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China’s Influence on Hollywood



Wang Jin
April 21, 2020. Updated April 21, 2020


Currently, there are over 730,000 cases of the CCP virus and over 160,000 deaths in the United States. Many of the high-profile cases were Hollywood celebrities.

Why would the CCP virus hit Hollywood hard?

The Epoch Times editorial article, “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” suggests that “the heaviest-hit regions outside China all share a common thread: close or lucrative relations with the communist regime in Beijing.”

Chinese Regime Funds Hollywood’s Productions

More than half of the 10 best movies of 2019 selected by Time magazine were financed by Beijing-friendly firms, such as Tencent Pictures, Sunac Group, Shanghai Road Pictures Film and Television, Media Asia Film, and Bona Film Group.

Meanwhile, “Terminator: Dark Fate,” released in November last year, had an estimated production budget of $185 million with investment from Paramount Pictures, Skydance Media, 20th Century Fox at 30 percent each, as well as Tencent Pictures at 10 percent.

“Midway” was made with $80 million from Bona Film Group, accounting for 70 percent of the film’s budget.

Chinese conglomerate Fosun International invested in the founding of Studio 8, an American entertainment company, in 2014 and took part in the investment of movies such as “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” and “Gemini Man.”

At the end of 2014, China’s largest interactive entertainment group Guangdong Alpha Group established a partnership with U.S. company New Regency Productions. It agreed to invest up to $60 million in three movies that New Regency would produce, including The Revenant.

The 2014 film “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” produced by Paramount, received investment from M1905, a new media subsidiary of the China Movie Channel (CCTV6).

Meanwhile, Alibaba Pictures, the Chinese film studio set up by e-commerce giant Alibaba, started its investment and marketing partnership with Paramount in 2015. Following collaboration on “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation,” it invested in two Paramount films, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” and “Star Trek Beyond.”

CCP influence also manifests through mergers and acquisitions with U.S. companies.

Buying Up Studios

Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, acquired U.S. cinema operator AMC Entertainment for $2.6 billion in May 2012. In 2016, Wanda acquire Hollywood studio Legendary Entertainment and theater operator Carmike Cinemas. The former was the studio behind blockbusters like “Jurassic World” and “The Dark Knight.”

Dalian Wanda announced a strategic partnership with Motion Picture Group, the film unit of Sony Pictures Entertainment, on September 23, 2016.

Wang Jianlin, founder of Dalian Wanda, is a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and has been a delegate to the Party’s rubber-stamp legislature, the National People’s Congress.

Wang’s acquisitions, however, have Congress concerned about the regime’s growing influence in entertainment and view these acquisitions as CCP’s political outlets to spread propaganda and wield cultural influence over the way CCP is portrayed on American television and cinema.

On March 17, 2015, Lionsgate Entertainment entered into a multiyear deal with Chinese state-run broadcaster Hunan TV for co-financing, distribution, development, and production.

On April 1, 2015, Chinese film production company Huayi Brothers Media Corp. signed a three-year deal with Hollywood studio STX Entertainment to jointly finance, produce, and distribute up to 15 movies annually by 2016.

On September 20, 2015, China Media Capital (CMC) and Warner Bros. Entertainment announced a joint venture, Flagship Entertainment Group Limited, 51 percent owned by CMC and 49 percent by Warner Bros.

In January 2017, Paramount made a deal worth $1 billion in slate funds with Shanghai Film Group Corp. and Beijing-based Huahua Media. The two Chinese firms would fund 25 percent or more of the studio’s entire film slate for the next three years, with an option for a fourth, according to Deadline magazine.

However, Paramount announced in November that year that they ended the agreement following changes to Chinese foreign investment policies.

Chinese Market = Censorship

China’s box office cashed in $9 billion in 2018—just behind the United States and Canada, which brought in a total of $11.9 billion that year, according to data compiled by the Motion Picture Association of America.

By 2020, China will be the world’s largest cinema market, with box office revenue expected to jump from $9.9 billion in 2018 to $15.5 billion by 2023, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Experts have warned that China’s lucrative market has led to Hollywood’s self-censorship in order to cater to what Chinese censors want.

Timothy Doescher, associate director of coalition relations at the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Economic Freedom, said: “Hollywood is relying more and more on the Chinese markets to make profits on movies. That means our films are being written with China in mind.”

Aynne Kokas, a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center, told the Financial Times: “You would be hard pressed to find a producer in Hollywood willing to make a film that portrays China negatively.”

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, explained why the Chinese regime has keyed in on Hollywood. “The Chinese Communist Party is communist, and the communists understand very well, then, the culture stands upstream from policy and from politics, and if you seize the culture, you’ve gone a great way towards impacting the population.”

On October 4, 2018, during a speech in which Vice President Mike Pence spoke of the administration’s new approach to U.S.-China relations, he criticized Beijing’s track record of “rewarding and coercing” American movie studios—which he said successfully resulted in plot revisions for films.

“‘World War Z’ had to cut the script’s mention of a virus originating in China. ‘Red Dawn’ was digitally edited to make the villains North Korean, not Chinese,” Pence said at the Hudson Institute.

