Schweizer said, “Biden’s lawyer claims that his client did resign, and has produced a document from Hunter’s China-based company saying as much. Maybe. But Hunter’s attorney did not address the more important problem – the fact that Hunter still owns a piece of the Chinese company, called BHR.”
“[BHR] is an investment vehicle, financed by the government of China, which has conducted at least two-point-five billion dollars worth of deals,” added Schweizer, “and Hunter Biden has a ten percent equity piece of that.”
EXCLUSIVE: 13K Chinese Migrants Apprehended on U.S.-Mexico Border Since October
Since the beginning of Fiscal Year 23 on October 1, 2022, Border Patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border apprehended nearly 13,000 Chinese migrants. The number represents a more than 1,000 percent increase in migrants from the communist regime when compared to the previous year’s totals.
Nearly 13,000 migrants from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been apprehended along the U.S. Southwest border with Mexico this fiscal year, according to a CBP source not authorized to speak to the media. Approximately 84 percent of the migrants from the PRC are single adults. After processing by the Border Patrol, most are released to pursue asylum claims in the United States.
The source says the agency is baffled by the increase as intelligence debriefings yield little information about the migrants and their purpose for entering. The language barrier is proving to be a challenge according to the source.
“Having to use third-party translation services, Border Patrol agents and intelligence officers who are already struggling to cope with thousands of migrant apprehensions daily, are getting limited intelligence information from the migrants,” the source told Breitbart Texas.
Breitbart Texas also spoke with Dr. Kenneth Allard, a retired Army Colonel and former Dean of Students at the National War College. As an author of several works including Warheads: Cable News and the Fog of War, a former intelligence officer, and special assistant to the Army Chief of Staff, Allard is also concerned with the lack of intelligence regarding the spike in migrant apprehension of citizens from the People’s Republic of China.
Allard says the fact may be that most of the migrants from the PRC are in fact dissidents fleeing poor conditions in China. But as an expert on totalitarian regimes, he believes the current administration lacks the willpower to properly investigate the phenomenon.
“Totalitarian governments like China are great exploiters of opportunity,” Dr. Allard told Breitbart. “They recognize weakness and capitalize on it immediately. What we are seeing reflects a deliberate policy choice by the regime.”
When asked about the potential for China to take advantage of the current crisis along the southern border, Allard says the regime most certainly recognizes the weakness President Biden has exhibited on the international stage, adding “its obvious he is not entirely in control at present, China realizes that as well.”
What little information that is retrieved from the migrants would indicate most are fleeing the repressive regime due to the aftereffects of the extreme COVID-19 lockdowns imposed by Xi Jinping’s government. Another reason cited by the migrants is the negative economic effects of China’s strict COVID-19 policies regarding the exportation and importation of goods.
Texas DPS troopers encounter a group of 20 Chinese migrants near Roma. (Texas Department of Public Safety)
Lacking definitive answers, some have speculated the opening of China’s ports after the COVID-19 lockdowns ended is a predominant factor in the exodus of Chinese nationals. An analysis of the timeline of significant world events, however, does not altogether align with the theory. It may be true that most of the migrants who form part of the increased number arriving at the border are in fact dissidents who are weary of the Chinese system of government, the PRC’s dismal record on human rights, or the harsh controls on the use of the internet and social media inside the regime, but with worsening relations between the United States and the government of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the exponential increase in arriving migrants from China should not be ignored.
China opened its ports and loosened travel restrictions for tourists in January 2023 after a three-year closure. That move was more than eight months after the first notable doubling of Chinese migrant arrivals along the southwest border. In April 2022, migrant apprehensions for nationals of the People’s Republic of China rose by nearly 100% from 74 apprehensions in March to 146. The number has continued to double almost every three months until reaching more than 1,000 apprehensions at the time of the re-opening of Chinese ports in January.
Despite the re-opening of its ports, China, through the Ministry of Public Security and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, still exerts strict exit and entry controls that apply to all travelers including its own citizens.
