When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
SEN. JOSH HAWLEY STANDS UP TO RED CHINA AS FEINSTEIN, HER PIMP HUSBAND, HILLARY & BILLARY AND THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY SUCK OFF RED BRIBES
US Lawmakers Call for Full Investigation Into China’s Pandemic Coverup
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) are calling for an international probe into how Beijing’s initial handling of the ongoing virus outbreak may have endangered the United States and the rest of the world.
In a resolution introduced in both chambers on March 24, the lawmakers asked Congress to condemn the Chinese regime for its coverup of the outbreak, which “almost certainly” heightened the CCP virus’s rapid global spread, they said.
Congress should also quantify the damage of such acts on the health and economic being of afflicted nations, the resolution stated.
CCP VIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE
The Epoch Times uses “CCP virus” to refer to the pathogen commonly known as novel coronavirus, because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic.
One of three legislative proposals introduced that day to take aim at the Beijing regime, the resolution also calls on the international community to design a mechanism for the CCP to deliver compensation accordingly.
“It is time for an international investigation into the role their coverup played in the spread of this devastating pandemic,” Hawley said in a joint press release with Stefanik. “The CCP must be held to account for what the world is now suffering.”
Media reports have detailed how Chinese authorities censored critical information when the virus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, located in Hubei province.
On Jan. 1, Hubei health authorities ordered a genomics testing company to stop virus testing, destroy all virus samples, and to keep their findings a secret, according to an expose by Chinese media Caixin.
Police tracked down multiple doctors who voiced concerns about the virus on social media, accusing them of spreading rumors and inciting public fear. Critics of Chinese authorities’ outbreak response were summoned and punished, and several outspoken citizen journalists disappeared after they tried to share firsthand videos from Wuhan.
On Jan. 13, Thailand confirmed the first infection outside of China, a day before the World Health Organization, citing Chinese investigations, announced that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.”
A University of Southampton study, currently in preprint and not yet peer-reviewed, found that China could have stopped up to 95 percent of the virus’s geographical spread had it enacted containment measures earlier.
“There is no doubt that China’s unconscionable decision to orchestrate an elaborate coverup of the wide-ranging and deadly implications of coronavirus led to the death of thousands of people, including hundreds of Americans and climbing,” Stefanik said.
The resolution also took note of how senior Chinese officials have tried to push the conspiracy theory that the virus originated in the United States.
“Since day one, the Chinese Communist Party intentionally lied to the world about the origin of this pandemic,” Hawley said.
On the same day, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) also introduced a bipartisan resolution to condemn the CCP for the outbreak coverup and disinformation.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), meanwhile, introduced a bill called “No Chinese Handouts in National Assistance Act” to prevent any virus-related relief funds from flowing into China.
“Allowing American taxpayers’ money to go to companies owned by the Communist Chinese government is antithetical to our ‘America First’ agenda,” he said in a statement.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Tuesday called the CCP’s handling of the outbreak “one of the worst coverups in human history.”
“This is a systematic whitewash of what the Communist Party has done in China,” he told Fox News. He added that the virus “is now wreaking havoc all across the world, costing not only the lives of people but economic chaos.”
For “the harm, loss, and destruction their arrogance brought upon the rest of the world,” Stefanik said, China will need to pay.
“Simply put—China must, and will, be held accountable,” she said.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Monday, contending that it is “inexcusable” that America
relies on China for its medical supply chain. Hawley called hearings and
legislation to determine how to address America’s reliance on Chinese for
producing vital medicine.
The Missouri conservative wrote a
letter to U.S. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn after reports revealed that the
coronavirus has jeopardized the “domestic supply of some 150 prescription
drugs, including antibiotics, generics, and branded drugs.”
Hawley said that the time is coming for Congress to have
oversight and consider legislation to address the insecurity of America’s
medical supply chain.
The degree to which some of our own manufacturers rely on China
to produce life-saving and life-sustaining medications is inexcusable. It is
becoming clear to me that both oversight hearings and additional legislation are
necessary to determine the extent of our reliance on Chinese production and
protect our medical product supply chain.