He continued: “Beijing routinely demands that Hollywood portray China in a strictly positive light. It punishes studios and producers that don’t. Beijing’s censors are quick to edit or outlaw movies that criticize China, even in minor ways.”

Movies Banned by the CCP

Beijing hasn’t been shy about banning certain films that are too sensitive for the regime.

“Red Corner” was a 1997 film starring Richard Gere as an American businessman falsely accused of murder in Beijing. The film had an ominous tagline: “Leniency for those who confess, severity for those who resist.”

As a supporter of Tibetan independence and an ally of the Dalai Lama, Gere has been critical of the Chinese regime.

He said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that his political views have limited his work. “There are definitely movies that I can’t be in because the Chinese will say, ‘Not with him’.”

In a more recent example, the 2019 Netflix film “Laundromat” was banned. Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Meryl Streep, the movie exposes corruption, including in China.

One segment of the film portrays the state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.

This global pandemic—caused by the Chinese regime’s mishandling of the outbreak–has demonstrated that dealing with China carries a heavy price.

Can Hollywood—long been stifled and shaped by China’s economic interests—wake up to the fact and distance itself from the Chinese regime in the future?

Only time will tell.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/persp...ic-chinas-influence-on-hollywood_3320631.html

 

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Lessons from the CCP’s Orders to Destroy Virus Samples and Withhold Pandemic Information

April 27, 2020 | By Zhi Qing(Minghui.org)

The State Council Information Office in China released a white paper titled “Development of China’s Public Health as an Essential Element of Human Rights” on September 29, 2017. The white paper stated, “China set up the world’s largest online direct reporting system of notifiable epidemics and public health emergencies in 2015, and the average reporting time has been shortened from five days before the introduction of the system to four hours.”

This begs the question of why the ongoing coronavirus pandemic wasn't publicly acknowledged by the Chinese Communist Party's top leaders until more than a month after it broke out in Wuhan late last year. Interestingly, two epidemic response drills were held shortly before the outbreak, in July 2019 and September 2019, respectively, with the second drill taking place in Wuhan.

Why did the direct reporting system and drills fail to achieve their purpose of quickly alerting people to public health crises? One of the reasons is that many of the things done by the CCP are just to put on a political show. As such, when crises actually strike, CCP officials are often ordered to prioritize the CCP’s political agenda over the well-being of the Chinese people. In order to maintain its power, the Party turns to censorship and deceit.

A recent document received by Minghui.org reveals that China’s National Health Commission had issued orders to destroy coronavirus samples and prohibited related discussions during the crisis.

Policy from the National Health Commission

A document issued by the Heilongjiang Province Health Commission on February 22, 2020, citing policies from China’s National Health Commission

The above announcement issued by the Heilongjiang Province Health Commission cited a notice from the National Health Commission (Document 2020 No. 3), which said biological samples should be managed in the following way:

1) No institutions are allowed to provide biological samples, pathogens, cultures or related information to any organizations or individuals unless it is authorized by provincial-level or higher health commissions.

2) Institutions or individuals who had obtained biological samples from medical facilities or local CDC agencies prior to this announcement should immediately destroy the samples or submit them to city-level CDC offices.

3) During the period of disease control work, data produced on pathogen detection or research are classified as “special information.” No institution or individual is permitted to disclose pathogen detection or research results; the publication of relevant papers and research results must be reviewed and approved by the designated department.

These three points were consistent with how Wuhan and Hubei officials covered up coronavirus cases, suggesting that they are part of a nationwide policy from top CCP leaders disseminated through all levels of health departments. Based on these requirements, diagnosis and reporting of the coronavirus cases require provincial-level approval.

The abovementioned policy helps explain why the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths are relatively low in China. There have also been reports that coronavirus patients were either recategorized as having other illnesses or simply unreported.

Differentiating the Communist Party from the Country of China

China is ruled by the CCP, which penetrates all levels of government agencies and state-owned enterprises. The official coronavirus data are gathered and reported by CCP officials at every government level.

At each level, the Party secretary ranks higher than the administrative head at that level. Therefore, the CCP has the final say over public health and many other critical policy issues. In the case of the coronavirus pandemic, the CCP is most concerned about maintaining its own power and reputation.

The atheist CCP thrives on violence and deception. In no way does its ideology represent the traditional Chinese culture that has defined China for over 5,000 years. As a result of the CCP's decades of indoctrination, however, many Chinese people often mistakenly equate the CCP to China.

CCP: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

As the pandemic unfolded in the past few months, many people have learned how the CCP covered up the outbreak. But these tactics are not new. In fact, the regime has been deceiving people since it came to power several decades ago—claiming to serve the people but harming whoever interacts with it.

Such practices go back to the origin of the communist party. Scholars have found that communism was derived from the Illuminati, a secret satanic society launched in 1776 in present-day Germany. Its associated organization, the Fabian Society, had a logo of a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The CCP's deceptive nature is similar to a story depicted in ancient Chinese literature. “The Painted Skin” is a story written in Liaozhai Zhiji (Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio) by Pu Songling.

The story was about a young scholar named Wang Sheng who met a beautiful young woman. Wang took her home and lived with her. One day, Wang found her door locked, so he peeked through the window. Inside the room, a ghost was painting a human skin; upon finishing, she put it on and changed back into the woman. Later on, the ghost killed the scholar and ate his heart.

