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#NEW
: Trump issues exec order banning US investments in Chinese companies owned or controlled by the Chinese military.
To take effect on Jan. 11, 2021
Sec. of defense to determine firms owned or controlled by Chinese military
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Trump signs into law a bill forcing foreign companies listed on US exchanges to comply with US accounting rules, or face delisting
Will affect Chinese companies, which refuse to allow US regulators to inspect full audit reports, citing national security
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#NEW
: US raises questions about Wuhan Institute of Virology
US "has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019 [before 1st virus case] with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."
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US judge convicts Chinese professor for stealing trade secrets, economic espionage to benefit Beijing
He, and 5 accomplices, stole radio-filtering technology from 2 US companies, prosecutors said.
The technology took the US firm >20yrs to develop.
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@Jim_Jordan
@andybiggs4az
want AG to explain why the DOJ dropped 6 cases tied to its crackdown on Chinese espionage
“These actions by the [DOJ] raise serious concerns about its commitment to confronting the national security threats posed by [China].”
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Trump directed federal agencies to find ways to minimize procurement of good & services from China, part of efforts to guard against state-sanctioned espionage
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#NEW
: US customs seized $350k worth of counterfeit $100 bills from China destined for Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Earlier in Jan, customs seized $900k in counterfeits —all in $1 bills—from China at a port in Minnesota
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"China's objectives are world domination. They intend to utterly defeat the United States.”
“We need to have the same comprehensive strategy—much like we did in winning the Cold War— ... for defeating China”
@SenTedCruz
on
@AmThoughtLeader
@JanJekielek
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“It’s clearly not because of China or the Chinese people that we’re dealing with a global pandemic,”
@robert_spalding
told me.
“It’s because of the Chinese Communist Party."
#CCPVirus
thus draws a distinction between the regime and the Chinese people.
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The CCP has gotten by with a little help from their "old friends" — Wall Street
Chinese prof said in a viral speech
For 40yrs China "took advantage of the core power circle in the United States”
But from 2016, "Wall Street had no influence on Trump."
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Using sexual/romantic relationships to lure US targets—so-called “honey traps”—is a “common tactic” in the Chinese espionage playbook,
@neftimiades
told me
Congress members have been vulnerable to covert influence & spying efforts for decades
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Chinese researcher who took refuge in the SF Chinese consulate has been taken into custody.
Tang Juan, of UC Davis, fled to the consulate after being questioned by the FBI on 6/20 about allegedly hiding her ties to the Chinese military in her visa app
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@SecPompeo
criticized US colleges for being "hooked on Chinese Communist Party cash"
“We cannot allow this tyrannical regime to steal our stuff to build their military might, brainwash our people, or buy off our institutions..."
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"I signed these bills out of respect for President Xi, China, and the people of Hong Kong...
in the hope that Leaders...of China and Hong Kong will be able to amicably settle their differences leading to long term peace and prosperity"
@realDonaldTrump
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@SecPompeo
, in one of his last acts as SoS, declares Beijing's has committed 'genocide' & 'crimes against humanity' against Uyghurs in Xinjiang
"we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state," per statement
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@SecPompeo
lifts internal restrictions on how US officials can interact with Taiwan counterparts
“The United States government took these actions unilaterally, in an attempt to appease the Communist regime in Beijing.
No more"
per statement
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On the eve of the CCP's 100th, a look back at the atrocities—past and ongoing—committed by the most murderous regime in modern history
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A Beijing prof explains how the CCP was able to “fool" the US for >20yr with the help of its “old friends” on Wall Street.
Trump disrupted that.
But under Biden, the traditional elites and establishment "have a very close relationship with Wall Street"
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"How do we get the Chinese Communist Party to stop the killing of innocents for their organs?
One way is surely to shine a light on what they are doing."
Rights lawyer welcomes US bill that would sanction officials involved in organ harvesting
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A former Apple employee alleges in a discrimination lawsuit that his managers admonished him for approving a media app critical of the Chinese Communist Party.
