THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA.
In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.
Friday, May 29, 2020
TRUMP CONSIDERS EXPELLING CHINESE GRADUATE STUDENTS, RESEARCHERS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THIEVES AND SPIES..... BUT IT'S JUST HIS BIG MOUTH SPEWING LIES AGAIN
White House considers expelling Chinese graduate students and researchers
29 May 2020
On Thursday, based on reports given by US state officials, the New York Times broke news that the Trump administration plans to expel some three to five thousand Chinese graduate students and researchers. The same day, Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Marsha Blackburn introduced a bill in Congress that would ban all visas for Chinese nationals admitted for study in science and mathematics.
Officials acknowledged that the plans to expel these individuals are not based on any direct evidence of espionage or trade theft, but rather on “suspicions.” The suspicions are drawn out from the student or researcher’s prior history as a student in one of the many universities sponsored by the People’s Liberation Army(PLA) of China.
Beating the drums for war, Senator Cotton said last month: “If Chinese students want to come here and study Shakespeare and the Federalist Papers, that’s what they need to learn from America; they don’t need to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from America… those Chinese students, go back to China to compete for our jobs, to take our business, and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices that can be used against the American people.”
Cotton, alongside the rest of the US ruling class, is demonizing the whole of the 360,000 Chinese student population in the country, essentially branding them as agents of the Chinese State. They are trying to divert domestic social opposition against the state towards China, by using phrases such as “our property” and “our weapons” while 40 million people are unemployed, US billionaires gain over $400 billion in wealth, and cities begin to riot.
Universities have emerged as a critical battleground in this process. The plan to expel students follows recent attacks on scientists of Chinese descent in the country, who have been arrested on charges of “economic espionage.” Nine leading universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Georgetown are currently under investigation for connections to China’s “Thousand Talents Program,” a recruiting program for leading international experts in scientific research.
According to a study by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, partially funded by the Australian Ministry of Defense, “since 2007, the PLA has sponsored more than 2,500 military scientists and engineers to study abroad and has developed relationships with researchers and institutions across the globe.” The collaboration is highest in the Five Eyes countries (military and intelligence alliance dominated by the US) and then Germany/Singapore. The study recommended that policymakers and officials put increased pressure on universities while building strong ties to the military apparatus, to secure research and protect against “economic espionage.”
Over the past few decades, China has managed to transform its military with many of the latest advances in science into a force capable of adequately resisting and even defeating the United States. According to leading Pentagon Official David Ochmanek, “In our games [computer simulations], when we fight Russia and China,” with blue representing the United States, “blue gets its ass handed to it.” The attack on Chinese scientists and students, in addition to diverting social tension, is also a crude attempt to block the development of China’s military as it stands in the way of US imperialism’s ambition to gain domination of the Asia-Pacific.
However, the US’s attacks against Chinese scientists and students risk undermining their own technological and scientific level.
According to the National Science Foundation, compared to 69 percent of Europeans, over 90 percent of Chinese STEM students have remained in the US after a decade. More Chinese scientists move to the United States than vice versa. An analysis by Jenny J. Lee and John P. Haupt of the University of Arizona found that if papers by Chinese coauthors were left out, the number of science and engineering publications by US-based scientists would have declined about 2 percent from 2014 to 2018.
In response to Thursday’s news, a Bloomberg Opinion piece asked the question “Although the vast majority of scientific articles by Chinese researchers are published in their own language, the best researchers publish in English. That makes their work easily accessible to Americans in their native tongue, an enormous advantage. Would the U.S. really be better off if its scientists had to learn Chinese?”
Since the start of 2020, despite growing military and trade tensions, collaboration between American and Chinese researchers has increased, primarily due to the outbreak of COVID-19. Researchers have exchanged crucial details about the virus, but the developing attacks on China will lead to a disintegration of such efforts and will ultimately undermine the development of a vaccine. Rather than international collaboration, US imperialism and its allies have instead escalated national divisions and rivalries.
