Curiously, the disease first showed up near China’s leading bioresearch lab which is located in Wuhan, followed [...]]]>
Curiously, the disease first showed up near China’s leading bioresearch lab which is located in Wuhan, followed quickly by directions from President Xi to increase biosecurity at similar facilities.
Red China hasn’t really changed that much from the bad old Mao days.
So it’s nice to see Senator Tom Cotton being a stand-up leader, calling on America “to re-evaluate our relationship with China” because of its irresponsibility in reporting the illness and then trying to blame the coronavirus on the United States.
Plus, he’s calling for “consequences” — like bringing home the manufacturing of America’s pharmaceuticals which the Beijing communists have threatened to withhold from us.
The senator appeared recently with Jesse Watters on Fox News.
]]>JESSE WATTERS: Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton — so senator, you said something very interesting the other day on Twitter, you said that China will pay a price for coronavirus. What did you mean by that?
SENATOR TOM COTTON: Jesse, thanks for having me on, and thanks for those very sensible words about what all Americans should do — remain vigilant, and take prudent precautions in their daily lives while we’re working in the government trying to get this crisis under control.
In the long term though, we have to re-evaluate our relationship with China. If China had been transparent with its own people in the world from the very beginning in early December, we might not have seen this virus spread so widely and so quickly all around the world.
There have to be consequences for that. For instance, China now makes much of our basic pharmaceutical products. That has to change, and it has to change fast. There going to be other consequences as we look ahead towards our relationship in China in the long term as well.
WATTERS: Yeah, China actually threatened to withhold some pharmaceutical ingredients and they said it would plunge America into a “mighty sea of coronavirus.” When you hear that type of talk from people in China, how does that make you feel as a US senator?
COTTON: Well it makes me outraged at the Chinese Communist Party that they are threatening the lives of the American people by withholding basic pharmaceutical products like antibiotics. It also makes me a little angry at our leadership classes over the last 30 years that stood by while we outsourced so many of these critical industries to China.
But that’s water under the bridge: we can look ahead, and we can make a change. We can say that if you’re making these kind of critical products — whether it’s pharmaceuticals or medical devices in China — it’s time to pack up and get out. And if you don’t do it on your terms, then you will do it on our terms.
WATTERS: I would agree with that wholeheartedly. we also have something coming out from the foreign ministry of China, you know they’re saying that “It might be the US Army that put the virus in China.”
They’re not taking responsibility for it originating in the Wuhan province. You know that just looks like propaganda to me, but obviously everybody in the world knows where it started from, and we know the truth.
We’re now seeing people on MSNBC, one guy said it’s it’s gross to call it the Wuhan virus — I don’t even know what that means. His colleagues in the mainstream media all throughout January were calling it the Wuhan virus. Let’s roll some of that tape:
(Various talking heads chatter about the “Wuhan virus” and the “Wuhan coronavirus”)
WATTERS: So now do you think that the message has gotten out maybe from the Chinese government to the American media, say hey let’s not call it that, and the American media are just kind of following orders from the Chinese Communists?
COTTON: Yeah Jesse, anyone who complains that it’s racist or xenophobic to call this virus the “Chinese coronavirus” or the “Wuhan virus” is a politically correct fool, and they ought not to be listened to about anything especially when it comes to how to stop the spread of this virus.
In fact, as you say, the Chinese Communist Party right now is trying to blame this on America. In their Chinese language media at this very moment they are telling their own people this did not come from Wuhan: it came from outside of China, perhaps the United States.
That’s why it’s so important that we not let it let them get away with that kind of propaganda, and we put the fault exactly where it lies which is on the communist leaders in Beijing.
WATTERS: Yeah well we want to work with the Chinese to make sure everybody’s healthy but at the same time we have to tell the truth. Senator, thank you very much.
Tuesday’s opening added details to that story, but more importantly, he explained the many ways that influential Americans have been bought off by the Chinese communists to serve their nefarious ends. It’s both shameful and dangerous.
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Tuesday’s opening added details to that story, but more importantly, he explained the many ways that influential Americans have been bought off by the Chinese communists to serve their nefarious ends. It’s both shameful and dangerous.
The detailed report deserves your careful attention because the threat will be with us for a long time and needs to be understood in its complexity, in particular how thoroughly the Chinese have infiltrated our institutions.
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]]>TUCKER CARLSON: There are serious long-term problems facing America, as we’ve told you about for years on this show. Thanks to outsourcing, this country no longer has the same reserve of stable middle-class manufacturing jobs we did even 30 years ago.
