Congress is seeking answers on whether Chinese companies are skirting U.S. sanctions that bar the importation of goods made with Uhygur slave labor.
Congressional investigators recently found that grocery stores around the country, including in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs, are selling red jujube dates, an Asian fruit that is produced and packaged using Uyghur slave labor in China's contested Xinjiang province. A coalition of 27 Republican lawmakers is demanding answers from the Treasury Department and Customs and Border Protection about how these goods are making their way to American shelves and enriching Communist companies that rely on slave labor, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon .
Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was passed in June, the importation of Chinese Communist Party goods that are produced with Uyghur slave labor is illegal. But this has not stopped a sanctioned Chinese company known as XPCC from selling its jujube dates to a middleman, Qingdao Daochuan Food Company Limited, which offloads the products to a Brooklyn-based distributor, according to the lawmakers. The sanctions-busting scheme, congressional sources say, is reminiscent of tactics used by the Iranian regime to skirt similar human rights sanctions. The appearance of these products in the United States is fueling accusations that the Biden administration is failing to uphold the law.
"Selling products made by Uyghur slave labor is both illegal under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) and morally abhorrent," Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), one of the letter's signers, told the Free Beacon . "Customs and Border Patrol has been directed by Congress to ensure no goods made in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are permitted to enter American markets, and the presence of these red dates in American grocery stores is a clear failure by the Biden administration to enforce this law."
XPCC, the company producing the dates, is a Chinese state-owned economic and paramilitary organization operating in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or XUAR. The company was first hit with sanctions in 2020 for human rights violations, and all U.S. persons and entities are barred from conducting transactions with it.
But jujube dates produced by XPCC were recently found in several locations, including a supermarket in the D.C. suburbs, according to photographic evidence taken by a congressional staffer and presented in the letter. The packaging "unambiguously indicates that XPCC is the producer," the lawmakers write, adding that some of the products are even "labeled with XPCC branding—a logo of XPCC soldiers saluting a red communist banner printed on the bags themselves."
Third-party sellers on Amazon also are selling versions of these dates.
The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act "mandates that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) detain all products" emanating from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region "on presumption that the goods were produced with forced labor," the lawmakers write. Still, exports from the region "hit a two-year high," raising questions about the Biden administration's enforcement efforts.
"The fact that the red jujube dates sourced from XUAR are widely available in the U.S., even through online retailers such as Amazon and often explicitly having XPCC symbols, raises important questions about how serious [Customs and Border Protection] is enforcing U.S. laws against China's forced labor practices," the letter states.
The lawmakers are demanding the Treasury Department and Border Patrol disclose how many shipments of red jujube dates have been allowed into the United States since sanctions went into effect and explain why XPCC is not facing any civil penalties. They also want to know if Qingdao Daochuan Food Company Limited, the alleged middleman in the transactions, could be found "complicit in serious human rights abuse."
"U.S. supermarkets are carrying XPCC-labeled products with Communist imagery," Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.), who helped spearhead the letter along with Gallagher and Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.), told the Free Beacon . "The Biden administration isn't taking the issue of Uyghur forced labor seriously and is failing to enforce bipartisan laws prohibiting business with entities using Uyghur forced labor."
The United Nations on Wednesday finally released a long-delayed report that admitted China's genocide of its Uyghur minority "may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity," the New York Times reported . The report did not use the word "genocide."
The report, which was released by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, found that China has undertaken "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities and that "allegations of sexual and gender-based violence, including of rape," were credible.
Both the United States and an independent tribunal in the United Kingdom have declared China's actions to be genocide.
U.N. investigators had the report on High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet's desk nearly a year ago, the Times reported, but Bachelet, a former socialist president of Chile, delayed releasing it. Bachelet, whose term ended minutes after her office released the report, visited China in May, where she praised Communist Party officials and failed to mention the Uyghur genocide.
Bachelet said at a recent news conference that "she had given priority to reaching agreement with Beijing."
International Service for Human Rights program director Sarah M. Brooks told the Times that the report is "the bare minimum" Bachelet and her office could have done. Diplomats in Beijing told the paper that the late release prevents Western governments and human rights groups from building "a robust response in the Human Rights Council, which starts its last session of the year in 12 days."
The Trump administration pulled the United States out of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which has embraced anti-Semitism and covered up for human rights abusers such as China and Russia. The United States rejoined the council under the Biden administration.
As the novel coronavirus wreaks havoc across the world, the Obama administration's ambassador to China has found a second lease on life as a pro-China talking head on regime propaganda outlets.
