Mark Levin: Why do Democrats hate America?
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Report: Missile Tech ‘Funded by US Taxpayers, Through the US Government,’ Ends Up in China
Research groups for China's hypersonics and missile program are buying specialized American technology produced by firms funded by the Pentagon, according to a Washington Post investigation released Monday.
The Post found over 300 sales since 2019 of advanced software products from nearly 50 U.S. firms to research groups involved in China's missile development program. Many of the firms that developed these products received millions of dollars in grants from the Department of Defense. The companies are finding their way around U.S. export bans by selling to private Chinese middleman distributors.
"It's very disturbing, because the bottom line is that technology that can be used for military hypersonics was funded by U.S. taxpayers, through the U.S. government, and ended up in China," University of Colorado Center for National Security Initiatives director Iain Boyd, who conducts experimental research on hypersonics, told the Post.
The report reveals the U.S. government's struggle to keep American military innovations out of the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. The acquired commercial software—the results of decades of research—will save the Chinese military time and resources as it strives to outpace the United States in a race to create the most effective hypersonic weapons.
"In this case the American technology is superior—we can't do certain things without foreign technology," a Chinese scientist whose lab conducts testing for hypersonic vehicles told the Post. "There isn't the same technical foundation."
The Defense Department has strict export controls designed to prevent products that threaten national security from reaching China.
"U.S. export controls require a license for the export of any type of software, hardware, or technology to China if there is knowledge that it would be used to develop a missile or other item used for weapons of mass destruction," Kevin Wolf, a former senior official at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, told the Post. "And that license would generally be denied."
American firms are skirting these safeguards by blindly selling advanced software to private Chinese firms. Some of those firms openly advertise their relationships with Chinese weapon and military groups, the Post found.
"What we've always told companies is you cannot self-blind," Matthew Borman, the Commerce Department's deputy assistant secretary for export administration, told the Post. "You can't just say, ‘Oh, I'm selling it to a distributor, I don't know what they're going to do with it.' Especially if it's a party where it's readily ascertainable that they are a supplier to the Chinese military."
The Post found that two of the U.S. firms—Arizona-based Zona Technology and California-headquartered Metacomp Technologies—sold software to the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics, which played a key role in designing China's 2021 hypersonic missile test. Both companies are also beneficiaries of the Pentagon's Small Business Innovation Research grant program, which incentivizes development of American defense technology.
Published under: CCP, China, Department of Defense, Missile Defense, Sanctions
Fact Checkers Said Biden’s Chinese Oil Sale Was No Big Deal. A Congressional Dem Just Moved To Ban the Practice.
Bills from Democrat Frank Pallone, Republican Dan Sullivan would ban sale of strategic petroleum reserves to China following Free Beacon report
Just months after fact checkers rushed to the defense of the Biden administration in the wake of its decision to sell U.S. oil reserves to China, a New Jersey Democratic congressman is moving to ban the practice.
Rep. Frank Pallone on Sept. 26 introduced the Buy Low and Sell High Act, which would help "us regain control of domestic gas prices" in part by banning the sale of Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to any entity "owned, controlled, or influenced" by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, the Washington Examiner reported. The move will likely come as a surprise to some of the country's leading fact checkers, who tut-tutted a Washington Free Beacon report in July indicating that the Biden administration sold hundreds of thousands of emergency reserve barrels to a Chinese state-controlled company.
"There's no reason for outrage. … The Biden administration is seeking to lower the global price of crude oil by bolstering supply around the globe," the Washington Post‘s Glenn Kessler wrote at the time. "Selling crude oil to traders, whether based in the United States, Europe, or Asia, is part of that effort. Anyone who suggests the Biden administration is doing something wrong here … earns Three Pinocchios." PolitiFact similarly defended the sale, which it said "accomplishes the policy goal of lowering oil prices." White House adviser Ian Sams quickly used those reports to accuse Republicans of "pushing false conspiracies about the president."