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents prepare to load a group of Chinese migrants onto a bus for processing. (U.S. Border Patrol/Rio Grande Valley Sector)
When further analyzing the timeline of significant events in relation to the notable increase in migrant flow from the PRC to the United States, several newsworthy occurrences were closer to the start of the increase than China’s border opening.
In February 2022, the Department of Justice announced the abandonment of the Trump-era China Initiative. Developed as a counter to Chinese national security threats, FBI Director Christopher Wray issued the following statement concerning the implementation of the initiative, “No country presents a broader, more severe threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China.”
The agreement faced criticism of anti-Asian bias and, when announcing the departure from the initiative, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the DOJ’s National Security Division stated:
To be clear, we are focused on the actions of the PRC government, the Chinese Communist Party, and their agents — not the Chinese people or those of Chinese descent. As we talk about the threats that the PRC government poses to the United States, we must never lose sight of that fundamental distinction. We must always be vigilant to ensure that no one is treated differently based on race, ethnicity, familial ties, or national origin. This is a foundational commitment of the Department of Justice.
In the announcement, Olsen pledged to maintain a vigilant watch over actions carried out on behalf of the PRC that could negatively impact national security. Within two months, the initial doubling of migrant apprehensions from the PRC appeared at the southwest border.
In August 2022, a visit to Taiwan by then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sparked outrage and swift condemnation from Beijing. The visit was viewed as an escalation towards China due to Pelosi’s high rank within the US Government. Soon afterward, China announced it would halt cooperation with the United States regarding anti-narcotics, climate change, and a host of other issues. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a chilling warning in response to the visit stating, “These moves, like playing with fire, are extremely dangerous. Those who play with fire will perish by it.”
Within a month of the visit, migrant apprehensions along the southwest border had risen by nearly 432% from 74 apprehensions in the March 2022 baseline to 392 in September.
Border Patrol agents apprehended a large group of mostly Chinese migrants. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
By January 2023, when China opened its ports of entry after three years of COVID-19 closure, the Border Patrol’s migrant apprehensions of Chinese nationals had risen to 1,076 — an increase of more than 1,300 percent over the baseline of 74 in March 2022.
The January apprehension numbers would soon double once again, coinciding with the Chinese Spy Balloon incident that occurred in late January and concluded on February 4, 2023, when the Pentagon destroyed the craft over water off the coast of South Carolina. Again, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs was quick to condemn the United States for its actions regarding the incident.
“China strongly disapproves of and protests the US attack on a civilian unmanned airship by force,” officials stated. “The Chinese side has, after verification, repeatedly informed the (U.S.) side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the (U.S.) due to force majeure was totally unexpected.”
One news report alleges the balloon was able to gather sensitive military intelligence as it traversed the country. The report cited three unnamed U.S. government officials who alleged the balloon was able to fly controlled patterns as it gathered electronic signals.
By March, less than 60 days after the incident, a spike in migrant arrivals from the PRC occurred jumping from 1,076 in January to 2,265 — an increase of more than 100 percent.
By April, an additional increase of 41 percent in PRC migrant apprehensions along the Southwest border brought the total monthly apprehensions to 3,195, according to Customs and Border Protection reports.
The travel route for most Chinese migrants is costly and arduous, according to the CBP source. The journey to the United States in most cases involves traveling from Hong Kong to Turkey and on to Ecuador. Ecuador is a common point along the route as Chinese nationals are not required to possess a visa to enter the Latin American country.
The migrants, according to the source, move through Panama’s Darien Gap before traversing through Central America, into Mexico, and on to the United States’ southern border. As reported by Breitbart Texas, the smuggling fees have been revealed to be as high as $55,000 to reach the U.S./Mexico Border from the People’s Republic of China.
Randy Clark is a 32-year veteran of the United States Border Patrol. Prior to his retirement, he served as the Division Chief for Law Enforcement Operations, directing operations for nine Border Patrol Stations within the Del Rio, Texas, Sector. Follow him on Twitter @RandyClarkBBTX.
HAVE YOU YET NOTICED JOE IS ALWAYS ON THE OTHER SIDE???
