Video resurfaces of Biden saying he asked China for help becoming president
There is far more evidence that China is interfering in our election to put Joe Biden in the White House than there ever was that Russia was backing Donald Trump in 2016 (or is backing him now). Properly handled, that evidence against Biden (and his allies in bed with China) should help re-elect Trump
During the 2016 campaign, candidate Trump made a joke about asking Russia for help in finding Hillary Clinton’s deleted (and bleach-bitted) emails from her private server, and that was taken as evidence for launching an FBI investigation and subsequent special counsel probe on non-existent “collusion” with Russia. Yet back in 2013, Joe Biden, whose son was hauled around on Air Force Two to help him make lucrative deals with foreign powers including China, openly “joked” about asking Beijing for help becoming president, and we are only hearing of it this weekend:
NEW (from me)
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) September 5, 2020
Joe Biden joked about China helping him become president during remarks at the US-China Strategic And Economic Dialogue in Washington DC in 2013https://t.co/ePb0L3iLtp pic.twitter.com/vRZzQHeQ67
After 3 years pursuing phony Trump-Russia collusion, Dems have legitimized looking into the ties between a presidential candidate and a scary foreign power. And anyone who pays minimal attention can see that Beijing is a far more serious threat to us than Moscow, yet Dems an their media allies continue to pretend that we ought to worry about bad boy Putin, whose country has the GDP of Texas, while China is closing in on surpassing our national GDP. Perhaps more importantly, Russia struggles to export any manufactured goods and mostly relies on oil and gas to generate hard currency, while China is the “workshop of the world” and has stolen many industries from the USA. Russia, to be frank, has no chance to become the world’s hegemon, while Beijing’s leaders openly plot to do so, and already have a navy with more vessels than our own, and are a serious technology rival in key areas like artificial intelligence.
There is no question that Hunter Biden, Joe’s son who was kicked out of the Navy for cocaine use, is in Beijing’s pocket, and has become wealthy thanks to his business ties to Ukraine’s Burisma and his even bigger financial ties to China. With perfect timing, Peter Schweizer, whose influential documentary Clinton Cash uncovered the ways the former first couple enriched themselves from their “public service,” has just released a 41-minute film on Biden’s China ties, Riding the Dragon. It is embedded below in its entirety, but here is how Eric Lendrum of American Greatness describes it:
In “Riding the Dragon,” Schweizer reveals several Chinese business deals that Hunter Biden was involved in while serving as a member of the board of BHR Partners, a Chinese investment firm. The film also claims that Biden could only secure meetings with high-ranking Chinese officials because of the fact that his father was vice president at the time.
Many of BHR’s business deals “would serve the strategic interests of the Chinese government,” and “started making investment deals that would serve the strategic interests of the Chinese military.” The documentary was originally aired on BlazeTV, and has since been posted to YouTube....
The film is below, and here is URL, so you can send it to friends via email or social media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRmlcEBAiIs
Wisconsin Manufacturer:
Biden’s Pro-China Record Gutted My Business
27 Aug 2020543
2:40
Debbie
Flood, the owner of a cast bronze architectural hardware manufacturer
in Schofield, Wisconsin, blasted Democrat presidential candidate Joe
Biden’s record on normalizing United States trade with China that she says
gutted her business before President Trump ushered in his economic nationalist
agenda.
Flood said:
My name is Debbie Flood and I own a small
foundry and machine shop in Wisconsin that manufactures cast bronze
architectural hardware. My father, a WWII veteran, started the business with
some used equipment and the American dream. Today, we are one of the only U.S.
companies left who make our products from start to finish under one roof. We
really make things and we love it.
Flood continued:
When we lost
nearly 50% of our business to China in the mid-2000s, we
wondered how a small company like ours could continue to compete. At
the time, Joe Biden was a senator. He voted to normalize trade with China and
helped pave the way for them to join the WTO, even though they were hurting
American companies like ours. [Emphasis added]
…
Later, we
fought our way through the Great Recession. Then Donald Trump was
elected, and we breathed a sigh of relief. He actually fought for American
workers and American craftsmen. He actually cared about bringing back
those three beautiful words, “Made in America.”