“How silly it is!” Pu wrote at the end of the story. “People sometimes mistake a ghost for a beauty and dismiss wisdom as nonsense... The cause-effect relation exists throughout history—just some people are too foolish to know it.”

After suffering so much from the coronavirus pandemic, I hope many people will learn the lesson and not be fooled by the CCP again.

http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/4/27/184217.html

 

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Canada Beware the Steely Claws of the Chinese Regime
The Calgary Zoo is sending Panda bears Er Shun and Da Mao, originally slated to remain through 2024, ...

May 15, 2020BY Barbara Kay[detail: follow the link]

 

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China sent Canada ‘millions’ of masks to fight COVID-19.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada...ght-covid-19-heres-what-you-need-to-know.html

And Canada sent then right back because they were absolute shyte.

 

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New York must be the most commie state of them all!

It is. Cuomo stripped all medical facilities across the state of PPE and ventilators to give to New York City. Cuomo- "Meh, the people of Buffalo can go f*ck themsleves".

 

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New Jersey’s High Virus Toll Correlates With Ties to the Chinese Regime

Commentary by Wang Jin
May 16, 2020



When COVID-19 broke out in the United States, New Jersey was soon hit severely, and now ranks second across the country just after New York for the highest number of confirmed cases and deaths. As of May 15, New Jersey had 143,905 confirmed cases and 10,138 deaths.

Around the world, areas with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have been severely harmed by the virus. Also, the CCP covered up the outbreak in China for weeks, which cost the whole world tremendously. Thus, an appropriate name has been given to the virus: the CCP virus.

The first case of the CCP virus was discovered in New Jersey on March 4. Increasingly, more confirmed cases followed. On March 9, Governor Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency and a public health emergency for New Jersey. Through April 18, he followed up with 30 administrative orders for schools, libraries, and businesses to close, for people to stay at home, and a curfew. Yet the measures were not effective: 3,000 to 4,000 more cases were confirmed every day afterward.

The Why and the How

People started to wonder why is New Jersey, in particular, so severely hit in the pandemic? How can we solve this problem?

In the editorial “Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” The Epoch Times points out that the virus tends to follow and extend in countries, cities, organizations and individuals with close ties to the CCP. If the CCP’s pernicious influence were removed, would the current pandemic be contained and future casualties prevented?

Dancing With the CCP

New Jersey has a history of closeness to the CCP economically, technologically, and in business. Could this be a deeper reason that New Jersey has been so severely hit in this pandemic?

New Jersey hosts many high-tech businesses, and is the headquarters of 20 Fortune 500 companies. Among the large, medium, and small-sized companies, many have close business contacts with the CCP.

I believe that the nation of China is good, and the Chinese people are good. But the CCP regime has ruled China through corruption, lies, and violence. It has fed itself with “blood”—money and technology—from U.S. companies and has grown strong enough to insinuate its values into American society.

Honeywell’s Big Capital Infusion

Darius Adamczyk, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Honeywell International, said to Chinese state-run media Xinhua in 2017, “‘The strategy of the east serving the world’ and China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ are very well matched.”

“To me, the ‘One Belt, One Road’ is an important measure for China to open to the outside and to further merge into the world. To Honeywell, we will apply the results of R&D, design, and production in China to other regions in the world,” said Adamczyk. One Belt, One Road is China’s flagship foreign policy project, a bid to gain geopolitical power through financing infrastructure projects around the world.

Honeywell was ranked 77 among the Fortune 500 companies in 2018. Its annual revenues were $41.8 billion. Its headquarters had been in NJ since 1958 and moved to North Carolina in 2019, but it has kept several R&D facilities in New Jersey.

Honeywell’s products range from masks, air conditioner thermostats, air purifiers, and water purifiers, to petrochemicals, and automotive materials, among others.

Honeywell is also the world’s leading integrator of avionics systems.

Presently, the CCP has been bragging of its “independently developed” COMAC C919 civil aviation aircraft. But without Honeywell’s parts, that aircraft could not have made it off the ground. Honeywell provides the C919 with fly-by-wire flight control systems, wheel and brake systems, auxiliary power units, and other equipment. Honeywell could not supply the products directly, but became a supplier of C919 through four joint ventures with Chinese firms.

The “joint venture” is a common tactic used by the CCP to force technology transfer. In light of this, how long can Honeywell maintain its advantage in the field of automatic controls and aerospace technology?

Honeywell was one of the first American companies to enter China. After President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in 1972, UOP, a subsidiary of Honeywell, entered China and installed China’s first conversion unit in the Gansu Yumen Oilfield, opening a new era for China’s oil refining industry.

The last two decades saw explosive investment and expansion from the West into China. Likewise, Honeywell moved the Asia-Pacific headquarters of all business units to China. In 2016, Honeywell invested $100 million in Zhangjiang Hi-Tech park in Shanghai to expand its Asia-Pacific head office and its China R&D Center. Its total investments in China has exceeded $10 billion and it owns more that 50 enterprises, either joint ventures or wholly-owned, including more than 20 factories. Honeywell has established R&D centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, and Xi’an.

