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SERVING RED CHINA: JOE BIDEN AT WORK
Biden admin is ‘enormously dangerous’ to the survival of America: Newt Gingrich
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Did Hunter Biden Sleep with a Chinese Spy?
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Hunter Biden faces possible subpoena after missing deadline to turn over docs
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My colleague Peter Schweizer’s runaway bestseller, Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, first revealed that the Biden family received some $31 million from the highest levels of Chinese intelligence at the same time Hunter was paying the vice president’s bills. Schweizer believes that there is a slam dunk case to indict Hunter Biden.
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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.
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Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hunter has reportedly sold five paintings worth $75,000 each to an anonymous buyer. Hunter’s art dealer, Georges Bergès, has previously boasted he had strong ties to businessmen in Communist China, which has concerned many due to the Biden family’s business ventures abroad.
“We are 95% sure that that artwork went to China,” Comer said. “We don’t know where exactly that went to in China, but we’re going to try to find out when we get subpoena power.”
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Biden family business dealings with China is a ‘national security issue’: Schweizer
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Peter Schweizer’s new book Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military. The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.
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Kevin McCarthy Pledges Subpoenas for 51 Intel Agents in Wake of Hunter Biden ‘Twitter Files’
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy said Saturday on FNC’s “One Nation” that he will bring the 51 intel agents that signed a letter that said the Hunter Biden information was Russia collusion to testify at a congressional hearing.
Host Brian Kilmeade asked, “We saw the revelations coming out of Twitter as Elon Musk is unmasking the corruption that existed there and the denials that they testified about. So for you personally you have another move you want to make. Not only do we want to hear from the former executives of Twitter and the other entities, but you have something else you want to say.”
McCarthy said, Yeah, I do. This is egregious what we are finding. They should not have section 230 to start out with, but we also have to go further. What did Facebook and Google do as well because they became an arm of the Democratic Party and an arm of government.”
He continued, “Those 51 intel agents that signed a letter that said the Hunter Biden information was all wrong — was Russia collusion — many of them have a security clearance. We are going to bring them before committee. I’m going to have them have a hearing. Why did they sign it? Why did they lie to the American public? A Clapper, a Brennan? Why did you use the reputation that America was able to give to you more information, but use it for a political purpose and lie to the American public?”
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism. Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’ investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party. PAM KEY
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According to the article, Falun Gong and its associated media, including the Epoch Times, have engaged in "conspiracy narratives" targeting Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party and of "links" between Joe Biden and the CCP. In fact, a great deal of evidence is emerging in the Comer investigation to show that those links are far from being conspiracy narratives. (See also a 2020 New York Times article, which labels Falun Gong "a leading purveyor of right-wing disinformation.")
The Group the Chinese Communists Fear the Most
I have rarely heard it mentioned in the mainstream media, but, according to reports, during the 1990s in communist China, thirty thousand members of Falun Gong were rounded up and executed. The founder of Falun Gong, Li Hongzhi, fled China and now lives in the U.S., while in China members of the order went underground. According to Freedom House, "Falun Gong practitioners across China have since [July 1999] been subjected to widespread surveillance, arbitrary detention, horrific torture, and extrajudicial killing — abuses which continue today." Nonetheless, there are still some 100 million practitioners worldwide, and the movement continues to grow.
Information concerning the repression of Falun Gong is a Chinese state secret, with severe penalties for anyone attempting to obtain data. As the Falun Data Infocenter puts it: "The CCP has also used political and financial influence around the world to either keep journalists silent, or drive false narratives about Falun Gong." With total control inside China and compliance by foreign journalists, the Chinese Communist Party has driven a false narrative that minimizes the number of Falun Gong practitioners and hides data on the number of those abducted, tortured, killed, and killed for their organs, thus totally obscuring the record. At the same time, Chinese and foreign media continue to suggest that the victim is the abuser: the false idea that Falun Gong is a cult with dangerous potential.
