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Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo
Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on
the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured
international headlines when she, along with Miranda
Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately
involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even
have a 10 percent stake in a company the
scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the
Chinese Communist Party.
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Media Launch ‘Laptop from Hell’ Damage Control
The establishment media continues to downplay the scandal of the Biden family business following Elon Musk’s release of the “Twitter Files,” which provided new insight into the censorship conspiracy surrounding the New York Post‘s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
On Friday, new details emerged from the Twitter Files of how the 2020 Biden campaign and the Democrat National Committee worked with Twitter to censor tweets they did not like about Hunter’s “laptop from Hell.” The revelations from the Twitter Files dominated the news cycle for the entire weekend.
But that did not stop the media from trying to tamp down interest in the revelations. The New Republic‘s Michael Tomasky published an article on Monday claiming the reporting was a minor development, and misrepresenting what was originally censored:
Congratulations to everyone who didn’t spend the weekend thinking about the president’s son’s junk.
What exactly is at the root of the right’s Hunter Biden obsession? At its simplest level, the Hunter saga is just a potential Achilles’ heel for a president they want to defeat in 2024, assuming Joe Biden runs.
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But this weekend, things got even weirder—and in ways that were so sordid it took me a while to even understand what was going on.
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump contended Twitter’s initial censorship of the New York Post story on October 14, 2020, did not prevent Trump from winning the 2020 election — appearing to suggest that censorship was fine if it didn’t dictate an election result.
“So there is no way to say, for example, that a counterfactual in which Twitter didn’t limit sharing of the Post’s story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop wouldn’t have moved Arizona from benefiting Biden by 10,500 votes to giving Trump a slight advantage,” he added.
But the Twitter story that demands coverage is not about something that happened more than two years ago but what we are seeing now on Twitter since Musk took control in October. There has been an “unprecedented” spike in hate speech as well as a resurgence of ISIS-linked accounts, The New York Times detailed in an article published Friday…”
That the Biden family business scandal is old news because it was “two years ago” was pushed not only by Obeidallah. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday used the same tactic.
Jean-Pierre, who worked on the 2020 Biden campaign as a senior adviser, brushed off the Twitter Files as “old news” and “a distraction” during her press conference. “We see this as an interesting — or a coincidence, if I may, that he [Elon Musk] would so haphazardly, that Twitter would so haphazardly push this distraction that is full of old news,” she said.
Jean-Pierre never directly answered whether Twitter was correct to censor the 2020 New York Post story:
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing to even have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
DOE Touts $200M Grant to Lithium Battery Company as Boon to American-Made Clean Energy. The Company Operates Primarily From China.
Microvast also under scrutiny for shielding its books from auditors
Alana Goodman • December 6, 2022 5:00 amPresident Joe Biden's Department of Energy is touting a grant to a lithium battery company as a move that would help herald the shift to green energy and ensure the United States is cultivating domestic sources of energy. It did not say, however, that the Texas company receiving the grant operates primarily from China and is under scrutiny from American financial regulators.
The DOE announced in October that it would give the $200 million award to Microvast Holdings to build a battery separator facility in Tennessee, using funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. At the time, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the grant would "supercharge the private sector to ensure our clean energy future is American-made."
While the DOE described Microvast as a "majority U.S.-owned company, traded on NASDAQ" and "headquartered in Stafford, Texas," financial records show the company operates primarily out of China. Microvast itself says the Chinese government "exerts substantial influence over the manner in which we must conduct our business activities and may intervene, at any time and with no notice." The company was also recently added to a Securities and Exchange Commission watchlist of Chinese companies that are on track to be delisted from NASDAQ for failing to comply with U.S. auditing requirements.
The DOE award demonstrates the challenges posed by the green energy transition sought by Democrats and the Biden administration and raises questions about the vaunted $1.2 billion Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding. That bill was meant to boost U.S. battery companies and strengthen the domestic clean energy supply chain, which has been highly dependent on China. The grant is also drawing calls for additional oversight from Congress. The infrastructure law, as written by lawmakers, states that the DOE should avoid funding projects that "use battery material supplied by or originating from a foreign entity of concern," which includes companies "subject to the jurisdiction or direction" of China.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) told the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration "has a lot of explaining to do."
"Giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to a company whose operations are based in China that refuses to comply with American securities rules is crazy," said Rubio. "What's more, any new technology developed in this partnership is almost certainly going to benefit China given Microvast's operations there. It is just another example of the Biden administration not understanding the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party."
Former DOE officials said the funding was highly concerning and is likely to set off alarms with legislators.
"The Biden appointees knew from the outset that because of China's aggressiveness in infiltrating U.S. energy and high-tech companies they were going to need to be extra vigilant about where these [infrastructure] funds went," one former DOE official told the Free Beacon. "A simple Google search shows enough of a relationship between China and the shell company they're using to access U.S. taxpayer funds to raise questions."
"Now Congress, [the Government Accountability Office], or someone needs to be asking what information did the applicant provide about their relationship with China, how far up does that relationship go," the official said.
The DOE did not respond to a request for comment.
In its 2021 annual SEC report, Microvast describes itself as a "holding company" that conducts its business "principally through our subsidiary in China."
"A substantial portion of our operations and manufacturing and most of our current customers are in the [People's Republic of China]," said Microvast, adding that it has received subsidies from the Chinese government and that most of its customers are associated with "state-owned companies in the PRC."
In May, the SEC added Microvast to a list of Chinese companies that aren't in compliance with U.S. auditing requirements under the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act. The law, which went into effect last spring, is designed to prevent Chinese companies listed on the U.S. stock exchanges from using non-approved China-based auditors to obscure their finances.
Companies that remain on the list for three consecutive years will be delisted from NASDAQ. They are also required to disclose whether they have any directors who are members of the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP ownership.
Microvast CEO Yang Wu is a U.S. citizen, according to Microvast spokeswoman Sarah Alexander. Another Microvast director, Arthur Wong, a Hong Kong citizen based in Beijing, is the chairman of the audit committee at Daqo New Energy Corporation, whose subsidiary was sanctioned by the Biden administration last year for its connections to slave labor in Xinjiang.
Alexander said none of Microvast's directors, including Wu, are members of the CCP. She said the business primarily operates out of Huzhou, China, but has been expanding its manufacturing and research facilities to Germany and the United States.
Alexander said the company's inclusion on SEC's non-compliance list could also change due to "recent developments on the [Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act], including an agreement between the U.S. and Chinese governments to allow for" full inspections. SEC officials have reportedly been trying to negotiate an agreement with Beijing as of September.
Chinese Hackers Stole Millions From US COVID Relief Benefits, Secret Service Reports
Anna Allen • December 5, 2022 2:00 pmHackers with ties to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million from U.S. taxpayer-funded COVID-19 relief benefits in more than a dozen states, the Secret Service reports.
The hacking group APT41, known as "the ‘workhorse' of cyberespionage operations that benefit the Chinese government," looted pandemic-related Small Business Administration loans and unemployment insurance funds, NBC News reported Monday. The theft is the U.S. government's first publicly acknowledged incident of pandemic fraud linked to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals.
The Secret Service considers APT41 a "Chinese state-sponsored, cyberthreat group that is highly adept at conducting espionage missions and financial crimes for personal gain." It is unclear if the Chinese Communist Party directed the hackers' attack on U.S. taxpayer funds, but APT41's targeting of government money—a move cybersecurity analysts have never seen before—is a "dangerous" and "serious" threat to U.S. national security, intelligence and cybersecurity officials told NBC News:
The experts and officials describe the Chinese model of "state-sponsored" hackers as a network of semi-independent groups conducting contract work in service of government espionage. … APT41, also known to cybersecurity firms as Winnti, Barium, and Wicked Panda, fits the model and is considered a particularly prolific Chinese intelligence asset, known to commit financial crimes on the side. …
The primary purpose of APT41's state-directed activity, the experts and officials say, is believed to be collecting personally identifying information and data about American citizens, institutions, and businesses that can be used by China for espionage purposes.
The U.S. government’s implementation of COVID relief programs was already rife with fraud, with millions of dollars sent to ineligible businesses and organizations. Of the $872.5 billion in federal pandemic unemployment funds, roughly 20 percent were improper payments, the Department of Labor reported. The Labor Department overpaid unemployment benefits by more than $350 billion between April 2020 and May 2021, a Heritage Foundation analysis estimates.
In its COVID fraud scheme, APT41 hacked 2,000 accounts connected to more than 40,000 financial transactions.
APT41 has "the patience, the sophistication, and the resources to carry out hacking that has a direct impact on national security," a former Justice Department official familiar with the group told NBC.