In coastal cities, housing has become astronomically expensive. Prices are rising far quicker than wage growth. And most tragically, an opioid epidemic kills tens of thousands of Americans every year. One of the chief reasons for that is a synthetic opiate called fentanyl that is smuggled in from abroad.
Now, these might seem like unrelated problems, but they’re not. A single theme unites them — a systematic decision by many of our country’s most powerful leaders to sell out America to China.
Those jobs that were outsourced, they went to China. Those rising home prices, all-cash Chinese buyers are a major contributor to that, though it’s almost never said out loud. Fentanyl — made in China with the knowledge and tacit approval of the Chinese Communist Party.
China is no longer simply an economic rival of the United States; it’s becoming a dangerous enemy. But instead of protecting us from this threat, an existential one, our leadership class collaborates with the other side.
Why do they do that? Simple. They’re getting rich from it. This only became clear to many people a few months ago when the most American of all sports, professional basketball — a game literally invented in a gym in Springfield, Mass. — ripped off the mask and showed the world who really controls the league.
NBA general manager, Daryl Morey, you’ll remember, wrote a tweet supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, and in the resulting backlash, the NBA and Morey both apologized for daring to criticize China’s fascist regime. And then LeBron James weighed in and explained to us that, actually, freedom of speech in America is vastly overrated.
LeBRON JAMES: So many people could have been harmed, not only financially. but physically, emotionally, spiritually.
So just be careful what we tweet and we say, and what we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech. But there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.
CARLSON: Yeah. Just be careful with what you tweet or say because the Chinese are watching, and they pay the bills.
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, meanwhile, explained that there’s really no moral difference between America and communist China.
COACH STEVE KERR: It has not come up in terms of people asking me about it, people discussing it. No. Nor has our record of human rights abuses come up, either.
People in China didn’t ask me about, you know, people owning AR-15s and mowing each other down in a mall.
CARLSON: Yeah, so America has school shootings. China is on its third or fourth genocide since World War II. You know: Tomato, To-mah-to. Six dozen to one. Whatever.
Yeah, saying something like that out loud should be shocking, but it’s not really. It’s a taste of just how completely the people in charge identify with China over this country.
In some cases, they’ve literally joined China’s payroll. Former Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, for example is a registered foreign agent who lobbies for the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation. That’s a Chinese organization with ties to the Communist Party. A former senator.
Former Senator Joe Lieberman works for another Chinese company, ZTE. What’s ZTE? Well, ZTE is so dangerous to American interests that last August, the President signed a bill banning the federal government from using that company’s equipment because it’s too threatening. But Lieberman’s lobbying for them.
Former Congressman Rick Boucher, meanwhile, has lobbied for a whole list of Chinese companies, including Hikvision, Huawei and the search engine, Baidu. But China isn’t content buying off our retired lawmakers. They’re also targeting people who have jobs that matter right now.
On Monday night, we told you about a man called Yu Meng. He is the chief investment officer at California’s massive state-run pension fund called CalPERS. Meng, who was born in China and moved here at the age of 25, previously ran China’s $3 trillion portfolio of foreign investments.
CalPERS has long engaged in shareholder activism to advance leftwing causes in this country, like gun control, and have been very aggressive about it. But now the fund also supports China’s efforts to eclipse America.
CalPERS invests in companies that supply the Chinese military, literally. They’re also invested in Hikvision, which makes the surveillance equipment that China uses to monitor ethnic minorities like the Uyghurs. So they’re actively abetting fascism.
There’s nothing harmless about these investments. As Yu Meng himself once noted, “Of course, it empowers the Chinese regime to have the money flowing in.” Of course, it does, but they did it anyway.
When Meng worked for a Chinese investment fund, he was recruited by the Thousand Talents Initiative — that’s a Chinese program designed to encourage foreign businessmen, scientists and other experts to work on China’s behalf, often secretly. The explicit goal is to obtain Western technology and research for China’s own use so they can surpass us, which they are.
Last month, Harvard chemistry professor, Charles Lieber, the head of the department, was arrested for hiding his work on behalf of China. In effect, Lieber was working as a spy. But his case isn’t special. The entire sleazy academic world — and it’s one of the sleaziest — is addicted to Chinese money.
Harvard and Yale both stand accused of hiding hundreds of millions in donations from payments from foreign countries. Needless to say, China is one of the top contributors. Recently, the Texas A&M University system tried to gauge how many of its faculty were getting Chinese money. More than a hundred of them had been recruited, it turns out, but only five had reported their work for a hostile foreign government. How many were indicted? Your guess? Oh, yeah — zero.
