THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now. TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
With Biden in the White House, President Trump predicted, China would “own the United States.” There’s also something to Trump’s charge that the Bidens are an “organized crime family.”
LLOYD BILLIONGSLEY
IMAGES OF JOE BIDEN’S MANSIONS: NOT BAD ON A BRIBES BUDGET
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/a33809100/joe-biden-real-estate-homes/
RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs
CHINA’S OLD WHORE SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN, AMERICA’S BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER, WAS FIRST TO ENDORSE BIDEN FOR PRESIDENT. WONDER WHY???
As Glenn Bunting of the Los Angeles Times reported in 1997, Feinstein’s husband Richard Blum “has expanded his private business interests in China – to the point that his firm is now a prominent investor inside the communist nation.” In 1995, Dianne Feinstein became a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “giving her a prominent platform for her efforts to support China’s trade privileges.”
As Ben Weingarten noted in the Federalist in 2018, Feinstein’s husband has “profited handsomely from the greatly expanded China trade she supported.” The senator also “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 20 years, through three election cycles, Feinstein maintained on her staff a Chinese spy who would even attend consular functions for the California Democrat. One wonders what the FBI knew, when they knew it, and what they did about it, if anything.
Other politicians with China business connections include Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi, whose husband has conducted a series of deals in the Communist nation. Recall that Speaker Pelosi kept Eric Swalwell on the House Intelligence Committee even after his “PoonFang” liaisons with a Chinese spy (FEINSTEIN LONG EMPLOYED A CHINESE SPY).
Tucker Carlson Delivers a Monologue So Damning That President Trump Shares It, Includes Explosive Hunter Biden News
By Bonchie
The segment ends with an assertion that Joe Biden has been compromised, and that’s exactly correct. There hasn’t been a more China-friendly politician in the last 30 years than Biden. With his probable swearing-in on the horizon, the communists are rejoicing. That should tell you just how big a mistake it was to let him anywhere near the presidency.
Schweizer: ‘It’s Going to Be Business as Usual’ for Hunter’s Dealings
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On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer said he reads President Biden’s statements about his son Hunter’s deals as a declaration that “it’s going to be business as usual in the Biden administration as far as these deals are concerned.”
Schweizer said, “Joe Biden has said there are going to be no sketchy overseas deals during his second term. Here’s the problem: He does not believe that the early deals that Hunter was involved in, the China deal, Burisma, he’s never described those as sketchy. So, I read that as saying, it’s going to be business as usual in the Biden administration as far as these deals are concerned.”
Giroir: WHO ‘Has No Authority to Do Anything in China That Is Not Directly Approved by the Chinese Communist Party’
(CNSNews.com) - Dr. Brett Giroir, former coronavirus testing czar for the Trump administration, told the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that not only does the evidence point to the origins of COVID-19 being a lab leak, but the World Health Organization (WHO) is not equipped to investigate it, because it has “no authority to do anything in China that is not directly approved by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Giroir was one of several scientific experts who testified on the pandemic’s origins.
He said that although there is not “indisputable evidence pinpointing the exact origin of the virus that causes COVID-19,” his assessment is “that the most likely origin was an accidental infection of laboratory personnel from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with secondary infection to the local population and subsequent spread to hundreds of millions of people around the world.”
He pointed out that the WHO tested “more than 80,000 wildlife, livestock, and poultry samples from 31 provinces in China” but “failed to detect the presence of the virus,” which weakens the argument that the virus came from an animal.
Moreover, the closest virus found in nature was ‘several decades of evolution removed’ from the COVID-19 virus, and we now know definitively that the Wuhan wet market was not the origin of the virus, but was a site of secondary spread.
Point number two, we know that the Wuhan lab was conducting potentially dangerous research on coronaviruses and their ability pandemics including gain-of-function research. This was proven in a 2015 Nature Medicine publication in which investigators from Wuhan and collaborators across the globe reported creation of a new hybrid bat coronavirus that could bind to and infect human airway cells.
Number three, since that 2015 publication, there have been multiple NIH grants to the alliance all entitled the risk of bat coronavirus emergence, and from the limited public information, appear to be using the exact same laboratory methods that could create novel hybrid pandemic-causing pathogens.
Number four, independent scientific studies conclude that the first cases of coronavirus in China occurred sometime between mid-October and mid-November of 2019. This is the exact timeframe, according to the U.S. intelligence, that some Wuhan lab workers became ill with a respiratory infection and that according to the Wall Street Journal, three Wuhan lab workers sought hospital care for an unknown respiratory illness.
And finally, the bottom line is, I believe it is just too much of a coincidence that a worldwide pandemic caused by a novel bat coronavirus that cannot be found in nature started just a few miles away from a secretive laboratory doing potentially dangerous research on bat coronaviruses. Sometimes the most obvious explanation is indeed the correct one.
