“I think
the Hong Kong people have been betrayed by China, which has proved once again
that you can’t trust it further than you can throw it,” Patten said in an
interview with The Times of London.
Patten is
leading a coalition of at least 204 international lawmakers and policymakers
who are decrying the proposed legislation. In a statement, the coalition called
it a “flagrant breach” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a 1984 treaty
that promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy even after the handover of Hong
Kong to China in 1997.
President
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, said it appeared that
China was violating the 1984 treaty.
“And I
can’t see how Hong Kong remains the Asian financial center if the Chinese
Communist Party goes through and implements this national security law and
takes over Hong Kong,” O’Brien said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“That
would be a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, but it will also be very bad
for China,” he said.
Bernard
Chan, a top-level Hong Kong politician and delegate to the National People’s
Congress in Beijing, defended the national security legislation pushed by
China, saying it was written into Hong Kong’s Basic Law — the city’s
mini-constitution — but never enacted.
Chan
expressed concern that Hong Kong would inevitably face economic hardship given
trade frictions between the U.S. and China.
“I think
we are definitely the collateral damage being dragged into this thing. But
then, I don’t think there’s any alternatives,” he said.
“But with
or without this law, honestly, the U.S. and China are always going to be
continuing this loggerhead for quite some time to come,” Chan said. “China will
remain as a threat to the U.S. in terms of the … world economic dominance.”
___
Associated Press journalist Dake Kang in Beijing
contributed to this report.
Ted Cruz Wants to Cut All Federal Assistance to
Hollywood Studios that Censor Movies to Appease China
21 May 20204,498
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Sen.
Ted Cruz is laying out a zero-tolerance policy for Hollywood studios that
willingly censor their movies to please Chinese Communist officials, proposing
new legislation that will block all federal assistance to the studios behind
those film productions.
The senator called China “the
single most dangerous geopolitical threat” in the world in a speech on the
floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
Chinese officials want “to
shape what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think,” Cruz said. Because
Hollywood studios voluntarily change characters and plot points in order to
gain access to the Chinese market, Chinese officials “control not just what
audiences see in China but also what Americans see.”
In a bill he introduced
Thursday, Sen. Cruz (R-Texas) is calling for Congress to cut off
Hollywood studios from the federal assistance they receive if those studios
censor their films for screening in China.
The senator had previously called for the
elimination of Pentagon assistance to studios that cooperate with Chinese censors.
But the version of the SCRIPT Act that he unveiled Thursday goes even further
by suspending all federal assistance. Movie productions often request access to
federal property and military equipment for filming purposes.
The SCRIPT Act — Stopping Censorship,
Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act — will almost certainly face
opposition from the major Hollywood studios, whose blockbuster movies often depend on the Chinese
market to make money.
Red Dawn (FilmDistrict, Contrafilm, FilmNation Entertainment,
2012)
Sen. Cruz noted a few recent
examples of Hollywood’s voluntary self-censorship, including Paramount’s
upcoming Top Gun: Maverick,
which eliminated the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from Tom Cruise’s
iconic flight jacket . The sequel is a co-production with China’s Tencent
Pictures.
“What message does it send
that Maverick, an American icon, is apparently afraid of the Chinese
communists? That’s ridiculous,” Cruz said.
The Disney-owned 20th Century
removed all references to Freddie Mercury’s sexuality in Bohemian Rhapsody in order
to gain access to Chinese cinemas. Disney also cast Scottish actress
Tilda Swinton in a role that was originally meant to be a Tibetan monk in
Marvel’s Doctor Strange.
Sandra Bullock in Gravity (Warner Bros. Picture, 2013)
Sen. Cruz said that he wants
the SCRIPT Act to serve as a “wake up call for Hollywood.”
“Studios would be forced to
choose between the assistance from the federal government or the money that
they want from China,” he said.
Sen. Cruz introduced two
other bills on Thursday that are intended to curb Chinese influence in the U.S.
The Blocking Evasive Attempts
to Manipulate Signals Act — or BEAMS Act — would prevent China from exploiting
FCC loopholes to broadcast Communist party propaganda to Americans from radio
stations in Mexico or Canada.
The law would also apply to
partially state-owned stations, such as Phoenix Television.
The Ending Chinese Medical
Censorship and Cover Ups Act would sanction Chinese officials involved in the
ongoing suppression of medical experts, journalists, and political dissidents.
