China’s Champion Dianne Feinstein
Longtime apologist now acts as PRC asset.
Tue Aug 25,
2020
Lloyd Billingsley
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Back in April, Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt, a
Republican, filed a lawsuit charging that Chinese Communist officials are “ responsible for the
enormous death , suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world,
including Missourians.” For Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the Missouri
lawsuit was the problem.
“We launch a series of unknown events that could be very, very dangerous ,” said Feinstein in a
July 30, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. “I think this is a huge
mistake.” As Feinstein doubtless knows, the Chinese company Build Your Dreams
(BYD) , which bagged a $1 billion mask deal with California, is suing Vice Media for a story
charging that BYD had links to the Chinese military and forced labor. Feinstein
did not say if that lawsuit was a mistake, and possibly launch unknown events
that could be very dangerous. On the other hand, she had only praise for the
Chinese government.
“Where I live, we hold China as a potential trading partner,”
Feinstein said in the hearing. “As a country that has pulled tens of millions
of people out of poverty in a short period of time. And as a country growing
into a respectable nation among other nations. And I deeply believe that. I’ve
been to China a number of times. I’ve studied the issues.” Much of that study,
it turns out, has been on location.
“I’ve been coming to China for 31 years, so I’m not a newcomer,”
Feinstein told James Areddy of
the Wall Street Journal during a 2006 visit to Shanghai. In
Beijing, the U.S. Senator explained, “we spent time with Zhu Rongji, the former
premier who was a mayor of Shanghai” and “a good friend.”
In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square
massacre, Feinstein issued a
statement recalling
“perhaps even thousands” of demonstrators killed. “I know of no other country
that has made as much economic and industrial progress in the last 25 years
than China,” Feinstein wrote. “But what this anniversary reminds us is that
progress still must be made in the areas of human rights, rule of law and
governance.”
The senator has since been rather quiet about any human rights
progress China might have achieved, and expressed no second thoughts about
China’s membership in the World Trade Organization. That removed the annual
congressional review of its record on human rights and weapons proliferation
records, a huge win for the Communist regime.
As Rosemarie Ho reported
in The Nation , Democrats in general and Feinstein in
particular have kept rather quiet about the democratic protesters in Hong Kong.
As it happens, Feinstein’s China issues go much deeper. The former San
Francisco mayor had a Chinese spy on her staff for some 20 years, and he was
much more than her “driver.” As the San Francisco Chronicle noted , the spy even attended
Chinese Consulate functions for the senator.
As Ben Weingarten noted in
the Federalist in 2018, Feinstein’s husband has “profited handsomely from
the greatly expanded China trade she supported.” And the senator “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.” All this, plus a
spy on her staff through three election cycles.
Feinstein was one of the first to cry
“racism” over
the Wuhan virus that has caused massive damage in the United States and around
the world. When one American state attempts to hold China accountable losses
in court, Sen. Feinstein calls it dangerous. She “deeply believes” that one of
the most repressive regimes in history is a respectable nation.
By contrast, as the San Francisco Democrat said in a June 2 statement , the United States is
burdened with “systemic racism in areas ranging from housing to employment to
education,” all part of “institutional racism.” Feinstein invoked “President
Obama,” to lead the reform process. He has been acting as though still in
office.
“ Obama Defends Mob Rule ,” reads the August 3
American Greatness headline. As Conrad Black explains, the 44th president of
the United States is uncritical of the violent mobs now terrorizing the
country. This “shows how terminally morally and intellectually decayed the
Obama-Clinton-Biden Democratic Party has become,” and that is not a stretch.
From House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on down, not a single Democrat has
offered the slightest criticism of the Antifa-BLM axis. Instead they call
federal officers “stormtroopers” and “secret police,” and support the defunding
of police departments. Democrat support for violent mobs sends a signal to
another group out to take down the country.
As recent attacks at military bases in Florida and Texas confirm,
Islamic terrorists continue their jihad against America and Americans. The
death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has now been overturned. That brought no statement from Sen.
Dianne Feinstein, who finds fault with a Missouri lawsuit against China.
When a predictable apologist becomes a positive asset for the
Communist regime, that could turn out very, very dangerous. If anybody thought
the time has finally come for a thorough investigation of California Senator
Dianne Feinstein it would be hard to blame them.
Senator Dianne Feinstein
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U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) speaks during a Senate
Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC,
on July 25, 2018. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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US NEWS
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Feinstein’s Close China
Ties Under Scrutiny After Chinese Spy Discovery ·
BY ZACHARY
STIEBER
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News of a Chinese spy working for U.S. Senator Dianne
Feinstein broke recently, revealing the spy was employed by Feinstein for 20
years.
