Trump and His Nixonian Bargain

By Rich Kozlovich

Trump's visit to China has ended and I'm shocked at seeing so little analysis on news sites about his deal making with Xi as of yet, so, let me be the first.  

If you had any doubts about what Trump's negotiating plans were for China, let me disabuse you of those doubts.  It's all about money, not security, not principles, not morality, not honesty.   It's about money, the Nixon/Kissinger failure.  Why are so many U.S. CEOs in China with Trump, and what do they want?  Market share!  Including getting involved in China's financial markets, which I find humorous since they're facing a massive real estate crisis. 

This almost sounds treasonous as Jacob Thaysen the CEO of Illumina  says, "We want to be a part of China," and have no doubt.... that's the theme among all these CEO's.  Make no mistake, Xi wanted Trump to come to China for the same reason Mao wanted Nixon to come.  His economy is a mess and he desperately needs access to the American market.  

There's much that can be gleaned from what the public is being fed by the media.  Let's start with Xi's fear of a Thucydides Trap. That's a veiled threat.  Give us what we want or else there will be war.  This clabber about China wanting to be in a co-operative relationship with America is nonsense.  They want an extortionary relationship.                

Pay attention to what they do and ignore everything they say.  Nothing about China is ever what it appears to be.  Here are my China commentaries. 

Currently China's investments in their military must be staggering.  They've upgraded their naval forces including doing a lot of research of electromagnetic propulsion systems, and their air force has been revamped for launching drones, also in the form of swarms from sea based platforms.  This apparently for use in amphibious landings.  Guess where that's intended? 

They're upgrading their drone technology to match America's large drones, which will give them mission capability in "reconnaissance, area denial and control, precision strike, cluster strike and damage assessment."  All of which will be "all military" integrated, all of which is being tested over and around Taiwan.  

The world is noticing and doesn't like it.  Japan will be conducting a military exercise for the defense of what the Japanese call the Senkaku Island, which will enhance potential joint military operations in opposition to China's aggressive intentions and actions in those waters, and elsewhere, including Taiwan.

"The four Quad members (Australia, India, Japan and the United States) started the Malabar naval exercises in Japan. This comes amid heightened tensions related to North Korea's flurry of missile tests. Japan's prime minister this week reaffirmed the country's commitment to increasing defense spending, crafting a new security strategy and acquiring long-range weapons."

I have to wonder what the other three Quad members are thinking after this "kumbaya" dog and pony show.

The Philippine government is developing a military modernization program.  And I've no doubt this is a reflection of China's bully boy economic/military tactics involving fishing in Philippine waters.  China is attempting to claim all of the South China Sea belongs to them and will enforce that view with naval might.

Once again, the cost to China for all this is immense, and it's money they don't have.   Like Russia, China is not a natural capital generating nation, they need the American market, badly.  Their economy is flat, and the restrictions Trump imposed, which was largely criticized by many, is responsible, especially in the chip market.  But given the CEO's he's brought with him for this trip, I've no doubt that's going to change. 

 Xi is another Mao with a total commitment to Marx/Leninist economic theory.  The world should be thankful he's been in effect installed as leader for life as he's going to lead them into economic oblivion, unless Trump saves him like Nixon saved Mao. 

On February 12, 2023 Jeff Crouere published this piece in Canada Free Press, China: Our Teflon Enemy, saying:

The communist dictators of China are brutal authoritarians who have been repressing the basic human rights of their own people for decades. In China, citizens do not have an independent media or the freedom to speak, assemble, petition their government, or practice their religious faith. 

All of which are violations of the UN Charter.  He goes on to discuss how China viciously crushed the freedom movement in Hong Kong.  The human rights abuses against 12 million Muslims, even the children aren't safe.  The brutality of the Tienanmen Square stand off with thousand arrested and murdered. 

Sadly, China did not have to pay much of a penalty for this mass killing of peaceful demonstrators. President George H. W. Bush criticized the barbarous behavior, suspended some diplomatic exchanges, and curtailed military sales. While some minor economic sanctions were imposed, nothing significant was done to hinder the progression of U.S.-China relations.

 They did nothing to stop the spying from China, they did so little to punish China for their crimes against humanity, it amounted to nothing.  The big show made by America's leaders of that day was just that, a big show, because the economic business continued as usual.  They sold out the nation in favor of greedy and corrupt multinational corporations, and that's been made obvious by the actions and words of the leaders of the World Economic Forum at Davos that year. 

Xi's been playing the modern Mao, which is interesting since his father was a prominent Maoist, and then for whatever reason (Mao, a man who murdered between 40 and 70 million of his people, rarely concerned himself with evidence) purged and publicly humiliated his father and his family during his childhood during the cultural revolution, and made them suffer for years.  And this is who he's emulating?  I think there must be something wrong with his mind.

China is one of the most disruptive and evil forces in the world  leaving devastation in it's wake.  China consumes and destroys, just like the tribbles, only China isn't warm and cuddly, it's a ravenous dragon that Trump originally intended to tame.  China isn't just an adversary, it's a threat to western civilization. Actually, China is a threat to civilized behavior.  Make no mistake about it, they’re still commies, and commies are dictators, and so what do dictatorships do to distract the population from their problems? They start a war! Only this is far more problematic than it was decades ago.

China's constantly interfering in the affairs of everyone, but especially America, and the reason why is they want to rule the world.  Since Nixon and Kissinger opened China up to world trade  they've been actively moving in that direction, and America has been funding that effort, and now Trump's visit makes it looks as if that will continue. 

What about the massive human rights violations.  They're murdering people to harvest their organs, they have massive spying operations in the US and elsewhere, they're stealing intellectual property, and religious persecution is rampant, including against Christians.  They set up "secret police stations" to intimidate and threaten Chinese who've immigrated to America.  They're interfering in American academia by funding leftist propaganda to undermine American values.  Their deliberate flaunting of international law.   They've consistently provoked India in the Himalayas, for reasons I fail to understand other than they think they will intimate them into believing China will invade India from the North if they interfere with their activity in the South China Sea and Taiwan. 

They're unendingly interfering in governments all over the world, which includes their Belt and Road Initiatives, and picking fights with Japan along with  the Philippine Islands, Vietnam and other South East Asian countries involving the Spratly Islands, Paracel Islands, Scarborough Shoal, and what's being called the nine-dash line area claimed by China and rejected by the rest of the world, which China is attempting to enforce with military intimidation.  Will those issues be addressed?  I'm betting they will not. 

China is a corrupt, parasitic "Big Brother is watching nation", and it's a failing nation that's bluffing and stealing it's way forward.  Given the many issues involving China and it's goals, this will be the most important foreign policy issue Trump deals with, and a harbinger of things to come, given the damage Nixon wrought.  I hate to think with damage the world will face in the future.  I had concerns Trump was more concerned with a trade deal than the real issues between China and America that has been reinforced by China buying 200 Boeing jets.