We no longer
had to succeed despite government. Now, the government was on our side, and we
enjoyed a thriving economy stimulated by President Trump’s pro-business and
pro-worker policies. Thanks to the Trump tax cuts, I‘ve been able to
raise my employees’ wages. [Emphasis added]
Indeed, Biden voted to normalize
U.S. trade relations with China, supported their entering the WTO, and has
downplayed the economic threat of China to American sovereignty and American
businesses.
Most
recently, Biden said he
would end Trump’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of China-made goods
before his aides walked the statement back. Likewise, in 2019, Biden criticized Trump’s
tariffs on China.
As Breitbart
News has
chronicled, decades-long free trade deals, NAFTA, and China’s
entering the WTO eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs
across the country since 1994. Free trade advocates, like Biden, claimed at the
time that NAFTA would create a million U.S. manufacturing jobs in the first
five years.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
JOE BIDEN, SERVANT OF RED CHINA… .Just
follow the money through Hunter’s pockets.
Well, it
looks like the makeover has begun.
Corrupt
Joe Biden, who used his office to enrich himself and his family, to say the
least, is now the foreign policy maven, particularly on China. That's the spin
from the New York Times, which has beclowned itself badly, trying to tell the
audience that something smelly is shinola.
To voters unsettled by President Trump’s
disruptive approach to the world, Mr. Biden is selling not only his policy
prescriptions but also his long track record of befriending, cajoling and
sometimes confronting foreign leaders — what he might call the power of his
informal diplomatic style. “I’ve dealt with every one of the major world
leaders that are out there right now, and they know me. I know them,” he told
supporters in December.
Brett McGurk, a former senior State Department
official for the campaign against the Islamic State, said Mr. Biden had been an
effective diplomat by practicing “strategic empathy.”
And
unlike Trump, Biden was oh so personal, as well as "not an
ideologue."
Mr. Biden made a quick “personal connection” with
the Chinese leader, even if he sometimes confounded his Mandarin interpreter by
quoting hard-to-translate Irish verse, said Daniel Russel, an aide present at
several of the meetings.
“He was remarkably good in getting to a personal
relationship right away and getting Xi to open up,” Mr. Russel said.
Had
enough? The translation, according to Peter Schweizer's Profiles in Corruption
is:
For Vice President Joe Biden, effective diplomacy
was about forming personal relationships with foreign leaders. "It all
gets down to the conduct of foreign policy being personal." The vice
president had a series of important and tense meetings with Chinese officials
on a variety of critical matters in the bilateral relationship. The trip
coincided with an enormous financial deal that Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont
Seneca, was arranging with the state-owned Bank of China. What Hunter did
during the official visit to Beijing we cannot know for sure. Other than a few
photo ops with his father, he was nowhere to be seen.
...and...
Approximately ten days after the Beijing trip,
Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca Partners finalized a deal with the Chinese
government worth a whopping $1 billion. The deal was later expanded to
$1.5 billion. As of this writing, the fund's website says its investments amount
to more than $2 billion.
It's important to note that this deal was with
the Chinese government--not with Chinese company, which means that the
Chinese government and the son of the vice president were now business
partners.
Now
he's Mr. Congeniality, the perfect opposite of President Trump who confronts
China rather sternly on issues. To the Times, that's a bad thing. To the
average 'hey fat' out in the American heartland as Biden puts it, Trump's
diplomacy is actually standing up for the interests of Americans.
It's
also a disgusting double standard. Trump is no China hater - he does his best
to cut the best deal possible for main street America by driving a hard bargain
the Chinese know they have no choice but to accept. Any time Trump says
something concilatory to the Chinese, it's denounced as sucking up to
dictators, while any time Joe does it - pocketing the profits, which any
non-ideologue is adept at doing - he's Mr. Personality.