For anyone who has studied the history of or practiced Falun Gong, the enormity of this continuing abuse and misinformation is obvious. Falun gong is a benign practice of meditation, exercise, and moral instruction with no political ties of any sort, but it is often represented, even by well-meaning Western journalists, as a "cult" or as a right-wing anti-CCP organization, as in a recent article in the Guardian, relying heavily on statements by Media Matters. According to the article, Falun Gong and its associated media, including the Epoch Times, have engaged in "conspiracy narratives" targeting Democrats and the Chinese Communist Party and of "links" between Joe Biden and the CCP. In fact, a great deal of evidence is emerging in the Comer investigation to show that those links are far from being conspiracy narratives. (See also a 2020 New York Times article, which labels Falun Gong "a leading purveyor of right-wing disinformation.")
If those journalists would do their homework, beginning with studying Falun Gong websites and the book Zhuan Falun by Li Hongzhi, instead of relying on the well funded Chinese "zero out" campaign, they would realize that Falun Gong is an uplifting instruction based on traditional, conservative Chinese practices.
The story of the Chinese government crackdown on Falun Gong is a classic example of totalitarian intolerance of competing ideas, and it involves both propaganda and physical terror. A careful examination of the record proves that the response of the communist Chinese regime is not very different from that of ancient regimes toward their own enslaved peoples. Despite their vast power, totalitarian leaders are fearful and at times even paranoid, as was Stalin, and the flip-side of fear is repression.
In reality, Falun Gong is a complex spiritual practice involving qijong-like exercises, positive thinking, and moral belief based on truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. As a practitioner myself, I know how Falun Gong can transform an individual from illness to health, confusion to knowledge, and intolerance to open-mindedness. It is obvious to me how a totalitarian regime would view Falun Gong as a threat, as indeed it would be to any form of deceit, corruption, or intolerance. As Falun Gong spread in China during the 1990s, at one point with 60 to 100 million followers in China alone, the practice became a threat to a government that had once encouraged it as a healthy "money-saving" vehicle and a social safety valve for a dissatisfied citizenry. Yet within months, beginning in July 1999, perhaps 100,000 followers were arrested and 30,000 executed. Even now, nearly 4,000 practitioners were arrested in 2021 (latest figures).
It is critical to consider the magnitude of this repression, with between two and four million Falun Gong followers "detained" in forced labor camps between 2000 and 2008 alone. Chinese policy toward Falun Gong is similar to the more widely publicized repression of Uyghurs, 1.5 million of whom have reportedly been detained in China, with hundreds of thousands of others subjected to forced sterilization, forced abortion, and religious suppression, and with the razing or damaging of 16,000 mosques. Like totalitarian regimes of the past, the CCP appears willing to employ the most ruthless tactics in order to secure its hold on the country.
Though Falun Gong is not a political movement, the exponential growth of Falun Gong during the 1990s might well have pressured authorities to change, and as soon as China's leaders recognized this threat, they suppressed Falun Gong with a heavy hand. One could hardly be truthful, compassionate, and forbearing and lend one's support to a communist regime governed by a few thousand members of the political elite intent on benefiting from their rule at the expense of the general population. Falun Gong teaches a form of gentleness and goodness that threatens the lies and violence of any totalitarian government.
One must ask: if the Chinese communists are willing to imprison millions of ethnic and religious minorities and to murder tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, what are they capable of in the future? How many lives are they willing to expend in a takeover of Taiwan? And once Taiwan is taken, how many Taiwanese will they imprison and execute? In the event of a war with Japan or with the United States, how many are they willing to see die, on both sides? And if Chinese communism were ever to achieve world domination, what kind of future could we expect? As Christians, probably something not unlike what the Uyghurs and Falun Gong have already experienced.