Finally, understand this is more far ranging and dangerous than the media portrays it.  Make sure to read Ben Shapiro's article in the China section.  He gets it, China is our enemy by choice. 

At this point in time China is touting this as a great victory, and it is.  Trump traded the moral high ground for 200 planes, soy beans, and a promise to ignore Iran's needs.  It was as I feared a Nixonian bargain.  And this was with a man who is actively attempting to defeat Trump supporters in the midterms and working to promote anti-American socialists.  

There's no information right now as to how much access they'll be getting to the American market, but that's clearly part of the Trump plan.  Now Trump thinks it's  it's "very insulting" to keep Chinese nationalists from attending American universities and China should be allowed to buy as much farm land as the want since according to Trump farmers will lose a lot of money if China can't buy farm land and apparently he's going to let China get the oil it needs "from Iran".  

It's my view Trump has lost his way. 

1.  Trump's Business First Diplomacy
2.  Trump: China to Purchase 200 Boeing Jets in First Major Order in Nearly a Decade
3.  Xi Warns Trump Over Taiwan
4.  China: There is no ‘Thucydides trap’
5. Fox News Got Firsthand Experience With China's Surveillance State. Here's What Happened. 
6. China: Our Enemy, Not Our Rival
7. Feds Seize Millions of Illegal Vapes From China
8. Chinese National Indicted in Florida for Allegedly Importing Deadly New Synthetic Opioid
9. Schmitt: I Want Focus on Decoupling from China, Want to See Ag. Markets Opened Up
10. CBS's Tony Dokoupil Points Out The Obvious: China's Also in the Suck
11. Jury Convicts Chinese American Who Operated China’s NYC Police Station
12. They Felt Safe in America—Until Beijing Went After Their Parents in China
13. Arcadia mayor's bust demonstrates China's web of influence is all over California
14. Who Really Needs Whom? Trump, Xi Jinping, and the Illusion of Chinese Strength
15. Taiwan watches Trump-Xi meeting for signs China will test US resolve
16.  Mayor of Arcadia Eileen Wang Admits to Acting as Chinese Spy
17.  Oz: Chinese Government Involved in Fraud, Suspect Russia, Cuba as Well
18. McCormick: ‘Existential Battle with China’ Requires Government, Industry Teamwork ‘This is Like Winning World War II
19. Trump: It’s ‘Very Insulting’ to Not Let Chinese Students In
20. Trump: Farmers Will ‘Lose a Lot of Money’ if Chinese Nationals Don’t Buy Land, Obama Didn’t Do Anything
21. China Celebrates Trump and Xi’s Mutual ‘Vision’ on Bilateral Ties
22. Trump: Xi said China won’t send military gear to Iran, wants to see Hormuz reopened
23. China’s Democrat pawns: How Beijing bets on midterms to undermine Trump By Mike Robertson   

National Debt and The Government Shutdown

By Rich Kozlovich

The last couple of weeks the media has been the "secret" supporters of the Democrat's position on the government shutdown in their war to once again attempt to destroy The United States America.   All this spending plays into the strategy by creating an entire society based on government dependence, giving them the power to destroy the Constitution and have leftists take over the government at all levels creating a totalitarian socialist society.  Truth be told, if Kamala Harris had been elected, it might have happened, and it can still happen as we're seeing the invertebrate Republicans beginning to buckle to Democrat demands.  

Once again.... definition leads to clarity, and for clarity's sake...... fascism isn't right wing, it's left wing, it's socialism.  Socialism is the mother philosophy of both fascism and communism, two sides of the same coin, and truth be told, totalitarianism if foundational to all the "isms", and has been since the French Revolution. 

• San Diego launches 'friendly' inspection teams to go digging through people's trash cans in search of recycling violations
• The left wants to save democracy by destroying it

I've written a lot on the dangers of our national debt and what do to about it in

$9 trillion: foreign treasury surge!, saying:

 The UK has overtaken China as the second-largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries, as total foreign ownership hits an all-time high of $9.05 trillion.

• Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries hit $9.05 trillion in March
  
• The UK surpasses China, now second only to Japan in U.S. debt holdings
  
• China cuts its holdings to $765 billion, continuing a five-month selling streak
  
• Japan remains top holder with $1.13 trillion in Treasuries
  
• Analysts cite trade tensions and diversification as drivers of China’s divestment 

Whether this reshuffle signals a fleeting trend or a structural pivot remains to be seen. But for now, the message is clear: trust in U.S. debt endures, even if China is taking a step back.  

So, that says foreign nations trust American debt?  Really?  What it says to me is these are loser nations who are major owners of America, and America has reached a turning point on debt, and the Big Beautiful Bill added trillions of dollars in national debt, and the media plays along with this outrage.  

For that matter we really need to start asking what is the justification for borrowing 38 trillion dollars to fund every idiotic costly political pandering scheme ever developed, and that includes both parties.  With an interest payment of "$881 billion in 2024 and projected to nearly double to $1.6 trillion by 2034. These rising costs now surpass spending on areas like Medicare and national defense, and are projected to become the second-largest category of federal spending."

 This can't go on.

Senator Everett Dirksen once said 

"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money", and while it's being said he really didn't say that, he never retracted it in his lifetime either.  The fact is he's been categorized as being fiscally conservative and socially liberal, which is in fact cognitive dissonance, and his voting record shows that, and so too does that kind of cognitive dissonance apply to the Congress and the administration today. 

My grandfather was one of the world's great economists.  He said if you spend more than you make you'll go broke.  He made his living as a coal miner and a farmer, but he wasn't a stupid coal miner/farmer, unlike so many economists I've read over the years.  It's said statistics is an arcane science as you can make statistics say whatever you want them to say, and I think that applies to economics as well.  But in the end, if you spend more than you take in, bankruptcy follows.  It really is that simple.

 Update:   Bad News on the National Debt - It's now $38T, the fastest accumulation of $1T outside of the pandemic. In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the US government's gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America's balance sheet,

Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Wharton Budget Model, who served in President George W. Bush's Treasury Department, told the Associated Press that a growing debt load over time leads ultimately to higher inflation, eroding Americans' purchasing power and making it less possible for future generations to achieve home ownership goals. The Government Accountability Office outlines some of the impacts of rising government debt on Americans—including higher borrowing costs for things like mortgages and cars, lower wages from businesses having less money available to invest, and more expensive goods and services.

The Joint Economic Committee estimates that the total national debt has grown by $69,713.82 per second for the past year. Michael Peterson, chair and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, said in a statement that "reaching $38 trillion in debt during a government shutdown is the latest troubling sign that lawmakers are not meeting their basic fiscal duties." "Along with increasing debt, you get higher interest costs, which are now the fastest growing part of the budget," Peterson added. "We spent $4 trillion on interest over the last decade, but will spend $14 trillion in the next ten years. Interest costs crowd out important public and private investments in our future, harming the economy for every American.".......