However, in the eyes of the CCP, Honeywell is nothing but a pawn that can easily be sacrificed in its political games. In 2019, the United States approved the sale of weapons and equipment worth about $2.2 billion to Taiwan. The CCP’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said on July 12 that “China will impose sanctions on U.S. companies involved in the arms sales to Taiwan.” An article from People’s Daily, the CCP’s mouthpiece newspaper, on July 14 named Honeywell directly—because on the list of arms sales to Taiwan, Honeywell provided key components, including gas turbines, for “108 M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks.”

‘Pro-China’ Stance from New Jersey’s Pharmaceutical Sector

New Jersey is known as the heart of the pharmaceutical industry in the United States and the world. Twelve of the country’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies have headquarters or regional headquarters in New Jersey, including Merck (known as Merck East outside the United States and Canada), Johnson and Johnson, and Celgene.

During the financial crisis of 2008, pharmaceutical companies were in dire straits. In order to maintain market share and stock prices, improve efficiency, and reduce R&D costs, international pharmaceutical giants started to transfer their R&D centers to low-cost areas, or adopted the CRO (contract research organizations) model, outsourcing to other countries.

Among the “BRIC countries” (Brazil, Russia, India, China) advocated by American leftist newspapers at that time, China had low environmental protection requirements. It became a major outsourcing destination for large pharmaceutical companies. Countless multinational companies poured investments into China, bringing advanced drug research and development technology and talent to the CCP. 2009 to 2019 is known as the “golden decade” of rapid growth in China’s pharmaceutical industry.

Merck’s Contribution to Chinese Society Kept Under Wraps

Merck had revenues of $42.3 billion in 2018. In terms of revenues, Merck is the fourth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world.

Merck entered the China market shortly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989. In September 1989, under its president Roy Vagelos at the time, Merck decided to transfer the latest genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine technology to China for only $7 million. That price was not enough to cover the cost of dispatching employees to assist China to install equipment and train local employees, which cost far more than $7 million.

In 1993, China successfully produced the first batch of genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccines. Data from 1994 to 2015 show that Merck’s hepatitis B vaccine helped nearly 200 million Chinese children avoid the threat of hepatitis B. However, Merck’s generosity and role were deliberately concealed by the CCP. The average Chinese person knows nothing about it.

After the financial crisis in 2008, Merck increased its investments in China. In 2011, Merck East invested $1.5 billion to establish a China R&D center in Beijing. In April 2013, its 75,000-square-meter Merck East Hangzhou plant (with $120 million invested) was officially put into production. It is one of the most advanced and largest pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging plants in China and the Asia-Pacific region.

Johnson and Johnson’s Huge Investments into China

Johnson and Johnson, a manufacturer of health care products, medical equipment, and medicine, is also the largest company based in New Jersey.

Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, entered China in 1979 and established a chemical and pharmaceutical workshop in China that meets international GMP (good manufacturing practices) standards. The workshop at Hanjiang Pharmaceutical Factory in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, produces mebendazole. In 1985, a joint venture pharmaceutical company, Xi’an Janssen, was established in Xi’an, which became a model for China’s modern pharmaceutical factories.

Johnson and Johnson (China) Co. was incorporated in the Shanghai Minhang Economic and Technological Development Zone in January 1992, with a registered capital of more than $100 million.

Over the past decade or so, Johnson and Johnson has become known for large acquisitions and investments in China.

For example, in 2008, Beijing Dabao Cosmetics Co was acquired for 2.3 billion yuan.

In May 2012, Johnson and Johnson acquired Guangzhou Beixiu Biotechnology Co. for 360 million yuan.

In January 2013, Shanghai–Johnson and Johnson acquired a 100 percent stake in Shanghai Aoya Maternal and Baby Products International Trade Co. for 650 million yuan.

In 2019, Johnson and Johnson announced that its pharmaceutical subsidiary, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, would invest $397 million to build a new large-scale production base for an innovative supply chain in Xi’an. Also, Johnson and Johnson Medical would invest $180 million to build a new factory in Suzhou Industrial Park.

Celgene Put in Huge Sums but Got No Market Share in China

Celgene Pharmaceuticals in New Jersey, founded in 1986, kept pace with China investments too. In 2017, Celgene invested $1.393 billion for the authorization of the PD-1 inhibitor BGB-A317, which was still in clinical trials at Chinese biopharmaceutical company BeiGene. During this transaction at that time, in order to obtain the global authorization, excluding Asia, of BeiGene BGB-A317—an antibody that can be used to treat tumors—Celgene paid $263 million down payment in cash, $150 million in equity investment at a 35 percent premium, and $980 million for research and development expenses and sales royalties for future sales of BGB-A317.

But in 2019, Celgene Pharmaceuticals was acquired by Bristol-Myers Squibb. Because Bristol-Myers Squibb already had a PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo, Celgene Pharmaceutical once again paid $150 million to cancel the global cooperation with BeiGene. So far, Celgene Pharmaceutical has thrown away hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars, all to the CCP’s foreign exchange reserves.