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Biden Admin Won't Enforce Its Own Ban on Chips Made in China: Report
The Biden administration is backing down from its stated goal of curtailing the expansion of semiconductor manufacturing in China.
Chip manufacturers from South Korea and Taiwan, two of America’s most important allies in the region, will not be sanctioned for investing billions of dollars in building new semiconductor plants and expanding existing ones in China, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
Initially, the Biden administration had provided a one-year exemption to its policy restricting Asian firms from investing in China. Following pressure from manufacturers, however, the administration plans to extend that exemption for another year, according to remarks by under secretary of commerce for industry and security Alan Estevez.
Security experts have argued that the expansion of semiconductor manufacturing in China undercuts American national security interests, allowing the Chinese to develop advanced weapons systems. South Korea and Taiwan are largely reliant on the United States for security, though they also have substantial economic ties to China.
America has leverage over Taiwanese and South Korean manufacturers, as their operations rely on goods produced by American firms. Pressure from business interests, as well as European and Asian governments, however, appears to have caused the Biden administration to retreat in its efforts to limit Chinese access to semiconductor technology and manufacturing capacity.
Derek Scissors, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, told WSJ that allowing a small number of companies to do as they please makes it difficult for the Biden administration to prevent China from growing its semiconductor industry. Scissors went on to say the United States looks "very weak" as a result of its inability to exert influence.
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PARASITE GAMER LAWYER OR JUST A TRAITOR WHO SHOULD BE TRIED AND EXECUTED?
Instead, the Biden family name has really stood for only two things: buffoonery and corruption. For fifty years, Joe Biden has managed to hold onto some slice of power in D.C. as a senator, vice president, and Oval Office stooge not because he is renowned for his erudition or virtue but rather because his doltish behavior and venal character make him ideal for others to control. Perhaps no other Washington relic has accomplished so little for the American people over such a prolonged government career or managed to harness those defects for lucrative advancement more successfully than China Joe.
Instead, the Biden family name has really stood for only two things: buffoonery and corruption. For fifty years, Joe Biden has managed to hold onto some slice of power in D.C. as a senator, vice president, and Oval Office stooge not because he is renowned for his erudition or virtue but rather because his doltish behavior and venal character make him ideal for others to control. Perhaps no other Washington relic has accomplished so little for the American people over such a prolonged government career or managed to harness those defects for lucrative advancement more successfully than China Joe.
THE BIDEN KLEPTOCRACY
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
American people deserve to know what China was up to with Joe Biden, especially when Beijing had already shelled out millions of dollars to Biden family members — including millions in set-asides for “the big guy.” What else is on that infamous Hunter Biden laptop? The conflicted Biden Justice Department cannot be trusted to engage in any meaningful oversight on this issue. We need a special counsel now.
TOM FITTON - JUDICIAL WATCH
Marc Andreessen: AI ‘Doomers’ Are Misguided, China Is the Real Threat
In a recent essay, renowned venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has dismissed the widespread fear of artificial intelligence as a potential existential threat to humanity, instead pointing to China’s rapid AI development as the real concern.
CNBC reports that Marc Andreessen, a renowned venture capitalist, recently published a comprehensive essay in which he dispelled the widespread belief that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, which he calls a “wall of fear-mongering and doomerism,” and instead emphasized China’s explosive AI development as the real cause for concern.
A partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Andreessen is well-known for his audacious claim that “software is eating the world.” In his most recent letter, he applies this viewpoint to AI, advising creators to “stop worrying and build, build, build.”
OpenAI founder Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT (TechCrunch/Flickr)
Andreessen stated that AI isn’t sentient, despite the fact that its ability to mimic human language can understandably fool some into believing otherwise. “AI doesn’t want, it doesn’t have goals, it doesn’t want to kill you, because it’s not alive. And AI is a machine – is not going to come alive any more than your toaster will.”
Andreessen’s remarks come in response to an increasing number of tech industry leaders who have voiced their concerns regarding the potential risks posed by AI. He suggests that these leaders are motivated by financial interests, as they “stand to make more money if regulatory barriers are erected that form a cartel of government-blessed AI vendors protected from new startup and open source competition.”
