China is an existential threat to the United States. Joe Biden and the Democrat Party would abet the Chinese in their quest for global hegemony and in essence surrender American sovereignty.
Silicon Valley, and the Chinese Connection to
Coronavirus Infection
By James Fulford
VDare.com Blog
https://vdare.com/posts/dr-norm-matloff-on-covid-19-silicon-valley-and-the-chinese-connection-to-coronavirus-infection
After Feinstein was elected to the
Senate in 1992, Blum continued profiting off their ties to China. A the same
time, the freshman lawmaker was pitching herself as a “China hand” to
colleagues, even once claiming “that in my
last life maybe I was Chinese.” HARIS ALIC
FEINSTEIN HAS SPENT HER POLITICAL LIFE STALKING THE HALLS OF
CONGRESS SNIFFING OUT DEALS THAT PUT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS IN HER POCKETS.
SHE HAS AVOIDED PROSECUTION BY VOTING AGAINST ANY ETHICS BILLS
AND HER HUSBAND, RICHARD BLUM'S HANDING OUT "CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION"
BRIBES TO EVERY DEMOCRAT OUT THERE!
IN THE November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional
ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules
Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the
ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been
beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.
“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
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen
McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
Silicon Valley, and the Chinese Connection to
Coronavirus Infection
By James Fulford
By James Fulford
VDare.com Blog
https://vdare.com/posts/dr-norm-matloff-on-covid-19-silicon-valley-and-the-chinese-connection-to-coronavirus-infection
Senator
Who Employed Chinese Spy Endorses Joe Biden for President
A high-profile U.S. senator with professional
and personal ties to China — including once employing one of its spies — is
backing former Vice President Joe Biden amid mounting questions over his son’s
business dealings with the communist regime.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a
former chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, announced her
endorsement of the former vice president on Tuesday, claiming to have
witnessed Biden’s “fortitude” and leadership during their overlapping tenures
in Congress.
China Backs Democratic Resistance to President Trump
Democratic governors are forming regional blocs to resist President Donald Trump’s efforts to get the American economy moving and put people back to work. They have picked up a powerful ally, one that should give the public cause for alarm. On April 19, the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a major media outlet of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote an op-ed in which he stated “My advice is to focus China-US anti-epidemic cooperation with US states, while giving the federal government a cold shoulder.” Like the Democrats, Hu Xijin attacked Trump’s policies and proclaimed, “China needs to take necessary actions and express its strong dissatisfaction.” The graphic accompanying Hu’s column showed an American fist slamming down in a demand for action being held in check by a Chinese hand held up signaling stop.
There is every reason for Beijing to want America’s economic downturn and political turmoil to continue as long as possible while it recovers from the effects of the pandemic. The regime has been pushing hard to reopen the economy and declare that its position as the center of worldwide manufacturing has not been weakened by the crisis. Indeed, an essay in the state-run China Daily proclaimed on April 14, “Global Reliance on China Won’t Reduce.” It asserted, “Even if more regionalized and diversified supply chains would reduce risks, China retains considerable competitive advantages in many areas, such as electronics and machinery and equipment manufacturing.” New “investments will help China build on recent progress in even more high-tech sectors, including big data, artificial intelligence, the internet of things, and the industrial internet. Which in turn will deepen China's integration into the global technological supply chain.” On March 24, it was declared that Dongfeng Honda, the largest industrial enterprise in Wuhan, which runs three factories producing over 3,000 cars per day, was up and running. Beijing also claimed that most industry outside the Wuhan area was already back in operation.