Amazon and eBay Sell Merch Calling for Trump’s Death

By Daniel Greenfield, @ Sultan Knish Blog

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, two Muslim men in Utah were arrested for planting an incendiary device under a FOX affiliate’s news van. The most striking thing about their house, as Front Page Magazine had reported, was that it appeared to be covered in anti-Trump signage.

Including a black flag reading, “Is He Dead Yet?”

“Is He Dead Yet” merchandise also made a recent appearance when a New York City public school teacher posted a photo of himself wearing that t-shirt and celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death.

In a famously sensitive era, where do you go to buy a “Is he dead yet?” t-shirt or flag? Anywhere as it turns out. Especially from those retailers that have relentlessly censored conservatives.

Amazon had censored everything from books against transgenderism and BLM to banning the sale of the Confederate flag (and even at one point pulling episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard) but you can get a “Is He Dead Yet” flag which the Amazon description openly bills as “an anti-Trump flag” making it clear that it’s not a reference to any other memes with that line.

(The actual Amazon seller is in Eastern Europe, so Amazon is helping a foreign national sell materials to Americans calling for the death of the President of the United States. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also owns the Washington Post which spent a lot of time warning about foreign interference and foreign disinformation, but its owner actually profits nicely from it.)

Amazon also stocks mugs, t-shirts, stickers and bumper stickers with that phrase that specifically refer to Trump. One ‘Is He Dead Yet’ mug features various possible tombstones for President Trump including “Psycho”, “8647”, “Epstein’s Bestie” and “Rapist”. The same seller also sells Newsom memes including ‘Newsom Was Right About Everything’ merchandise.

Another seller features an orange toupee over the “He”. Others are mock MAGA hats. Some of the Chinese sellers pushing merchandise calling for Trump’s death also responded to Charlie Kirk’s murder by pushing merchandise commemorating his killing to conservatives. Nothing else could or should be expected from China, but it’s Amazon that bears the responsibility here.

So much so that Amazon appears to have paid for Google ads for “Is He Dead Yet”.

Amazon allowed all of this to proliferate on its platform even after two assassination attempts against President Trump and has taken no action to remove it and enforce its terms of service.

Etsy, which had relentlessly censored not only conservatives, but anything un-woke including Dr. Seuss merchandise (after he was deemed racist) and the slogan “I Love JK Rowling”, and recently once again rewrote its TOS to prohibit “degrading language” towards illegal aliens, is awash in every possible variety of Trump death merchandise including mock wine labels and a mug reading “Is He Dead Yet” with Trump’s signature as an EKG line from the ‘resistance’.

“RIP Trump postcards” feature a dead Trump with X’s over his eyes in clown makeup. “It won’t solve everything when he exits this mortal stage, but it will feel f*cking great,” the description reads. An ‘Anti-Trump’ wine label features a skull and the motto “open drink, dance on grave.” There are stickers with an orange toupee on a skull, a “we’ll be grateful when he’s dead” sticker of dancing skeletons, and a scented soy wax candle titled “Smells like his funeral”.

Unlike Amazon, which is dominated by Chinese third party seller spam, Etsy’s sellers are usually authentic American leftists and their products a genuine expression of partisan hatred.

Etsy knowingly allowed this climate of hate to proliferate on its platform in violation of its terms of service which ban “violent language” even while it was cracking down on anything that was in the slightest politically incorrect.

It’s not just Amazon and Etsy. “Is He Dead Yet” merchandise is commonplace on other giant online retail platforms like eBay, and across smaller merchandising sites.

While some of the “Is He Dead Yet” merchandise claims to come from America, the vast majority is being produced in Communist China.

The People’s Republic of China does not actually turn a blind eye toward what it mass produces. Merchandise critical of Xi or the PRC being produced in China is unthinkable and writers trying to get books critical of Communism printed in China have run into problems.

China’s mass production of merchandise calling for President Trump’s death or murder is a decision that would have been made at some point within the Communist Party bureaucracy which maintains extensive censorship over any kind of speech in the giant dictatorship.

And Chinese companies not only produce products celebrating Trump’s death for third parties, but Chinese companies are deeply immersed in the business of marketing these products on their largest retail platforms.

Temu, a Chinese Communist company, has a large selection of “Is He Dead Yet” merchandise specifically targeting Trump. Critics have pointed out that Temu “maintains documented connections to the Chinese Communist Party” meaning that the slogan is being promoted to Americans by a company linked to an enemy regime.

So this is not simply a decision by one Chinese retail platform to stock Trump death gear.

Shein, the second largest Chinese retail ‘fast fashion’ platform used by Americans, also lists “Is He Dead Yet” t-shirts explicitly referencing Trump. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest retailers, has “Is He Dead Yet” t-shirts listed on its AliExpress direct sales platform. “Is He Dead Yet” is not a Chinese information op, but China’s Communist system is happy to promote it.

As are Amazon, Etsy, eBay and other major retail giants that censor conservatives, but empower leftists to celebrate and call for the deaths of Trump and other conservatives.

Charlie Kirk’s murder was marinated in internet memes. These memes are promoted and enabled by a Big Tech system that practices two-tier content policing. The “Is He Dead Yet” merchandise is an example of the kinds of popular leftist memes that make the murder of conservatives into a knowingly hip joke that eventually leads to an assassin’s bullet.

The Left has traded debate and democracy for fantasizing about the deaths of its enemies.

And some leftists do more than fantasize. That is how a bullet clipped President Trump’s ear. It’s why Charlie Kirk is dead. Woke corporations pretend that they had nothing to do with it, but the moment you search their platforms, you find that they were actually profiting from the death cult.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

China’s Climate Confidence Trick

By Tom Harris

China is pulling a fast one on western nations and it is about time we called them on it.

For example, on July 24th, representatives from the EU and China met at a summit in Beijing to discuss their plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Both nations reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change and urged greater emission cuts, promotion of “green technology,” and a call for strong action at the COP30 climate summit coming up in Brazil this November. >

But is the west being “taken for a ride” on all this? Is China really committed to overhauling their coal-powered economy with so-called green energy?

Although China has significantly expanded its solar and wind power capacity, the following graphs show that it is still heavily reliant on coal. This is why its greenhouse gas emissions have soared and now stand at double those of the US.

 

As of 2023, China was the world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide emissions at 35% of global emissions. While Chinese politicians tout their increased reliance on solar and wind to reduce the country’s “carbon footprint,” they are continuing to build coal power plants at a breathtaking rate. In 2024, they began building 94.5 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-power plants and resumed 3.3 GW of suspended projects in the country. This was an all-time high in the past ten years. In 2024, it permitted more coal capacity than the rest of the world combined.