He accused Apple of punishing him in an attempt to "appease" Beijing, the complaint said
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Xi ordered the CCP to focus on gaining the "power to control the internet" in a 2017 speech, leaked docs show
He described the US as a "rival force" & ordered the party to make "preparations for fighting a hard war” with US in its bid to control the web
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78% of Americans blamed the Chinese regime's initial handling of the outbreak for its global spread
73% said the US should try to promote human rights in China, even if it harms economic ties
Record 73% held unfavorable views of China
- Pew survey
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"Hollywood now regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party—the world’s most powerful violator of human rights"
But every Oscars Americans are lectured on "how this country falls short of Hollywood’s ideals of social justice."
Barr Slams Hollywood, Big Tech for ‘Kowtowing’ to Communist China Over Profits
www.theepochtimes.com
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“The intelligence is clear: Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily, and technologically"
per DNI John Ratcliffe
On the influence front, CCP targeting US lawmakers 6 x
as much as Russia, 12 x Iran.
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Just in: US House just unanimously passed the Hong Kong Human Rights & Democracy Act, and the PROTECT Hong Kong Act - which would ban the export of crowd control equipment to HK.
Both are now one step closer towards becoming law - Senate’s turn now
#hongkong
#HongKongProtest
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Zhang Zhan, citizen journo, gets 4 years prison for covering the early outbreak in Wuhan
The court doc accused Zhang of “maliciously speculating” about Wuhan’s pandemic by “speaking to overseas media Radio Free Asia and The Epoch Times.”
By
@HwaiDer
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Among 59 Chinese cos blacklisted is drone maker DJI for "enabling human rights abuses" by providing high-tech surveillance equip. to regime
DJI= world’s biggest maker of commercial drones
77% market share in US, many used by local public safety agencies
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CCP officials involved in coercive foreign influence activities may now be denied entry into the US, per
@SecPompeo
Action targets CCP's "United Front" work aimed at co-opting local elites and crushing voices critical of the regime.
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A Chinese hacker reveals how he worked for senior officials to conduct cyberattacks on foreign governments, companies, domestic & foreign dissident groups.
"They leave all hard-to-intrude websites to us" where government-employed hackers have failed.
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A Chinese scientist who worked at US petroleum company Phillips 66 last year admitted to stealing info relating to an unspecified energy product— valued at $1.4b - $1.8b
He was on a team developing next-gen tech for lithium-based battery systems
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"Countries must wake up to the fact that Chinese government officials lie daily, lie blatantly and lie outrageously,"
@benedictrogers
told me.
"They must alert the world to the fact that the Chinese regime is to blame for this pandemic."
#coronavirus
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US bars imports of all cotton & tomato products from Xinjiang region over forced labor of Uyghurs & other Muslim minorities
The region supplies 20 percent of the world’s cotton, so order expected to affect global supply chains
US Bans All Cotton, Tomato Products From Xinjiang in Crackdown on Forced Labor
www.theepochtimes.com
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An
@EpochTimes
analysis found that US investors have poured $15 billion into a group of companies designated by the Pentagon to have links to the Chinese military.
BlackRock & Vanguard lead the pack with >$2 billion each in assets held
Story by Fan Yu
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NYPD Officer Baimadajie Angwang, an ethnic Tibetan, fed intelligence about other ethnic Tibetans in New York to the Chinese consulate in NY, per prosecutors
He was arrested on Sat.
Charged with 4 counts incl acting as an agent of China.
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@SecPompeo
described the Chinese Communist Party as a "Marxist-Leninist monster."
"It is brutish and is antithetical to human dignity and freedom”
Meanwhile, Chinese state media are relishing the possibility of a new sec of state.
Story by
@HwaiDer
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Zheng Songguo, a biomed professor at Ohio State University, pleaded guilty to lying about his ties to China to receive $4.1 million in federal grants used to develop China's medical research
per DOJ
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The Chinese regime's goals re interfering in US politics & elections are more expansive than Russia's
They want to "embed themselves inside the West" until it becomes "so powerful in their position there, that nobody can say no to them,” an expert said
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#NEW
: Trump administration will bar Chinese airlines from flying to US from June 16
The move comes after Beijing did not let United & Delta resume flights to China this month
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To replace the US:
1. "We need to create the conditions to make it easier for US to make mistakes.
2. We should make it as busy as possible [dealing with crises]
3. We should become intertwined with US so that it can’t attack us.”
per Chinese prof.