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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.
The manager of
DBOT-I LLC was listed as John Hynansky. The car
dealer is a Biden pal with extensive Ukrainian ties who had lent Biden’s shady
brother half a million dollars and
had received $20 million in
government loans to start a Porsche luxury car dealership in
the Ukraine.
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.
Hong
Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Water Cannon at Protesters
24 May 2020108
HONG KONG
(AP) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas and a water cannon at protesters in a
popular shopping district Sunday, as thousands took to the streets to march
against China’s move to impose national security legislation on the city.
Pro-democracy
supporters have sharply criticized a proposal, set to be approved by China’s
rubber-stamp parliament this week, that would ban secessionist and subversive
activity, as well as foreign interference, in the semi-autonomous Chinese
territory.
The
pro-democracy camp says the proposal goes against the “one country, two
systems” framework that promises Hong Kong freedoms not found in mainland
China.
Crowds of
demonstrators dressed in black gathered in the Causeway Bay district on Sunday,
chanting slogans such as “Stand with Hong Kong,” “Liberate Hong Kong” and
“Revolution of our times.”
The
protest was a continuation of a monthslong pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong
that began last year and has at times descended into violence between police
and protesters.
Police
raised blue flags, warning protesters to disperse, before firing multiple
rounds of tear gas. They later fired a water cannon at the demonstrators.
At least
180 people were arrested, mostly on charges of unlawful assembly, police said.
They also
said that some of the protesters threw bricks and splashed unidentified liquid
at officers, injuring at least four members of the police media liaison team.
They warned that such behavior is against the law and that police would pursue
the matter.
Earlier
in the afternoon, prominent activist Tam Tak-chi was arrested during the
protest for what police said was unauthorized assembly. Tam said he was giving
a “health talk” and was exempt from social-distancing measures that prohibit
gatherings of more than eight people.
The bill
that triggered Sunday’s rally was submitted at the opening of China’s national
legislative session on Friday. It would bypass Hong Kong’s legislature and
could allow mainland agencies to be set up in the city, sparking concern that
Chinese agents could arbitrarily arrest people for activities deemed to be
pro-democracy.
Speaking
at an annual news conference during the legislative session, Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi said Sunday that Hong Kong affairs were an internal matter for
China, and that “no external interference will be tolerated.”
“Excessive
unlawful foreign meddling in Hong Kong affairs has placed China’s national
security in serious jeopardy,” Wang said, adding that the proposed legislation
“does not affect the high degree of autonomy in Hong Kong.”
“It does
not affect the rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents. And it does
not affect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors in Hong
Kong,” he said.
U.S.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called the proposal “a death knell for the high
degree of autonomy” that Beijing promised the former British colony when it was
returned to China in 1997.
Chris
Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong prior to its handover to China,
lamented what he called “a new Chinese dictatorship.”
“I think
the Hong Kong people have been betrayed by China, which has proved once again
that you can’t trust it further than you can throw it,” Patten said in an
interview with The Times of London.
Patten is
leading a coalition of at least 204 international lawmakers and policymakers
who are decrying the proposed legislation. In a statement, the coalition called
it a “flagrant breach” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a 1984 treaty
that promised Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy even after the handover of Hong
Kong to China in 1997.
President
Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, said it appeared that
China was violating the 1984 treaty.
“And I
can’t see how Hong Kong remains the Asian financial center if the Chinese
Communist Party goes through and implements this national security law and
takes over Hong Kong,” O’Brien said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
“That
would be a tragedy for the people of Hong Kong, but it will also be very bad
for China,” he said.
Bernard
Chan, a top-level Hong Kong politician and delegate to the National People’s
Congress in Beijing, defended the national security legislation pushed by
China, saying it was written into Hong Kong’s Basic Law — the city’s
mini-constitution — but never enacted.
Chan
expressed concern that Hong Kong would inevitably face economic hardship given
trade frictions between the U.S. and China.
“I think
we are definitely the collateral damage being dragged into this thing. But
then, I don’t think there’s any alternatives,” he said.
“But with
or without this law, honestly, the U.S. and China are always going to be
continuing this loggerhead for quite some time to come,” Chan said. “China will
remain as a threat to the U.S. in terms of the … world economic dominance.”
___
Associated Press journalist Dake Kang in Beijing
contributed to this report.
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