Moreover, they are continuing to construct and finance coal plants in African, Southeast Asian, and South Asian countries. Although they have committed to halt the introduction of new coal plants overseas, existing plants or those that are in use will continue to run. India is the recipient of most of China’s overseas coal production.

So China’s renewable energy claims are just smoke and mirrors: coal use is expanding and most of their increased production of renewable energy technology is being built using coal as the energy source.

One point of tension at the July summit was that China wants tariffs revoked on its electric vehicle (EV) exports to the European market. China is booming in the EV market, which understandably raises concerns for domestic EU EV production. Concerning the restrictions of Chinese exports into the EU market, President Xi said:

“We hope the EU will keep its trade and investment markets open, refrain from using restrictive economic and trade tools and provide a good business environment for Chinese companies to invest and develop in Europe.”

China’s expanding share in the European EV market threatens European nations’ ability to grow their own green technology sector. Businesses and millions of EU auto industry jobs are at risk, as well as millions of other jobs related to EV production. With the EU remaining as China’s largest export market, these issues have created tensions between the countries despite their joint affirmation of climate change goals. No firm agreement was made about the issue of trade at the late July summit.

Hybrid cars from China are able to enter the EU levy-free, so the PRC have responded by introducing more hybrid models in Europe. The future of electric and hybrid vehicles is anything but certain, but it is clear that it is not in the best interest of the EU to rely on Chinese vehicle production while their own manufacturers struggle to stay afloat.

Moreover, the minerals crucial to EV production are mined by China with little or no environmental or human rights concerns. The lithium-ion batteries used in EVs are primarily composed of cobalt, lithium, manganese, and graphite, which are mined in developing countries. For instance, the Democratic Republic of Congo provides about two thirds of the global output of cobalt. Congolese mines are controlled by Chinese companies which employ child labour in extremely dangerous conditions. For more details on these issues, see “Wind and Solar are the Most Environmentally Destructive Energy Sources” that Dr. Jay Lehr and I wrote in 2021.

China has agreed to create an updated supply mechanism for their exports of critical minerals, which is further concerning due to their poor standards in mineral extraction. Even in their domestic EV production, the EU relies on these minerals from China, and so continued dependence on China’s minerals will only worsen human rights and environmental abuses.

To understand how China gets away with all this we need to examine the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the governing document for all UN climate agreements, including the Paris Agreement. Article 4 of the UNFCCC states that the first and overriding priority of developing nations is poverty alleviation and development. Since China is still considered a developing nation under the UN’s climate agreements, and burning coal is the cheapest way to continue to pull their people out of poverty, China will burn all the coal it wants indefinitely as it has full rein to soar past its Paris Agreement target to cap emissions by 2030.

When Xie Zhenhua, the Chinese climate negotiator at COP 20 in Lima, Peru (2014), was asked about China’s exemption from binding emissions reductions under Article 4 of the UNFCCC, he simply pointed to the article and said:

“We are exempt. We are a developing country.”

He then explained that the purpose of the Paris Agreement, then under development, was to enforce the UNFCCC, not to replace or change it.

So China knows it has a sweetheart deal—they can expand their coal usage, build coal stations across the world and grow their emissions without limit while boasting that they are following international climate agreements. All the while, they make a fortune selling wind and solar power equipment and batteries to western nations riddled with guilt over our own emissions that we falsely believe are damaging the climate.

China’s climate strategy is a strategically brilliant confidence trick—an elaborate balancing act in which the country presents itself as a global leader in clean technology, while approving and constructing coal-fired power plants at a staggering pace. It’s high time we called them on this.

Note: Mary-Jean Harris, BSc, MSc (physics), contributed to this article.

P&D Geopolitics Edition

By Rich Kozlovich

Recently we saw where Russia's Putin, China's Xi, and India's Modi met at a Shanghai Cooperation Organization conference that drew:

"over 20 regional leaders and featured speeches that subtly rebuked US foreign policy. Xi urged members to reject "Cold War mentality" and "bloc confrontation," while Modi endorsed multilateralism and a larger global role for countries like India."

And then they all held hands and sang kumbaya declaring undying love and a feeling of "peace and stability between them" creating an alliance to stand against Trump's tariffs.  Which made great press and great opportunities for lots and lots of CO2 being expelled by talking heads, but it's a load of horsepucky.  

As for me, I just shook my head, rolled my eyes, and chuckled.  China wants to end the Cold War mentality?  Really?  By whom?  Certainly not China based on all their actions to date.  And Modi wants the world to embrace multilateralism, whatever the heck that really means.  I'm betting he defines that as meaning they want Russia, China, India and the U.S. to work together as "equals", allowing the three of them to rape America and share in the wealth equally, leaving America dying.  At least they're consistent. 

These three nation have hated each other for centuries.  It's part of their foundational social paradigm, and for good reason as they're been at odds militarily for centuries. 

Recently China and India were exchanging fire in the Himalayas.  Why in the world would anyone go to war over mountains that have no economic value, yet China keeps provoking India over .... mountains!  They don't care about owning mountains, they care about intimidating their neighbors.  China has been playing the bully boy role throughout all of South East Asia, and is still doing so in the South China Sea demanding control of international waters and even attacking Philippine fishing vessels in what is clearly Philippine's waters. 

1. Deadly Incident at Sea Heightens China-Taiwan Tensions -Beijing is seizing on the death of two Chinese fishermen to exercise greater control around Taiwan's Kinmen islands, raising the risk of more dangerous encounters in the area.
2. Chicoms overfish, leave trash all around South America's waters -- and it's worse than it looks - The United Nations says they've done a bang-up job depleting 90% of the world's fishing stocks with their illegal poaching. So much for China's lip service to the environment.

This must be what Xi means when he meant when at this conference he:

"...........unveiled the Global Governance Initiative, a five-point plan calling for adherence to international law, support for multilateralism, rejection of double standards and equal participation in global governance regardless of a country's size or power."  Xi also proposed creating an SCO Universal Center for Countering Security Challenges and Threats and establishing an SCO Development Bank to deepen security and economic cooperation. 

In short, he's saying I'm broke, and I need access to other people's money, and I'll be saying anything it takes to con others into this scheme so I can continue to exploit the nations around me.  China's  spending massive amounts of dollars they don't have on their military and their economy is heading down the tubes, especially after their years long real estate crash, that's not going away.

In April of last year the CCP implemented:

......more aggressive laws and policies that favor Chinese companies, especially its state-owned companies. Its new foreign relations and espionage laws, which went into effect last year, open the door to more protectionist meddling. As Michael House, a partner at Perkins Coie gently put it, “The current environment lends itself to more occasions where a regulator or someone in the government in China may choose to take action that is non-transparent.” The reality is the CCP can do whatever it wants. Just ask the folks at Bain & Co. and other US consultancies that China raided last year.