Former ambassador Max Baucus has given at least four different interviews to Chinese propaganda outlets in the last two weeks, repeatedly comparing the U.S. rhetoric about China to both the McCarthy era and Nazi Germany.
"Joe McCarthy [and] Adolf Hitler … rallied people up, making people believe things that were really not true," Baucus said during a May 12 interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN), a regime mouthpiece. "The White House and some in Congress are making statements against China that are so over the top and so hypercritical, they are based not on the fact, or if they are based on fact, sheer demagoguery, and that's what McCarthy did in the 1950s."
Since his retirement in 2017, Baucus has been a reliable critic of the Trump administration's increasingly confrontational China policy—chiefly the decision to wage a trade war with Beijing. He once warned that the White House's decision to impose additional tariffs was a "slap on the face" to China. But Baucus's recent comments in the pandemic era have been more sympathetic to China—and critical of the United States—than ever before.
His post-retirement public statements praising China have coincided with his burgeoning overseas investments. In 2017, he founded the Baucus Group, a consulting firm that advises both American and Chinese businesses, according to his U.S. Chamber of Commerce biography . He also sits on the board of directors for Ingram Micro, a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned conglomerate, as well as the board of advisers for Alibaba Group, one of China's largest tech companies.
Walter Lohman, director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, said that it was "inappropriate" for a former ambassador to speak ill about his own government on a foreign propaganda outlet.
"It's like going to China and … talking about your own government that way in meetings. I think that would be pretty inappropriate," Lohman said. "So it would be inappropriate speaking on state media."
Baucus's public statements have received considerable attention from Beijing's propaganda outlets. When the former ambassador compared President Donald Trump's criticism of China to rhetoric used by Adolf Hitler and Joe McCarthy during a May 6 interview with CNN, Chinese propaganda outlets quickly amplified Baucus's comments about how Trump was "a little bit like Hitler in the '30s" and that Americans were worried about "getting their heads chopped off" if they voice their disagreement with the U.S. government's China policy. Xinhua News Agency, a state-owned outlet, extensively cited Baucus's attacks in a May 8 article, using it as evidence that the Trump administration is attempting to "deflect criticisms about their blunders by blaming China." The article was syndicated in party-controlled mouthpieces such as Global Times and People's Daily , according to the Investigative Research Center.
Baucus then appeared on CGTN on May 12 to double down on his Hitler and McCarthy comparison, blaming the Trump administration for flaming "sheer demagoguery."
"[The current U.S. rhetoric] is somewhat reminiscent, nowhere close to that yet, somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy era and somewhat reminiscent of Germany in the 1930s," he told CGTN.
The former ambassador also gave an exclusive interview to Global Times on May 14, where he said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's claim that the virus may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory "makes no sense" and accused both Democrats and Republicans of being tough on China to score political points in an election year.
Baucus again appeared on CGTN on May 15, where he claimed that America is "sliding toward a form of McCarthyism" because the Trump administration is pressuring policymakers to be tough on China. The former ambassador did another CGTN media hit on May 16, this time appearing alongside his wife Melodee Hanes, who blamed the presidential election for making dialogue "difficult."
"There are a lot of pretty smart people in the United States who are not speaking up. People in office, moderates, especially moderates on the Republican side," Baucus said on May 15. "They are afraid to speak up, they are intimidated, intimidated by President Trump. And it's kind of sliding toward a form of McCarthyism—how it is politically incorrect to speak the truth, speak the truth to power."
When the Washington Free Beacon called the phone number listed for Baucus's home address, no one answered. A lawyer representing Baucus Group, the ambassador's consulting firm, also did not respond to a request for comment.
While Baucus rarely enjoyed this much attention from Chinese state media outlets after his retirement, this is not the first time he has spoken to Chinese media outlets in recent years. Baucus also gave an exclusive interview to People's Daily in March 2018, criticizing U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods as the "wrong policy" and "too confrontational." He has also spoken at events backed by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a registered foreign agent of the Chinese government according to a 2018 congressional report.
Lohman, the Heritage Foundation expert, said that while Baucus has the right to appear on any domestic and foreign outlets, he should not have addressed a propaganda outlet with the same degree of candidness that he did with CNN.
"I think he must have gotten wrapped up in the media performances because when you shift from CNN to Global Times or CGTN, you've gone to an entirely new level," he said. "And there I think you just have to express yourself differently. It's not an appropriate place to air political differences."
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It is not fair, however, to claim he has no accomplishments. While we scream and shout about the demise of the country we love, he is busy accomplishing the bidding of the Democrat party and his patrons in Communist China.