Reports have revealed the extent to
which China produces and exports the overwhelming majority of pharmaceuticals
to the United States. China exports 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80
percent of active ingredients used to make drugs in Americans.
Another report stated that America
is losing its ability to make pharmaceuticals because of Chinese dumping of
low-price products into the global market.
I would have our federal government invest in helping to rebuild
our industrial base using advanced manufacturing technology that can produce
our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less environmental footprint, and
fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw materials to finished drug in one
location all here in the United States.
There will be opponents who say, ‘No, we should let the market
do it.’ The market will never do this. They’ll never make this investment. So
we have to decide as a country, do we want to have some degree of
self-sufficiency in our ability to make medicine? Do we want our military not
to be dependent on China for pharmaceuticals to treat chemical and biological
agents?
Gibson added, “We’ll be depending on China to help us out when
we run out of medicines. The absurdity of it is extraordinary. We have to
decide as a country, do we want to have some capacity to make our own
medicines, or not?”
Sean Moran is a congressional
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
Josh
Hawley Introduces Legislation to Expose Chinese Monopoly of U.S. Drug, Medical
Supplies
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) introduced
the Medical Supply Chain Security Act on Thursday to combat potential American
drug shortages created in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in China and to
reveal America’s reliance on Chinese manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and
medical devices.
Sen. Hawley said in a statement that
the legislation would provide the country with the information necessary to
secure the medical supply chain. He explained:
The coronavirus outbreak in China
has highlighted severe and longstanding weaknesses in our medical supply chain.
This is more than unfortunate; it’s a danger to public health. Our health
officials need to know the extent of our reliance on Chinese production so they
can take all necessary action to protect Americans. This legislation will give
us the information we need to better secure our supply chain and ensure that
Americans have uninterrupted access to life-saving drugs and medical devices.
The spread of the coronavirus
throughout China has exposed the deep vulnerabilities in the U.S. medical
supply chain as well as the country’s dependence upon China producing
pharmaceuticals and medical devices.
Axios reported that the
coronavirus outbreak has jeopardized the American supply of roughly 150
pharmaceuticals, including antibiotics, generics, and brand-name drugs. Some of
these drugs do not have alternatives on the market.
China exports 97 percent of all
antibiotics and 80 percent of active ingredients used to make drugs in America.
America is losing its ability to make pharmaceuticals
because of Chinese dumping of low-price products into the global market.
Public health officials at the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) currently have limited resources for assessing
supply chain vulnerabilities. The FDA recently asked Congress for more
statutory authority to require that manufacturers notify the agency when they
discover circumstances that may lead to shortages in essential medical devices.
Giving the FDA more authority would allow the agency to ensure that they can
take the necessary steps to mitigate potential shortages of life-saving drugs
and medical devices.
Hawley’s legislation would:
Require that manufacturers report
imminent or forecasted shortages of medical devices to the FDA as they
currently do for pharmaceutical drugs.
Allow the FDA to expedite the review of
essential medical devices that require pre-market approval in the event of
expected shortages reported by a manufacturer.
Grant the FDA additional authority to
request additional information from manufacturers of essential drugs or
devices regarding their manufacturing capacity, including sourcing of
component parts, sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, use of raw
materials, and any other details the FDA might find relevant to assess the
security of the American medical supply chain.
Hawley’s legislation follows as the
Missouri populist wrote a letter this week to FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn,
asking Hahn what actions he and the agency can take to ensure that American
citizens do not face shortages of life-saving drugs and medical drugs.
The Missouri senator said Tuesday
that the coronavirus outbreak has proved that America needs to “stop relying on
China for our critical medical supply chains.”
Rosemary Gibson, the author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China
for Medicine, recently told Breitbart News Tonight host
Rebecca Mansour that the United States should pursue an industrial policy to
renew domestic manufacturing of medicines and medical products in the homeland.