The venture capitalist complains that attention is being diverted from the current harms that some algorithms can cause in real life by focusing on potential future threats posed by AI. However, Andreessen paints a more upbeat picture of AI’s potential rather than acknowledging these known risks.
AI could be “a way to make everything we care about better,” he wrote. “Anything that people do with their natural intelligence today can be done much better with AI. And we will be able to take on new challenges that have been impossible to tackle without AI, from curing all diseases to achieving interstellar travel.”
Andreessen argues that AI companies and startups should be allowed to develop AI as quickly and aggressively as they can, calling for a return to the “move fast and break things” mentality of the tech industry. He also suggests using AI itself to shield people from bias and negative effects.
Andreessen names China as the real threat due to its rapid advancement of AI and worrisome authoritarian applications. He puts forth a vigorous plan for the advancement of AI that involves major tech firms, startups, the private sector, the scientific community, and governments.
“We should drive AI into our economy and society as fast and hard as we possibly can,” Andreessen wrote, emphasizing the need to counter China’s AI influence.
Andreessen has a positive outlook, but his predictions haven’t always come true. Shortly before the industry started to decline, his company launched a $2.2 billion crypto fund. During the pandemic, one of its key investments was in the social audio startup Clubhouse, which has since been forced to lay off half of its staff.
In conclusion, Andreessen expressed his unwavering support for those working on AI, stating, “They are heroes, every one. My firm and I are thrilled to back as many of them as we can, and we will stand alongside them and their work 100%.”
Read more at CNBC here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan
Saudi Energy Minister Post-Blinken Visit: I’m ‘Ignoring’ U.S. Concerns About China Ties
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman told reporters on Sunday that he “ignore[s]” concerns about growing friendship between Riyadh and Beijing, much of it coming from the United States, because too much “opportunity” exists for growth between the two countries.
The energy minister was discussing China-Saudi ties at the Arab-China Business Conference in Riyadh on Sunday, an event the Saudi government touted as bringing together thousands of political and business elites and resulting in “$10 billion in investment agreements,” most of them involving Saudi projects. The conference follows a visit by genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping to the country in December, which culminated in the signing of deals worth nearly $30 billion, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA).
The conference occurred shortly after American Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed the Saudi city of Jeddah after meetings with high-level officials, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Prior to his arrival, Reuters described addressing the growing relationship between the Saudi government and communist China as “probably the most important element of Blinken’s visit,” but neither Washington nor Riyadh mentioned China in its statements on the visit.
Growing business and political ties between Saudi Arabia and China appear to be developing at the expense of the longstanding Saudi alliance with the United States. Under left-wing President Joe Biden, who vowed as a candidate to turn the country into an international “pariah” while running for president in 2020, America has lost significant influence with the Saudi government, prompting the Saudis to take multiple measures in the past year that damage American interests, including pushing for multiple oil production cuts within the oil cartel OPEC+ and restoring diplomatic ties with state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. Notably, the groundbreaking Iran-Saudi deal was brokered in Beijing.
The Saudi government has disregarded its role as the custodian of the holiest sites in Islam, and thus a leader in the Islamic world, in its negotiations with China. China is currently engaging in a genocide of indigenous Muslim communities in occupied East Turkistan, forcing millions into concentration camps and engaging in forced sterilization, gang rape, and slavery. Riyadh has not only failed to condemn the genocide, but actively supports it as an “anti-terrorism” operation.
Saudi Arabia warmly welcomed one of the world’s most anti-American leaders, Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, the day before it welcomed Blinken.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 5, 2023. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Saudi Arabia)
Prince Abdulaziz told reporters during the conference on Sunday that the Saudi government has no interest in “competing” with communist China.
“Oil demand in China is still growing so of course we have to capture some of that demand,” Reuters quoted the prince as saying. “Instead of competing with China, collaborate with China.”
On Western concerns regarding Saudi Arabia’s growing role in China’s diplomatic orbit – and its granting of increasing geopolitcal influence in the Middle East to the Communist Party – Prince Abdulaziz said he simply disregards them.