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Initially reported
as part of a larger story about spies in Silicon Valley, a former intelligence
official later revealed that the staffer was Feinstein’s driver for many years.
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The source
told the San Francisco Chronicle that the driver passed information to
Chinese officials based at the local Chinese Consulate . Part of the staffer’s role was acting as
a liaison between Feinstein’s San Francisco office and the local consulate.
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The staffer was
recruited to spy after visiting China.
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The staffer,
who has not been named, worked for Feinstein for 20 years.
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Senator Feinstein was alerted to the spy about five years ago. The FBI alerted
Feinstein after investigating and finding the staffer shared nothing of
substance.
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“They
interviewed him, and Dianne forced him to retire, and that was the end of it,”
the source said. “None of her staff ever knew what was going on. They just kept
it quiet.”
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Feinstein
wouldn’t comment on the spy but her office told CBS that none of the staffers in San
Francisco have ever had security clearances.
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Noting the
oddness of the discovery, President Donald Trump said via Twitter on August 3: “Dianne is the person
leading our Nation on ‘Collusion’ with Russia (only done by Dems). Will she now
investigate herself?”
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…Dianne is the person leading our Nation on “Collusion”
with Russia (only done by Dems). Will she now investigate herself? https://t.co/OG6l04bBwg
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— Donald
J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 4, 2018
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Feinstein’s Relationship With China ·
Some details of
Feinstein’s past are now being examined anew, centered on her close
relationship with China, beginning with her service as mayor of San Francisco
from 1978 to 1988.
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Feinstein has
long been linked to China. For instance, she hosted former president of
China Jiang Zemin at her home for dinner when she was
mayor of San Francisco, and celebrated the resumption of air service from China to the United States (starting with
San Francisco International Airport) after a 32-year hiatus.
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San
Francisco and Shanghai have been sister cities for 38 years, after the
agreement was put into place by Feinstein and Jiang, who was then Shanghai’s
mayor. Feinstein was cited as having a “ close relationship ” with Jiang and ties between the two continued for many years later.
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Jiang is
infamous for cracking down on human rights , most notoriously by banning the peaceful
meditation practice of Falun Gong and throwing many of its estimated 100
million adherents into jail.
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A re-enactment of organ
harvesting in China on Falun Gong practitioners, during a rally in Ottawa,
Canada, 2008. (The Epoch Times)
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Under
Jiang, torture, rape, murder, and even organ harvesting from detained practitioners became
common.
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To help
facilitate the relationship between the U.S. and China, Feinstein asked
organizers of the city’s popular Chinese New Year Parade to stop displaying the flag of the
Nationalist Chinese government, which ruled in exile in Taiwan after 1949.
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Feinstein also
defended China, despite its communist policies, insisting that it was merely
“socialist.”
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“There was
originally this kind of anti-communist view of China,” Feinstein told the Washington Pos t. “That’s changing. . . . China is a
socialist country but one that is increasingly becoming capitalistic.”
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Husband Becomes Prominent Investor in China ·
Several
articles from the 90s explore the development of not only Feinstein’s
developing relationship with China while she was mayor, but her husband’s
burgeoning investments there.
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According to
the Los Angeles Times , in 1997 Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum,
who invests his own and clients’ money into undervalued firms, expanded his
business investments into the communist nation to the point that “his firm is
now a prominent investor” there.
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In 1992, the
investments amounted to one project worth less than $500,000. Two years later
he was planning to invest up to $150 million and two years after that a Blum
investment firm paid $23 million for a stake in a Chinese government-owned
steel company.
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Another
investment by Blum’s firm was helped by the International Finance Corp., an arm
of the World Bank, which invested $10 million in the leading producers of
soybean milk and candy in China.
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Utterly amazing to read this 1997 report on Sen
Feinstein’s family’s political and business ties to #China in context of revelations about a Chinese spy working for her as a
driver for 20 years, quietly let go seemingly rather than being brought to
justice https://t.co/efwT2yZgkg pic.twitter.com/twAI5igZ2I
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— Benjamin
Weingarten (@bhweingarten) August 4, 2018
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“It seems to be
going quite well,” Rashad Kaldan—who in 1994 managed the IFC’s capital markets
investments in Asia—told the Times of the project. He added: “There also was
some comfort in that Mr. Blum had some contacts with the Chinese.”