That was from an article at Mauldin Economics, and it confirms doing business with China is like taking a viper to bed.  

China is a nightmare, not only for the world, but even worse for the Chinese people.  These vile disgusting monsters are murdering people for their organs and persecuting anyone they deem "radical", such as the Falun Gong.  We've known about this for over 2o years, and we're still playing patty cake over economic issues with them.  

• China’s Children Scarred by CCP’s 25-Year Persecution of Falun Gong ‘The persecution really harms everyone, especially young children and teenagers,’ said a young Chinese man.  

After their Third Plenary Session of the Communist Party's Central Committee ended in July of 2024 the conclusion was, Xi was in charge, he will decide what goes on economically, internationally, and domestically, and anyone who didn't like it was in deep trouble because no disharmony will be tolerated.  "Days of balderdash, and untold pages of jabberwocky, just to say that."  But it's not appreciated in China, especially among the young.

China's economy is smoke and mirrors.  I've been saying that for years, in opposition to the conventional wisdom I might add, and everything being reported shows it's true.  

1. Geopolitical Futures reported that fear of U.S. secondary sanctions led several banks to stop accepting yuan payments from Russia. Why?
2. While publicly China still welcomes Russian business, they're more concerned about American business and work to avoid sanctions. Why? 
3. Would America care if China sanctioned American business? There would be some in the commercial sector that would, but overall, America wouldn't care.  Why?   

The answers to all these "why" questions?  We don't need them, they need us. 

China's spending massive amounts of dollars on their military they don't have.  Why?  Xi's not going to attack America, Japan, Philippines, or even Taiwan for that matter, no matter how much sabre rattling Xi might do, but India and Russia are doable.   Their economy is heading down the tubes, especially their real estate crash.  

Russia's in deep economic trouble,  and in no way can India replace their economic ties with the west with anything Russia can offer other than oil and gas, and any advantage that may bring will be offset with tariffs.  But even if they get all the energy they can use in order to manufacture goods, where do they sell them?  Neither Russia, China, India or any of the 20 nations at this summit can create their own internal markets large enough to stand alone.  

I've said this often and it needs to be said more than often.  There are six things an advanced industrialized nation must have in order to stand alone.  It must be able to feed itself, fuel itself, defend itself, arm itself, create it's own internal market, and pay off it's national debt.  The only advanced industrialized nation in the world capable of doing all six is the U.S. 

If these nations decide they have alternatives to the West.  Well good for them, let's see how well that works out. 

China and Russia have decided they need a pipeline going through Mongolia which would deliver "50 billion cubic meters of Russian gas per year via Mongolia for 30 years", but all the energy in the world will not resurrect a failing economy if they can't sell their goods to someone. 

U.S. imports from China are crashing and it's possible China's trade with Russia will soon surpass trade with America.  Good, losers trading from losing positions doesn't make winners, but something I've been watching the last few years is China's interest in investments in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet Republic where Russian influence has waned since the Russo/Ukraine war started, and to the tune of billions of dollars and over 6000 Chinese backed companies operating in that nation.  China and Belarus have recently developed a defense agreement.  A defense agreement right on Russia's border?  Imagine that!   Does anyone think all this gives Putin a warm and fuzzy feeling all over?

As I stated before, Russia's in deep economic trouble, and Russia cannot in any way offset India's economic reliance on the West.  

Nearly one third of Russian companies were unprofitable in the first half of 2025, the highest level since the pandemic..... the main drivers are a high key interest rate, rising costs and new tax rules. Coal mining, housing and utilities, transportation and scientific research companies were hit hardest.

Western sanctions have caused "17 coal-related enterprises to shut down due to Western sanctions and declining global prices"m and the "Ministry of Finance announced that it would hold auctions to attract 10 billion rubles ($124 million) in credit funds to cover the region's budget deficit and debt."  Worse yet, this major energy supplier is running out "of AI-95 gasoline in several regions.  Supplies have nearly vanished from Crimea and Trans-Baikal. Experts blamed supply disruptions and seasonal demand and said that if conditions persist, other regions may face shortages." This is more than seasonal demand issues.

Russia is fraught with supply chain issues with large numbers of companies saying they can't find supplies and no longer can access material from abroad due to sanctions and are trying to find material from Russian friendly nations.  But what happens when they get sanctioned? 

The foundation of the Russian economy is self destructing in order for Putin to continue his war with Ukraine, using up manpower and resources his nation needs to survive, and Russia's problems are metastasizing, as they've triggered a response they didn't anticipate with their aggression in Ukraine.  

Poland launched its largest military exercise of the year, Iron Defender-25, involving about 30,000 Polish and allied troops and 600 pieces of equipment. The drills, which run through September, will span much of the country, with a focus on operations near the Russian and Belarusian borders and at sea. They coincide with Collective Security Treaty Organization maneuvers in Belarus and Russia. Poland said the aim is to test interoperability under full-scale combat conditions, incorporating lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war.

Let's be clear, Russia's falling apart internally, and is facing a coalition of fifty countries condemning Russia and Putin, and Europe has found alternatives to Russia energy supplies.  Russia's running out of time.  Considering the size of Russia's military, and how little progress they've made against Ukraine, Russia has lost this war.  It's destroying their demographic pyramid, it's economy, and government stability, and the leadership knows it and fears the consequences of all that failure from an angry public.  Even in Russia that happens as we saw when the Soviet Union collapsed.   Russia's central bank says their economy is "in a dismal condition and its future outlook is bleak."

Putin is refusing to meet with Zelenskyy and demands.... demands mind you.... the right to "veto of any security guarantees or subsequent security assistance to Ukraine."  All the while continuing to strike "civilian targets", and it seems clear anything he may have agreed to with Trump in Alaska was a lie.  

As for Modi's multilateralism, he's blocked Azerbaijan's bid for full membership, citing its ties with Pakistan.  Wait, isn't Pakistan an ally of Russia and China? Wasn't it one of China's missile air defense systems that shot down an India military jet?  Remarkable, don't you think?

So much for ending the cold war mentality, bloc confrontations, adherence to international law, support for multilateralism, rejection of double standards and equal participation in global governance regardless of a country's size or power", and creating a kumbaya "multilateral" world.  And as time goes by the number of inconsistencies, divergences and outrages will multiply significantly because that's who they all are, that's who they always have been, and that's who they always will be.

China and the 20th Theorem of Government

July 19, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I’ve expressed admiration for China’s partial economic liberalization and the impressive growth it produced.

But I’ve also warned that there are some misguided government policies that will make it very difficult for China to become a rich country. I’ve been especially concerned about industrial policy and other types of cronyism.

However, I may need to worry about fiscal policy as well. Teaching earlier today in Shenyang, China, I shared this chart with a group of students.