At the same time, the specter of Chinese repression should open our eyes to the remarkable value of our own system of democratic capitalism. The CCP has diminished Falun Gong in China, but, like all religious and spiritual practices, Falun Gong has found a safe home in America, at least in principle, though the Biden administration continues to restrict religious practice, to challenge religious rights in the courts and in agency practices, and to unleash the power of agencies like the Justice Department and IRS against the open practice of religion. Many of the same tactics adopted in communist China are accepted by progressives in our own country, including the encouragement of birth control and abortion, even late-term abortion and infanticide after birth.
For the present, there is still a difference between totalitarianism and democracy as practiced in the USA. Now is a time when American citizens, media, government, and corporations need to see clearly that communist China is a totalitarian government and to recognize what it is capable of. China's record toward Falun Gong, a violent repression that continues today, is one element in a string of crackdowns and arrests. We do not need to send a balloon over China to understand the nature of their regime, but we do need to recognize the enormity of its abuses and take appropriate actions to defend ourselves.
Jeffrey Folks is the author of many books and articles on American culture, most recently Heartland of the Imagination (2011).
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Inside China’s Long Game to Infiltrate US Politics
The Chinese regime is ‘very, very patient’ in its goal to penetrate and influence American politics at every level, says intelligence expert.
As Chinese authorities escorted the senior Federal Reserve official from his Shanghai hotel room, they demanded he “say good things about China" when back in the United States.
The atmosphere was “frightening,” the official, who remained unnamed, recalled to the Fed.
The U.S. official recounted Chinese authorities trying to pry “sensitive, non-public economic data” out of him and insisting that he “advise senior government officials” on sensitive economic issues such as trade tariffs while the United States and China were embroiled in a trade war. They forced him to drink liquor and attempted to make him commit to future meetings to allow them to gather economic intelligence.
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Unsettling as it is, the incident was but part of a “long-running and brazen” malicious campaign from China over the course of more than a decade to undermine U.S. economic policy and advance Beijing’s ambition to supplant the United States as the global superpower.
Coercion and threats represent only a sliver of the regime’s toolbox used to target the Western political sphere. A Chinese think tank based in Beijing, in partnering with the state-affiliated Tsinghua University, in 2019 rated White House advisors and U.S. governors by their friendliness to Beijing. The group labeled officials as “friendly,” “ambiguous,” or “hardline” after combing through metrics such as age, work history, public statements, trade activities with China, and length of term.
Time, patience, and thoroughness—these are attributes that Michel Juneau-Katsuya, former Asia Pacific chief at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in the 1990s, sees in the Chinese regime’s craft of infiltration.
“They've been capable to work in a very holistic way,” he told The Epoch Times.
China, he noted, doesn’t have a democratic election process that could displace the leadership from power. “So they know that they can plant today something that will be capable to be harvested in five, 10 or 15 years.”
Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), who has advocated for a tougher stance on China, agreed.
Biding Their Time
Few if any U.S. leaders, from the federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, are immune to the risk of the Chinese regime manipulating them to bolster its hidden agenda, warned the National Counterintelligence and Security Center in July last year.By leveraging relationships with U.S. officials—called “using the local to surround the central” in communist slogan terms—Beijing can pressure Washington to back policy outcomes favorable to the regime, such as deepening bilateral economic ties and tamping down criticism of the regime’s abysmal human rights record.
Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy working for China’s top intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security, reportedly used campaign fundraising, networking, and romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern city mayors to gain a footing in their spheres of influence.
Ms. Fang also approached Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) when he was a member of the Dublin City Council, raised money for his 2014 reelection campaign, and facilitated an intern’s placement in Mr. Swalwell’s office, according to Axios.
The United Front network, which helps the Party control the Chinese diaspora, also plays a role in co-opting well-placed individuals for Beijing’s interests.
“Local level officials, state officials are just not going to be as aware of or as attuned to some of these influence efforts—they're just trying to create jobs,” Sarah Cook, a senior China analyst at the Freedom House, told The Epoch Times.
“The CCP is very good at taking advantage of that, to get people to side with them, to get people in the United States to have a stake in what the CCP also wants. Then later, that can be activated to create situations that are more problematic.”