Moonlighting Joe, the part-time president By Ned Cosby
If you listen to conservative media, you get the impression that the Biden administration is "hands down" the worst since our first, and perhaps greatest, president, George Washington, was inaugurated in 1789. Biden's gaffes, creepy whispering, rest home shuffling, and empty gazes make many of us wonder how we got to this sorry state. Many of us wonder why this man is not confined to an elder care facility.
It is not fair, however, to claim he has no accomplishments. While we scream and shout about the demise of the country we love, he is busy accomplishing the bidding of the Democrat party and his patrons in Communist China.
Joe Biden collects $400,000 a year in salary as president. According to the New York Post, Biden and his family have collected $31 million from China . Jesus said we cannot serve two masters. If Biden has collected $31 million from China, that raises the question: what do the Chinese want in return? Does that $31 million make China his biggest concern? Could it be that his primary job is serving the interests of China, while his role as president is a moonlighting gig?
As president, Joe Biden is doing his worst to make sure that America is ruled by his party far into the future. His open border policy is allowing millions of illegals to invade this country. At an opportune moment, his party, with the help of RINOs, will grant amnesty to these lawbreakers, including a path to citizenship. This was Ted Kennedy's demographic dream, and no one in Washington is giving Biden any grief about his part in making Democrats the ruling party in America.
Image: Joe Biden (edited). YouTube screen grab.
Joe Biden wants fossil fuels to become so expensive that Americans will grudgingly switch over to electric cars and other "green friendly" sources of power. You hear American citizens grumble over these high prices, but again, do you hear Senator Mitch McConnell or Minority Leader McCarthy pounding tables in Washington over the high prices their constituents are paying? As Sgt. Shultz used to say, "I hear nothing."
Joe Biden oversees a new America featuring a two-tiered justice system. If you admittedly lie to the FBI and are a Democrat, you get a pass. If you allegedly lie to the FBI, as General Flynn was accused of doing, you will be hounded, harassed, and ruined because he is a Republican. Our coins still say, "In God we trust," but the reality in Washington, D.C. is more like "Republicans need not apply."
Biden's popularity for doing the bidding of his party is worrisome for Democrats. Forty-one percent of Americans approve of what he is doing, while 57% disapprove of his leadership. Worse, 23% of Americans believe that the country is on the right track, while 71% of those polled say America is on the wrong track. We are five months from the congressional elections, and it currently appears that the Democrats will lose control of both the House and the Senate.
Biden's embrace of open borders and green energy policies is very unpopular with the general public. Still, it's very popular with the far left of his party, who are currently calling the shots. I fear that Biden is too old and feeble to make course corrections as Clinton once did. With Harris as vice president, we are stuck with Moonlight Joe until January 2025. Writing this gives me no pleasure, but "we the people" are not his first concern. He has other employers overseas who pay him much more.
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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
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The family of former Vice President Joe Biden has earned millions of dollars since the start of his political career, often from dealings with heavy political overtones. The book, titled Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite. , lays out how Hunter Biden and his business partners, in addition to his numerous Rosemont-branded entities and ventures, was deeply involved with an entity called the Burnham Financial Group.
In short, Hunter Biden was not cutting business deals in Japan or Great Britain, where disclosure rules and corporate governance might require greater scrutiny. These were deals in the truly dark corners of the world. KATRINA WONG
Poll: 62 Percent Say Joe Biden Consulted, Perhaps Profited from Family Business Deals Alex Wong/Getty Images 3:44
Sixty-two percent of registered voters believe President Joe Biden likely consulted and perhaps profited from Biden family business deals, a Tuesday Rasmussen poll found.
Only one-third of respondents said they do not believe Joe Biden was likely consulted about his family’s business dealings with CCP-linked companies.
The poll surveyed 1,000 likely voters August 31-September 1, 2022 with a three point margin of error.
April polling revealed 58 percent of voters believed Joe Biden played a role in his family’s business. Sixty percent said Hunter Biden has sold “influence and access” to the president.
The polling comes after overwhelming evidence suggests that Joe Biden has been involved in his family’s business deals since 2012, when he was vice president. Joe Biden and his staff have claimed seven times Joe Biden has had no part in the family scheme, but 17 instances show otherwise.
“I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. Here’s what I know — I know Trump deserves to be investigated,” Joe Biden claimed in 2020.
“It’s a smear campaign,” he said another time in October of 2020. “My son has no made money from China,” he reiterated a few days afterward.
But texts from Hunter’s laptop indicate Joe Biden received 50 percent of Hunter’s “salary” for a 30-year period. The reported texts do not reveal when the 30 years began or ended and whether Joe Biden is still a part of the payment scheme as president.