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Blum said that
his interest in China went back many years, predating political connections. He
won permission from the Chinese in 1981 to climb the east face of Mt. Everest
and called himself a close friend of the Dalai Lama , the exiled Tibetan leader who the Chinese
government opposes.
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In dispatches
written for the San Francisco Examiner, according to the San Francisco Chronicle , Blum said that a goodwill visit to China
by Feinstein in 1979 helped him win permission to climb Everest.
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“We had come to
build goodwill, promote trade and to make new friends,” Blum wrote in one
story, adding, “but I asked for and received permission to have another kind of
meeting—one with the Chinese Mountaineering Association.”
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Trips to China ·
Feinstein
took three trips between 1995 and 1997 to China, in addition to trips earlier
in her mayoral service, to meet with top communist officials, including Jiang.
Blum often attended the meetings with her, an arrangement the Times described
as “unusual.”
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At one time,
the couple had dinner at Zhongnanhai, the enclave reserved for the president
and other top officials in China.
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“We had dinner
in Zhongnanhai in Mao Tse-tung’s old residence in the room where he died. We
were told that we were the first foreigners to see his bedroom and the swimming
pool. It was a very historic moment to see some of these things,” told the Los
Angeles Times. Mao was the communist leader of China whose policies led to
the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese people.
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Feinstein
insisted that Blum had never spoken to officials during meetings about
business.
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“I am open to
any suggestion as to how I can even make a firewall more fireproof,” she said.
“I don’t know what else I can do. . . . Either he retires or I suppose we end
our marriage.”
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Dianne Feinstein, U.S.Senator
and Richard Blum arrive at the State Dinner for China’s President President Xi
and Madame Peng Liyuan at the White House for an official State Visit in
Washington on Sept. 25, 2015. (Photo by Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)
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Experts
noted that even attending the meetings and being so visible conferred a certain
benefit to Blum, in addition to Feinstein’s pro-China record.
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“There is no
doubt in my mind that, if Dianne Feinstein had a pattern of taking positions on
U.S.-China policy that Chinese officials disliked, Mr. Blum would have a great
deal more difficulty doing business in China and probably would find it
impossible to do,” said Ross Munro, co-author of “The Coming Conflict with
China.”
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By 2000,
Blum pledged not to invest in China or Hong Kong as long as his
wife remained a senator.
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The Los
Angeles Times noted that Feinstein has sometimes taken on issues that seemed to
coincide with those of her husband, such as calling in a speech on the Senate
floor in 1994 for President Bill Clinton to increase favorable trade relations
with China. At the same time, Blum was planning to invest up to $150 million
there.
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Feinstein was
elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
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China Attempts Illegal Contributions ·
A
widespread campaign of making potentially illegal donations stemmed from a 1996
vote on whether to bestow permanent most-favored-nation trading status on
China, an effort Feinstein led.
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According
to Slate and the Washington Post , Feinstein was alerted in the early 90s by
the FBI that the Chinese government was working to illegally contribute money
to various campaigns, including hers. Though no donations could be definitively
linked to the government, Feinstein returned a $12,000 check to businessman and
Democratic National Committee Vice-chair John Huang.
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“We have reason
to believe that the government of China may try to make contributions to
members of Congress through Asian donors,” a statement in the FBI briefing
materials to elected officials read.
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A Justice
Department task force said Feinstein nor any other member of Congress knowingly
received illegal payments from the Chinese government.
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However,
authorities said that the Democratic National Committee returned $3
million in campaign contributions because the money came from questionable or
improper sources. Officials believed the potentially illegal campaigns were an
attempt to influence votes on the trading status.
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Feinstein has
received awards and recognition from some groups for promoting U.S.-China ties,
accepting the California-Asia Business Council’s New Silk Road award in
2005.
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“The rise
of China is one of the most remarkable transformations the world has ever
seen,” she told the crowd .
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“For many of us
who watch China, there is both a sense of awe at what China has accomplished,
as well as a sense that it could all unravel overnight.”
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“Rather than
just pinning the blame on China, we need to better understand the costs that
lead to outsourcing abroad and take action to remediate them,” she added.
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“I strongly
believe that the US-China relationship is and will be America’s most important
bilateral relationship. We must not let differences, economic or otherwise,
derail the progress that has already been achieved over the past three
decades.”