“I think people at the earliest part of that relationship, don't realize that,” she added.
As with Ms. Fang’s case, the Chinese influence operations begin early in the local leaders’ careers.
“They're very, very patient, they have time on their side. Their determination and their focus is remarkable,” Mr. Juneau-Katsuya said of the regime.
He said that Chinese intelligence officers-turned-defectors had detailed to him how they were instructed to be model citizens in the Western world for five to 10 years, working their way up the ladder in society before being “activated.”
‘Lie in Plain Sight’
Taiwan, Uyghur, Falun Gong, Tiananmen Square. The list of the Chinese Communist Party’s trigger words goes on. And the regime has made it clear that no one—in China or anywhere else—should go against its will.
The email, written from a Gmail account registered under Mr. Zhou, declared the bill “absurd” and claimed the “so-called ‘forced organ harvesting’ in China is a farce.”
Mr. Zhou, in true Beijing fashion, demanded that the United States stop "baseless hype and anti-China moves and stops preceding [sic] this legislation.”
Mr. Smith said the claims in the email were "a big lie in plain sight."
“The Falun Gong practitioners and the Uyghurs are being killed for their organs, and it's tens of thousands every single year, as we know,” he told The Epoch Times.
“Perfectly healthy people being put down in a gurney drugged in order to effectuate two to three of their organs being taken out involuntarily—and they kill them—that is murder. That's crimes against humanity.”
The New Jersey Republican on April 14 wrote to the Chinese embassy requesting a visa to visit Xinjiang, the northwestern Chinese region where an estimated 1 million Uyghurs are being held in detention camps. He hasn’t heard back.
The audacity of the regime in making demands of an elected member of Congress “incensed” Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), one of the recipients of the threatening letter.
“Basically, I just said, ‘No, you can't tell me who I can and can't meet with and I'm going to go ahead and meet with her,’" Ms. Hinson told The Epoch Times. "And that's what we did."
"The fact that somebody was bold enough to assume that they could send me an email like that, and threaten and bully me—incredulous.”
“I will not be bullied, my mind is not going to be changed on an email like that, where you are deliberately trying to undermine my ability to do my job.”
‘Chilling Effect’
Despite receiving backlash, what keeps Beijing’s officials going, according to Ms. Cook, is that although it may not work this time or with some “veteran CCP critics,” it can “make people think twice about a critical action next time.”Those who are not familiar with the Chinese state-directed maneuverings are more vulnerable to the CCP’s bullying, said Ms. Cook, especially if they aren’t aware of how often it happens. Some of the threats voiced are just bluffs, she said.
If Chinese officials "remind" U.S. leaders of the potential economic consequences, someone newer to an elected office or a lawmaker who is introducing a policy action that provokes Beijing may decide to “avoid the controversy” next time, even if they carry through on the current action.
“They may be caught by surprise, and if they are local officials receiving an intimidating letter from a big national and repressive government like China’s, then that’s two entities that aren’t operating at the same level,” she said. “And depending on the situation, they may actually have more to lose in terms of, say, investment in their district.”
An example occurred in California in 2017 when then-state Sen. Joel Anderson tried to push the state legislature to take a symbolic stance against the Chinese regime’s persecution of Falun Gong.
Two days after his resolution unanimously passed through the state’s judiciary committee, a round of letters flew from the Chinese consulate in San Francisco to California state senate members.
Penetrating Deep
The Party’s tactics for gaining influence have become increasingly aggressive over the years. Where money fails, espionage and outright intimidation come in.The regime's mix of reward and retaliation appears to have paid off to a certain extent.
In the conservative state of Utah, up to 25 lawmakers have routinely taken trips to China every other year since 2007, with Chinese state media featuring their jubilant quotes in order to amplify Beijing’s agenda.
After being approached by a Beijing advocate, another Utah state legislator introduced a resolution in 2020 expressing solidarity with China early in the COVID-19 pandemic. The resolution passed, although the governor declined to sign it.
