THE OLD WHORE FOR CHINA SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN IS SURE WORKING HARD FOR THE ENEMY IN CALIFORNIA!

DO A SEARCH FOR FIENSTEIN AND HER RED CHINESE PAYMASTERS! 

Chinese Imports Flood California Ports as U.S. Trade Deficit Hits 14-Year High

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JOHN BINDER

7 Jan 202126

2:57

Imported goods from China are flooding ports in California as the United States trade deficit hits a 14-year high.

A report by NPR reveals the extent to which imports from China are pouring into California ports. At the same time, the U.S. trade deficit has jumped to its highest since August 2006 at $68.1 billion and the U.S.-China trade deficit is at its highest in two years at $44.9 billion.

NPR reports:

SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: To say the U.S. is buying a boatload of stuff from Asia is an understatement. Right now, there are 30 boatloads anchored off the coast of Los Angeles, often waiting for days to make their way into port. Cargo traffic at the port of Los Angeles was 22% higher in November than it was a year ago. And even though Christmas has since come and gone, the spike in cargo shows no sign of letting up. [Emphasis added]

SANNE MANDERS: This is an enormous surge. This is literally a tsunami of freight coming into the U.S. [Emphasis added]

HORSLEY: Sanne Manders is chief operating officer for the freight management company Flexport. He says all those hundreds of thousands of containers coming into the country, mostly from China, are straining the transportation network. [Emphasis added]

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has cut deals with Chinese corporations, reportedly with links to the Chinese Communist Party, to import N95 masks. In June 2020, for instance, Newsom entered into a deal with the Chinese corporation BYD to get hundreds of millions of N95 masks to the state of California.

As noted by the American Manufacturing Alliance, Forbes, and Vice, BYD is considered heavily dependent on the Chinese government for subsidies. Documents obtained by Judicial Watch allege BYD’s close ties to the Chinese government.

Former Trump administration official Richard Grenell called out Newsom for cutting deals with the Chinese government, writing:

Some of those ships coming from China are filled with masks that @GavinNewsom bought from the CCP when he could have bought them from California manufacturers instead.

And every reporter in Sacramento should be covering this scandal!https://t.co/QexgcYQuvd https://t.co/moAhE8tNBc

— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) January 7, 2021

Decades of free trade consensus in Washington, D.C., has ensured China’s dominance in manufacturing sectors and kept the U.S. reliant on cheap imported Chinese goods.

Since 2001, U.S. free trade with China has eliminated at least 3.4 million American jobs. In 1985, before China entered the World Trade Organization (WTO) and before the U.S. normalized trade relations with China, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled $6 billion. In 2019, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled more than $345 billion.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

NYSE Says China Telecom Delisting Is Back On

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JOHN CARNEY

6 Jan 202137

1:10

The New York Stock Exchange has reversed its decision to scrap plans to delist three Chinese telecommunications behemoths.

In other words, they are delisting companies after all.

In a head-spinning reversal of its earlier reversal, the exchange said Wednesday that it will go ahead with plans announced last week to delist China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicorn.

On Monday, the NYSE said it was abandoning the delisting plan after consultation with regulators, prompting outrage from China hawks, surprising many in the Trump administration, and reportedly attracting a behind-the-scenes rebuke from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The initial plan to delist had been announced just last week. It followed an executive order signed by President Donald Trump baring American companies and individuals from investing in firms that aid the Chinese military.

The NYSE said on Wednesday that the latest decision to delist followed “new specific guidance received January 5” from the Trump administration.

China Celebrates Uyghur Genocide as Victory for Feminism

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JOHN HAYWARD

8 Jan 202111

7:30

China’s state-run China Daily ran an astonishing piece on Thursday celebrating the forced sterilization of women from the Muslim Uyghur minority of Xinjiang province as a triumph of feminism because the women have more “autonomy” now that they do not have to spend all their time raising children.

The Chinese Embassy to the United States promoted the China Daily article with an even more outrageously-worded tweet:

Study shows that in the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women in Xinjiang were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no longer baby-making machines. They are more confident and independent.

The “report” in question came from the Xinjiang Development Research Center. China Daily scrambled to claim the dramatic reduction in birthrates came not from “forced sterilization” as foreign researchers asserted, but rather from “the eradication of religious extremism,” which was compelling Uyghurs to “resist family planning.”

In other words, Islam encourages people to have big families, and now that the Uyghurs have been reprogrammed to embrace Communism as their true faith, their women have “more autonomy when deciding whether to have children.”

China Daily celebrated the victory of strict family planning policies as a triumph for feminism:

For a period of time, the penetration of religious extremism made implementing family planning policy in southern Xinjiang, including Kashgar and Hotan prefectures, particularly difficult, the research center’s report said. That had led to rapid population growth in those areas as some extremists incited locals to resist family planning policy, resulting in the prevalence of early marriage and bigamy, and frequent unplanned births.