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From NTD.tv
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Follow
Zachary on Twitter: @zackstieber
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Ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) attends a Judiciary
Committee hearing in Washington on June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams/Pool/Getty
Images)
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POLITICS
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Feinstein Praises China,
Opposes Bill That Would Let Americans Sue CCP ·
Longtime Democrat has ties to the
country
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BY ZACHARY
STIEBER
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July 31, 2020 Updated: July 31, 2020
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A longtime senator spoke out against
legislation that would let American citizens sue the Chinese Communist Party
(CCP), claiming China ’s
regime is “growing into a respectable nation” and that the bill would open the
United States up for to lawsuits.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who has close ties with China , made the comments during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that
included discussion of a bill introduced
by six Republican lawmakers.
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The legislation would
provide Americans with the “legal tools necessary to sue the Chinese
government in federal court for creating and worsening the COVID-19 pandemic,”
Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), one of the sponsors, said in a statement.
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Feinstein, the oldest member of the Senate,
told colleagues that Californians “hold China as a potential trading
partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty
in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation
among other nations.”
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“And I deeply believe that. I’ve been to
China a number of times. I’ve studied the issues,” she added.
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Medical staff in protective clothes are
seen carrying a patient from an apartment suspected of having the CCP virus in
Wuhan, in Hubei province on Jan. 30, 2020. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty
Images)
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Feinstein cited a professor who told the
committee behind closed doors that the United States has the most to lose by
permitting civil lawsuits against China.
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“She explained that the more expansive the
exceptions, the more they could also apply to U.S. conduct, the worse off we
will be,” Feinstein said.
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“In short, if we eliminate sovereign
immunity for countries engaging in reckless behavior that contributed to the
spread of COVID-19, and other countries, including China, may very well do the
same to us,” she added later.
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A Feinstein spokesman didn’t respond to an
inquiry about what the senator is doing to respond to the CCP’s human
rights abuses, including holding over one million in concentration camps in
Xinjiang, or the party’s failure to contain the CCP virus .
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Feinstein during the hearing said she
favors forming relationships “that can make the changes internationally.”
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Transmission electron micrograph of
SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and
color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick,
Maryland. (NIAID)
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The committee later advanced the bill to
the full Senate. Republicans hold majorities on each committee because the
party holds the Senate with a 53-47 majority, including two Independents who
nearly always caucus with Democrats.
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“China’s Communist Party must face
consequences for concealing and now profiting off of the COVID-19 pandemic,”
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), a member of the committee, said in a
statement.
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Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs
Committee conclude
Democrat
Traitors Stand by China’s
Spy Consulates
Democrat sanctuary cities don’t just provide sanctuary for illegal
aliens, but for enemy spies.
July 29, 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.
On Tuesday,
Houston firefighters arrived at 3417 Montrose Boulevard. Neighbors had reported
smoke and a burning smell at the Chinese consulate. The consulate, which had
been given 72 hours to close by the State Department, did not let them in even
as the smoke continued to waft into the summer air.
Video showed
consulate employees throwing paper into burning bins.
“We have
directed the closure of PRC Consulate General Houston, in order to protect
American intellectual property and American’s private information," the
State Department had warned.
The Houston
consulate had become notorious for trying to intimidate American elected
officials in Texas and nearby states, as well as American energy companies,
especially those doing business in Asia. Some have also linked the
Houston consulate to Chinese espionage against American tech and medical firms.
FBI
investigations into the Houston consulate involved theft of medical
research, recruiting researchers to get at scientific secrets, and forcing
Chinese nationals to return to the People’s Republic of China.
Why would the
People’s Republic of China have thought that Houston would be a safe base for
spying on and intimidating Americans? Houston and Texas Democrats quickly
rushed to provide the answer.
Rep. Al Green,
who had hosted a luncheon at the spy consulate, accused President Trump of
racism.
“Don’t give
the impression, please Mr. President, that they are all spies,” Green whined. “My
appeal is to the president to understand that his words take on a meaning that
can be harmful to other people.”
Rep. Green
then went on to suggest that Trump had endangered his constituents by referring
to the pandemic as the 'China virus', and suggested that Trump's actions might
be leading to "more anti-Asian American violence, or worse, internment.”
While
shamelessly playing the race card, for a race he doesn’t belong to, the
Democrat did not discuss his own collaboration with the spy consulate.
Rep.
Green had co-hosted a
Houston press conference with Consul General Cai Wei of the spy consulate, whom
he described as a friend, with Chinese state media in attendance, at which the
Democrat urged local residents not to worry about the virus, and described
himself and Wei as a “committee of two”.
The Houston
Democrat boasted that the enemy consulate was close enough for him to walk to.
That's the
same Wei who had been accused of using fake
identification to get Chinese nationals through the airport, with whom Rep.
Green, an American official, had been meeting with on a regular basis.