“I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years,” Hunter texted his daughter. “It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike Pop [Joe], I won’t make you give me half your salary.”
According to former Utah U.S. attorney Brett Tolman, the Biden family’s payment mechanism of collecting 50 percent of family salaries for 30 years could be legal “predicates” for racketeering charges.
Trump-appointed United States prosecutor David Weiss is deliberating whether Hunter and associates “violated money laundering, campaign finance, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as whether Hunter Biden broke federal firearm and other regulations,” CNN reported . A grand jury has been convened in the probe, whereby a witness who testified before the jury was reportedly asked to identify the “big guy.”
The “big guy” refers to Joe Biden potentially receiving a 10 percent cut of a deal with a now defunct CCP-linked company, according to former business associate of Hunter, Tony Bobulinski, who personally met with Joe and Hunter Biden in 2017 for an hour to discuss “the Bidens’ family business plans with the Chinese.”
Bobulinski later came forward as a whistleblower and reportedly handed over intelligence about Biden family business dealings to former FBI “point man” Timothy Thibault, the New York Post reported . Yet Thibault, who left the bureau in August, reportedly never followed up on Bobulinski’s information. Bobulinski has also never reportedly testified before the Delaware grand jury probing Hunter.
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How Raphael Warnock Dodges Income Taxes Warnock doesn't pay income taxes on a $90K ‘parsonage allowance’ from Atlanta church
Alana Goodman • September 8, 2022 4:59 amSen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) has an unusual financial arrangement with an outside employer that allowed him to avoid income taxes on $89,000 in outside salary last year, according to tax experts.
Warnock, who works as the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said the church paid him $89,000 last year as a "parsonage allowance"—as opposed to regular outside income, which is subject to strict limitations for senators under federal law. Lawmakers are not allowed to receive more than $29,895 in outside income.
The news raises questions about whether Warnock is taking a tax break that’s unavailable to the vast majority of Americans. Republicans say Warnock wants to raise taxes, pointing to his vote for a spending package in August that some analysts claim would increase taxes on low- and middle-income earners. The senator has also faced criticism for his outside financial arrangements from his opponent, Republican Herschel Walker. The Walker campaign has slammed Warnock for doubling his annual salary since taking office, raking in $120,000 from the Ebenezer Baptist Church and over $240,000 for a book deal.
Tax experts said the Internal Revenue Service created the modern "parsonage allowance" provision in the 1950s as a tax break for religious leaders, who historically lived in tax-exempt church-owned parsonages but now often rent or own their own homes. The provision allows pastors and other clergy members to deduct their estimated annual housing expenses—including mortgage payments, lawn care, furniture, and pool maintenance—from their income taxes.
Warnock’s campaign declined to comment on whether he paid income taxes on his housing allowance.
Some legal experts also questioned the Senate Ethics Committee’s decision to approve the arrangement, saying it appears to violate federal law that prohibits members of Congress from receiving more than $29,895 in outside income. Warnock’s campaign suggested that the "parsonage allowance" wasn’t subject to the same cap as regular income, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , which first reported on the arrangement last month.
"Sen. Warnock's arrangement appears to be an abuse of both the parsonage allowance provisions of the tax code and Senate ethics rules," Charlie Spies, a Republican campaign finance attorney with Dickinson Wright, told the Washington Free Beacon . "The parsonage exception in Sec. 107(2) is targeted for those who are pastors, not boondoggles for politicians."
Tax experts told the Free Beacon qualified clergy members are allowed to designate up to 100 percent of their salaries as tax-free under the parsonage exemption. Although clergy members need written acknowledgment from their church to participate, religious institutions have no say over the percentage the clergy requests and don’t provide oversight into how the employee spends this money, according to experts. Instead, participating clergy members are supposed to be regulated by the IRS.
While many pastors claim less than 40 percent of their salary as a parsonage allowance, one forensic accountant said he has seen some who take upwards of 70 or 80 percent—an amount he said was "bordering on abusive."
Warnock’s parsonage allowance adds up to nearly 75 percent of his income from the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which breaks down to about $7,400-per-month in housing expenses.
The senator owns a home in Atlanta that was recently appraised at around $1 million, according to property records. In addition to mortgage payments, the parsonage allowance can be used to cover any housing-related costs, including security, landscaping, and home furnishings.
Gil Rothenberg, the former chief of the Department of Justice tax division’s appellate section, told the Free Beacon the parsonage allowance was intended to "even the scales" between wealthy churches and poorer ones, which can’t always afford to provide a well-maintained home for their ministers.
