It was while Joe Biden was vice-president that the flood gates opened and what was a domestic influence-peddling business expanded globally into Ukraine, China, Russia and Kazakhstan, among other nations. The layers of greed and unabashed willingness to sell access to the second-highest office in the country is mind-boggling. The most egregious examples are five deals with the Communist Chinese and the subsequent payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family valued at $31 million.
Why It’s Time To Label China a ‘Genuine Adversary’
Policy proposal outlines path to isolate Communist regime
Adam Kredo •Congress must move to designate China as a "genuine adversary" by implementing a series of proposals that will isolate the Communist regime and cut it out of the U.S. economy, according to a new policy brief exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
The brief, from Heritage Action—the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank—seeks to send a message to the Biden administration and lawmakers: "Stop strengthening China." It proposes fundamentally altering the U.S. relationship with China by barring Chinese nationals from participating in federal programs, banning China from the U.S. supply chain, and icing it out of all national security projects. The recommendations are meant to serve as guideposts for congressional legislation to increase U.S. competition with China.
"The U.S.-China relationship is one of genuine adversaries, not friendly competitors," the policy brief states, explaining that Congress must frame its overall approach to the CCP through this lens. "Only when a problem is properly identified can it be solved. We will not be capable of taking the necessary steps to combat the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) influences until we recognize that the Communist Party only acts in ways to advance its interests and undermine America."
The policy brief comes amid a growing stand-off between the United States and China, both economically and militarily. The Communist regime has for years been the primary source of espionage operations against America that have targeted the federal government, national security apparatus, and critical businesses. Its deepening ties with malign regimes—including Russia, Iran, and North Korea—also signals that the CCP's ultimate goal is to supplant America as the world's leading force. To counter this, the Biden administration and Congress must develop a multi-pronged plan to slice China out of America's economy and leading academic institutions, according to the Heritage Action's proposal.
The proposal was created by a team of veteran political analysts in an attempt to reverse America's decades of economic subservience to the Communist Party.
"For too long, American foreign policy has empowered the Chinese Communist Party to continue their work in undermining American economic and strategic interests," Jessica Anderson, Heritage Action's executive director, told the Free Beacon. "Between China's espionage efforts, supply chain dominance, human rights violations, and role in COVID-19, their threats to the United States are wide-ranging and serious."
"Unless Congress and the Biden administration can start holding China accountable and unleashing American innovation, the CCP could cause irreparable damage to our economy, national security, stability, and global leadership," Anderson said.
One of the first steps to combating CCP espionage, Heritage Action says, is to revive the Department of Justice's China Initiative, a Trump-era project that ferreted out and prosecuted Chinese spies. The initiative was dissolved by the Biden administration, which claimed the program was racist against Chinese nationals. Statistics issued by the Justice Department indicate 80 percent of economic espionage prosecutions in the United States are related to China.
The United States must also bar members of the CCP and other Chinese nationals from participating in federally funded projects, "including at U.S. or allied universities with an explicit ban on U.S. universities hosting Confucius Institutes," according to the proposal. Confucius Institutes are a network of CCP-backed propaganda organizations that have deep ties to many American colleges.
On the economic front, the United States must move to build a "China-resistant economy." This can be accomplished by cutting the regime out of the U.S. supply chain and key industries, such as the electronics, energy, and pharmaceutical sectors.
"It should be obvious that America should not undertake initiatives that strengthen China," according to the proposal. "Protecting U.S. innovation and cutting-edge technology from Chinese-sponsored espionage and corporate theft is a critical front line in this new cold war."
The United States must turn away from China to "establish strategic stockpiles of critical electronics and raw, rare-earth minerals needed to build them. Establishing new production and manufacturing capacity in other key industries such as energy and pharmaceuticals also must be a priority. We must put up defenses between U.S. investment, research, and supply chains and China to protect the economic and technological advances that drive our hard power advantage."
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Joe Biden’s Attorney General Promises to Not Interfere in Hunter Biden Probe
President Biden’s chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Merrick Garland, promised the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday he will not interfere with the agency’s probe into Hunter Biden’s potential tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws.
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) asked Garland if he knew of the probe into the president’s son. Garland refused to reveal any internal deliberations against Hunter but noted the investigation is being run by David Weiss, a Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Wilmington, Delaware.
Weiss, a 20-year federal prosecutor, will have to determine if there is enough evidence to seek a federal grand jury indictment against Hunter Biden in an investigation that may end up including other members of the Biden family, such as Joe Biden’s brother James Biden, and potentially the president himself.
“I’m aware of that, but he reports to you,” Hagerty pressed about the investigation under Weiss.
“He is supervising the investigation and I’m not at liberty to talk about internal Justice Department deliberations, but he is in charge of that investigation,” Garland reiterated.
Garland then promised the Biden administration would not interfere in the investigation. “There will not be interference of any political or improper kind.”
Hagerty continued his line of questioning by asking if Joe Biden ever told Garland that Hunter did not break any laws, including tax fraud, money laundering, and violation of lobbying laws.
“Absolutely not. And the President has not done that. And the President is committed not to interfere, not only in that investigation but any other kind of investigation,” Garland claimed.
Later in the hearing, Garland refused to say whether a special counsel should be placed over the investigation to maintain a just investigation. A special counsel would provide a degree of separation between Biden’s administration and the investigation. Legal experts have said a special counsel is necessary because Joe Biden has denied any wrongdoing by Hunter and may have influenced the ongoing investigation.
“The question of whether they have a special counsel is one that is an internal decision-making within the department, so I don’t want to make any judgments one way or the other,” Garland responded. “But I’m quite comfortable with the United States attorney for that district continuing in the role that he’s [Weiss] playing.”
During the 2020 presidential debate, Joe Biden claimed Hunter’s “laptop from hell” was a Russian plant “and a smear campaign.” Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he was never involved in the family business.
But according to White House visitor logs obtained by the New York Post on Saturday, Hunter’s corrupt business partner, Eric Schwerin, met with Joe Biden at the White House 19 times between 2009 and 2015. Joe Biden was vice president during this time. The contact between Joe Biden and Schwerin directly contradicts Joe Biden’s repeated claims he was never involved in the family business. The Post’s reporting adds a twelfth instance Joe Biden has been involved in the family’s business scheme.
Meanwhile, 58 percent believe Joe Biden has indeed played a role in his family’s business, according to a Monday poll. Sixty percent say Hunter Biden has sold “influence and access” to Joe Biden. The poll also shows 67 percent believe Joe Biden should be impeached if he “secretly participated and facilitated” in the family’s business.
Text messages from 2019 on Hunter’s “laptop from hell” depict the Biden family payout mechanism. The instrument indicates a collection of 50 percent of familial salaries for 30 years.
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter texted to his daughter in 2019. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike Pop [Joe], I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
The Biden’s family payment mechanism of collecting 50 percent of family salaries for 30 years could be legal “predicates” for racketeering charges, according to former Utah U.S. attorney Brett Tolman.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter and Gettr @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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