Canada has moved forward with the extradition trial of a top executive of Huawei, a Chinese company that is leading the 5G industry. Australia has expanded the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, giving it the authority to interrogate those suspected of “espionage and politically motivated violence.” Under the direction of Washington, India has escalated border tensions with China, risking the outbreak of war. In opposition to China, the United Kingdom is considering extending visa rights to 300,000 Hong Kong residents, which follows the US announcement of increased anti-China sanctions.
China Passes National Security Law, ‘Suffocating’ Hong Kong
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC), its rubber-stamp legislature, passed a draft law on Thursday eliminating Hong Kong’s autonomy, allowing the Communist Party to punish anyone in the nominally autonomous city for crimes such as “secession” and “acts against national security.”
Under the “One Country, Two Systems” policy that Beijing agreed to when the United Kingdom handed over Hong Kong in 1997, the Communist Party is banned from imposing or enforcing laws in the region. The policy requires Hong Kong to accept that Beijing has sovereignty over it – meaning it cannot maintain its own army or engage in global diplomacy alone – but Hong Kong authorities have the ultimate authority to write and enforce local laws.
After a year of protests against a growing number of attempts by dictator Xi Jinping to override “One Country, Two Systems,” the NPC asserted that Hong Kong’s authorities had not done enough to protect China’s “national security” from the existence of peaceful protests and Beijing needed to step in.
The Chinese propaganda outlet Global Timesexplained:
The new Hong Kong national security legislation entitles the central government’s national security organs to establish agencies in the SAR [special administrative region, Hong Kong’s official designation] to safeguard national security, while the chief executive of the Hong Kong SAR government will report to the central government at regular intervals.
The reports will include performance of duties in maintaining national security, conducting national security promotion education, and prohibiting acts that endanger national security according to law, details of the draft show.
The Global Times explicitly stated that the law would allow China to intervene in Hong Kong to stop “attempts to split the country, subvert state power, organize and perpetrate terrorist activities, including other actions that seriously endanger national security.”
Xinhua, the official Communist Party news agency, insisted the law was necessary “after prolonged social unrest” in Hong Kong, quoting a senior lawmaker in the NPC who stated the law was intended to replace “weak links” in Hong Kong’s laws that allowed residents too much freedom to dissent from the Party.
The version of the law passed on Thursday is a “draft,” meaning it does not have specific provisions in it yet, such as legal definitions of the crimes it covers or the sentences judges will be allowed to hand down to those found guilty. The NPC typically passes general versions of laws that then go into more detailed legal drafting by its “Standing Committee,” but its approval ensures that the bill is now officially a law. This ensures that the public will not see the law before it takes effect.
Despite the fact that the law usurps powers China promised would remain in the hands of Hong Kong officials, Premier Li Keqiang insisted at a press conference Thursday that the law does not violate the “One Country, Two Systems” policy.
“One Country, Two Systems is China’s basic state policy. The central government has all along fully and faithfully implemented [it] … under which the people of Hong Kong rule Hong Kong under the strict accordance of the constitution and Basic Law,” Li insisted.
Hong Kong’s senior officials, hand-picked by the Party, celebrated the law, which takes power out of their hands.
“Safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests is the constitutional duty of the HKSAR and concerns every Hong Kong citizen,” Chief Executive Carrie Lam said in a statement Thursday. Lam blamed Hong Kong’s legislature itself for not passing a similar law to silence dissent, making Beijing’s intervention necessary.
“Given the difficulty of the executive and legislative authorities of the HKSAR to complete on their own legislation … there is the need and the urgency for the passage of the Decision by the NPC to establish and improve the legal system and enforcement mechanisms for Hong Kong to safeguard national security at the state level,” Lam said. “It also shows the care of the country towards the HKSAR.”
Lam insisted the law would only affect “an extremely small minority of criminals who threaten national security.”