Texas state
representative Gene Wu, who had also been at the press conference, warned that,
"in retaliation, China may basically stop all the investments and tell
companies to pull out of here."
Green and Wu were
far from the only Democrats playing defense for the Communist dictatorship.
Amid reports
that a fugitive spy wanted by the FBI is being harbored by the Chinese
consulate in San Francisco, the inescapable reality is that foreign spy
compounds operate in Democrat sanctuary cities.
Democrat
sanctuary cities don’t just provide sanctuary for illegal aliens, but for enemy
spies.
The Trump
administration had already ordered the shutdown of the Russian consulate in San
Francisco over its espionage. And the Chinese consulate appears as if it will
be next. But if the Chinese consulate in Houston was able to garner the support
of Democrats at the local and national level, the situation in San Francisco is
expected to be much worse because of Chi-Com infiltration of California
Democrats.
Chinese
intelligence officials at the San Francisco consulate had successfully
recruited a staffer at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco office and the
situation at the local level is much worse.
And Democrats,
instead of supporting their country, are once again undermining it in favor of
China.
The same
Democrat officials who had castigated President Trump for not trusting the
“intelligence community” are the ones rejecting intelligence findings about
China’s spy networks.
Senator Angus
King suggested that the move was a political stunt by President Trump. "Is
it really about confronting China, or does it have something to do with an
election in four months?"
Former Senator
Max Baucus, Obama's ambassador to the Communist dictatorship, has falsely
claimed that the closure was "electioneering".
“This is the
wrong way to handle it," Baucus wheedled. "If Pompeo thinks he is
going to quote ‘change Chinese behavior,’ he is gravely mistaken.”
Baucus' China
rhetoric has, in recent months, tipped into blatant PRC propaganda, when he
compared Trump to Hitler for
opposing the brutal dictatorship in an interview with a Chinese propaganda
outlet. Baucus has a consulting firm that works with Chinese businesses,
and sits on the boards of several Chinese companies. The media outlets who have
had Baucus on have not disclosed his ties to China.
"There
are a lot of very responsible people in America who know this China-bashing is
irresponsible and we will pay a price if it continues. That is all I am
saying," he had warned.
The Democrat
has claimed that relations with China will improve if Biden wins the
presidency. That’s not surprising since Biden and Baucus are good friends , and Baucus got the
ambassadorship due to Biden.
Biden’s China
ties have made it impossible for Democrats to confront the Communist
dictatorship. Instead they’ve decided to accuse President Trump of closing the
consulate as an election stunt even though it’s only July and the closure it
hardly likely to have any meaningful impact on the election.
Instead of
standing with America, the Democrats are trying to shift the onus to President
Trump.
“The White
House must be transparent and show that it is taking smart and thoughtful
action, rather than engaging in brash foreign policy," Rep. Lizzie
Fletcher complained.
Meanwhile
local Democrats like Rep. Al Green, and local Houston media, are treating the consulate
closure as a hate crime perpetrated by President Trump in order to persecute
Asian-Americans.
Gordon Quan, a
former Houston City Councilman, contended that, "to have the consulate
close, to have accusations being made that this is the hotspot for spying, just
creates a further cast upon the loyalties of Chinese Americans.”
And the
Chinese Communist propagandists have adopted the familiar playbook of the Left,
complaining about racism, and whining that PRC embassies are facing bomb
threats and angry messages. This propaganda is coming from a brutal regime
which has engaged in genocide, ethnic cleansing, and the ruthless suppression
of political dissent, ethnic and religious minorities, and anyone who gets in
its way.
Chinese
Communist consulates in America, including in Houston, have been used to
intimidate Chinese residents in America, and to suppress political protests
against China in this country. The Communist regime’s diplomatic corps has
organized Chinese students to shout down, threaten, and even physically
intimidate political opponents on campuses and even off them in San Francisco.
And yet,
Democrats and the media insist on treating the Chinese Communist regime as the
victim.
The Democrats
are more loyal to their hatred for President Trump than they are to America.
And even in the face of blatant enemy action, they choose the People’s Republic
of China over the United States. A growing number of Democrats have also been
directly or indirectly compromised by the enemy regime.
And that makes
President Trump’s crackdown on spy consulates in Democrat cities all the more
urgent.
When the State
Department closed the spy consulate in Houston, Democrats had to choose between
standing with Communist China or standing with America. They chose China and
they chose treason.
Photo: China Uncensored (YouTube)
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER ENTIRE
POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT
MULTIPLE FORTUNES IN HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM’S POCKETS EVEN AS SHE SOLD OUT
AMERICA
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
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