In the process of eradicating extremism, the minds of Uygur women were emancipated and gender equality and reproductive health were promoted, making them no long baby-making machines, it said. Women have since been striving to become healthy, confident and independent.

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The research center’s report said safe, effective and appropriate contraceptive measures are now available to couples of childbearing age in Xinjiang, and their personal decisions on whether to use those measures — which include tubal ligation and the insertion of intrauterine devices — are fully respected. As a result, the birthrate in Xinjiang decreased from 1.6 percent in 2017 to 1 percent in 2018 and the natural population growth rate fell from 1.1 percent to 0.6 percent.

“The report said an increasing number of people in southern Xinjiang were deciding to marry and have children later in life, seeing the benefits of fewer but better births, and the change was due more to personal choice than government policy,” China Daily concluded.

Contrary to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda, the forced sterilization of Uyghur women was documented by German researcher Adrian Zenz in June, prompting an international outcry. 

Uyghur women interviewed by Zenz said they were threatened with imprisonment in the notorious concentration camps of Xinjiang if they refused to abort their children. Zenz found documentation of women forced to accept intrauterine birth control devices (IUDs) and even surgical sterilization. His data showed an 84-percent reduction in growth rates in Xinjiang, a population crash without precedent in human history. He called it a “ruthless” policy that was “part of a wider control campaign to subjugate the Uyghurs.”

A Uyghur teacher named Qelbinur Sidik described her forced sterilization to the UK Guardian in September. She was 47 years old at the time and said Uyghur women as old as 59 were forced to accept IUDs under threat of surgical mutilation. 

The threat was made explicitly by Chinese officials in Uyghur-language text messages, which the Guardian quoted verbatim:

If anything happens, who will take responsibility for you? Do not gamble with your life, don’t even try. These things are not just about you. You have to think about your family members and your relatives around you. If you fight with us at your door and refuse to collaborate with us, you will go to the police station and sit on the metal chair!

Sidik said the clinic that forcibly inserted her IUD was filled with crowds of Uyghur women awaiting sterilization, without a single Han Chinese patient in sight. She paid to have her IUD removed illegally after it caused her pain and heavy bleeding, but Chinese authorities discovered it was missing, forced her to submit to another IUD, and then forced her to undergo surgery after she complained about more complications from the IUD.

“Her story, first told to the Dutch Uyghur Human Rights Foundation, is difficult to verify. It is hard to take photos inside detention facilities and there is little documentation. But details match accounts by other camp detainees and research into coercive birth control practices,” the Guardian duly noted.

The Associated Press (AP) also investigated the ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs in June 2020, concluding “the Chinese government is taking draconian measures to slash birth rates among Uighurs and other minorities as part of a sweeping campaign to curb its Muslim population, even as it encourages some of the country’s Han majority to have more children.”

The AP investigation found forced birth control and sterilization against Uyghurs and other minorities was “more widespread and systematic than previously known.” 

Based on reviews of Chinese bureaucratic data and interviews with dozens of concentration camp inmates and guards, the AP found the exact same practices as Adrian Zenz and the UK Guardian: 

The state regularly subjects minority women to pregnancy checks, and forces intrauterine devices, sterilization and even abortion on hundreds of thousands, the interviews and data show. Even while the use of IUDs and sterilization has fallen nationwide, it is rising sharply in Xinjiang.

The population control measures are backed by mass detention both as a threat and as a punishment for failure to comply. Having too many children is a major reason people are sent to detention camps, the AP found, with the parents of three or more ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines. Police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children.

One of the women interviewed by the AP, a Chinese-born Kazakh named Gulnar Omirzakh, said she was forced to accept an IUD after having a third child – and was later subjected to a huge fine anyway despite her extreme poverty and the fact that having a third child was not technically illegal. She said Chinese officials in military uniforms threatened to send her to the concentration camps, where her husband was already a prisoner, if she did not pay up.

“God bequeaths children on you. To prevent people from having children is wrong. They want to destroy us as a people,” a tearful Omirzakh declared.

“The result of the birth control campaign is a climate of terror around having children, as seen in interview after interview,” the AP reported, noting that Han Chinese women are “largely spared the abortions, sterilizations, IUD insertions and detentions for having too many children that are forced on Xinjiang’s other ethnicities.”

 

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World leaders react to rioters storming Congress

 CONDEMN THE VIOLENCE. 
 RICHARD ENGEL IS IN 
 LONDON WITH THE GLOBAL 

'Failure and fragility': U.S. foes seize the moment to help Trump mob undermine democracy

Alexander Smith and Saphora Smith and Claudio Lavanga and Nancy Ing and Andy Eckardt and Tatyana Chistikova and Dawn Liu

Fri, January 8, 2021, 1:32 AM PST

LONDON — For America's adversaries, there was no greater proof of the fallibility of Western democracy than the sight of the U.S. Capitol shrouded in smoke and besieged by a mob whipped up by their unwillingly outgoing president.

Already China, Iran and Russia have pointed to the tumult in Washington as evidence that the much-vaunted U.S. system of government is fundamentally flawed and riddled with hypocrisy.

