“President Biden has lied to Americans again,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told reporters Tuesday evening. “We now have found today that when President Biden was running for the presidency, when he told the American people that, ‘My family has never received money from China,’ was wrong.”
The Concessions Begin: Biden Lifts Sanctions on Chinese Forensics Agency Linked to Uyghur Genocide
The China National Narcotics Control Commission announced on Friday the Biden administration has lifted sanctions against the Institute of Forensic Science (IFS) at China’s Ministry of Public Security.
The move appears to be the first concession made by the administration after Chinese dictator Xi Jinping told President Joe Biden he would do more to halt the production of deadly fentanyl.
Xi’s promise to crack down on fentanyl production was one of two major achievements touted by the Biden administration after Xi and Biden talked for four hours on Wednesday ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco. The other major outcome of the meeting was Xi agreeing to restore direct communications between Chinese and American military forces, which China had severed after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in August 2022.
China’s IFS was added to the U.S. Commerce Department’s list of sanctioned entities in 2020 for “engaging in activities contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States.”
The Commerce Department said at the time that IFS and eight other sanctioned entities were “complicit in human rights violations and abuses committed in China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, forced labor and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region [occupied East Turkistan].”
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Matt Perdie / Breitbart NewsThe U.S. State Department delicately hinted that IFS might still be complicit in those human rights abuses, but a political decision was made to lift sanctions as an encouragement for China to do more against fentanyl.
“It became clear to us in conversations with the PRC dating back to the conversations that the Secretary launched in June when he traveled to Beijing that the continued listing of the IFS on the Commerce Entity List was a barrier to achieving cooperation on stopping the trafficking of precursor chemicals,” State Department spokesman Matt Miller said at a press conference on Thursday.
“PRC” is the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist regime’s preferred name for itself. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited China and met with Xi Jinping in June.
Miller said it was a “top priority” for Blinken and Biden to “stop the trafficking of precursor chemicals out of China that can be used to produce fentanyl that comes into the United States.”
“And so when we evaluated the issue and looked at all the merits of delisting the IFS, ultimately we decided that given the steps China was willing to take to cut down on precursor trafficking, it was an appropriate step to take,” he concluded.
In response to a follow-up question from reporters, Miller very awkwardly admitted the Administration has no real reason to believe the IFS is no longer involved with human rights violations against the Uyghur Muslims, although he paradoxically insisted China’s human rights record remains a very important concern for Biden.
“When you look at the decision we had to make, we ultimately decided that the listing of the IFS on this Commerce Entity List was a barrier to taking action that would save thousands and thousands of American lives,” he said. “And so we have to make tough decisions in this administration, and the decision that we made was that when you looked at the potential of saving American lives by securing this cooperation with China on fentanyl, on fentanyl trafficking, it was an appropriate step to take.”
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Jack Knudsen / Breitbart News“Now, it’s not the end of the story,” he added. “We’re going to watch how China complies with the commitments that they made to us. We’re going to continue to talk with them about other steps they can take, and we will continue to hold them accountable for their human rights record.”
This was not even remotely close to the message received in Beijing, where Chinese state media trumpeted the lifting of sanctions against IFS as Biden humbly correcting an insulting mistake that never should have been made in the first place.
China’s state-run Global Times on Friday said Xi and his regime expect to hear no further bleating about human rights from Biden, if it expects any compensation for lifting sanctions against part of China’s state security apparatus:
In May 2020, without producing any evidence, the US added the Institute of Forensic Science of China’s Ministry of Public Security and the National Narcotics Laboratory to its “Entity List.”
Such a practice of imposing sanctions on China’s narcotics control authorities while seeking China’s cooperation has seriously hindered the operation of China’s fentanyl monitoring system and undermined the counter-narcotics cooperation between China and the US, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a report on “Reality Check: Falsehoods in US Perceptions of China” released in June 2022.