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Trump “completely changed the terms of debate in the United States about how to deal with communist China,” per
@JMichaelWaller
“Trump tore a hole through the CCP propaganda line that is for peace," a lie it had been able to get away with for many yrs
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A group of Chinese tycoons secured a WH visit & meetings with Obama admin officials in 2011 with the help of Hunter Biden's then-business partner Devon Archer
- per emails from Hunter's ex-business associate Devon Cooney given to
@peterschweizer
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US formally rejects almost all of Beijing's maritime claims across the South China Sea
"The PRC’s predatory world view has no place in the 21st century,"
@SecPompeo
said
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Beijing sanctions 28 former Trump officials over Trump's tough China policies, incl:
Pompeo, Nat. Sec. adv. Robert O'Brien, trade advisor Peter Navarro, health sec Alex Azar
Comes a day after Pompeo declared Beijing's repression of Uyghurs a 'genocide'
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@EpochTimes
infographic depicting the array of actions by Beijing to subvert & weaken the United States
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A year ago today Wuhan authorities officially confirmed an outbreak of "unknown" pneumonia, only after whistleblower doctors had shared information on social media
@annieeenyc
, Nicole Hao review a year of virus coverups, censorship &deflection by Beijing
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9 out of 10 Americans view the Chinese regime as a threat—with 62% saying it is a "major threat"
according to new survey by
@pewresearch
Rising negative views come amid growing calls to hold Beijing accountable for causing
#CCPVirus
pandemic
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#NEW
: "My bill would allow [the costs of relocating from China to the United States] to be written off in the tax return,"
@RepMarkGreen
told me.
The congressman is set to introduce a bill to aid manufacturers to relocate from China to US.
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"We are in 2020, in the midst of a people’s war waged by the Chinese Communist Party around the world to essentially destroy liberalism"
"The actions by the [CCP] deliberately impacted the U.S. election"
@robert_spalding
on
@AmThoughtLeader
Beijing Took Advantage of Pandemic to Interfere With US Election: China Expert
www.theepochtimes.com
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NEW: US has charged a China-based exec, Xinjiang Jin, of a U.S. telco co. for his role in suppressing meetings remembering Tiananmen massacre
Company description matches Zoom; In June it suspended US activists' accounts after they hosted those meetings
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"American taxpayer dollars shouldn’t go to an organization more concerned with appeasing the Chinese Communist Party than protecting global health,"
@GReschenthaler
Hong Kong democracy activist
@joshuawongcf
called
@WHO
an "arm of Chinese diplomacy."
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#NEW
: Trump signs Hong Kong Autonomy Act into law that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials, entities involved in eroding Hong Kong's autonomy & banks that support them
He also signed an executive order ending Hong Kong's special status
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Chen Yonglin, former Chinese diplomat who defected in 2005, said the consulate staff was burning documents classified as "secret" + "confidential."
Would include things like:
-reports on spy ops
-directives from CCP organs
- intel on dissident groups
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Chinese state-run outlet China Daily spent millions on paid inserts "China Watch" - propaganda made to look like news - in US papers over the last 4 yrs:
- $4.6m to
@washingtonpost
- almost $6m to
@WSJ
- $240k to
@ForeignPolicy
- $50k to
@nytimes
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#NEW
: US may now deny entry to Chinese officials—and their family members—involved in eroding Hong Kong's autonomy, crushing freedoms and human rights in the city
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US also alleges "secret military activity" at WIV
"The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017."
2/
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#NEW
: Employees of Huawei + other Chinese tech firms that support Beijing's and other regime's rights abuses around the world could now be denied entry into the US
The latest in series of measures targeting Beijing over its human rights violations
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Chinese soccer legend in a vid calls for a new federal state of China.
“The elimination of the Chinese Communist Party is essential in breaking the shackles of slavery imposed on the Chinese people, and also in bringing about peace to the world.”
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Former CIA officer and FBI linguist, Alexander Yuk Chung Ma, 47, of Honolulu, charged with spying for China.
While in FBI, he stole/photographed classified docs for his Chinese handlers.
Ma admitting to spying to an undercover FBI officer last year
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US looking at 'further options to respond' to HK mass arrests & Beijing's lack of transparency during pandemic, Robert O'Brien
"The world cannot continue to pay heavy prices for its naiveté and complicity in Beijing’s irresponsible and harmful practices"
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Former Harvard chair of chemistry indicted on charges of making false statements over receiving funds from a Chinese recruitment program.