As
Mickey Kaus well observed:
When Trump does it it's coddling dictators, with Biden it's Strategic
Empathy! @michaelcrowley is at least a bit skeptical. https://t.co/Pnc9SqxAk4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) July
6, 2020
Here's
the problem with this kind of 'personal' diplomacy. It is very personal indeed
to Joe, given the wealth it has brought is family members. It's also very
dangerous, given that every string and hook China's oligarchs can get into him
makes him an even bigger sock puppet than he already was. Combine with the
world's dodgiest players considering Biden a non-entity (Osama bin Laden considered
Biden a fool) and the picture is a very ugly one for America's interests.
Here's
the second problem: This apparent media makeover for Joe, painting him as the
great personal-touch diplomat who can get along with everyone is clearly the
new party line being promoted in the press, and we can expect to see lockstep
echoing of this embarassing face-lift. The JournoList talking points have gone
out and now the shots are fired. As those shots went out, attempting to boost
Joe while taking down Trump, the Chicoms themselves have been very active, too.
Just days ago, according to a report in the Daily Caller, the Chinese
investment firm that made Hunter a very rich man has quietly removed Hunter's
name as a board member. That's to help Joe win his presidential bid for sure,
which ought to make voters very wary given whose interests are being boosted.
Worse still, the Caller reports, they allowed him to keep his sizable stake in
the company - worth milions at least. No wonder he's comfortably ensconced in
the Hollywood Hills these days, bored and playing 'artist,' dodging release of
his financial statements to an Arkansas judge over a babydaddy case with a
stripper looking for child support. No wonder he apparently settled with the
woman and swept the whole thing off the front pages.
Now
the makeover is on, with the media ignoring the pocket-lining entirely -- the
New York Times makes simply no mention of it -- and the cash spigots still
going.
The
whole thing -- pocket-lining and media coverup is a disgusting double-load
of corruption that anyone with a brain can see right through. The GOP must keep
the heat onto this issue because it's being distorted beyond recognition.
Photo illustration by Monica
Showalter with use of images
by Gage
Skidmore, via Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0, Acaben, via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0, PxFuel public domain, and SKopp via Wikimedia Commons // public domain
We're not buying Joe Biden's 'tough on China' Act
Joe
Biden is running away from his record as the "pro-China" candidate so
quickly that his defenders in the liberal press can't make heads or tails of
it. Ordinary Americans are equally confused.
Biden
spent over three decades opening American markets to Chinese goods, ignoring
China's abhorrent human rights record, and dismissing the challenge posed by
our greatest rival for global leadership. The "made in
China" era coincided with the closure of tens of thousands of American
factories, stagnant working-class wages, and the loss of America's ability to
produce essential goods domestically — a vulnerability that took on incredible
significance when we learned that we were dependent upon China to produce the
medical equipment needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
This
disaster was facilitated by politicians of both parties, and no one was
more gung ho than Joe
Biden, poster child for the globalism that reigned supreme until the
2016 presidential election, which Donald J. Trump won by campaigning on a
platform diametrically opposed to the "open markets and open borders"
philosophy of the D.C. establishment. In the White House, President
Trump became the first American leader in decades to take a firm stand against
China's malfeasance and demand a genuinely fair and reciprocal trade deal for
American workers.
While
Joe Biden was the vice president of the United States, conversely, he was downplaying the consequences of
China's rise — even as his own family tried to get rich through
deals with Chinese state-owned companies.
How
is it possible, then, that Biden has suddenly tried to recast himself as the
"tough-on-China" candidate in the 2020 race?
Biden's
campaign even ran an ad claiming the
president had "rolled over for the Chinese" in response to the
coronavirus that Beijing unleashed on the world. It's one of the
most poorly executed flip-flops in American electoral history, coming just
months after Biden called President
Trump's life-saving ban on most travel
from China "hysterical xenophobia."