It shows, based on the IMF’s big database, that government spending has increased dramatically over the past 40-plus years.

This chart looks terrible, but it’s also misleading.

The best measure of a government’s fiscal burden is to compare the size of the budget to the size of the private sector (in other words, government spending as a share of GDP).

On this basis, you immediately notice that China’s fiscal policy was very good for almost 15 years, with the burden of government dropping to about 11 percent of GDP in 1996 (better than Singapore or Hong Kong!).

Unfortunately, that positive trend was only temporary. Since the mid-1990s, the burden of government has been on an upward trajectory.

Indeed, government now consumes more than one-third of the economy’s output, more than three times greater than in 1996.

 

At the risk of understatement, this eventually will lead to fiscal crisis. Especially when you consider China’s demographic challenge. A clear example of my 20th Theorem of Government.

For wonky readers who want even more data, the next chart provides a breakdown of average spending growth during the 1982-1996 and 1997-2025 periods.

Interestingly, the main difference between the two periods is not the average annual growth of the budget (13.9 percent compared to 15.4 percent). Instead, it is the growth rate of the economy.

For the 1982-1996 period, the private sector was growing faster than the government (fulfilling the Golden Rule). That’s when progress occurred.

Sadly, but that relationship reversed starting in 1997.

By the way, these are all nominal numbers, meaning they are not adjusted for inflation. So I also show the average inflation rate for the two periods on the right side of the chart.

Notice that the burden of government has grown faster than the economy during the 1997-2025 period, and also that the budget has grown far faster than inflation.

The moral of the story is that China should enact a spending cap.

P.S. Some economists believe Chinese government data is untrustworthy, but presumably any corrections would not change the fact that fiscal policy has been moving in the wrong direction.

The “China Shock” and American Jobs

July 24, 2025 by Dan Mitchell  @ International Liberty

From an economic perspective, the most important part of this video is at 2:22, when I explain that everyone is better off in the long run when there are job losses caused by creative destruction.

 Today, I want to share some real-world data to confirm that assertion.

Here’s a chart showing the 10 metropolitan areas that reportedly suffered the most (the “China Shock”) when China became part of the world trading system.

As you can see, both low-income and average-income residents in these cities now have higher wages than they did before trade with China supposedly wreaked havoc.

The chart comes from an article by Jeremy Horpedahl.

Here are some excerpts.

 

Much has been made of the “China Shock,” or the impact on US manufacturing from two related trade policy changes: the US granting China permanent normal trade relations in 2000, and China’s accession to the WTO in 2001. … 

David Autor and co-authors have been some of the primary contributors to academic research on the China Shock, showing its negative impact on certain people living in various parts of the US. …we can identify 10 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) that are the most affected by Chinese imports… 

What happened to those “most affected” MSAs? Here’s a shocking fact: all of the MSAs hit hard by the China Shock still managed to have significant and positive real wage growth across the distribution since 2001… Wage gains in several of these places, in fact, are better than the national trends. …the 10th percentile workers saw larger gains than the median worker.

It’s also worth looking at employment data. The next chart shows that these communities have enjoyed as much job growth – on average – as the rest of the United States.

The conclusion is that protectionism is not the right way of responding to trade.

…the lesson of the China Shock isn’t that we need more tariffs and industrial subsidies. Instead, it’s that the way to help Americans and US regions that are hurt by foreign trade (or any other economic shock) is to allow them to transition to a different, more modern industrial structure and allow their service sectors to flourish. …To emphasize one more time, … 

I have focused on the MSAs that were most affected by the China Shock—in other words, the worst-case scenarios. Yet even these worst cases show that the US economy is more than able to adapt to employment changes brought on by international trade, even as we enjoy all of its other benefits.

Amen.

None of this means that there are not victims from trade. But as I’ve explained before, there are far more victims from internal trade than there are from international trade.

What’s important is making sure there is a good economic environment so that job gains are greater than job losses. And so long as government doesn’t interfere too much, that will lead to rising incomes over time for everyone.

Comparing China to other Majority-Chinese Jurisdictions

July 17, 2025 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

When writing about Argentina a few days ago, I used this weight-loss analogy to explain that Javier Milei has some amazing accomplishments, but that he can’t rest on his laurels.

Imagine going to a doctor and finding out you have all sorts of health problems because you weigh 400 lbs. You decide you need to get serious (the diet-and-exercise equivalent of electing Milei) and you weigh 300 lbs. at your next appointment. The doctor is very impressed and happy with your progress, but he reminds you that you still need to lose at least another 100 lbs.

This analogy also applies to China.

There was a lot of pro-market reform beginning in 1979, leading to a dramatic increase in economic freedom. This led to spectacular results, such as rapid growth, rising incomes, and plummeting poverty.

Call it the Chinese Miracle. It is akin to dropping from 400 lbs to 300 lbs.

Unfortunately, even though the doctor advised the patient to lose another 100 lbs., that hasn’t happened.

 

Economic freedom in China has increased in the past two decades, but only by a very small amount. If we stick with our analogy, the patient lost 5-10 more lbs., but is still overweight.

I’ve decided to write on this issue today for two reasons.

• First, I’m actually in China for some lectures about the desirability of further economic liberalization.
• Second, I saw this tweet about how Chinese people outside of China are far richer than Chinese people in China.

I decided to expand on this chart, using the Maddison database, and using data that goes all the way back to 1950. And I also included Hong Kong since it is another majority-Chinese jurisdiction.

Lo and behold, the only Chinese nation that isn’t rich is…drum roll…China.

There’s an obvious lesson to learn.

Note that I included numbers on the right side of the chart. Those are the economic freedom rankings from the Fraser Institute.

Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong all rank very highly. China, on the other hand, is only #104, in the bottom half of the world for economic freedom.

Maybe, just maybe, that explains why the Chinese are rich everyone in the world other than China. The moral of the story is that our patient is much healthier today than 50 years ago. However, it’s time to get back on the treadmill and lose more weight.

P.S. Here’s some interesting data on China and Poland.

P.P.S. I shared data back in 2016 showing that Chinese-Americans were very economically successful. And more-recent data confirms this to be the case.

Is China Unraveling at the Top?

Nothing is ever as it appears in China

By Rich Kozlovich

Over the last few weeks I've been following a trend regarding China and their President For Life, Xi Jinping, and there are indications his lifetime rule may not last much longer.  Corruption among China's leadership is rampant, and has always been going back long before the communists took over.  Nothing's changed.  Except now a lot of purges is taking place, including among the highest ranks of their military.  

I don't see him lasting much longer. I'd hoped he'd last long enough to fully destroy China's economy as his hero Mao was on the verge of doing before Nixon and Kissinger bailed him out. But I don't think that's going to happen now.  