Even earlier, on February 28, China Daily reported "If the central authorities' policies can be implemented to the letter, the real economy and the job markets could be gradually stabilized in the first quarter, laying a solid groundwork for a quick and strong recovery in the following quarters." The piece also claimed that exports will boost recovery -- which means along with domestic fiscal and monetary stimulus, Beijing will be pushing exports with subsidies. The U.S. and Europe will need to monitor and counter this "dumping" to prevent China from stealing jobs and suppressing recovery elsewhere. Beijing sees international economics as a core part of the larger contest for world power. As Global Times has warned in regard to how the two rival powers respond to the crisis, “The country that moves faster will gain the initiative.”The Chinese military has been busy demonstrating that the pandemic has not weakened either its strength or its determination to dominate the Pacific Rim. After the U.S. aircraft carriers Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan had to return to port to handle COVID-19 cases among their crews, China sent its carrier Liaoning with its escorts through the “first island chain” into the Pacific for the first time since last summer. The strike group passed though the Miyako Strait between Taiwan and Okinawa. This sent the message that while the U.S. comes and goes, this is China’s domain. The state-run People’s Daily gleefully ran the headline “Epidemic hinders U.S. military presence near China.”
To further make the point that China is on the move, it was announced on April 16 that two more “municipal districts” will be created to govern islands China has constructed in the South China Sea to establish its claim of sovereignty over this vital maritime region. They will be governed from Sansha, which Beijing claims is its southernmost city, but which is on Yongxing Island in the disputed Paracel Islands, a tiny place that has been enlarged with a major airstrip capable of operating the latest military aircraft.
China is also taking advantage of the worldwide drop in asset prices to buy up strategic stakes in high-tech, agriculture, and natural resource enterprises. While this is not an entirely new trend (China shifted from buying mainly bonds to buying control of productive assets a decade ago), the current crisis opens the door to aggressive acquisitions in accord with the ancient Chinese saying “loot the house when it is on fire.” Governments in Europe and Australia have taken steps to curb this financial assault and the U.S. needs to ramp up its often-lethargic vigilance.
The Democratic Party has its reasons for wanting to cripple the American economy too, also motivated by a lust for power. The most obvious motive is to undo President Trump’s achievement of taking the economy to record full employment and solid growth. They think extending lockdowns until the economy tumbles into a depression with tens of millions thrown out of work and businesses across the land bankrupted will so upset voters that they will want a change. But what kind of change? Who will they blame for a new misery index? A president urging a return to normalcy and a V-shaped recovery that restores prosperity, or the party that is keeping the population under “house arrest” for months until the shelves of the few stores allowed to be open are bare because nothing is being produced? Trump’s strategists should be able to tar the Democrats with the “rule or ruin” label, turning theoretical debates over policy into clear examples of liberal malevolence.
Many Democrats still think of FDR as a model president. A man who combined liberalism and patriotism, who fought against the Great Depression and won World War II. But party leaders have moved on. A major ideological component today is the Green movement, which has welcomed the epidemic as a way to teach Americans to do without and accept a lower standard of living. A shuttered economy doesn’t emit gases or use resources. While responsible national leadership wants America to weather the storm, the Greens see the storm as nature’s warning to slow down and retreat from affluence. One of the starkest statements by a Green radical appeared in The Times of London, “looking for the ultimate weapon against climate change, you could hardly design anything better than coronavirus. Unlike most other such diseases, it kills mostly the old who, let’s face it, are more likely to be climate sceptics.” A chilling example of left-wing thinking.
China has seized upon such divisive politics to claim the world is going its way. On April 18. Global Times ran a long column by a Chinese professor on “a dying U.S. democracy.” He cited all the usual defects from corruption to the mass media to “enforcement of coercive tactics for the people’s compliance.” The author then predicted “With the mishandling of COVID-19 and its dramatic consequences leading to a Wall Street meltdown, and one that will be more serious than the 2008 Financial Crisis, and the temporary closure of the US economy coupled with a sharp unemployment increase, at least an estimated 75 percent of the population would be dissatisfied with their democratic system during the pandemic and post-pandemic era.” The author’s suggestion? “[M]ixing capitalism with socialism institutionally as Northern Europe does and as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren suggested, seems to be a better alternative. China, on the other end of the political continuum, could be a good example of mixing socialism with the market economy for the US to learn.”