Asked in September during a Senate intelligence committee hearing whether the Chinese regime has been successful in changing policy outcomes, Glenn Tiffert of the Hoover Institution answered “absolutely yes,” and pointed to Beijing's successful manipulation of corporate America through economic incentives.
“China does not need to insert itself directly into those consultations, because the American firms' interests themselves point in that direction,” Mr. Tiffert told the senators.
The incentive factor manifests in other forms too: When Rockville City in Maryland was contemplating a sister city agreement with Taiwan’s Yilan City, Chinese diplomats in Washington dangled investment opportunities in front of Rockville city officials and pressed them to scrap the plan, citing Rockville's unofficial connection with southeastern Chinese city Jiaxing, Mr. Tiffert noted at the hearing.
“Fortunately, the city stood firm,” he said, but partnerships like this with China have become one of the windows for the Chinese to lay claims on U.S. policy.
And when subtle means don’t work, Beijing doesn't shy away from overt aggression.
A 'Sophisticated Network'
To conquer an opponent requires an understanding of where they are weak, and one weakness for the West is democracy—the need to have election cycles to “renew ourselves constantly,” said Mr. Juneau-Katsuya.“Because we renew ourselves, also, we are in the process of constantly seeking approval, seeking support, seeking election votes,” he said. The Chinese “understand it so well” that they have their diplomatic missions infiltrate the local Chinese community, turning it into a bargaining chip to get elected Western officials to do their bidding.
“The CCP is very clever, and they have a very sophisticated network in place in penetrating many of the diaspora communities,” Mr. Chiu told The Epoch Times’s sister media NTD.
The regime also has something else to their advantage: the sheer volume of people.
Mr. Juneau-Katsuya recalls that during the Korean War, with less sophisticated weaponry on hand, the Chinese opted to send wave after wave of people during assaults, until they overwhelmed—and overtook—their opponents. They have applied the same concept to the intelligence front, he said.
‘Across the Board’
The depth of Chinese infiltration globally has largely been in the shadows until recent years.During the first five months this year in Canada, concerns over Chinese foreign interference came into the open as more than 350 witnesses testified in front of four parliamentary committees probing the issue. Mr. Juneau-Katsuya said it was a further indicator of Beijing’s success in compromising “every single level” of political strata in his country.
At the Tiananmen Memorial in New York in September, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, told reporters that “it's reasonable to assume that all of us in Congress and our staff” are targets for the Ministry of State Security (MSS) and the United Front system.
“We need to be aware of that fact and cognizant of that fact,” he said when asked about the level of vetting of congressional staffers.
“For whatever reason, the MSS doesn't occupy the same place in people's imagination or minds that let's say the KGB did, so it's hard for people to truly understand the scale and scope of Chinese espionage as a result.”
And because “Hollywood is bought and paid for by China,” in many cases, there are no movies helping put the issue into perspective, he said.
Tackling a ‘Monster’
Chinese embassy officials haven’t contacted Ms. Hinson, also a member of the House China Committee, since her April meeting with Taiwan’s president.“I think they know I'm not going to roll over,” she said. But Chinese political meddling, she said, is “alive and well here in the United States, and it's our job as a committee to go on offense.”
“If they come at me again, I'm ready,” she said. “We need to put forth the best policy package possible without any fear of influence by the CCP.”
In a way, Mr. Juneau-Katsuya sees the task of unmasking the covert Chinese operations as equivalent to trying to tackle a “monster” well-fed by the West that’s now “bigger than us” and "with tentacles everywhere.”
It’s “not an easy job,” he said. But “the genie is out of the bottle and cannot be returned,” and with Western countries binding together, he believes there will be a change—albeit it will take time.
“They are formidable opponents and they've been at it for decades now,” he said of Beijing. “They're subtle, they're everywhere. So it'll take a while before we succeed in regaining control.”
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