China has prioritized cyberespionage for years to strengthen its position in international politics, said Ambassador Nathaniel Fick, the head of the State Department's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy.
"The United States is target No. 1, because we are competitor No. 1," Fick told NBC News. "It's a really comprehensive, multi-decade, well-considered, well-resourced, well-planned, well-executed strategy."
The Secret Service has recovered half of the stolen $20 million so far.
China-Controlled Shipping Platform Could Hand US Military Data to CCP, Republican Lawmakers Warn
Cotton, Steel call CCP's LOGINK logistics platform 'a disaster for American interests'
Collin Anderson • December 6, 2022 4:59 amRepublican lawmakers are sounding the alarm over a Chinese state-controlled shipping logistics platform they say could hand "sensitive U.S. government and military data" to the Chinese Communist Party.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Michelle Steel (R., Calif.) urged President Joe Biden in a Nov. 30 letter to "take action to halt the spread of LOGINK," a CCP-controlled digital platform that Beijing is offering free of charge to ports, freight carriers, and foreign nations as a "one-stop shop" for their shipment tracking and data management needs. The platform—which China's Ministry of Transport subsidizes—is already used in ports in South Korea and Japan, where the United States maintains a significant military presence. Because most U.S. military cargo is transported commercially, the CCP could use LOGINK in the Indo-Pacific and elsewhere to "collect massive amounts of sensitive business and foreign government data," including U.S. military shipping data, Cotton and Steel warned in their letter.
"The CCP could exploit their control over LOGINK to identify early trends in the movement of U.S. military supplies and equipment through commercial ports while denying other countries the same data on Chinese military assets," the lawmakers wrote. "With the data that a global LOGINK system could provide, the CCP could effectively identify vital transportation nodes necessary to control the physical movement of goods. This would be a disaster for American interests."
Cotton and Steel's letter comes roughly two months after a U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission linked LOGINK to a CCP effort to increase "global reliance on China" through "domestic infrastructure" and "transportation equipment." That effort has already seen more than 20 global ports adopt the CCP's platform, a troubling trend that "could subject U.S. military logistics to more surveillance by Chinese intelligence and military operators" and even "enable Chinese military planners to … disrupt U.S. military operations," according to the commission. As a result, Cotton and Steel are pressing the Biden administration to detail its efforts to stop LOGINK's spread, including through a potential U.S. alternative platform.
The Biden administration, which has until Jan. 11 to respond to the letter, told the Washington Free Beacon that it "takes all potential cyberthreats to the maritime transportation system and its related infrastructure extremely seriously" and "continually evaluates the tools and authorities available to address them," but it declined to "preview potential responses to specific companies that may be under consideration." More than 25 congressional Republicans, including Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas), Joni Ernst (Iowa), and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Reps. Mike Gallagher (Wis.), Maria Salazar (Fla.), and Guy Reschenthaler (Penn.), joined Cotton and Steel's letter.
The administration has faced intense criticism from Republicans for tapping soft-on-China officials to serve in crucial roles. In September, for example, Biden appointed liberal political consultant John Podesta—who has praised China on climate change and called for direct Chinese investment in American infrastructure—to oversee $370 billion in climate spending. One month later, Biden hired Nina Hachigian to serve in a newly created State Department position aimed at countering China's growing influence. Hachigian worked with two CCP front groups to foster ties between Washington and Beijing prior to taking the job. Biden's representative on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation's Business Advisory Council, Dominic Ng, also has a long history of cozying up to the CCP, going as far as to criticize the United States for refusing to join Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, which the Chinese government uses to subjugate foreign nations through direct infrastructure investment.
Meet the Beijing-Aligned Group That Branded a Republican’s Tough-on-China Rhetoric ‘Racist’
Collin Anderson • December 5, 2022 5:00 amThe Chinese-American nonprofit that branded a Republican congresswoman's tough-on-China campaign ads "racist" has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party influence groups and Beijing-backed companies through its members, staff, and former leaders, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found.
In late October, with the 2022 midterms just two weeks away, the Committee of 100—a nonprofit that works to "advance U.S.-China relations"—issued a statement condemning China-related campaign ads from California Republican Michelle Steel. Those ads, which the committee said included "racist attacks" that encouraged "anti-Asian hate and violence," criticized Democrat challenger Jay Chen's past support for the Confucius Classroom program, a CCP-run initiative that provides American K-12 schools with Beijing-backed teachers and curriculum materials.