Now Chinese officials aren’t paying these academics because they love scholarship. No. America’s universities are key centers of scientific research and technical innovation. China would like to steal that information, and they are.
As of now, the FBI is investigating more than 1,000 cases in which they believe China has stolen research from American firms. If anything, our top colleges and universities are encouraging this to happen. And you can see it by the way they recruit.
Chinese grad students fill our research labs. This makes college administrators much richer, but it also allows the Chinese government easy access to critical information, some of it that directly bears on our national security.
American academics have made it clear whose side they’re on. Last November, officials at the University of Missouri-Kansas City removed an artistic display supporting protesters in Hong Kong because Chinese students complained. According to The New Republic, Columbia University’s global center in Beijing canceled talks because they might upset Chinese officials. They’re squelching free speech at the direction of Communist China.
And that’s common in the business world. Disney changed its Tibetan character in one of its movies into a European woman because acknowledging Tibet’s existence would anger their masters in China. They should be ashamed.
GAP apologized for selling a t-shirt in Canada that didn’t feature Taiwan as part of China. (By the way, it’s not part of China. But China demanded that GAP pretend that it is, and they complied.)
We could go on. There are endless examples of this kind of thing. It’s happening all around us.
So how about Michael Bloomberg? He’s running for president. Maybe more than anyone in America, Bloomberg represents the beliefs and values of our current aristocracy, which is by far the worst in American history — the stupidest and the most greedy.
Not surprisingly, Bloomberg has both kowtowed to the Chinese and gotten rich from the Chinese. He’s not embarrassed by it.
In 2014 Bloomberg once explained that actually, China’s unelected leader isn’t really a dictator.
CANDIDATE MICHAEL BLOOMBERG: The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public. When the public says I can’t breathe the air — Xi Jinping is not a dictator — he has to satisfy his constituents, so he’s not going to survive.
HOST OF PBS’ FIRING LINE MARGARET HOOVER: He is not a dictator?
BLOOMBERG: No, he has — he has a constituency to answer to.
CARLSON: So the Chinese dictator is not a dictator. It makes you wonder how Michael Bloomberg would govern as president or maybe it explains how he’d govern as president.
But Bloomberg’s personal admiration for the bloodthirsty fossil in charge of the world’s largest communist country isn’t the only reason he likes China. There’s big money at stake, of course — that’s always what it’s about.
Bloomberg’s company has enormous investments in the country and that has influenced how Bloomberg News reports on China. In 2013, for example, Bloomberg News was accused of killing stories that would have revealed corruption by family members of the Chinese dictator — and yes, he is a dictator.
Ben Richardson, Bloomberg Asia editor, later said he’d been told directly by leaders at his company that covering the Chinese Politburo was off-limits. That’s like telling a Washington bureau chief you can’t cover Congress because you might insult them. That’s Michael Bloomberg’s position.
Just on Tuesday, former Bloomberg reporter Leta Hong Fincher wrote in “The Intercept,” about how Bloomberg’s lawyers threatened to destroy her life if she wouldn’t sign a nondisclosure agreement about the company’s censorship practices. But don’t take their word for it.
A few years ago, Bloomberg openly admitted that he let China censor his company’s news. He actually said that on television. Here it is:
CNBC SQUAWK BOX CO-ANCHOR ANDREW ROSS SORKIN: Over the past year, there’s been questions about the journalism going on in China and whether the company in its effort to grow has muzzled.
BLOOMBERG: In China, they have rules about what you can publish. We follow those rules. If you don’t follow rules, you’re out of the country.
We write the stories that we think are interesting, and we distribute them where they are allowed to be distributed.
CARLSON: “Where they’re allowed to be distributed.”
The scariest part is that as China has grown more powerful, America has grown more dependent on it. Outsourcing our manufacturing power brought American companies big short-term profits. Head to Florida, and you’ll see the houses they’ve built with those profits. But in the long run, that decision made this country dangerously dependent on a nation that seeks to displace us on the world stage.
Consider just one small sector of the American economy, medical supplies. China is now a top producer of antibiotics, surgical tools, prescription drug ingredients, facemasks, and many more essential products that you need to stay alive. Eighty percent of our antibiotics right now come from China. Hard to believe, but true.
The coronavirus panic alone was enough to cause shortages of some of these materials. What will happen if an even bigger crisis comes along, as it inevitably will? Or what if China simply cuts off exports as a show of force?