Giroir said that “the WHO cannot be relied upon to do an authoritative investigation because it is a multilateral organization with no authority to do anything in China that is not directly approved by the Chinese Communist Party.”
He also said he was blocked from joining the WHO’s executive board by then Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Democrats.
On behalf of the Trump administration in September 2020 delivered a comprehensive roadmap to the WHO that would strengthen the WHO’s global emergency preparedness and response capabilities. This roadmap would better equip the WHO for future pandemics, but by the WHO’s very nature as a multilateral organization, it can never be relied on to guarantee transparency from repressive regimes nor ensure the health and safety of the American public.
Finally, with regard to the WHO, when this pandemic first emerged in China and began spreading around the world, the only eligible nation that did not have a member on the WHO executive board was the United States.
That is because after I was nominated for the executive board by President Trump in November 2018, my nomination was repeatedly blocked by Senator Schumer and his Democrat colleagues, and I was not confirmed and thus, the U.S. did not have visibility at the executive board level until May of 2020.
Perspective number four, the final one, the investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and the regulation of gain-of function research cannot be left to scientists alone, many of whom have serious conflicts of interest.
These conflicts include hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual salary, pharmaceutical company paid advisory board seats, millions of dollars in grants, rights to inventions that could result in tens of millions of dollars of royalties, and perhaps most important, their reputations among an often elitist scientific community that is overwhelmingly biased against anything related to the Trump administration.
Similarly, Americans should be careful of defenses of China by experts who are employed by or are on the boards of companies with billions of dollars at stake in China and who fear reprisals by the Communist Chinese Party.
In conclusion, it is critical to our nation, to the American people, to the world, and to future generations that we develop a bipartisan consensus on the truth of what happened, and I respectfully encourage the entire Congress to come together as truth seekers and truth tellers to accomplish this objective.
NBA, Nike, Apple, Google Silent on China’s Crackdown on Journalists in Hong Kong
At least seven journalists arrested in Hong Kong since June 17
The Chinese government's recent crackdown on journalists in Hong Kong has been met with silence from major U.S. corporations with extensive ties to the Communist regime.
Apple, Google, Nike, and the National Basketball Association did not return requests for comment on the arrest of at least seven Chinese journalists since June 17.
The targeted journalists are former employees of Apple Daily, a now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper based in Hong Kong. They were detained in accordance with a controversial "national security" law enacted in 2020 after authorities successfully stamped out pro-democracy protests in the former British territory. The law was praised in the pages of the New York Times, a newspaper that until recently made millions publishing Chinese government propaganda.
On Sunday, Chinese authorities detained a man identified by Hong Kong media as Fung Wai-kong, a former editor and columnist for the Apple Daily. According to Hong Kong police, the man was arrested at the airport for "conspiring to collude with foreign countries or foreign forces to endanger national security."
U.S. media could not independently verify the identity of the man arrested. If confirmed as Fung, he would be the seventh former Apple Daily journalist arrested on national security grounds since June 17, when the newspaper was forced to cease operations following a police raid.
CEO Cheung Kim Hung, COO Chow Tat Kuen, and chief editor Ryan Law were among the five senior employees arrested during the June 17 raid. Authorities also froze the Apple Daily‘s assets and bank accounts, and accused the company of using journalism as a "tool to endanger national security."
The arrests of the Apple Daily executives were lauded in an editorial from CGTN, a media outlet controlled by the Chinese government. The crackdown "was necessary to protect against destabilizing foreign forces," the editorial argued, accusing the newspaper of stepping "over the line of journalism into sedition" by publishing articles in defense of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
Apple, Google, Nike, and the NBA have all come under fire for their deep (and exceedingly profitable) ties to China, as well as their willingness to overlook human rights abuses and submit to the Chinese government's demands. In the United States, meanwhile, these corporations are among the most outspoken when it comes to so-called social justice issues.
In 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook touted his company's commitment to "sustaining a free press and thriving democracy," but only in Western markets where such rhetoric is welcomed. In China, where supporting democracy and press freedom is a criminal offense, Apple is perfectly willing to disregard its own values.
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that Apple's alleged commitment to civil liberties and privacy did not apply to China. The company gave Chinese government employees control over the data centers housing the personal data of Chinese customers. At the request of the government, Apple scrapped the encryption technology it uses in other countries to protect user privacy, and even removed its "Designed by Apple in California" slogan from the backs of iPhones sold in China.
Tech giant Google used to pride itself on its motto: "Don't be evil." The phrase was removed from its corporate code of conduct in 2018, however, around the time Google was pursuing a deal to launch a search engine in China that would comply with the government's strict censorship demands. The project was ultimately abandoned.
Google and its subsidiary YouTube are banned in China, but that hasn't prevented the company from blocking content critical of the Chinese government, including videos recently published by a human rights group calling attention to the genocide of Uyghur Muslims in China's Xinjiang region.
During a congressional hearing in 2020, Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai both declined to even acknowledge China's well-documented history of stealing intellectual property from U.S. companies.