The Global Times quoted pliable “Chinese experts” who insisted the “root cause of the fentanyl abuse crisis in the U.S. lies in the U.S. itself,” so the Biden administration should “reflect on the underlying reasons itself, rather than blaming others.”
The Global Times quoted the bulletin from the China National Narcotics Control Commission asking Chinese firms and individuals to “prevent illegal and criminal activities involving the manufacturing, trafficking and smuggling of narcotic and psychotropic substances,” but said this announcement was in no way an admission of previous negligence by Xi’s regime.
In fact, the anti-narcotics announcement warned Chinese companies to avoid getting mixed up in narcotics production mostly because they might suffer from “long-arm jurisdiction by law enforcement agencies overseas.”
The Global Times noted that Xi’s regime has condemned U.S. prosecutors for indicting Chinese companies for fentanyl production, dismissing the indictments as “typical arbitrary detention and unilateral sanction, which is completely illegal.”
Either Get Rid of TikTok or Just Surrender to China
"TikTok is undoing all of that. It's crazy to watch in real time."
In its latest social experiment, Communist China decided to test an algorithm to see if it could get social media influencers and idiot kids under its control on TikTok to come out for Osama bin Laden.
Worked pretty well.
Now that the test is over, TikTok announced that the Osama trend has been shut down. But it was successful.
TikTok’s hot new social-media influencer is . . . Osama bin Laden. Yes, the terrorist who plotted 9/11 went viral this week, and not in a good way. Users have been posting videos to the Chinese-owned app, urging their followers to read bin Laden’s 2002 “letter to America,” while suggesting he was on to something. “I will never look at this country the same,” one user said.
Giving Hollywood and public school teachers control of our kids was a bad idea. Giving Chinese Communist algorithms control over our kids is a much worse idea.
A TikTok influencer went viral this week for promoting Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America.”
Online personality and pro-Palestinian activist Lynette Adkins urged her over 175,000 TikTok followers on Tuesday to read the words of the terrorist mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks.
“I need everyone to stop what they’re doing right now and go read- It’s literally two pages. Go read ‘A Letter to America,” Adkins said the video. “And please come back here and just let me know what you think because I feel like I’m going through, like, an existential crisis right now and a lot of people are, so I just need someone else to be feeling this.”
Another TikTok user raeyreads posted the entire letter on her page which received over 640,000 views despite having only 1,300 followers.
“We’ve been lied to our entire lives,” raeyreads wrote Monday. “I remember watching people cheer when Osama was found and killed. I was a child, and it confused me. It still confuses me today. The world deserves better than what this country has done to them. Change must be made.”
Change must be made. It begins with prying Communist China off our phones and away from our kids.
A forced sale or a ban on TikTok is elementary national security. Trump went ahead with it. And yet once there were efforts at passing legislation, TikTok executives managed to buy up AOC, and leftist and some fake right-wing influencers who started screaming that unless we give China access to our phones and kids, we’ll lose our rights.
Commenters who had never commented before here showed up screaming in defense of TikTok.
And you know the rest of the story. TikTok survived. I’m not sure America will.
Giving our leading geopolitical foe direct access to much of our population and the opportunity to program our kids in real time is a hell of a move.
“TikTok is going to save this generation,” Adkins said. “The amount of things that we’ve learned on this app in this past month alone that other people in other generations I tried to talk to them about it, they don’t understand. They don’t get it because they’ve been literally so programmed to think a certain way TikTok is undoing all of that. It’s crazy to watch in real time.”
What’s crazy is that we’re letting them do this.
If we can’t ban TikTok, then why bother fighting? Forget standing up for Taiwan, the South China Sea or Hawaii. We can’t even manage to stand up for our kids and our country. And the moment we do, some paid influencers will take a few hundred bucks to take a break from pushing Osama bin Laden to warn that Chinese Communist spyware must be protected from government interference.
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China Mocks San Fran, Says It’s Willing to Clean Up Streets Only for Foreigners – Not ‘for the Sake of Its Own People’
China’s state-controlled media are mocking how San Francisco’s drug, filth and homeless problems “miraculously disappeared overnight” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the city.