Across Europe there is grave concern, too. Not just at the division and instability rocking their powerful trans-Atlantic ally, but also at what it means for their relationship with Washington after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated in two weeks.

Many question how the U.S. can ever again lecture other countries about democratic values or how it can tell other countries that they aren't internally stable enough to have nuclear weapons.

Image: Riot at Capitol (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

"You are now seeing the situation in the U.S.," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a live televised speech Friday. "This is their democracy and human rights, this is their election scandal, these are their values. These values are being mocked by the whole world. Even their friends are laughing at them."

While Iran criticized, its government in Tehran has clamped down on its own people's rights of freedom of expression and assembly, and its security forces have used lethal force to crush protests, killing hundreds of people and arbitrarily detaining thousands more, according to Amnesty International in London.

In China and Russia, officials asked why U.S. lawmakers have been so quick to support pro-democracy protesters in other parts of the world while unrest rages in their own streets.

"You may all remember the words that some U.S. officials, legislators and some media used about Hong Kong then," China's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said at a briefing Thursday. "What do they say about the United States now?"

Police in Hong Kong arrested more than 50 pro-democracy figures Wednesday for allegedly violating the stringent new national security law. Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee for secretary of state, said on Twitter this week that the new administration would "stand with the people of Hong Kong and against Beijing's crackdown on democracy."

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In Russia, Leonid Slutsky, chair of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of Parliament, told state media that "the boomerang of the 'color revolutions,' as we can see, is returning to the United States," referring to the wave of Western-endorsed democratic uprisings across former Soviet republics in the 2000s.

Plenty of people have pointed out that many of the demonstrators — in the former Soviet republics and Hong Kong — were advocating for more democratic rights. Under President Vladimir Putin, the rights of regular Russians have been severely eroded, according to monitors.

The mob at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, however, was seeking to overturn a legitimate election.

The distinction hasn't stopped America's detractors from making a vivid comparison.

"This an absolute gift for authoritarian leaders whose prime narrative is that democratic systems are weak and unstable," said Matthew Harries, a Berlin-based senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank.

"Someone like Xi Jinping can say: Look, these people can't get a grip on Covid-19 and they can't even protect their legislature," he said, referring to China's leader, whereas with the Chinese Communist Party "you get stability and growth."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., echoed that sentiment Thursday, calling Trump "a complete tool of Putin" and saying that by encouraging the Capitol riot the president gave "the biggest of all of his many gifts" to the Russian president.

Image: Capitol protest (Andrew Harnik / AP)

Victor Gao, who was an interpreter for China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, said the scenes in Washington were a vivid riposte to those wanting to transplant American political values elsewhere.

"Our system has its own problems, but this system for China works for China for the past 45 years," he said of the one-party state. "China will never accept any attempt by the United States to impose its system onto China because it doesn't work" for China.

Although President Donald Trump has spoken warmly about Xi, he has also hit China with tariffs and sanctions for what the U.S. says is its restriction of Hong Kong's autonomy and its human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims, both of which Beijing contests.

Perhaps the most notable recent attempt to export an American-style democracy was in Iraq, with institution-building being one of the stated aims of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. After Wednesday's events, a meme circulating showed Iraq tanks launching an invasion "to bring democracy back to the United States."

"It has been 20 years since George W. Bush tried to export American democracy as a model for the rest of the world, and these days this model is in deep crisis," said Giovanni Orsina, director of the School of Government at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.

"After what we saw, the idea that Americans can teach democracy to the rest of the world is a lot weaker," he said. "And to make matters worse is the fact that there are no great alternative democracies out there — so America's crisis reflects a crisis of democracy in the world."

Image: Italian newspapers (Andrew Medichini / AP)

The sense of a shared crisis was clear in the statements of alarm by several European leaders. The U.S. is far from the only country grappling with its populist right, fueled by disinformation conspiracy theories online.

"Inflammatory words turn into violent acts — on the steps of the Reichstag, and now in the Capitol," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted, referring to an attempt by anti-coronavirus lockdown protesters to storm the German Parliament in August. "The disdain for democratic institutions is devastating."

After a bruising few years of Trump, few European leaders have kidded themselves that Biden's win means they can go back to the way things were. There are moves headed by French President Emmanuel Macron, for example, to become less reliant on Washington militarily.

And yet this week's events in Washington have brought the future of their relationship with the U.S. into sharp focus.

In Paris, François Heisbourg, a senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said, "The outside world has to assume there is an uncertainty, a high degree of instability as to where the U.S. will be in the next few years."

European powers "have to assume the fate of the U.S. is uncertain," he said. "And if that is the case, we have to prepare for a world in which the U.S. is not the partner that we use to have."

Alexander Smith reported from London; Saphora Smith from Bristol, England; Claudio Lavanga from Rome; Nancy Ing from Paris; Andy Eckardt from Mainz, Germany; Tatyana Chistikova from Moscow; and Dawn Liu from Beijing.