I would have our federal government
invest in helping to rebuild our industrial base using advanced manufacturing
technology that can produce our medicines much more cheaply, safely, with less
environmental footprint, and fully, from soup to nuts from those core raw
materials to finished drug in one location all here in the United States.
Hawley also said Tuesday that the
Donald Trump administration should consider additional travel restrictions to
combat the spread of the coronavirus throughout the United States.
“This is a no-brainer. It’s not just
China any longer. With the rise of cases in Europe & Asia, we need to take
additional steps to protect Americans,” Hawley tweeted.
China’s economy was in deep trouble before it launched its viralpandemicupon the world. The trade war tariffs had diminished exports, and supply chains were moving out of China. But now the economic outlook appears weaker than it has in decades. This may be itsworstquarter since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, with an actualcontractionin GDP in Q1.
Of course, despite the pandemic, Beijing has insisted that it will meet its economic growth goals for 2020. But that’s not realistic. It’s not even clear that China is actually over the pandemic. People can still be seen lining up at hospitals and recent cellphone rolls on China Mobile show up to 21 million fewer users compared to three months ago near the start of the pandemic.
The Near Future Could Be Disastrous
Of course, no economy was prepared for a global pandemic, and all nations will continue to be severely challenged by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak and its aftermath. But the inherent weakness in China’s economy makes it exceptionally vulnerable to both the pandemic downturn and the shift in global trade patterns away from China that’s underway. This dependency is made worse by cratering domestic demand.
What’s more, the Chinese Communist Party’s comprehensive oppression stifles efficiency and innovation in the economy. This will make it more difficult for the economy to adapt quickly to the challenges posed by this pandemic and the evolving global economy.
As a consequence, the pillars of China’s economy—consumer spending and real estate, as well as exports and direct foreign investment—are shaking, even crumbling, before Beijing’s eyes. The highly profitable pharmaceutical and medical supply industries, for example, will be repatriated to the United States as soon as possible.
Consumer Spending Plunges in 2020
The key pillar in China’s economy is domestic demand, which was 57.8 percent of the country’s economic growth in 2019. In the first quarter of 2019, consumer spending made up two thirds of China’s GDP growth.
But it’s not going to be the case going forward.
The epidemic lockdown and factory closures due to supply chain movement out of China will depress incomes. Consumer spending has been hit hard. It’s no wonder that 64.4 percent of Chinese are saying that they would be more “restrained” in spending in the long term, while another 12.6 percent said they would cut spending.
Combined, that’s 77 percent of consumers adopting more conservative spending patterns. These figures are likely to worsen with the expected higher food prices due to pork shortages from African swine fever (ASF).
Real Estate Prices and Profits Collapsing
Consumer spending and real estate development were the two biggest drivers of the economy for the last five years. Both are in hot water.
Consumer spending declines directly impact China’s real estate market. One of China’s biggest property development firm, Evergrande Group, announced its annual earnings to fall by 50 percent. That’s due to having to radically cut prices on residential properties to stimulate consumer purchases.
But Evergrande isn’t the only development giant scrambling for sales. Sunac China Holdings, Sinic Holdings, and Country Garden are also having to offer buyers special incentives, such as 30-day cancellation on purchases in order to entice consumers to make a deal.
The challenge is that presale revenues of residential apartments fuel the building of new developments. That fuel is diminishing quickly, as a rising number of developers are either in danger of defaulting on their U.S. dollar-denominated debt or are already insolvent.
In February, Bloomberg reported that among 30 property developers, sales dropped by 33 percent year-over-year.
That’s the steepest decline in six years.
For Exports, ‘Worst Is Yet to Come’
Even though net exports were only 11 percent of China’s economic growth in 2019, a $7.1 billion trade deficit in January and February of this year may be just a short-term result of the pandemic, and it’s unlikely for exports to return to its prior robust levels.
Although Beijing hopes to ramp up exports to help juice the economy, falling global demand, makes that doubtful. “The worst is yet to come for exports and supply chains,” warned Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie Capital.