For obvious reasons, Beijing does not want President Trump re-elected, but the ideological support from the Communist Party for the Democratic Party’s leftward lurch runs deeper than one election. The good news is that the U.S. is still a democracy and American voters do not have to accept Beijing’s advice when they vote on how best to ensure their own country’s magnificent future.
William R. Hawkins is a consultant specializing in international economic and national security issues. He is a former economics professor who has served on the staff of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Joe Biden and the Democrat
Party’s Incestuous Relationship with China
Vice President Biden raises a toast in
honor of Chinese President Xi at a State Luncheon at the State Department,
September 25, 2015,
Desperation has set in
among the Politburo in China as their deliberate mishandling and obfuscation of
the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak has threatened, and in all likelihood
derailed, their grandiose plans for global hegemony. In what can
only be described as one of the most ham-handed propaganda efforts in recent
memory, China is now trying to deflect blame onto the
United States for the Coronavirus outbreak that has been recently
categorized as a global pandemic. Further, they are unabashedly claiming
that any criticism of their “valiant” efforts to stem the spread of the virus
or using the nomenclature of Wuhan Virus or Chinese Coronavirus is racist and xenophobic.
While their attempt to
implicate the United States may appear on the surface to be absurd, the reality
is that much of it will fall on fertile ground previously tilled and seeded
over the past 25 years with vast amounts of money and investments.
An end-product of China’s
infiltration of the American media and education establishment is the almost
immediate regurgitation of China’s racist
and xenophobic argument by the American mainstream media and the predominantly
left-wing professional class. Hollywood and the entertainment cabal,
already awash in Chinese capital and desperate for access to the Chinese
market, has refused to criticize China’s handling of the Coronavirus focusing
instead on President Trump. It is almost a certainty that when the
pandemic recedes there will be nothing produced that is even remotely critical
of China.
The European Union is now
China’s largest trading partner and investor. They are beginning to
exert increasing influence in nations such as
Italy and throughout the continent. Which is why the European Union
refused to initiate a travel ban from China during the entirety of the
Coronavirus outbreak, leading to Europe now being the
global epicenter of the pandemic as well as the source of the bulk of the
infections in the United States.
With this overall
backdrop the Chinese leadership is confident that their near clownish
propaganda efforts will succeed. Their only obstacle is the re-election
of President Trump, who is the only world leader in the past 25 years to
understand what animates the Chinese and to stand up to their intimidation
tactics.
The establishment of the
Democrat Party believes they have a solution to that obstacle in what appears
to be the inevitable nomination of Joe Biden.
Joe Biden, in his days in
the Senate, was very partial to China, as he voted against all legislation
aimed at curtailing China’s ambitions. In 2007 he opposed the idea of
applying any tariffs on China despite their obvious unfair trade practices and
theft of proprietary technology that was causing the loss of millions of
American manufacturing jobs. America’s dependence on a communist regime
for materials and goods, such as pharmaceuticals, continued to grow unabated.
However, it was as Vice President that he became wholly enamored with the
country and its leadership.
For example, while in
China, Biden, in August of 2011, approved of and defended China’s grotesque
one-child policy, which brutally used forced abortions to implement the
law. (In that same year Biden was given the assignment, by Barack Obama,
to be the point man on China due his close personal relationship with Xi
Jinping, currently President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist
Party.
Joe Biden never missed an
opportunity to downplay China’s threat to the United States. In May of 2013, in
a commencement speech he assured those concerned the
Chinese are “going to eat our lunch” that they had nothing to be concerned about
as China had immense problems and an inability to think differently. In
May of 2014 Biden described China as a nation incapable of producing
innovative products and ideas. Two weeks after declaring his 2020
candidacy, Biden, in Iowa, said,
“China is going to eat
our lunch? Come on, man…they can’t even figure out how to deal with the
corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not
bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not competition for us.”