Celgene Pharmaceutical has lost a fortune but could not prevent a disaster. On March 25, 2020, China’s State Food and Drug Administration issued Circular No. 44, stating that due to problems such as inadequate sterility control measures in the production process, a temporary suspension is in place for the import, sales, and use of Celgene’s Paclitaxel. This same medicine has not raised any questions with the U.S. FDA or European regulators. Celgene can only watch the Chinese market be divided among domestic pharmaceutical companies like Hengrui, Luye, Qilu, and CSPC.

China as a Chemical Plant for the World

While Chinese enterprises received money and technology from multinational companies, the Chinese regime also supported the development of its pharma sector. China became the world’s chemical plant with small gram-scale laboratories and large-scale chemical projects that can mass-produce polyethylene, polyester, polypropylene, and PX Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API).

Chinese pharmaceutical companies rely on dumping goods at low prices in overseas markets, with the government supporting them with export subsidies.

About 80 percent of U.S. APIs are imported from foreign countries, especially from China and India. Many raw chemical materials in India are also purchased from China. China is the world’s largest supplier of APIs and of basic chemical materials needed to produce many prescription and non-prescription drugs and vitamins.

At a hearing held by the U.S.-China Commission for Economic and Security Review (USCC) in the Senate on July 31, 2019, Rosemary Gibson, senior consultant at Hastings Research Center, said, “The dependence of several thousands of pharmaceutical ingredients and APIs poses a threat to U.S. health and national security. ”

New Jersey Has Close Business Ties With China

Beyond the companies mentioned above, New Jersey has a close business and economic relationship with China.

The value of goods imported into New Jersey from China in 2017 was about $18.17 billion, and in 2016 it was nearly $17.7 billion. The most-imported products from China include petroleum, fossil fuels, pharmaceuticals, and auto parts. According to data from the International Trade Administration, as of 2016, about 131,900 jobs in New Jersey depended on trade with foreign partners, of which 15 percent (about 19,000 jobs) originated from trade with China. During the pandemic, the CCP virus has severely damaged companies that rely heavily on China.

According to a report released by the U.S.-China Business Council in 2018, China was New Jersey’s fourth-largest trading partner in 2017, with exports reaching $1.6 billion, a 62 percent increase from 2008. Goods exported from New Jersey include: basic chemicals ($159 million), computer equipment ($144 million), non-ferrous metal products ($122 million), waste items ($138 million), and soaps, detergents, and toiletries ($93 million).

China was also the fifth-largest export service partner of New Jersey in 2016, with an export service value of $1.4 billion, an increase of 179 percent over 2007. Export services include: travel ($352 million), education ($252 million), passenger fares ($120 million), industrial process concessions and user fees ($165 million), and air and port services ($59 million).

New Jersey Is One of the Bridgeheads for Chinese Companies

In the past 20 years, due to its convenient transportation, similar climate to Shanghai, excellent school districts, and cheaper housing prices than Manhattan, New Jersey has become a bridgehead for Chinese companies to enter the United States.

China UnionPay US is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. For the first time in 2015, China UnionPay card surpassed Visa, Inc. in transaction volume and card issue volume, becoming the world’s largest bank card clearing organization. China UnionPay announced on April 9, 2020 that UnionPay International and Huawei launched Huawei Payments in Hong Kong and Macau.

As early as 2011, Huawei established its northeast U.S. headquarters in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Huawei has been heavily scrutinized for its close ties to the Chinese military. Its unethical business practices such as stealing trade secrets have been prosecuted by U.S. authorities.

China Construction America, a subsidiary of China Construction Corporation (China Construction), was established in 1985. In 2013, China Construction America spent more than $70 million to acquire an office building in Morris Township, New Jersey. In 2016, it renovated two buildings on the waterfront of Jersey City to become its headquarters office.

In addition, New Jersey established a “sister state” relationship with Zhejiang Province as early as 1981. In 2008, it reiterated its “sister” relationship with Zhejiang Province. That same year, New Jersey established a “sister” relationship with Shandong Province.

There are currently two Confucius Institutes in New Jersey, one at Rutgers University and the other at City University of New Jersey. Confucius Institutes are funded by the Chinese regime with the stated purpose of promoting Chinese language and culture, but they have come under fire in the United States for a lack of transparency, violation of academic freedom, and suspicions of spying.

When Xi Jinping—now the Chinese leader—visited as Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Communist Party Committee in 2006, Kean University in New Jersey and Wenzhou University signed an agreement to co-found Wenzhou Kean University. However, since its launch in 2012, there has been continued negative news about Wenzhou Kean University. For example, enrollment giving priority to Communist Party members was clearly stated in advertisements. Students also complained about the school’s purchase of a high-priced conference table from Shanghai for $219,000.

Conclusion

History and lessons drawn from past experience tell us that the epidemic is not accidental.

Where there are close ties with the CCP or where capital infusion is given to the CCP, the area is severely hit by the virus.

Perhaps the pandemic serves as a warning to stay away from the CCP. It is worth a sober look.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-j...-with-ties-to-the-chinese-regime_3352751.html

 

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Pandemic Spotlights New York State’s Close Political Ties With Beijing

Commentary by Kelly Song
May 15, 2020


Since March 2020, New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States.

The Chinese regime’s coverup and mishandling of the outbreak has highlighted Beijing’s deceptive tactics.