That could happen. Maybe they invade Taiwan and then cut off exports. How do we respond? We’d be helpless.
The saddest and most infuriating part is that none of this needed to happen in the first place. China didn’t just one day magically overtake us. Our leaders made that possible. They abetted it. They profited from it. They betrayed us.
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The current controversy started with a tweet from Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey supporting the struggle of Hong Kong to maintain its freedom under the “one country, two systems” agreement to autonomy guaranteed by Beijing in 1997. But Hong Kong is showing a resistance to authoritarian government that scares Beijing.
Below, the message tweeted by Morey, now deleted as being unacceptable to Red China.
Basketball is an American creation, invented in Springfield Massachusetts, but the NBA has adopted ChiCom values of human repression and blocking free speech. The Chinese people like basketball, and NBA teams tour there, making big money. The population of over a billion makes NBA eyes open wide at massive profits to be made, and dumping American principles of free speech seems an acceptable cost to the sports CEOs.
Tucker focused on the NBA and LeBron in his show opener, but he also discussed the increased control the ChiComs have over what we Americans see in our own media, such as movies from Hollywood.
Red China is a real threat to American freedom of speech in the globalized economy, we are late in learning.
Washington should quit immigrating the unfriendlies also. The communist Chinese are famous for stealing American technology and there’s no reason to continue making it easy for them.
]]>TUCKER CARLSON: Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson Tonight. Thirty years goes pretty fast. Thirty years ago, it was the fall of 1989, believe it or not — it seems like yesterday.
And at the time, if you can remember that far back, America seemed unbeatable. Our chief rival, the Soviet Union, had just collapsed. Our economy and military strength dwarfed those of every nation on the planet. America in 1989 was the uncontested leader of the world free and otherwise.
But just three decades later, that advantage has evaporated completely. Instead of expanding and solidifying our power, we’ve wasted it. And as a result, we’re now in the race of our lives against a country that in 1989 was so poor that many of its people could not afford meat or electricity — China. And at this rate, China will beat us.
So the question is, how did America fall so far so fast? And the answer is simple, bad leadership. The people who benefited the most from this country cared about it the least. They were also the quickest to sell it out to foreign powers for profit.
That’s obvious now, thanks to people like LeBron James. James, of course, is one of the most famous athletes in history, but he started off at the very bottom. He was born to an impoverished 16-year-old mother in Akron, Ohio. He never went to college.
And yet, thanks to hard work and remarkable skill, James’s endorsement income alone now exceeds $15 million a year.
If there’s anyone whose life is a tribute to America, to its decency, to its endless opportunity, it’s LeBron James.
In return, he showers America with contempt. Just yesterday, James was asked to comment on the NBA executive who issued a one-line statement in supportive democracy in Hong Kong. Here’s how LeBron James responded:
LEBRON JAMES: I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl — with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand. And he spoke, and so many people could have been harmed, not only financially but physically, emotionally, spiritually.
So just be careful what we tweet and what we say, and what we do, even though yes, we do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.
CARLSON: So freedom of speech is just fine says LeBron James, as long as you don’t do anything crazy with it, like I don’t know, obliquely bleakly criticize the Chinese Communist Party. No, that’s out of bounds. It might harm people spiritually.
It also might potentially make LeBron James slightly less rich. And of course, that’s the real problem with it. Think we’re being unfair? Think that’s an unfair interpretation of what you just saw?
Well, according to ESPN, LeBron James has been adamant in his defense of Chinese fascism. Even off camera, watch this.
DAVE MCMENAMIN, ESPN SENIOR WRITER: Adam Silver got up and addressed the players and LeBron James is one of the players who got up and spoke and said, hey, what are we doing here? Daryl Morey made these statements? You know, damn well, if a player made the same similar statements and cause such war ramifications for the league, there’d be some sort of league recourse, there would be repercussions that the player has to pay.
You know, potentially, this tweet could cost the NBA hundreds of millions of dollars, which could come out of the players’ pockets. And so that’s the double standard that was being addressed in that meeting.
CARLSON: In other words, any American who questions China ought to be punished. That’s LeBron James’s view. That’s what he’s demanding, in fact.
The Chinese Politburo must not be criticized, and yet there’s a very different standard that James holds for his own country and his own President. Watch this:
JAMES: That he has kind of used sport to kind of divide us. I would never sit across from him.
CNN ANCHOR DON LEMON: You would never — you won’t talk to him?
JAMES: No. I’d sit across from Barack though.