In December 2013, Biden
flew to Beijing on Air Force Two with his son Hunter on an official trip,
ostensibly to discuss tensions over disputed territories in the East China
Sea. Joe and Hunter were ushered into a red-carpet meeting with a
delegation of various Chinese officials. Hunter remained with the
delegation while his father met with President Xi Jinping. During these
meetings Joe Biden struck an extremely conciliatory and friendly tone with the
Chinese leadership -- much to the dismay of America’s allies in the region.
Ten day later, Hunter’s
two-year-old company, Rosemont Seneca, signed an exclusive $1 Billion (later
expanded to $1.5 Billion) deal with the state-owned Bank of China, creating an
investment fund called Bohai Harvest, with money guaranteed by the Chinese
Government. As Peter Schweizer, who was the first to unveil these
conflicts of interest, wrote in his book Secret Empires “the
Chinese Government was literally funding a business that it co-owned along with
the son of one of America’s most powerful decision makers” That is
what it looks like to be “compromised by a foreign
power.”
Anyone who has dealt with
the Chinese Government or an entity controlled by the government can attest
that any foreign business transaction with China always has a requisite or
implied quid pro quo that oftentimes does not involve monetary
considerations. Once entangled in this web it is nearly impossible to
escape -- as many businesses and nations, throughout Africa and Europe, much to
their chagrin, have experienced. It would be naïve to believe that Joe
Biden is not embroiled in this labyrinth of expectations and demands.
Nonetheless, Joe Biden is perhaps the ideal
candidate for a party whose propaganda arms, the mainstream media and
Hollywood, openly shill for the Chinese Communist leadership. Whose
primary financial backers, high tech and Wall Street billionaires such as Michael Bloomberg, have major
financial and manufacturing ties to China. Whose most dedicated foot soldiers
are true believers in authoritarian socialism. And whose common enemy is
Donald Trump and his America First populist movement.
Vice President Biden
raises a toast in honor of Chinese President Xi at a State Luncheon at the
State Department, September 25, 2015,
To further amplify that the Democrat Party is a
surrogate of the Chinese leadership and is abiding by the maxim that the enemy
of my enemy is my friend, criticism of China’s handling of the Coronavirus
epidemic by anyone in Democrat party leadership, or their donor and
left-leaning professional class, has been virtually nonexistent. On the
other hand, the unceasing and often fabricated disparagement of President Trump
is part of a calculated strategy to frame the Coronavirus epidemic in a way
that leads to his defeat in November. Even China’s not-so-veiled threat to withhold
shipping vital drugs to the United States in retaliation for any criticism of
their handling of the Coronavirus outbreak was met with a deafening silence.
China
is an existential threat to the United States. Joe Biden and the Democrat
Party would abet the Chinese in their quest for global hegemony and in essence
surrender American sovereignty. But first these collaborators must get
rid of Donald Trump. Thus, any unseemly tactics, outrageous fabrications
and personal smears will be directed at him and his voters over the next seven
and a half months to achieve that goal.
Hunter
Biden’s Firms Scored Reportedly Hundreds of Millions from Russians, Chinese,
and Kazakhs
20 Jan 20205,644
5:51
Hunter Biden, son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, has
come under scrutiny for his business links to Ukrainian natural gas firm
Burisma while his father was vice president.
Now, a new book by author Peter Schweizer reveals Hunter Biden
forged other business deals with individuals and entities tied with the
governments of Russia, China, and Kazakhstan, that reportedly scored him
hundreds of millions of dollars.
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.
Hunter and his business partner, Devon Archer, used Burnham to
make foreign deals with governments and oligarchs, according to a copy of
the book viewed by Breitbart News.
One of those oligarchs included Nurlan Abduov, the associate of
another Kazakh oligarch, Kenges Rakishev. Rakishev is the son-in-law of the
former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan, Imangali Tasmagambetov. Tasmagamvetov
was also formerly the defense minister, and is now the Kazakh ambassador
to Russia.