It has also prompted some countries and institutions to re-examine their relationship with Beijing.

Will New York State do the same, given its close political ties with Beijing?

New York has always been a highly coveted target to conquer for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). From finance to real estate, entertainment to media, Ivy League institutions to school boards, state government to community organizations, the CCP has been using a whole-of-country approach to extend its influence into every fabric of society.

Below, we take a look at Beijing’s influence at all levels of government in New York State.

Investment and Cooperation on All Levels

The Canadian National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Annual Report released in 2019 said: “With deep coffers and the help of Western enablers, the CCP uses money, rather than communist ideology, as a powerful source of influence, creating parasitic relationships of long-term dependence.”

By the end of 2015, Chinese businesses had made a total investment of $9.5 billion in 95 projects across the state of New York. By the end of 2016, the numbers rose to $15.5 billion in roughly 120 projects across the state. China became New York State’s biggest trading partner outside of North America, with China as the top export destination for the state.

Since 2016, the New York state government has actively set up trade and investment cooperation relationships with six Chinese provinces or municipalities: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Beijing, and Shanghai. Former New York lieutenant governor Kathy Hochul stressed that the scale of the U.S. and Chinese economies “really demands closer integration.”

In addition, there were 10 pairs of sister cities between the State of New York and China by 2015.


The ‘Western Enablers’

Such a relationship is not possible without the “Western enablers,” who are pro-Beijing groups and U.S.-based Beijing-funded businesses. For example:

China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC), chaired by Xu Chen, President and CEO of Bank of China USA.

China Construction America (CCA), headed by Yuan Ning and based in New Jersey, is a subsidiary of the state-owned China State Construction Engineering Corp. Ltd. (CSCEC).

China Institute caters to a large pool of corporate members by providing them access to “expert guidance on building brand exposure in the Chinese market” among other perks. It also houses the first Confucius Institute (CI@CI) in New York, since 2006.

Asian American Community Empowerment (BRACE) was established in 2013. Its board members include community leaders, association presidents, and various business and trade corporations, with a total membership of nearly 10,000.

Sino-American Friendship Association has invited Beijing to participate in the Times Square New Year Eve celebration since 2011, enabling Chinese performance groups and Chinese consulate members to portray a positive image of the Chinese regime.


Beijing’s Diplomatic Efforts

Since 2017, there has been increasing international scrutiny of CCP’s industrial espionage; investments overseas, including its Belt and Road projects; military build-up in the South China Sea; and unfair trade practices.

All that drove Beijing to elevate its efforts to boost its image overseas, especially in New York State.


An Unexpected Transfer

In November 2018, then-Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Huang Ping, was unexpectedly transferred to the Chinese consulate in New York to become Consul General.

South China Morning Post quoted Robert Kapp, former president of the U.S.-China Business Council, who said the move was to counter a more aggressive stance toward Beijing since President Donald Trump took office. “This is a time of crisis in U.S.-China relations,” Kapp said.

CGCC hosted a welcoming event for Huang in December 2018. Over 100 local business leaders attended, including Andy Purdy, former director of the national cyber security division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and now chief security officer at Huawei Technologies USA; Ed Amoroso, former CSO of AT and T; and Tony Scott, former CIO at Microsoft and the Walt Disney Company.

Chairman Xu Chen pledged CGCC’s commitment to “work together with the Consul General to bring more Chinese companies to the ten eastern states, and to bring about a new era in Sino-U.S. trade and commerce.”


Meetings, Meetings, Meetings

In March 2019, Huang met with more than a dozen lawmakers in Albany and visited several city council offices.

Huang urged the New York State government and city governments to support exchanges and cooperation with China.

In return, a delegation of state lawmakers, led by Toby A. Stavisky, vice chair of the Senate Majority Conference, visited Huang at the New York Chinese consulate in May. Huang asked the legislature to “handle the sensitive matters appropriately,” according to a post on the Chinese consulate website.


The ‘China Day’ Resolution

Such diplomacy resulted in the “China Day” New York Senate resolution, the first in the nation to commemorate October 1, the 70th anniversary of the CCP’s takeover of China.

On June 18, 2019, representatives of the Chinese consulate and pro-Beijing organizations were invited to witness the passing of the resolution on the New York Senate floor.

The groups instrumental to making the resolution possible were the American Chinese Commerce Association, Asian American Community Empowerment (BRACE), and American Chinese Development Center.

These groups hosted a celebration of the “China Day Resolution” in Brooklyn on July 20, 2019. State senators, assembly members, and city council members attended. Senator James Sanders was the sponsor of the resolution.

Sanders said that it was his wish that through the resolution, New York State will become the leader in the U.S. cooperation with China, according to a post about the event on the BRACE website.

Another celebration organized by 17 local pro-Beijing groups took place one month later at the David H. Koch theater in Lincoln Center. At the event, Sanders praised China, saying, “Chinese Americans built America, China built the world.”


Trips to China

The chairman of BRACE, John S. Chan, told pro-Beijing newspaper China Press that the group has been working for years on the resolution.

In April 2017, BRACE organized an 18-person “New York Economic Relations Friendship Delegation” to visit Beijing and Shanghai. The delegation consisted of five New York state lawmakers.