“I actually ignore it because … as a business person .. now you will go where opportunity comes your way,” the energy minister said, according to Reuters. “We don’t have to be facing any choice which has to do with (saying) either with us or with the others.”
The regional outlet Arab News reported the energy minister as describing parallels between the future goals of both China and Saudi Arabia, in particular the potential “synergy” between the Saudi Vision 2030 program – a holistic plan to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil and modernize its culture – and the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global debt-trap plan that claims to intend to build and renovate the world’s transportation infrastructure. China granted Saudi Arabia a role in the BRI – as a predator country offering to build prohibitively expensive projects in poor countries, not as a target nation – during Xi’s trip to the country in December.
In this photo made available by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, is greeted by Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, after his arrival at Al Yamama Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)
“We do not have to be in a place where we set ourselves in competition with China. We have to set ourselves in a place where we collaborate with China,” the outlet quoted him as saying. “There are so many things that we want to do with them (China), but equally, they want to do with us. There is a great deal of synergies between the two countries.”
The Chinese Global Times newspaper, a government publication, described several of the deals brokered at this weekend’s conference as BRI agreeements.
“The agenda includes sessions and discussions that range from investment in the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), clean energy cooperation and the oil and gas supply chain, to tourism and entertainment sectors as well as financing and investment opportunities in the capital markets,” the Global Times relayed. “Under the BRI framework, the two sides have had robust cooperation, which has boosted their development and rejuvenation, according to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah similarly touted long-term cooperation between the Islamist theocracy and the communist Asian state in his opening remarks for the business conference on Sunday.
“The conference is an opportunity to strengthen and consolidate the historical Arab-Chinese friendship, build a common future that takes us on a new era that will benefit peoples and maintain peace and development in the world,” the foreign minister said.
The SPA noted in its coverage of his speech that China is both Saudi Arabia’s largest trade partner and that of the other Arab states.
“The minister further stated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia makes up 25% of the total volume of trade exchange between China and Arab countries, which reached $106.1 billion in 2022, a 30% increase over 2021,” the SPA added.
Joe Biden Helps Expand Semiconductor Manufacturing — in China
President Joe Biden is greenlighting South Korean and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturers to continue expanding their operations in China thanks to exemptions rewarded to various companies by the administration.
Late last year, the Biden administration issued prohibitions on semiconductor chip exports to China, among other tech exports. The rules were designed to cut off exports of chips to China, which the communist country is reliant on, by United States companies and multinational corporations that use U.S. technology.
One-year exemptions, though, were given to some manufacturers — including Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor, and SK Hynix — which allowed them to continue expanding semiconductor operations throughout China.
On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Biden officials have confirmed to industry insiders that those exemptions, set to expire in a few months, will be extended so as to ensure that semiconductor manufacturers can keep growing chip production in China.
The Journal reported:
Those exemptions were set to expire in October. Estevez told a meeting of the Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group, that the exemptions would be renewed for the foreseeable future, according to the attendees. The Commerce Department declined to comment. [Emphasis added]
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The move to extend the exemptions, rather than winding them down, amounts to a recognition by U.S. authorities that efforts to isolate China from high-tech goods are more difficult than anticipated in a highly integrated global industry, according to industry executives. It also comes as some foreign businesses bristle at Washington’s expanding interference in their operations.
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The extension of rule exemptions for some multinational corporations comes as Biden, as well as his top agency officials, has made clear that his administration is not interested in decoupling from China.
“We’re not looking to decouple from China, we’re looking to de-risk and diversify our relationship with China,” Biden said last month at the G7 Summit. “That means taking steps to diversify our supply chains, and we’re not — so we’re not dependent on any one country for necessary product.”
Likewise, in April, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. decoupling from China would be “disastrous” and “destabilizing” for the world.
“As I’ve said, the United States will assert ourselves when our vital interests are at stake,” Yellen said. “But we do not seek to ‘decouple’ our economy from China’s. A full separation of our economies would be disastrous for both countries.”
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