The clean-up shows San Francisco can – but, won’t – address the city’s problems for the sake of its citizens, China’s Global Times reports:
“San Francisco's clean street and the disappearance of homeless people demonstrate the city has the ability to address the malaise but only seems willing to do so when an international summit is approaching rather than for the sake of its own people.”
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“[T]he real concern for San Francisco residents is why the government can solve century-old problems that have plagued the city for the president but cannot solve these problems for ordinary people.”
The Global Times also posted before-and-after photos of a street in the city first published by The San Francisco Standard. The photos were also widely circulated by China’s largest government-controlled social media outlet, Weibo.
“There’s a lot of money coming into this conference, and none of that is being set aside for unhoused people who are being displaced,” Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach says in the article. “They’re just moving people around.”
Reporters from the Czech Republic didn’t have the same protection from the reality of San Francisco’s dangers, however. Over the weekend, the city’s façade was exposed when a Czech film crew was robbed of equipment and footage worth more than $18,000.
What’s more, the robbery wasn’t an isolated incident in San Francisco, as local television crews have reportedly resorted to traveling with armed guards.
At a press event, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged the pretense of San Francisco’s clean-up effort:
“I know folks say ‘Oh, they’re only cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’
“That’s true, because it’s true.”
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China’s state-controlled media are mocking how San Francisco’s drug, filth and homeless problems “miraculously disappeared overnight” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in the city.
The clean-up shows San Francisco can – but, won’t – address the city’s problems for the sake of its citizens, China’s Global Times reports:
“San Francisco's clean street and the disappearance of homeless people demonstrate the city has the ability to address the malaise but only seems willing to do so when an international summit is approaching rather than for the sake of its own people.”
….
“[T]he real concern for San Francisco residents is why the government can solve century-old problems that have plagued the city for the president but cannot solve these problems for ordinary people.”
The Global Times also posted before-and-after photos of a street in the city first published by The San Francisco Standard. The photos were also widely circulated by China’s largest government-controlled social media outlet, Weibo.
“There’s a lot of money coming into this conference, and none of that is being set aside for unhoused people who are being displaced,” Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach says in the article. “They’re just moving people around.”
Reporters from the Czech Republic didn’t have the same protection from the reality of San Francisco’s dangers, however. Over the weekend, the city’s façade was exposed when a Czech film crew was robbed of equipment and footage worth more than $18,000.
What’s more, the robbery wasn’t an isolated incident in San Francisco, as local television crews have reportedly resorted to traveling with armed guards.
At a press event, Democrat California Governor Gavin Newsom acknowledged the pretense of San Francisco’s clean-up effort:
“I know folks say ‘Oh, they’re only cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming into town.’
“That’s true, because it’s true.”
US Lawmakers Question Apple CEO Whether Cancellation of Jon Stewart’s Show Was Related to China Commentary
11/16/2023Updated:11/16/20230:003:12House of Representative members leading a special committee questioned Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday concerning the tech company’s choice to cancel Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ talk show because the host was planning a segment on China.
The letter addressed whether or not the streaming giant was reticent about having China as the subject material of one of the series' episodes, as originally reported by Variety. In essence, it emphasized the importance of an open exchange of ideas. It was signed by the leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Community Party (CCP), including Chair Rep. Michael Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the panel’s ranking Democrat.Allegedly, Mr. Stewart had previously mentioned to staff members that possible upcoming topics for his show, including China and artificial intelligence, were raising concerns among Apple executives. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Apple approached Mr. Stewart and informed the host that both sides needed to be “aligned” regarding show topics.
House of Representative members leading a special committee questioned Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday concerning the tech company’s choice to cancel Jon Stewart’s Apple TV+ talk show because the host was planning a segment on China.