A drop in the trade surplus suggests trade will provide less support for economic growth and that the impact could be larger than thought. The worst will come later, as other countries’ demand for Chinese exports sags.
Foreign Investments Declining
In the first two months of 2020, foreign direct investment (FDI) into China fell 8.6 percent year-over-year, down to $19.26 billion. This dramatic fall is due almost entirely to the pandemic.
Although event driven, prior FDI may not return to their former levels for other reasons. If anything, the manufacturing shift away from China has sped up with the CCP virus outbreak. Those supply chain factories and jobs won’t be back in China anytime soon.
Furthermore, the world is becoming a lot less trusting of China, as its culpability in the pandemic becomes more well-known and understood. Beijing knows that it isn’t seen as favorably as it was in the pre-pandemic era, which explains the CCP’s desperate propaganda campaign to deflect blame.
A Reckoning at Hand
Understandably, Beijing’s response is to pump hundreds of billions of dollars in stimulus to the economy. From the Party’s perspective, there isn’t really another option. It can’t afford to relax its grip on the economy or its citizens.
But more stimulus may not be as effective as it has in the past, as falling prices reflect weak consumer demand that reflects a lack of confidence in Beijing. It may well be facing a future of two percent GDP growth or even less.
The pandemic has revealed the multiple weaknesses of China’s cannibal capitalist economy that can no longer be glossed over by fake statistics, hidden by massive stimulus, primed by unproductive real estate projects or patched up by triangular debt, foreign investment, and technology theft.
The “China Miracle” is over. Beijing can either save the CCP or save the economy.
Now, that reckoning begins.
The Epoch Times refers to the novel coronavirus, which causes the disease COVID-19, as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement allowed the virus to spread throughout China and create a global pandemic.
James Gorrie is a writer and speaker based in Southern California. He is the author of “The China Crisis.”
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
“All in all, it was an incredible victory for the Chinese government. Feinstein has done more for Red China than other any serving U.S. politician. “ Trevor Loudon
China Uses Coronavirus
Crisis to Bulldoze Churches
and Temples
GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty
4:14
Religious freedom watchdog groups are accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of using the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic as an opportunity to intensify their crackdown on religion, bulldozing some churches and placing others under heavy surveillance.
“China is now holding itself up as a model for fighting the coronavirus. But fighting the pandemic hasn’t stopped communist officials from persecuting Christians,” Todd Nettleton, a spokesman for the nonprofit group Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), told Fox News on Tuesday.
Another prominent activist, Bob Fu of China Aid, shared a video of Chinese officials demolishing a church in the city of Yixing:
Religious persecution continues even in the midst of #WuhanVirus March 11 Xiangbaishu Church in Yixing city, Jiangsu province was destroyed by #CCP govt. Cross is our Glory大疫当前，江苏宜兴香柏树教会,于3.11日遭到强拆.举国上下深感人民的苦难，但谁知道在十字架上那位上帝之子的苦难？
Other churches have reportedly been vandalized by Chinese officials and orders have been given that effectively ban “unregistered” religious services on the grounds of public health. On the bright side, VOM saw the prevalence of medical masks due to the coronavirus as an opportunity to evade China’s pervasive facial-recognition systems and proselytize with less fear of being identified and persecuted.
Buddhists and Taoists also reported the suppression and demolition of their temples, a process that appeared to be intensifying just as the coronavirus exploded out of Wuhan. Worshipers bitterly noted that local officials have a habit of abruptly deciding that temples built with their approval failed to meet some obscure building code and must be demolished immediately. Not even hoisting Communist flags and papering temples with posters of China’s authoritarian ruler Xi Jinping was enough to save the targeted temples.
“Unconditional cooperation with the government means that no photos of the demolition can be taken, no negotiations initiated, and no compensation demanded. This is typical behavior of the CCP government,” one Buddhist complained to the Bitter Winter human rights website.
“The Communist Party is as evil as a mafia. Under the tyranny of those modern bandits, even sacred Buddhist temples cannot enjoy peace,” said another.