The lawmakers were welcomed by top officials in Beijing city’s rubber-stamp legislature.

On Sept. 15, 2019, the New York Economic Relations Friendship Delegation sponsored by BRACE and the American Chinese Commerce Association Hong Kong once again embarked on a two-week trip to China. The delegation, led by Sen. Sanders, visited eight cities. According to a China Press report, they discussed cooperation between New York State and China in areas such as commerce, education, and internet technology.


Bloomberg’s Support

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, is a supporter of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, also known as One Belt One Road) and other China interests.

Two weeks after Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in June 2017, Bloomberg spoke at a high-level gathering of Chinese and foreign dignitaries that included China’s Ambassador Cui Tiankai, former Hong Kong Chief Executive C.H. Tung, Asia Society Policy Institute President and former Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Asia Society President Josette Sheeran.

In his speech, Bloomberg praised China’s climate change initiatives, saying, “China does deserve a lot of credit for its leadership which sets a strong example for other countries.”

On the financial front, Bloomberg Philanthropies hosted the first high level U.S.-China business forum in April 2017. He said, “Over the last year (2016), I’ve been chairing a working group to help make it possible to trade and clear the RMB (Chinese currency) in the U.S.”

He spoke of milestones in China’s finance sector cooperation with the United States. “Last year the Bank of China New York branch became the first clearing bank in the U.S. The first American CD in RMB was issued. The first U.S. based license to trade Chinese stocks and bonds was issued. In March, Bloomberg became the first financial data provider to provide Chinese bonds and fixed income indexes.”

He went on to talk about BRI: “Investing in infrastructure is the best way to spur economic growth. Our company has hosted a series of events around the world called, ‘China navigating the new silk road.’ This year, it was held in Geneva, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, London, and attended by the Chinese ambassador in the country.”


Chinese Construction in New York

Though the United States is not a participant in the BRI, China has many construction investments in the country.

In February 2019, New York Consul General Huang Ping visited the headquarters of China Construction America (CCA) in New Jersey.

CCA is a subsidiary of the state-owned China State Construction Engineering Corporation. An article on the website of the China General Chamber of Commerce (CGCC) describes CCA as “shouldering the major responsibility of the globalization of Chinese construction assets, as well as an active enabler of the Belt and Road strategy.”

Huang told CCA President Yuan Ning, “Despite the difficulties caused by the trade war, CCA should continue taking advantage of the aging infrastructure in the U.S. to expand your market.”

CCA has close contacts with the Chinese consulate and local pro-Beijing groups. In 2017, CCA’s CEO Yuan Ning received a “Blue Cloud” award from the China Institute for “his significant contributions” to the U.S.-China relationship.

For two terms, Yuan was the chairman of CGCC. Cui Tiankai, Ambassador to the United States praised Yuan for “building up the most important bridge, CGCC, a perfect platform for China-U.S. trade and commerce.”

The other notable recipient of the Blue Cloud award in 2017 was New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.

Some of the projects CCA has completed in New York include the replacement of the first railroad bridge of the LIRR (Long Island Rail Road) expansion project. New York Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul visited the project team during construction.

CCA also built a luxury rental tower by the Hudson River in the city of Yonkers. Yuan, Consul General Huang, and Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano were present at the ribbon-cutting ceremony in May 2019. Huang took the opportunity to advocate cooperation between the two countries: “This project further demonstrated that by cooperating together we can create a win-win result,” he said.

In June 2019, officials from Yonkers led by mayor Spano and deputy mayor Jim Cavanaugh visited the Chinese Consulate in New York, “to further promote and enhance the trade relations and cultural communication between China and the City of Yonkers. China Construction America and other China-invested enterprises were also encouraged to participate in local projects and further contribute to the healthy development of China-U.S. relationship,” the New York Chinese consulate wrote on its website.


Pro-Beijing Resolutions

On March 7, 2017, the NY State Senate and Assembly both adopted a resolution to welcome then-Consul General Zhang Qiyue and CGCC members.

Before CCP leader Xi Jinping’s planned visit to the United States in September 2015, the New York State Senate passed two resolutions—one to welcome Xi to the United States; and the other to “reaffirm the commitment to strengthen the ties between the State of New York and the People’s Republic of China.” The State Assembly also passed a similar resolution.


Events to Promote Cooperation With Beijing

In December 2018, BRACE, the pro-Beijing organization, held its fifth anniversary gala in Brooklyn. Five state senators, two city council members, and representatives of the Chinese consulate attended the gala.

The China (Guizhou)-U.S. Investment and Trade Promotion Conference took place in June 2017. The conference promoted cooperation in high-end manufacturing, big data, and the health industry. The Vice Governor of Guizhou Province Lu Yongzheng, then-Consul General Zhang, and New York state lawmakers attended the event.

In July 2017, a forum on trade and investment between China and New York state was held in the city of Buffalo. Zhang, New York State Economic Development executive VP Jeff Janiszewski, and Buffalo mayor Byron Brown attended the meeting.

In July 2014, Governor Cuomo launched a global tourism initiative to promote New York businesses to the Chinese tourism market. Cuomo announced a partnership with China Southern Airlines, which kicked off on Aug. 6, 2014 with China Southern Airlines celebrating its inaugural direct flight from Guangzhou, China to JFK International Airport in New York.