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“If these reports are accurate, it potentially speaks to broader concerns about indirect Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence over the creative expression of American artists and companies on CCP-related topics,” the lawmakers wrote in their letter released Wednesday.“It also highlights an additional reason, beyond the traditionally cited national security rationales, why we encourage Apple to accelerate its efforts to reduce its dependence on the PRC in its core business,” it said, referring to China’s official name, People’s Republic of China.
The letter also stated: “The strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party is not just about military, economic, or even technological power; it’s also about values. And few values distinguish our system from the CCP more sharply than the responsible and open exchange of ideas through creative expression, without the improper interference of foreign powers.”
“It also highlights an additional reason, beyond the traditionally cited national security rationales, why we encourage Apple to accelerate its efforts to reduce its dependence on the PRC in its core business,” it said, referring to China’s official name, People’s Republic of China.
Companies Shouldn’t Be Influenced by Foreign Powers
The letter concluded, “While companies have the right to determine what content is appropriate for their streaming service, the coercive tactics of a foreign power should not be directly or indirectly influencing these determinations.”“The Problem With Jon Stewart” debuted in 2021 on Apple TV+ as part of a multiyear first-look deal Mr. Stewart signed with Apple. The one-hour series addressed a topic in each episode, with each topic related to current national events or Mr. Stewart’s advocacy work. Topics included climate change, globalization, gun control, incarceration, racism, and the media.
“The Problem With Jon Stewart” debuted in 2021 on Apple TV+ as part of a multiyear first-look deal Mr. Stewart signed with Apple. The one-hour series addressed a topic in each episode, with each topic related to current national events or Mr. Stewart’s advocacy work. Topics included climate change, globalization, gun control, incarceration, racism, and the media.
AND TO THINK, BIDEN WANTS PRO-CHINA NEWSOM TO BE V.P. RUNNING MATE ELECTED BY ILLEGALS!
An Illegal Chinese Biolab Containing Infectious Diseases Operated in California. The Feds Ignored It for Months.
Congressional probe warns of ‘profound threat’ to U.S. homeland
November 16, 2023A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, but federal authorities spent months ignoring pleas from local officials to shut the site down, according to a report from congressional investigators.
The lab was discovered in December 2022, when officers in Reedley, California, a rural town of 26,000 residents, accidentally stumbled on the nondescript warehouse. Once inside, "several individuals who identified themselves as PRC nationals'' were seen working "with thousands of vials of biological substances," according to a months-long investigation by the House Select Committee on China published Thursday and provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
The makeshift lab—run by a Chinese national—contained live mice and freezers filled with improperly stored "pathogens and other unknown biological and chemical substances." It was determined the lab was housing a witch’s brew of infectious diseases, including HIV, the coronavirus, "infectious parasites," and a storage area marked "Ebola." While local officials in Reedley contacted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report the findings, the federal government spent months ignoring the city’s pleas for assistance and only became involved after a member of Congress began applying pressure earlier this year.
The discovery of the lab, and the federal government’s slow response, "presents a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future," according to the congressional committee’s findings. It is unknown if other unlicensed China-tied biolabs are operating in the United States and what types of diseases they could be experimenting with under unsafe conditions, congressional investigators said. If the pathogens discovered in the Reedley lab leaked, an untold number of Americans could have fallen ill.
Authorities determined the lab was run by Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu, a Chinese national who had "previously stolen millions of dollars of intellectual property from American companies and was part of an ongoing transnational criminal enterprise with ties to the PRC for which he was ultimately charged in federal court," according to the report.
During its months-long investigation into the matter, congressional investigators found the CDC ignored in-depth reports about the lab’s activities and then performed an inadequate review of the site.
The federal agency’s conduct prevented many of the substances found in the lab from being analyzed, and investigators do not know exactly what was being tested at the lab.
After local and state authorities discovered the lab and its contents, they reached out to the CDC beginning in March of this year.
"Local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC, both directly and through" the California Department of Public Health, investigators determined. "According to local officials, the CDC refused to speak with them and, on a number of occasions, it was reported by local officials that the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation."
Other federal agencies capable of handling biohazardous materials also ignored the city’s requests for assistance.