I'm sure all the corruption charges against these military people is valid. For a long time there was a tacit understanding between them and the Xi cabal.... don't bother us, and we won't bother you.... and Xi needed them, ergo the corruption metastasized. But for them to be exposed and purged, and Xi couldn't or wouldn't stop it, one has to ask why?  These purges are at the very least suspicious, which leads to two questions. 

1. Are they happening because Xi can't trust the very people whose careers he supported and funded?  
2. Or is someone else making these decisions and are purging his supporters in the military.  

Neither scenario can be very promising for Xi.  In my opinion that's the real story, and needs closely watched to see who the players are behind this. I'm of the opinion every military in the world has a von Stauffenberg cabal, and I also believe every government in the world has a von Stauffenberg cabal, including China.    

1. CCP Leaders Propose Regulations to Rein In Xi’s Superagencies 
2. China Purges Navy, Nuclear Officials From Top Legislative Positions 
3. Beijing Purges Chinese Leader Xi’s Ally From Top Military Ruling Body

It would also appear any who throw him out wouldn't be so hot to continue all China's international mischief making.  

This chest pounding Wolf Diplomacy Xi has been practicing is not good economics, and given the moves by China's neighbors it's not even sufficiently threatening to make allies of these neighbors.

With exception of Australia which seems to be playing economic huggy bear with China, and their left wing government has made it clear they will do nothing to defend Taiwan if China attacks.  I think it's time for the US to reexamine the AUKUS security pact trilateral agreement between the US, the UK, and Australia.  

What this "Wolf Diplomacy" has done is what Russia did to Europe. Scaring them to the point they've now gained new NATO members, and created mutual defense postures aimed directly at Russia. 

 Xi is spending vast amounts of money developing unprecedented military technologies and capabilities, all the while seriously trimming expenditures and promoting frugality overall.  A serious case of cognitive dissonance. 

The world's nations have a debt load of almost 310 trillion dollars, and much of that can't be repaid, nor can it be collected. And that includes China.  Much of that money is gone and China won't be able to do a thing about it. Their Road and Belt schemes are failing, their loan traps to smaller nations is weakening their economy, their BRICS scheme is demonstrating a serious failure in planning, organization, and implementation, since as far as I can tell they have no logical plan for implementation, what currency will replace the dollar, and there's bickering in their group as it becomes more obvious any scheme they adopt must benefit China, even if it impacts the rest negatively, and that's not setting well with them. 

It seems to me, Xi is done, and whomever takes over will take a different track economically, militarily, and domestically than Xi.   But, that will take a consolidation of power and that's never smooth.   The way I see it, if/when Xi goes, a degree of chaos will ensue.  

Bob Unruh over at World Net Daily, says Xi Jinping is losing control of the CCP,  and "the world needs to prepare for the regime [in China] to lash out without warning”, which I consider hyperbole.  If there's a change it will be to find a level of reconciliation with the rest of world, since China's economy depends on it.  

1. China Knocks Trump Trade Deal With Vietnam
2. Questions Mount Over Death of Medical Student Who Alleged Organ Trade in Chinese Hospital 
3. Exposure of Forced Organ Harvesting Could Trigger CCP’s Fall: Chinese Prison Survivor 
4. China Says the Dalai Lama Must Follow Chinese Law if He Wants to Reincarnate 
   
5. Chinese National Once Deported from Taiwan for Pro-CCP Views Now Harassed in China for Protesting CCP Officials
6. How Iran War Exposed Limits of Chinese Influence in Region 
7. China’s Renaming Spree: Will the World Just Surrender to Silent,
8. Chinese Nationals Arrested for U.S. Navy Espionage Plot as Trump Admin Cracks Down on CCP Infiltration
9. China used embassies to undermine sales of fighter jet

President Trump Kept 30 Years of Broken Promises

By Daniel Greenfield, @ Sultan Knish Blog

“Iran’s appetite for acquiring and developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them has only grown larger,” Bill Clinton claimed in 1995. “We have tried to stop its quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction, which would make it a threat not only to its neighbors but to the entire region and the world.”

“For the sake of peace, the world must not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon,” George W. Bush declared.

“America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal,” Barack Obama promised.

“Here is my message to Iran’s leaders, the United States will never allow you to acquire a nuclear weapon. As president, I will take whatever action is necessary to protect the United States and our allies,” Hillary Clinton assured.

“We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon. Period. Period. End of discussion. It will not happen on our watch,” Joe Biden assured.

“Let me be clear, we will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Period,” Kamala Harris said.

The real ‘period’ was placed by President Trump who cut through 30 years of empty talk and ended the discussion. After decades of worthless promises by presidents, vice presidents, and presidential candidates, he took decisive action to actually prevent Iran from acquiring nukes.

Operation Midnight Hammer did the opposite of what presidents had been doing since the 90s. President after president had promised to stop Iran from deploying a nuclear bomb only to do nothing. Trump said he was negotiating with Iran even while planning to take out its nukes.

Democrats, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, who had been taunting Trump only days ago as chickening out on Iran, are furious because Trump actually kept all the promises they broke.

“We must do everything we can … to avoid a nuclear Iran. And we will be leading the charge to make sure that the Iranians know that they will not go nuclear or face the most severe of consequences,” Sen. Schumer had promised Now he bemoans Trump for actually doing it.

“We will do whatever it takes to make sure Iran does not get a nuclear weapon,” Rep. Jerry Nadler had boasted. “No matter what, even if it takes military action, Iran must be prevented from getting a nuclear weapon.”

After President Trump actually took out Iran’s nukes through military action, Rep. Nadler furiously urged that the strikes “must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.”

“All Members of Congress, regardless of party, agree: a nuclear Iran is simply unacceptable. It is a threat to the region, to the United States, and to our allies across the globe,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi had once asserted. “We must all use all the tools at our disposal to stop Iran’s march toward nuclear capability.”

Now, Pelosi assailed President Trump’s accomplishment of just that by contending that it “risks further escalation and dangerous destabilization of the region”

For 30 years, Democrats and some Republicans lied about stopping Iran. Trump did it.

That’s why they hate him. President Trump once again kept a promise he had made while Democrats, their media, the woke left and the woke right condemned him for doing it. The strikes taking out Iran’s nuclear program didn’t just smash the radioactive infrastructure of death, it also once again demonstrated the hypocrisy and double dealing so common in D.C.

The politicians who promised to secure the border, turn around the economy, unleash the private sector, cut government agencies, move the embassy to Jerusalem, and a thousand other promises never meant any of them. But President Trump, in the teeth of nearly universal opposition from the media and always online tweeting class of influencers, kept his promise.

Again.

The real question isn’t the one being posed by these politicians complaining why President Trump didn’t go to them to authorize a war with an Islamic terrorist state that had been attacking us since the Carter administration, it’s why they lied all these years to the American people.

If they had been opposed to taking out Iran’s nukes, why did they keep telling us otherwise?

