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    Blinken in Multiverse of Biden Madness, China Edition

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a long-awaited speech Thursday on Biden administration policies regarding China at George Washington University. The speech noted several realities about Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party: The most serious long-term challenge confronting the United States is China. China and Russia are openly cooperating in various areas, including military activities….
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    Proposed Amendment to ‘China Bill’ Would Wrongly Reward Unprofitable Investments

    If someone can’t manage his or her own financial affairs, it’s a good bet they’d manage other people’s finances badly, too. Given that the federal government has racked up an enormous $30 trillion of debt—$6 trillion in just the past two years—nobody should trust that federal legislators know the first thing about sound investing. Case…
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    ‘Dissident’ in America Actually a Spy for China, Prosecutors Allege

    The Justice Department has charged a human rights activist in Queens with spying on Chinese dissidents. Authorities charged Wang Shujun, 73, of Queens, New York, with “conspiracy and other charges related to an espionage and transnational repression scheme,” the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Prosecutors also charged four persons they said were Wang’s China-based Ministry of State…
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    In Doing Business With China, American Companies Subsidize Tyranny

    At the White House press briefing last Dec. 6, press secretary Jen Psaki made it clear that President Joe Biden wanted the People’s Republic of China to pay a price for its human rights abuses. He would do so by declining to send any U.S. government officials to the Beijing Winter Olympics, which would be…
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    China’s Ongoing Persecution of Christians and the Case of Pastor Wang Yi

    The political landscape in the U.S. has shifted since 2018, yet Pastor Wang Yi still languishes in a Chinese prison. He’s a fitting symbol of the many persecuted by Communist China for their religious faith. Yet few outside China know his name. Wang, founder of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, was arrested in…
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    Unleashing Its Market Is Way America Beats China

    It’s not clear where things are headed in Congress on the so-called China bill, otherwise known as the America COMPETES Act.  The House and Senate have each passed their own versions and appointed more than 60 congressmen and senators to work out a compromise. Where they come out ultimately is anyone’s guess. Both bills have…
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    In China, Public Health Takes Back Seat to Politics

    The draconian nature of Shanghai’s lockdown over the past couple weeks has shocked observers worldwide and traumatized the city’s 26 million residents, most of whom remain forcibly confined to their homes. Many are hungry and unable to acquire basic food staples. Some with chronic conditions are unable to obtain critical treatment, and some have died…
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    Biden Reportedly Did Favor for Son Hunter’s Chinese Business Partner

    Emails from a laptop owned by Hunter Biden reportedly reveal that President Joe Biden wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of one of Hunter Biden’s business partners. Joe Biden, then vice president, sent the letter of recommendation for Christopher Li, son of BHR CEO Jonathan Li, directly to Brown University President Christina Paxson…
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    Rubio: What America Does About China Will Define 21st Century

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the book on the history of the 21st century will be about the United States and China—and it will have one of two endings.  “It’s either going to be a story of how a rising authoritarian power replaced a free society as the world’s most powerful country and as a…
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    China’s Legislative Session Focuses on Stability, Bolsters Xi’s Position Ahead of Major CCP Gathering

    China’s annual session of the National People’s Congress—a “rubber-stamp” parliament whose outcomes are predetermined by Chinese Communist Party officials—concluded on March 11. The overriding message of the session was simple: Make sure nothing gets in the way of President Xi Jinping’s bid for a third term in power. The purpose of the session was to…
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    In a Period of Brute Force, China Increases Its Military Budget Yet Again

    The Chinese Communist Party announced this week it will increase the budget for the People’s Liberation Army by 7.1%. The announcement occurred at the opening session of the National People’s Congress—the annual rubber-stamp parliament. Thus, it is just a matter of time before the extra resources start following to the People’s Liberation Army. This increase…
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    ‘Red-Handed’ Author Peter Schweizer Reveals How China Captured America’s Elites

    America’s elites are selling out their country to the Chinese Communist Party. Politicians, athletes, filmmakers, and others from the highest echelons of American society have apparently decided it is more profitable to kowtow to Beijing than it is to support their own country. So says Peter Schweizer, author of the new book “Red-Handed: How American…
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    Sen. Tom Cotton Wary of Chinese Spying on, DNA Tracking of American Olympians

    Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., says he is worried that some U.S. athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics could be exposed to long-term surveillance by China’s communist regime. “Our FBI had to recommend that our athletes take burner phones and devices,” Cotton said Tuesday in an interview with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts on the latter’s…
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    Hollywood’s Shameful Love Affair With China

    Throughout our ongoing struggles with China, one key battle appears to have already been won by our adversary: the battle for arts and entertainment. Boasting a population of over 1.4 billion people, many of whom have the financial means to pay for and consume a wide variety of forms of entertainment, their market share for…
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    ‘Bald-Faced Hypocrisy’: Corporate America Grovels to China

    Companies tell us they support justice. “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything,” says former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick in a Nike ad. “Speak for the people who may not be able to be heard,” says the NBA. “Corporate PR hogwash,” says journalist Melissa Chen in my new video. “Hogwash,” she says, because…
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    ‘Unsilenced’: New Film Lifts Curtain on Horrors Committed by Chinese Communist Party

    Just over 20 years ago, the Chinese Communist Party began persecuting those in China who followed the spiritual practice of Falun Gong.  Today, Uyghur Muslims face imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Chinese government. Tomorrow, more innocent lives will fall victim to suffering at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party if Beijing’s…
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    How China Spies on Nations Throughout Western Hemisphere

    A federal court in Virginia recently granted Microsoft the authority to seize websites used by a Chinese state-linked hacking group. Known as Nickel, the group has successfully committed cyberattacks in up to 29 countries, including the United States,and 16 Latin American and Caribbean nations. Microsoft has tracked ongoing Nickel operations since 2016, but analysts cite roughly…
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    Sen. Ron Johnson Asks ‘Full Accounting’ of Biden Family’s Chinese Business Deals

    Americans need a “full accounting of Biden Inc.’s financial entanglements” with China, said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., who helped lead an earlier probe into the international business deals of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.  A newly published book, “Red Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win” by Peter Schweizer, asserts that five…
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    ‘This Is Bigger Than Sports’: As Olympics Near, NBA Star, Lawmaker Speak Out Against China

    As the world awaits the start of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Friday, a Texas congressman and pro-democracy activist Boston Celtics basketball star Enes Kanter Freedom are speaking out on China’s human rights abuses.  Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the U.S. has to ensure its athletes’ safety and send China a stronger message….
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    There Is No Salvaging Congress’ Current Effort to Compete With China

    The House of Representatives is considering the America COMPETES Act, a 3,000-page House response to the Senate’s United States Innovation and Competition Act. The $318 billion bill’s ostensible purpose is to address the wide-ranging challenge that China poses to America’s homeland, economy, global interests, and values. The bill does everything imaginable but make America more…
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