Nike is "a brand of China and for China." That's how CEO John Donahoe described the company during a fourth-quarter earnings call last week, when Nike reported net income of $1.5 billion, to the delight of shareholders. Nike and Apple are among the U.S. corporations that have been lobbying Congress to weaken legislation that would ban the import of goods made with slave labor in Xinjiang.
The NBA, like Nike, has struggled to reconcile its outspoken support for social justice causes in the United States with its cozy business ties to China and its reluctance to criticize Beijing for human rights abuses. An ESPN investigation published in 2020 found that NBA training academies in Xinjiang were rife with complaints of physical abuse.
In 2019, when former Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted in support of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters, the NBA apologized for his "regrettable" comments that had "deeply offended" Chinese fans. All-star forward LeBron James described Morey as "misinformed or not really educated on the situation."
Biden Aide Leading Infrastructure Negotiations Helped Push Through Disastrous China Bill
Steve Ricchetti spearheaded China trade deal that led to 'sharp decline' in U.S. manufacturing
The White House official leading negotiations on a massive infrastructure spending bill had a crucial role in pushing through a China trade deal that has been blamed for a "sharp decline" in American manufacturing jobs.
Steve Ricchetti, a close Biden confidant who serves as White House counselor, is "sculpting" details of the bill in White House meetings and with Democratic leaders in Congress, the Washington Post reported. As deputy chief of staff to Bill Clinton, Ricchetti helped wrangle votes for a bill that established permanent normal trade relations with China. The legislation opened up trade markets between the United States and China and allowed China to become a member of the World Trade Organization.
Clinton praised Ricchetti at the time for spearheading negotiations with lawmakers. But the bill was criticized by Democrats including then-Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.). A 2012 study from two Yale researchers found that permanent normal trade relations led to a "sharp drop" in U.S. manufacturing jobs in the years after it was implemented.
"On the basis of trade alone there is enough reason to oppose PNTR at this time," Pelosi said on April 19, 2000. "China has violated every trade agreement it has made with the U.S. over the last ten years."
Sanders said in a speech in 2005 that the bill had been an "absolute failure" for the United States.
The Normal Trade Relations for the People's Republic of China Act passed both the House and the Senate, with then-Senator Joe Biden voting in favor of it despite opposition within his own party.
Ricchetti has come under scrutiny because of his brother’s lobbying work. Jeff Ricchetti has seen a windfall of new lobbying clients in the months since his brother was tapped by the Biden White House. Executives from two companies that have hired Ricchetti, Amazon and General Motors, have secured meetings at the White House, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Democrats are pushing for $6 trillion in spending on infrastructure projects and various climate change initiatives. The Democratic proposal includes a $2.5 trillion tax hike. Republicans have countered with a proposal to spend nearly $1 trillion on traditional infrastructure projects.
China Guru Describes Unsuccessful Effort to Warn Apple of Dangers in Doing Business with Communists
In a recent article, the New York Times discusses Doug Guthrie, a leading expert on Chinese business, and his work at Apple. Guthrie claims that he warned Apple and similar companies of what was happening in the communist country, but the Masters of the Universe forged ahead with “uncomfortable compromises” to keep access to the massive market.
In an article titled “He Warned Apple About the Risks in China. Then They Became Reality,” the New York Times discusses Doug Guthrie, one of America’s leading experts on China’s turn towards capitalism who helped Apple navigate the Chinese market in 2014.
That year, Xi Jinping began putting pressure on Western companies in order to strengthen his control of the country. Guthrie realized that Apple was extremely vulnerable as almost all of its devices were assembled in the China region.
Guthrie began touring the company with a slideshow and a lecture to raise the alarm on the precarious position Apple was in. According to the Times, Guthrie met with various Apple executives saying: “Do you guys understand who Xi Jinping is? Are you listening to what’s going on here?” adding, “That was my big calling card.”
Samm Sacks, a China specialist at the New America Foundation, commented: “It was always difficult for Western companies to do business in China, but in many ways the challenges have shifted. The Communist Party is firmly in control, and both Western companies and Chinese companies in the private sector have been under attack.”
The NYT writes:
Mr. Guthrie’s career arc and evolving view of China tell the story of Western industry’s complicated dance with the country over the past three decades. Mr. Guthrie and many executives, politicians and academics had bet that Western investment in China would lead the country to liberalize. It is now clear that they miscalculated.
“We were wrong,” Mr. Guthrie said. “The wild card was Xi Jinping.”
In recent years, China shut down Marriott’s website after it listed Tibet and Taiwan as separate countries in a customer survey. It suspended sign-ups to LinkedIn after the site failed to censor enough political content. And the Communist Party urged a boycott of Western apparel companies that criticized forced-labor practices in Xinjiang, a Chinese region where the government is repressing Uyghurs, the country’s Muslim ethnic minority.
Read more at the New York Times here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
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