The committee's decision to wade into the race—a rare one, given that the nonprofit usually avoids electoral politics in favor of commenting on academic research, legislative developments, and federal appointments—sparked attention from mainstream media outlets and liberal groups. Within days of its release, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee used the statement to declare that the Asian-American community had turned on Steel, with the Times and NPR innocuously describing the Committee of 100 as "a New York-based nonprofit led by prominent Chinese Americans" and a group that "represents Chinese Americans." Those descriptions, however, ignore the fact that many of the nonprofit's members, staff, and former leaders have extensive ties to CCP-controlled groups and Chinese state-backed companies—ties that have led some China experts to assert that the committee is a crucial target for the CCP's foreign influence efforts.
Committee member Ronnie Chan, for example, serves on the governing board of the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a CCP-funded Chinese foreign agent whose founder, billionaire Chinese national Tung Chee-hwa, is the vice chairman of a CCP advisory body. Fellow member Yu Meng, meanwhile, for three years worked as a top officer at the Chinese government-controlled State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a job that China's Thousand Talents Program—which the FBI says engages in "non-traditional espionage against the United States"—reportedly recruited him to take. Meng in 2015 told CCP propaganda rag People's Daily that he was inspired to take the job due to his commitment to "the motherland." Former committee chairman Dominic Ng also served on the board of the Asia Society, which worked to spread Confucius Institutes—the CCP-run higher education equivalent of Confucius Classrooms that a former top Chinese official called "an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up"—across the United States.
Committee of 100 members and staff have also partnered with Chinese state-backed companies and propaganda outlets. Senior communications director Charles Zinkowski, for example, previously managed U.S. media relations for Huawei, a CCP tech company that has helped the Chinese government surveil Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang concentration camps. The United States on Wednesday banned the approval of new Huawei tech over the company's "unacceptable risk" to national security. Committee member Guoqing Chen, meanwhile, cofounded majority state-owned Hainan Airlines, while fellow member Chi Wang serves as president of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, which has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in funding from Huawei, CCP-run newspaper China Daily, and China's largest state-owned banks.
Those affiliations may explain why Chinese president Xi Jinping praised the Committee of 100 as a "friendly group" in 2015. They may also explain why the CCP's "United Front" system—which aims to advance Beijing's interests by influencing foreign individuals—has used the committee to pressure members to "toe the Party line," according to a 2019 Hoover Institution report. Some of the committee's former leaders, meanwhile, are reportedly part of that system. Former committee director George Koo is an "overseas director" of the China Overseas Friendship Association, a CCP-led foreign influence group, according to the Hoover report. Former Committee of 100 chair and current member H. Roger Wang is an honorary chairman of the association's local branch in Nanjing, Newsweek reported in 2020.
The Committee of 100, which did not return a request for comment, has denied allegations that it is linked to the CCP. But the nonprofit's support for controversial CCP initiatives is well documented. In 2018, then-committee chair Wang toldChina Daily that the committee should "get actively involved" in Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, a CCP tool used to subjugate foreign nations through direct infrastructure investment. The committee also vocally opposed a Trump-era effort to prosecute Chinese spies but has refrained from condemning Beijing for its Uyghur genocide, Mark Simon, a former senior executive at the pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily, wrote in a 2019 column.
"The Committee of 100 is a pro-Beijing group, concerned almost exclusively with the interests aligned with those of the Chinese Communist Party," Simon wrote. "In all their discussions about the US-China relationship try to find any significant objection to the actions of the CCP. You won’t."
The committee's attacks on Steel ultimately did not sink the Republican. Steel in November defeated Chen by 5 points in California's 45th Congressional District, which is home to nearly 150,000 Asian-American voters and which President Joe Biden carried by 6 points just two years ago. Steel's success in a district with a large Asian-American presence, a veteran Republican operative told the Free Beacon, shows that the Republican Party's push to combat China will remain at the center of the party's electoral message for cycles to come. And if Democrats turn to groups such as the Committee of 100 to brand that message "racist," it will only bolster Republicans, the operative argued.
"The seriousness of nonprofits with ties to China involving themselves in our elections cannot be understated," the operative said. "If Democrats want to lean in on their support, it will actually help Republicans."
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