The CDC arrived at the site in May, after Rep. Jim Costa (D., Calif.), the city’s member of Congress, began applying pressure.
Once there, authorities discovered a host of lethal diseases, including "‘at least 20 potentially infectious agents,’ including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria."
However, "CDC officials confirmed that the CDC made this list of pathogens based solely on the labels that were placed on samples," according to the report. "The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct or otherwise in a cipher that the workers used for a more dangerous pathogen." The CDC also did not test vials labeled "COVID."
The federal agency’s failure to investigate the lab left "local officials unable to assess the danger to the City of Reedley community, or inform the community about what steps, if any, it should take to protect public safety," investigators determined.
"At a minimum," the House committee said, "the Reedley Biolab shows the profound threat that unlicensed and unknown biolabs pose to our country. At worst, this investigation revealed significant gaps in our nation’s defenses and pathogen-related regulations that present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future."
A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, but federal authorities spent months ignoring pleas from local officials to shut the site down, according to a report from congressional investigators.
The lab was discovered in December 2022, when officers in Reedley, California, a rural town of 26,000 residents, accidentally stumbled on the nondescript warehouse. Once inside, "several individuals who identified themselves as PRC nationals'' were seen working "with thousands of vials of biological substances," according to a months-long investigation by the House Select Committee on China published Thursday and provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
The makeshift lab—run by a Chinese national—contained live mice and freezers filled with improperly stored "pathogens and other unknown biological and chemical substances." It was determined the lab was housing a witch’s brew of infectious diseases, including HIV, the coronavirus, "infectious parasites," and a storage area marked "Ebola." While local officials in Reedley contacted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report the findings, the federal government spent months ignoring the city’s pleas for assistance and only became involved after a member of Congress began applying pressure earlier this year.
The discovery of the lab, and the federal government’s slow response, "presents a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future," according to the congressional committee’s findings. It is unknown if other unlicensed China-tied biolabs are operating in the United States and what types of diseases they could be experimenting with under unsafe conditions, congressional investigators said. If the pathogens discovered in the Reedley lab leaked, an untold number of Americans could have fallen ill.
Authorities determined the lab was run by Jiabei "Jesse" Zhu, a Chinese national who had "previously stolen millions of dollars of intellectual property from American companies and was part of an ongoing transnational criminal enterprise with ties to the PRC for which he was ultimately charged in federal court," according to the report.
During its months-long investigation into the matter, congressional investigators found the CDC ignored in-depth reports about the lab’s activities and then performed an inadequate review of the site.
The federal agency’s conduct prevented many of the substances found in the lab from being analyzed, and investigators do not know exactly what was being tested at the lab.
After local and state authorities discovered the lab and its contents, they reached out to the CDC beginning in March of this year.
"Local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC, both directly and through" the California Department of Public Health, investigators determined. "According to local officials, the CDC refused to speak with them and, on a number of occasions, it was reported by local officials that the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation."
Other federal agencies capable of handling biohazardous materials also ignored the city’s requests for assistance.
The CDC arrived at the site in May, after Rep. Jim Costa (D., Calif.), the city’s member of Congress, began applying pressure.
Once there, authorities discovered a host of lethal diseases, including "‘at least 20 potentially infectious agents,’ including HIV, Tuberculosis, and the deadliest known form of Malaria."
However, "CDC officials confirmed that the CDC made this list of pathogens based solely on the labels that were placed on samples," according to the report. "The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct or otherwise in a cipher that the workers used for a more dangerous pathogen." The CDC also did not test vials labeled "COVID."
The federal agency’s failure to investigate the lab left "local officials unable to assess the danger to the City of Reedley community, or inform the community about what steps, if any, it should take to protect public safety," investigators determined.
"At a minimum," the House committee said, "the Reedley Biolab shows the profound threat that unlicensed and unknown biolabs pose to our country. At worst, this investigation revealed significant gaps in our nation’s defenses and pathogen-related regulations that present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future."
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