But he said there have also been past cases where religious leaders have abused the system. In 2002, Rothenberg represented the government in a legal dispute with Rick Warren, a megachurch pastor who had claimed $80,000 of his salary as a "parsonage allowance"—an amount that the IRS claimed exceeded the value of his housing. The case prompted Congress to update the law, capping the parsonage allowance at the fair rental value of the home, plus furnishings and maintenance.
"The kinds of cases that got to me when I was at DOJ were basically the really abusive ones," said Rothenberg. "I don’t know how many other ministers are basically padding their parsonage allowance. Nobody knows. You hope that the CPA, or whoever is doing their taxes, is doing it correctly."
While churches note that the provision is crucial for many clergy members, who often don’t earn large salaries, the rule has also been controversial. Critics have accused some clergy members of taking advantage of the exemption, using it to pay for lavish vacation homes and other luxuries.
Peter Reilly, a certified public accountant who has written about parsonage allowances, said Warnock’s allowance "seems like a lot, but it’s not crazy" in comparison with others he has seen.
"Some of the parsonage [allowances] can tend to be enormous," he told the Free Beacon . "Some of the televangelists, it’s millions."
How Raphael Warnock Doubled His Income Since Joining the Senate Warnock made over half a million dollars in 2021—from book deals, outside employers, and speaking fees
Alana Goodman • August 29, 2022 5:00 amSen. Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) more than doubled his income since joining the Senate last year, with most of his half-a-million-dollar haul coming from outside employers and book deals, according to his financial disclosure records.
Warnock disclosed a total income of $532,781 in 2021, a significant bump from the $221,602 he earned in the year before his election. Less than half of his income last year came from his Senate salary, which was $164,816. Ebenezer Baptist Church paid him an additional $120,964, including a $7,417-per-month housing allowance. Penguin Random House also paid him $243,750 as an advance on his memoir that was published in June, and he received $5,750 in speaking fees.
Warnock’s spike in earnings comes two years after he accused his predecessor, former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, of "us[ing] the people’s seat to enrich yourself." The income is likely to feed the perception that holding public office is a means to enrichment given how many lawmakers find a way to leverage their positions—over time—into multimillion-dollar fortunes. Warnock's 100 percent income increase shows how quickly that can happen, as he's doubled his take-home pay in just two years.
Warnock has already drawn public scrutiny for some of his unusual financial arrangements. While senators are prohibited from accepting more than $29,000 in outside income, Warnock raked in $120,000 last year from Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta—but dodged the income cap by taking most of that money as a "housing allowance." He was also hit with election finance complaints in July for using campaign funds to fight personal lawsuits that predated his run for office.
Herschel Walker, the Republican challenging Warnock in the competitive Senate race, slammed the Democrat over his outside work, claiming he "only cares about making a better life for himself, not the people of Georgia."
"Raphael Warnock cares more about himself than the people of Georgia. He has been trying to cash in on his job since day one," a Walker spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon . "Warnock is always looking for another chance to use his position to make more money and misuse campaign funds."
Warnock’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Warnock was able to avoid ethics rules that prohibit lawmakers from earning over 15 percent of their income from outside employers through a unique financial agreement with the Ebenezer Baptist Church. His campaign said $89,000 of his salary from Ebenezer Baptist Church was a "personal parsonage allowance" to pay for his housing, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution . Warnock’s home in Atlanta is worth around $1 million, the AJC reported.
Republicans also filed a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Warnock in July, alleging that he violated the law by using his campaign funds to pay unrelated legal fees. Warnock’s campaign paid lawyers who are representing him in a lawsuit stemming from his time as pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church.
"Because the conduct that gave rise to the lawsuit occurred long before Warnock was a candidate for federal office, the conduct had nothing to do with Warnock’s now-status as a candidate and officeholder," said the complaint filed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
Last February , Warnock’s ex-wife Oulèye Ndoye filed a custody suit against him claiming that he left her "financially strapped" by saddling her with unpaid childcare expenses even as his "income has substantially increased."
Warnock’s significant growth in earnings is notable after he accused his 2020 opponent Loeffler, a multimillionaire, of being out-of-touch with Georgia voters, where the median housing income is $61,000. During the campaign, he also claimed Loeffler profited as a senator by selling off millions in stocks after attending a confidential COVID briefing.
"I’m okay with the fact that she wants to make money, I just think you shouldn’t use the people’s seat to enrich yourself," said Warnock during a debate . "You ought to use the people’s seat to represent the people."
Warnock is locked in a tight race against Walker for the seat, which could determine party control of the U.S. Senate next year.
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