CARLSON: Yes, that’s the American president he is talking to. Well, if you read James’s Twitter feed, you won’t be surprised to learn any of this quote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” he tweeted once. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Okay, well, obviously, things that matter does not include throwing Muslims in concentration camps in China or the oppression of more than a billion people in China.
So what does matter to LeBron James and his friends in our ruling class?
Well, the first thing they care about is popularity and that’s what they’re delighted to weigh in politically, when it’s fashionable in West Los Angeles bashing the administration or protesting the National Anthem or re-tweeting and supportive transgender rights or whatever.
Their friends call them brave when they do this, which is one of the indications it’s not bravery, it’s conformity, which is the opposite usually.
The other thing that James and the rest care about, of course, is money. When you criticize Beijing, it might cost you money. Here’s a perfect example.
LeBron James is both starring in and producing an upcoming film called “Space Jam 2.” The movie is expected to do big business in China, if it’s released there. And James can’t risk that.
The rest of Hollywood made the same decision many years ago. We used to see occasionally movies that criticize the dictatorship of China or took the side of Tibet. Remember Richard Gere, whatever happened to him? But not anymore. In fact, that’s unimaginable.
You can’t imagine a major Hollywood picture taking the side of Tibet or Hong Kong, or the Dalai Lama or human rights in China, the world’s largest country. No. Instead, studios now grovel for Chinese funding. And if China appears in films at all, it’s always in a positive portrayal.
Meanwhile, Russia, which is a completely an irrelevant country, most of the time is subverting our democracy. That’s what they tell us. This is what corruption looks like.
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National security reporter Bill Gertz has been investigating the threat posed by Red China for years. In 2000 he wrote the book “The China Threat: How the People’s Republic Targets America.”
He was also involved in the Chi Mak espionage case (covered here starting in 2007) where Gertz went to court to protect his government source who leaked information to him about the Chinese spy who stole US defense technology.
On Friday, Gertz appeared on the Tucker Carlson show to discuss his new book, Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.
It was a short interview for such an important topic. If it had been longer, the two might have discussed how foolish it is for America to continue welcoming Chinese college students to study technology at our top institutions which are dangerously naive toward unfriendly foreigners.
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]]>TUCKER CARLSON: China is a rising superpower; it plans to displace the United States as the world’s strongest country.
Bill Gertz is a senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon who’s author of the new book Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.
He joins us now for his first TV interview about that book. Bill, great to see you tonight. We’ve done a bunch of segments on China but you’ve dived so deeply into this, give us the overview: where would you say China is right now in its effort to overtake the United States?
BILL GERTZ: Just the other night you had a segment quoting the Democratic presidential candidates as saying climate change is an existential threat — that’s not true. The real existential threat is Communist China, and it’s going to take all of America’s will, policy, focus and effort to mitigate that threat. We are in real trouble. China is on the march.
Xi Jinping has shifted the old policy of Deng Xiaoping, which was “bide our time, build our capabilities.” They are now out front. He has something called the China Dream, which is really a Chinese communist nightmare, and they are on the move. They are doing this Belt and Road Initiative, which is a cover for military and economic expansionism around the world.
CARLSON: The assumption has been I think among American politicians and business leaders that we can just co-exist, and sure they’re getting more powerful, but we’re fine and we can both kind of run the world together. You think that’s true?
GERTZ: Absolutely false. Yeah, you know the whole policy of engagement has been basically a 40-year gamble that if we just trade and engage China that this will turn it into a benign free-market open system. Well, it’s it’s utterly failed, going back to the Clinton administration, for example, they had this idea that we should engage on nuclear cooperation, on space cooperation. What happened?
They ended up stealing nuclear secrets on every deployed US warhead. That technology was then spread to Pakistan, North Korea and other places. We helped their missiles, and now their missiles are aimed at our cities. They have an array of long-range and short-range and intermediate-range missiles. This is a real problem.
CARLSON: So, Bill, I wish we had more time for this, and I hope you will come back. Quickly, if you’re China, you look at Trump — he’s the first American president ever really to call your bluff and challenge you — aren’t you gonna do everything you can to tank the US economy before the election so that he won’t be reelected?
GERTZ: Absolutely, they’re definitely going to try that. They’re already working in the farm states, they’re working against the whiskey industry in the United States to undermine Trump. They want a different president — that’s what Vice President Pence said last fall.
CARLSON: Yeah, you just know that that’s true. Bill Gertz, congratulations on the book. I hope it’s read by millions.