According to the book, an account Hunter regularly received
funds from showed money arriving from a firm run by Rakishev in 2014:
A Morgan Stanley investment account from which Hunter regularly
received funds shows money arriving from mysterious
sources around the world. There is a $142,300 deposit in April 2014 from Kazakh oligarch–controlled Novatus Holdings. Kenges
Rakishev, whose father-in-law is the former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan and a close ally of Kazakh dictator Nursultan
Nazarbayev, runs the offshore firm.
sources around the world. There is a $142,300 deposit in April 2014 from Kazakh oligarch–controlled Novatus Holdings. Kenges
Rakishev, whose father-in-law is the former vice prime minister of Kazakhstan and a close ally of Kazakh dictator Nursultan
Nazarbayev, runs the offshore firm.
While Burnham received funds from Kazakh oligarchs, Archer acted
as a backchannel between Kazakhstan to then-Secretary of State John Kerry,
according to the book. (Kerry’s stepson Chris Heinz was a business partner with
Biden and Archer in some of their ventures).
In a July 11, 2013, email, Kerry’s chief of staff David Wade
wrote to Archer:
Devon: understand you spoke to the Secretary re having him call
[Kazakh] Foreign Minister Idrisov today, can you let me know topics Idrisov
wants to talk about/any requests he’ll have of the boss, so we can get paper
prepared for a call. Hopefully, the situation on the home front will leave him
time to do it.
Burnham also had business deals with two mysterious Chinese
companies — Kirin Global Enterprses Limited and Harvest Global Investors,
according to the book.
Kirin Global Enterprise Limited was an investment vehicle
run by Xiangyao (or Yaojun) “Larry” Liu and Guo Jianfeng, according to
Schweizer. “Very little is known about Kirin or its two principals, other than
the fact that they invest heavily in mainland Chinese real estate,” he writes.
Harvest Global Investors was a Chinese investment firm linked to the government
in Beijing.
Burnham also had a financial relationship with Russian Oligarch
Yelena Baturina, a billionaire with extensive political connections in Moscow
and links to Russian organized crime, according to Schweizer. Archer said
Baturina invested $200 million into “various investment funds” with which he
was involved.
Burnham also got wrapped up in a $60 million fraudulent bond
scheme to rip off union pension funds and the poorest Indian tribe in America,
the Oglala Sioux, Schweizer writes.
In May 2016, Archer was arrested in New York and charged with
“orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors and a Native American tribal
entity of tens of millions of dollars.”
Some of the targeted were government employee or labor union
organizations that had supported Joe Biden in the past. Biden has long
described himself as a “union man.”
Although Hunter Biden was not charged, Schweizer writes, “his
fingerprints were all over Burnham.” The legitimacy that his name and political
status as the vice president’s son lent to Burnham was brought up repeatedly
during the trial, he writes.
That status was used as a means of both recruiting pension money
into the scheme and alleviating investors’ concerns, he writes. In
an August 2014 email, Jason Galanis, who was convicted in the bond scheme,
agreed that Burnham had “value beyond capital” because of their political
connections.
Hunter Biden had an office at Burnham’s New York City offices on
Fifty-Seventh Street, and during the trial, numerous witnesses came forward
describing Hunter’s involvement with the firm, according to the book.
Schweizer writes these deals have long been a pattern with the
Biden family, to include Hunter Biden:
With the election of his father as vice president, Hunter Biden
launched businesses fused to his father’s power that led him to lucrative deals
with a rogue’s gallery of governments and oligarchs around the world. Sometimes
he would hitch a prominent ride with his father aboard Air Force Two to visit a
country where he was courting business. Other times, the deals would be done
more discreetly. Always they involved foreign entities that appeared to be
seeking something from his father. Often, the countries in question, including
Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan, had highly corrupt political cultures.
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.
No comments:
Post a Comment