Churches that do not get knocked flat are encrusted with surveillance cameras to terrorize the congregations, and perhaps build up “evidence” of incorrect speech that can be used as an excuse to wipe out the church, as detailed in another Bitter Winter post:
According to a Three-Self preacher from Lankao county in Henan’s Kaifeng city, powerful cameras, over 10,000 RMB (about $ 1,400) each, have been installed in at least eight Three-Self churches, images from which are displayed on a large screen in the hall of the county’s Two Chinese Christian Councils. Who leads Sunday services, what sermons are about, and how many congregation members are present—everything is under the government’s close surveillance.
“The surveillance equipment is powerful; it can catch every single word in the church,” a Three-Self church director in Lankao county explained. “We can get into trouble for making an incautious remark. Believers don’t dare to even chitchat with each other under such surveillance.” He once received a phone call from a local official less than one hour after he complained about the government.
In August 2019, over 100 cameras were installed in several Three-Self churches in Yi’nan county in Linyi, a prefecture-level city in the eastern province of Shandong. A local government insider revealed to Bitter Winter that the Religious Affairs Bureau and United Front Work Department use the cameras to monitor activities in churches, and those refusing to have cameras installed would be shut down.
As some preachers and church directors learned to their cost, unplugging the security cameras is treated as a crime and swiftly punished by arrest, interrogation, confiscation of church property, and possibly destruction of the church, or even the personal residence of the preacher. According to several sources in China, the CCP now grades churches on a 100-point scale of obedience, deducts points for offenses such as improperly-displayed Communist flags and slogans, and shuts houses of worship down if their score falls under 60.
Reps. Jim Banks, Seth Moulton Introduce Bipartisan Bill Condemning China
Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
3:07
Reps. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) introduced a bill condemning the Chinese government for its handling of the coronavirus outbreak, in a sign of bipartisan anger against China.
The bill expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the “Governmentof the People’s Republic of China made multiple, serious mistakes in the early stages of the COVID–19 outbreak that heightened the severity and spread of the ongoing COVID–19 pandemic.”
The text said those mistakes:
…include the Chinese Government’s intentional spread of misinformation to downplay the risks of the virus, a refusal to cooperate with international health authorities, internal censorship of doctors and journalists, and malicious disregard for the health of ethnic minorities.
Banks, a U.S. Navy reservist, said in a statement:
As the Chinese Communist Party pushes propaganda and lies to try and blame the United States for coronavirus, we need to make the case to the world that China is ultimately responsible for this outbreak. They tried to cover-up news of the virus, jailed doctors warning of a possible pandemic, and prevented the CDC from coming to study the disease. In all, they cost the globe two months in time to prepare for this virus. I hope this begins a conversation about how China can be held accountable for their negligent coronavirus response.
Moulton, a Marine veteran, said in a statement:
The Chinese Communist Party’s leaders responded to the coronavirus outbreak first with disinformation and misdirection. China’s leaders kicked out American journalists who were covering the virus’ spread and the lives it claimed. China’s leaders silenced doctors, some of whom died sounding the alarm to the world. And while the clock was ticking, China’s leaders were focused on spreading propaganda that said the American military caused the virus, downplaying its severity.
He continued, criticizing Trump, but said, “The American people should hold our leaders accountable, and their representatives should hold China accountable for its part in this pandemic.”
GOP Reps. Kevin Hern (OK), Austin Scott (GA), Trent Kelly (MS), Brian Babin (TX), Barry Loudermilk (GA), Adam Kinzinger (IL), Greg Steube (FL), Larry Bucshon (IN), Mike Rogers (AL), Dan Crenshaw (TX), Mike Gallagher (WI), Kelly Armstrong (ND), Guy Reschenthaler (PA), Michael Waltz (FL), and Jason Smith (MO), Anthony Gonzalez (OH), Denver Riggleman (VA), Jim Hagerdorn (MN), Ralph Norman (SC), Rick Crawford (AR), Bill Johnson (OH), Elise Stefanik (NY), Randy Weber (TX) have co-sponsored the bill.
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