Pallone apparently disagrees. His bill orders Biden's energy secretary to "issue a rule" prohibiting "the export or sale of petroleum products drawn down from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve" to "any entity owned, controlled, or influenced by … the Chinese Communist Party." That provision, the legislation states, would help "lower consumer fuel prices."
Pallone is not the only member of Congress working to ban the sale of emergency reserve oil to China. Sen. Dan Sullivan's (R., Alaska) Replenishing Our American Reserves Act calls for the energy secretary to "only draw down and sell petroleum products from the Reserve to entities within the United States."
The White House did not return a request for comment.
America's oil reserves have shrunk to record low levels under President Joe Biden. As of Sept. 30, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve held just 416.4 million barrels—the lowest level since 1984—after Biden released another 6.2 million barrels from the emergency stockpile. Biden is reportedly weighing the release of another 100 million barrels, Energy Aspects head of research Amrita Sen told CNBC Monday.
China has taken advantage of Biden's decision to deplete America's oil reserves, with the communist nation buying from the United States as it adds to its own petroleum stockpile. In February, Chinese state-controlled oil giant Unipec launched an "unusual buying spree" to boost China's oil reserves. Just two months later, in April, the Biden administration sold Unipec roughly one million Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels. By mid-May, China increased its oil reserves from 869 million barrels to 926 million barrels—just months earlier, Biden predicted the communist nation would release oil from its reserves to help lower gas prices.
"At a time when millions of Americans are suffering financially at the gas pump, Joe Biden is helping replenish our biggest adversary's energy reserves with our own damn oil," Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) told the Free Beacon in July. "It's astonishing how clueless this administration is when it comes to trusting bad actors like China to help alleviate our economy."
IS GAMER LAWYER HUNTER BIDEN SELLIONG HIS 'ART' TO CHINA AS A WAY TO SIPHON BRIBES TO THE 'BIG GUY' JOE???
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
The level of 'corruption' in our government is 'unacceptable': JD Vance
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THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY
Axios Fact Checks Democrat Tim Ryan: Republican J.D. Vance Never ‘Invested into China’
Establishment media outlet Axios on Monday fact checked Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who attacked opponent J.D. Vance (R) during last week’s debate for “investing into China.”
During the debate, Vance confronted Ryan for his political attack ads claiming he is a “San Francisco vulture capitalist,” in addition to Ryan’s claims that the Republican “invested into China.”
Without being able to point to any investments Vance made into China, Ryan said, “The problem is… Because of guys like you, J.D., who make money off of investing into China. He, in his first venture capital fund investments, invested in China.”
When Vance asked “which company” Ryan was talking about, the Democrat uttered, “The one that ships jobs, ships jobs to China to manufacture things. … I’m telling you, J.D., you’ve not denied investing into China.”
Watch the exchange:
Despite Ryan’s efforts to try to attack Vance, Axios reported that “Ryan couldn’t stick the landing” of his attacks that Vance ‘invested into China,’ not being able to name the company to which he was referring” because “Vance never backed a China-based company via his venture capital funds, per a review of the records.”
The report further explained:
- Instead, Ryan apparently was referring to two companies on Vance’s financial disclosure forms that source some equipment and/or products from China, both tied to Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund (which Vance joined in 2017 and left two years later to launch his own firm).
- But that’s a bit like saying an investment in Ford Motor Co. is “investing in China,” because Ford sources some EV battery packs from Chinese suppliers. Moreover, one of the two investments was made by Revolution co-founder Steve Case before Vance even joined the firm, but got rolled into the fund as a contributed asset. The other is a Salt Lake City-based apparel maker that has around 22% of its products made in Shanghai and Tianjin factories (the investment was made shortly before Vance left Revolution) [emphasis added].
In response to the Axios report, Vance’s campaign spokesperson told Breitbart News, “Fifty thousand jobs have disappeared from the Mahoning Valley since Tim Ryan took office twenty years ago. Drug overdoses are up, and household incomes are down. Tim can’t run on his own record, so he has to fabricate lies about JD Vance. If this is the best Tim Ryan’s got, you know he’s really in trouble.”
Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. Write to him at jbliss@breitbart.com or follow him on Twitter @JacobMBliss.
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