“It will not affect the legitimate rights and freedoms enjoyed by Hong Kong residents,” she added.
Prior to the law passing, Lam had alarmed many Hong Kong residents by repeatedly describing the fundamental rights and freedoms for which Hong Kong’s government brokered a deal with Beijing to safeguard as existing merely temporarily.
“For the time being, people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say,” Lam said this week. “Some of the things you have said about mainland [Chinese] agencies coming down to arrest people undergoing protests and they will be arrested for calling the chief executive to step down – at the moment are [in] your imagination.”
Hong Kong’s pro-democracy leaders described the law as “suffocating” on Thursday.
“The world needs to wake up because everyone has a stake here, whether you are an international business, whether you are an academic, a professor, a journalist, a student,” Dennis Kwok, a lawmaker for the pro-democracy Civic Party, told broadcaster RTHK. “The air has gone out of Hong Kong today, and it is suffocating.”
RTHK quoted Civic Party leader Alvin Yeung as saying, “2,878 people voted on Hong Kong’s future, of those 2,878 people, how many of them have never been to Hong Kong? Or seen the situation in Hong Kong?”
Another lawmaker for the HK First party, Claudia Mo, accused China of having “practically taken away our soul, our soul being the values we’ve been treasuring all these years: rule of law, human rights.”
The leader of the anti-China Demosisto movement, Joshua Wong, argued in remarks on Twitter that the international community must respond to the “national security” law because it allows China to persecute foreign nations on Hong Kong soil. As a global financial hub, Hong Kong attracted many foreigners, who are now fair game for China’s communist enforcers, according to Wong.
“With the ill-defined law interpretation and a secret police agency imposed in HK, the law will harm all foreign interests and ex-pats in this global city,” Wong wrote. “Xi Jinping proposed in 2017 that China’s national security covers economic and social aspects.”
“Foreign companies can be victims under this new evil law,” Wong warned:
2/ Today’s decision is a direct assault on the will of #HKers. China is scrapping its promise of autonomy under the Joint Declaration, a legally binding international treaty, & burying 1Country2System when a #secretpolice agency can enforce #China’s laws within territory of HK.
— Joshua Wong ι»δΉι π· (@joshuawongcf) May 28, 2020
4/ With the ill-defined law interpretation and a #secretpolice agency imposed in #HK, the law will harm all foreign interests and ex-pats in this global city. #Xijinping proposed in 2017 that China’s #nationalsecurity covers economic and social aspects.
— Joshua Wong ι»δΉι π· (@joshuawongcf) May 28, 2020
6/ Since this new regime will undeniably harm foreign interests, I call upon world leaders to urge China to withdraw the bill. Since the law casts more doubt on HK’s autonomy, I urge the world to take necessary actions to send a warning signal to China for its reckless move.
— Joshua Wong ι»δΉι π· (@joshuawongcf) May 28, 2020
The United States moved against the “national security” law prior to its passage on Wednesday by declaring officially that Hong Kong was no longer autonomous from China. Under a law passed last year, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo must certify to Congress on an annual basis that Hong Kong is either autonomous or colonized by China to guide U.S. policy on the region. Hong Kong currently enjoys special economic benefits from Washington in recognition of its autonomy from China.
Pompeo announced on Wednesday that that autonomy no longer exists.
“Last week, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) National People’s Congress announced its intention to unilaterally and arbitrarily impose national security legislation on Hong Kong,” Pompeo said in a statement. “Beijing’s disastrous decision is only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy and freedoms and China’s own promises to the Hong Kong people under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, a U.N.-filed international treaty.”
“While the United States once hoped that free and prosperous Hong Kong would provide a model for authoritarian China, it is now clear that China is modeling Hong Kong after itself,” he said.
On Wednesday, Hong Kong police violently arrested hundreds of people protesting against the national security law, as well as a proposed law in the Hong Kong legislature to make “disrespect” of the Communist Party anthem, “The March of the Volunteers,” a crime.
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