No
one is buying it. Everyone knows about President Trump's record of
success in bringing China to the negotiating table through strategic
counter-tariffs. The "Phase One" trade deal that was inked
earlier this year represents the first major trade concessions from China in a
generation. Even the fanatical free-traders who actually liked Biden's
globalism see right through his new façade. The libertarians at the
Cato Institute, for instance, published an article
acknowledging that Biden's reversal is "futile" and "inherently
lacks credibility."
Even
the intellectual left is aghast at Biden's fake toughness on
China. The Atlantic called it "utterly
futile" and "pointless — even dangerous." The New
York Times published an op-ed all but begging Biden to drop the
act.
If
even his own supporters are rolling their eyes at Biden play-acting as a China
skeptic, why are he and his team even bothering to attempt the deception?
The
answer is simple. Americans have finally woken up to the economic
and national security threat posed by China. The coronavirus pandemic made that
threat impossible to ignore. No one wants to go into this November
as the "pro-Beijing" candidate.
Unfortunately
for Joe Biden, he's been the "pro-Beijing" candidate throughout his
political career, and there's a decades-long record to prove it.
Ken Blackwell served as mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio treasurer, and a
U.S. ambassador to the U.N. He currently serves on the board of
directors for Club For Growth.
Image: Marc Nozell via Flickr.
Hollywood is importing Chinese censorship to
the United States
by Zachary Faria, Commentary Fellow |
|
August 11, 2020 07:31 AM
Hollywood likes to hold
itself out as a progressive pioneer of social justice, but a new report highlights
how the desire to get films into the Chinese market leads major film studios to
violate their own social justice dogma. In fact, it often leads them to import
the values of the Chinese Communist Party — the organization with the highest
body count in human history.
The report by PEN America, a
nonprofit organization that promotes free expression in literature, examines a
collection of films that bowed to Chinese censorship in order to get access to
the Chinese movie market. China allows 34 foreign films
to be released in the country each year, and in 2018, quarterly revenue from
China surpassed the United States for the first time. Before the pandemic, it
was projected that revenue from China in 2023 would reach $15.5 billion.
Some Chinese censorship
is minor, propaganda that can only be caught by alert viewers. Paramount cut
the Taiwanese flag from Tom Cruise’s jacket for the Top Gun sequel,
while the DreamWorks film Abominable (a collaboration with
China’s Pearl Studio) featured the nine-dash line, a propaganda map asserting
China’s control of the South China Sea.
Hollywood studios will
often run afoul of the tenets of social justice they often push in the U.S.
Marvel notably whitewashed a major Tibetan
character in Doctor Strange to avoid offending the Chinese
government. Studios ranging from Warner Brothers to Paramount to Twentieth
Century Fox have either removed scenes of same-sex kissing from films or had
them removed by China when the films aired. A complaint from a religious group
in the U.S., on the other hand, would only draw mockery.
The most troubling
takeaway from the report is not that individual scenes are being censored or
self-censored but that studios have decided to base major film decisions on
China, sometimes even unprompted. Marvel infamously brought in
Chinese regulators during the filming of Iron Man 3 to ensure
the movie stayed inbounds and added extra scenes to the Chinese version of the
film showing Chinese doctors saving Iron Man’s life.
The days of Hollywood
backing human rights in its work have disappeared. The 1997 film Seven
Years in Tibet, portraying China’s 1950 invasion of Tibet, led to the
blacklisting of director Jean-Jacques Annaud until his groveling apology 12
years later. Film star Brad Pitt was also penalized for the movie, which likely
helped bar World War Z from a Chinese release.
Change is not a lost
cause. The industry’s biggest stars have the power to push for it, as when
Quentin Tarantino refused to sign off on a re-cut of Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood to appease Chinese censors. But if Hollywood’s other
influential voices are unwilling to even stand up for their own creative
freedom, why would they take a stand on behalf of the human rights of people
they will never even meet?