Charles Lieber allegedly worked with a Wuhan uni while at the same time receiving >$15 in federal research grants
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The CCP "turned to its military to try to cover this thing up, to try to contain it until it was too late," per fmr dep nat sec advisor Pottinger
He also said the lab leak theory was "highly possible" given the research at Wuhan Institute of Virology
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“They [China] are attempting to capture the benefits of our free society by outright stealing our technology. The stealing of technology is not a sideshow. It undergirds and propels their efforts."
- AG Barr
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Chinese authorities have reported only >2,000
#CCPVirus
deaths in epicenter Wuhan.
But this is disputed by:
-Long lines to pick up ashes a Wuhan funeral home
- 5,000 ash urns delivered to the home over 2 days
- This is 1 of 7 funeral homes in Wuhan
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China, via state-run telco China Unicom, was responsible for the highest number of attacks on US mobile users in 2018, a report found
It managed to track, disrupt & intercept comms. of US users traveling abroad by exploiting a well-known vulnerability
China Engaged in ‘Mass Surveillance’ on Americans’ Mobile Phones, Report Finds
www.theepochtimes.com
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Another US researcher—an engineering prof at Texas A&M—arrested for allegedly concealing links to Chinese universities, a Chinese company and state-backed talent plans
Cheng Zhengdong led a research team that received $750k in NASA funding - DOJ
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FDA barred >60 Chinese makers of N95-style masks from exporting to US after testing found that they didn't filter out particles at the minimum 95% standard.
Comes as more countries reject shoddy masks & medical supplies from China.
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@StateDept
will now require senior Chinese diplomats to seek approval to visit American college campuses & meet govt. officials —a longstanding policy that Beijing has had for US diplomats in China
@pompeo
said this was about restoring reciprocity
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"This laughable propaganda should not fool anyone,"
@SecPompeo
said of Beijing's propaganda surrounding Floyd protests.
Propaganda has 3 aims: stoke tensions in US, divert attention away from Hong Kong, undermine credibility of US & democratic governance
Pompeo Slams Beijing’s ‘Laughable Propaganda’ Exploiting George Floyd Protests
www.theepochtimes.com
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Today is human rights day.
How the Chinese Communist Part marks this day: with house arrests of rights lawyers.
Story by Nicole Hao
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2 Chinese nationals arrested for taking pics at Florida Naval base
— <2 weeks after another Chinese national was arrested for doing the same thing
— months after 2 Chinese diplomats reportedly expelled after driving onto a Virginia military base
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"We are faced not just with one reality—the mass killing in China of prisoners of conscience for their organs—but rather two.
The 2nd being that all too many in the global transplant profession are determined to turn a blind eye to this first reality."
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The admin will cancel visas of Chinese graduate or higher students associated with universities that support the Chinese military.
The PLA "is using certain Chinese students and researchers to steal American technological secrets and innovations," per WH
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“The Chinese thought they had a fast-track to that,”
Pompeo said of Beijing's efforts to lead the World Intellectual Property Organization
“We put up a good candidate … And we crushed them.”
Singaporian Daren Tang defeated Chinese candidate 55- 28.
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"The Chinese Communist Party, in fact, holds major sway over whether a Hollywood movie will be profitable or not—and studio executives know it.”
-
@PENamerica
report
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@StateDept
has uncovered a large bot network on Twitter aimed at amplifying Chinese disinfo & propaganda during pandemic.
It found that Chinese diplomatic Twitter accounts had a surge in new followers from March—many of which were newly created accounts
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“They found that the incision was all the way from the throat to the abdomen. When they pressed the abdomen, they found [it] was stuffed with hard ice.”
Han Yu says her father, a Falun Gong practitioner, was killed for his organs while detained in China
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US class action sues Beijing for causing the global pandemic.
Suit says regime knew virus "was dangerous and capable of causing a pandemic, yet slowly acted, proverbially put their head in the sand, and/or covered it up for their own ... self-interest."
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US sanctions Chinese police chief, Huang Yuanxiong, for "severe violations of religious freedom of Falun Gong practitioners."
"namely his involvement in the detention and interrogation" of adherents,
@SecPompeo
Huang+wife now banned from entering US
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#NEW
: US has called on the Chinese Communist Party to:
-immediately end the persecution of Falun Gong
-release all imprisoned practitioners, and
-account for the whereabouts those missing
on the 21st anniversary of the start of the persecution.