In keeping 30 years of broken promises, President Trump showed how untrustworthy the same politicians condemning him are. Operation Midnight Hammer wasn’t just a strike on Iran, but on D.C. whose version of enriched uranium stockpiles are piles of broken promises and lies.

And if they couldn’t be trusted on the border or on a terror state with nuclear weapons, what can they be trusted on when it comes to our national security or any of the promises they make?

The Iran strikes have sent a message to the American people and to China and our enemies abroad that the era of hollow threats and empty assurances are over. Operation Midnight Hammer gave us real deterrence again, not just when confronting terrorists, but China.

A week ago, the People’s Republic of China was contemplating the odds of taking Taiwan and betting that America would do nothing. After a few extremely unpredictable weeks, Xi is much less likely to gamble that a nation that sent B2s from Missouri to take out nuclear plants without any further warnings, leaks or notice is a paper tiger that will do nothing if he attacks.

We are no longer a feckless nation governed by liars and hypocrites whose word is worthless.

For 46 years, Iran had two slogans, “Death to America” and “America can’t do a damn thing against us.” The two slogans went hand in hand. As long as Iran could kidnap, torture and kill Americans, it could safely chant “Death to America” because it believed America was helpless.

Trump buried “America can’t do a damn thing against us” as deep as its reactors of death.

That’s a message not only to Iran, but to China and our enemies at home and abroad. The politicians who broke thirty years of promises to stop Iran couldn’t stand up for our country or keep us safe. President Trump could and did. He stopped Iran and only he can stop China.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

China Foments US Migrant Crisis With Help From New York Bigwigs

Big Philanthropy and Major League Baseball in cahoots, too.

By Joe Schaeffer | May 27, 2025 @ Liberty Nation News

, Tags: Articles, Illegal Immigration, Opinion

It has long been feared that America’s number one geopolitical foe is weaponizing the illegal immigration crisis to strengthen its already considerable foothold within the United States. China is apparently doing so with the direct support of major Democrat political leaders in the fourth-most-populated state in the country, along with Big Philanthropy and Big Corporate money. This outside meddling highlights the glaring national security threat posed by the elaborate pro-illegal alien safety net constructed over the past 30-plus years.

“Numerous Chinese government-linked entities have bankrolled a nonprofit accused of offering tips on how to evade federal immigration authorities, a Daily Caller News Foundation [DCNF] investigation found,” the news site reported May 20.

‘Advising Illegal Aliens on How to Evade Apprehension’

The House Home Security Committee in April announced that it is investigating the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), a New York City-based NGO, “in response to a video reportedly showing employees … advising illegal aliens on how to evade apprehension by [US] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” an April 16 letter sent to CPC by committee Chair Rep. Mark E. Green (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chair Josh Brecheen (R-OK) read.

The Chinese-American Planning Council has been “awarded over $1 million in taxpayer funding since 2022,” the letter noted. But that’s not the only money pouring into its bulging coffers, The Daily Caller detailed.

“CPC has received as much as $445,969 in donations from sources with ties to the Chinese government since 2018, according to financial records reviewed by the DCNF,” the news outlet related. “State-run enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of China as well as other entities connected to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have provided financial assistance to CPC in recent years, records show.”

It gets more ominous than that.

“Additionally, CPC also appears to have significant financial and personnel links to a New York-based nonprofit, which, in turn, has extensive ties to Beijing and a CCP influence and intelligence arm,” The Daily Caller reported.

China’s exploitation of America’s porous borders during the Biden administration has been widely reported on since 2020. “There have been numerous documented instances of Chinese nationals, at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging in espionage, stealing military and economic secrets,” Thomas Duesterberg, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, told the Federation for American Immigration Reform in 2023.

China, Schumer, Hochul, and the New York Mets

CPC’s 2023 annual report included a lengthy list thanking its “partners and funders.” It begins with “Public Support.” The first two names are those of the Empire State’s two sitting US senators, Democrats Chuck Schumer – the minority leader in the upper chamber – and Kirsten Gillibrand. Prominent US Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) immediately follow. Behind them comes Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul.

A dizzying array of New York state senators and assembly members, New York City council members, and other city and state departments is then featured.

The “Private Support” section’s highest category — “$100,000 +” — is led off by American Express. The Robin Hood Foundation — a philanthropy closely connected with global investment behemoth Goldman Sachs that has worked directly with New York City officials to help further the illegal alien migrant influx of the Big Apple — is also in this expensive grouping. Dina Powell McCormick, a former Goldman Sachs executive and wife of Republican Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), is currently a board member and former board chair of Robin Hood.

Interestingly, the first name listed under CPC’s second-most-expensive private support category — “$50,000-$99,999” — is that of the philanthropic arm of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets. Other CPC private donors include Charter Communications, DoorDash, George Washington University, and JPMorgan Chase.

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As The Daily Caller probe makes clear, all these respected entities are working side by side with organizations pledged to serve the tyrannical Beijing regime’s interests abroad in aiding illegal alien-abetting CPC.

“The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a NYC-based health services provider catering to the local Asian-American community,” has given the Chinese-American Planning Council “as much as $229,993 in donations” since 2018, the news site reported. “Charles B. Wang – a Chinese-American billionaire and major donor to the health center – frequently met with CCP influence and intel leaders in China, state-run media reports reveal,” The Daily Caller chronicled.

Wang served as “executive director” of “an organization controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party’s] United Front Work Department,” the report continued. United Front operates as a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” a House Select Committee memorandum detailed.

Wayne Ho is president and CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council and a highly respected member of New York’s private-public social support pipeline. In 2023, Gov. Hochul named him to the state’s Not-For-Profit Contracting Advisory Committee.

Ho is quoted at length in an August 2023 press release from Hochul’s office touting her formal request to then-President Joe Biden “to take executive action and direct additional federal resources to the State of New York as it manages the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers arriving in New York.”

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“The humanitarian crisis urgently needs additional resources and support from the federal government,” Ho said in the release. “We must ensure that asylum seeker families can survive and thrive in New York, which will require increased collaboration between the federal, state and city government and CBOs. We join our allies in calling for increased housing, job, legal, health, and social supports for our newest New Yorkers.”

It is no coincidence that this manifest threat to US national security exploded in scale during the Biden era.

“In recent years, CPC reported significant revenue levels, especially since 2021,” House Home Security Chair Green spelled out. “From fiscal years 2017 to 2020, CPC reported an average revenue of about $30.9 million. In fiscal year 2021, however, CPC reported a revenue of about $50.1 million, which then nearly doubled to $97.4 million in fiscal year 2022.”

We all know why Chinese regime money would be behind something like this. That key New York state Democrat elected officials, uber-powerful corporations such as American Express and Goldman Sachs, and even the New York Mets are all involved should be ringing loud alarm bells in Washington.

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