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“If colleges and universities are accepting foreign money and gifts, their students, donors, and taxpayers deserve to know how much and from whom.
the more we dig, the more we find that too many are underreporting or not reporting at all.”
@BetsyDeVosED
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#Google
says it doesn’t work with the Chinese military. But it does work on AI with a top Chinese University that was funded $14.5m to advance AI for the Chinese military. via
@epochtimes
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China has developed self-destruct helmets for PLA soldiers, according to state-run media report
The function can be activated by the commander.
Or the soldier can activate it themselves.
"This can maintain his dignity," the report said.
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“If we can’t trade with China, we sneeze. If China can’t trade with the United States, they catch pneumonia.”
@StephenMoore
@news_ntd
@SimoneGao
#tradewar
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House passed a bill that would grant temporary protected status to Hong Kong residents in the US who fear persecution if they returned.
Bill would also expedite asylum applications for Hongkongers fleeing persecution.
Leg. still needs Senate approval
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Chinese manufacturer charged with exporting 500k masks claiming to meet N95 filtration standard, when in fact they fell far short,
@TheJusticeDept
said
The packaging also falsely claimed it was FDA approved
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The Chinese consulate's attempt to influence Wisconsin
@SenatorRoth
backfired in a big way.
Roth received 2 emails asking him to pass a resln supporting Beijing's efforts.
Instead, he introduced a resln condemning Beijing's coverup of the
#CCPVirus
.
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"I am demanding financial restitution from the [Chinese Communist Party] for this significant harm to the State of Florida and its residents."
—Florida CFO
@JimmyPatronis
' letter to Beijing
The state may recover funds by freezing Chinese assets.
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Chinese Communist Party members & their immediate family are now only eligible for B1/B2 travel visas to US valid for 1 month—rather than for 10 years.
@StateDept
said measure was made to address "CCP’s malign influence.”
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A federal complaint details numerous requests by Chinese agencies for Zoom to share data & censor users in & out of China, incl. a requirement that Zoom carry out censorship requests within 1 min.
With market access at stake, Zoom complied in most cases
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From late Jan to Feb, China imported 2 billion masks and 25 million protective suits
Amid the global shortage of medical gear, Beijing had been amassing billions of supplies from overseas using its network of state-run firms and overseas Chinese orgs.
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Chinese exec of US videoconferencing co (likely Zoom) charged for his role in censoring video meetings marking Tiananmen Massacre
Exec worked with PRC officials to shut down U.S.-based accounts by fabricating evidence that the meetings violated ToS - DOJ
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US will cut off Huawei from acquiring semiconductors from global chipmakers made with US tech.
Commerce dept it was closing a 'loophole' exploited by Huawei after it was blacklisted last May from doing business with US firms on national security grounds
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Europe's most-read paper Bild published an "invoice" to Beijing totaling $160B for loss to Germany's economy caused by the pandemic.
Part of growing calls to make Chinese regime pay for its coverup resulting in global spread of
#CCPVirus
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Edward Peng, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen, sentenced to 4 years for acting as a "courier" for Chinese intelligence.
He admitted to conducting dead drops, retrieving classified info from hotel rooms and flying to Beijing to deliver it to his handler.
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"The free world must triumph over this new tyranny"
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
"Blind engagement with China" no longer tenable, he said.
Instead, should approach CCP with the mindset of "distrust and verify"
Pompeo on Communist China: ‘The Free World Must Triumph Over This New Tyranny’
www.theepochtimes.com
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Biden admin pressed by lawmakers to boycott the Beijing Winter Games unless it's relocated, over the CCP's rights abuses
“We don’t need another 2008 Olympics, which basically promoted totalitarianism. We do not need to do this again,” per
@GordonGChang
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6 Chinese, Hong Kong officials sanctioned by US in response to arrests of >50 HK pro-democracy figures last week.
Among those sanctioned is high-ranking CCP official You Quan, who heads the United Front Work Dept—the unit overseeing foreign influence ops
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“U.S. corporations are more representative of China politically...than they are of the United States."
per
@clydeprestowitz
, author of book on US-China
“They should all be required to make full disclosure of...their ties to China" in public comms
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