Governors Warned About China Infiltration

During the National Governors Association meeting in early February 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said: “The Chinese government has been methodical in the way it’s analyzed our system … it’s assessed our vulnerabilities and it’s decided to exploit our freedoms, to gain an advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local level.”

“In fact, I’d be surprised if most of you in the audience had not been lobbied by the Chinese Communist Party directly.”

Pompeo warned state governors to be wary of China’s infiltration, citing a letter from a diplomat at the Chinese consulate in New York to the speaker of an unnamed state legislature, advising that U.S. officials refrain from independent interaction with Taiwan.

“You had a diplomat from China, assigned here to the United States, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party, in New York City, sending a letter urging that an American elected official shouldn’t exercise his right to freedom of speech,” Pompeo explained.

As of Oct. 16, 2019, Chinese diplomats in the United States must notify the State Department in advance of “official meetings with representatives of state, local and municipal governments; official visits to educational institutions; and official visits to research institutions.”


Epicenter of the CCP Virus

On Jan. 22, Consul General Huang rang the closing bell at NASDAQ to ring in the Chinese New Year. At the same time, China’s Wuhan city went into full lockdown to curb the spread of the CCP virus, also known as the novel coronavirus. Yet the world did not receive enough warning about the severity of the outbreak in China, nor the potential spread of the virus via human-to-human transmission. Life largely went on as usual.

On March 1, New York Governor Cuomo confirmed the first CCP virus case in the state. At the time, over 70 cases had been reported in the United States, with most in the West Coast. However, over the next few weeks, New York State became the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States and New York City had been the hardest hit. To date, there are over 353,000 confirmed cases in the state, with over 27,000 deaths.

As the virus spread to other countries, the CCP quickly switched to “face mask diplomacy,” portraying itself as the savior of the world by selling often defective PPE (personal protective equipment) to countries of strategic importance. Moreover, it expected gratitude from the world.

The Chinese Consulate in New York teamed up with Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, and donated 1,000 ventilators to New York hospitals. Cuomo praised the Chinese regime for its help. In April, the State Senate passed a resolution to express “sincere gratitude to the Chinese government for their thoughtful gift.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-york-states-close-political-ties-with-beijing_3351309.html

 

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Vatican & CCP

Chen Han, The Epoch Times
May 11, 2020, Updated May 12, 2020

Since the Vatican City (the Holy See) confirmed its first case of the CCP virus on March 5, a total of 12 people have been infected. Why did the small city fall prey to the pandemic?

The virus’s spread has highlighted countries’ ties to the Chinese regime. Let’s examine the Vatican’s developing relations with Beijing in recent years.

The Vatican has a population of approximately 800 people. On May 6, the Holy See press office announced that a 12th person tested positive for the CCP virus. The first cardinal to test positive was Angelo De Donatis, the Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, on March 30.

On the evening of March 27, Pope Francis stood alone in St. Peter’s Square and during the prayer service he said, “We find ourselves afraid and lost.” The service was livestreamed around the world.

Why has the Vatican, the highest authority of the Catholic Church, been affected by the CCP virus?

The Vatican and Beijing severed ties in 1951 after the communist takeover. The Vatican does not recognize the so-called Catholic bishops appointed by the CCP through its “self-selection” and “self-consecration” procedures.

However, in the past few years, the situation has begun to change.

In September 2018, the Vatican signed an agreement with Beijing, allowing Chinese authorities to appoint China’s bishops. The Holy See endorsed the legitimacy of these Beijing-appointed bishops.

Cardinal Joseph Zen, a former bishop of Hong Kong, criticized the Holy See for surrendering completely to the CCP and keeping silent about the CCP’s record of human rights violations.

The BBC published an article stating that the Vatican signed the agreement with Beijing in order to promote good relations and to attract more mainland Chinese to join the Christian faith in the future.

In an exclusive interview with Hong Kong-based newspaper Asia Times in February 2016, Pope Francis urged the world not to fear China’s “growing power” and he conveyed a message of friendship to Chinese leader Xi Jinping for the Lunar New Year. Francis avoided talking about human rights and the CCP’s persecution of Catholics in China.

During the Hong Kong protests over a since-shelved extradition bill last year, the Vatican chose to remain silent on the issue.

In a blogpost, Cardinal Zen wrote that he flew to Rome to meet the Pope in June last year to plead with him in person to take a stance against Beijing’s erosion of Hong Kong’s autonomy. But five months later, the Vatican did not make any statement about the protests.

The Vatican’s compromise with the CCP is not limited to the above.

In February 2017, the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) wrote a letter to the Pope, urging him to prevent two Chinese officials from attending the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy Summit on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism. Dr. Huang Jiefu and Dr. Wang Haibo have been heavily involved in organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, according to research by the WOIPFG. Huang was a former vice minister in charge of organ transplantation in the CCP’s Ministry of National Health and Family Planning Commission. Wang was responsible for creating China’s organ transplant database.

Huang himself later revealed in an interview with Phoenix TV that his invitation to the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences was condemned by 12 medical ethics experts from various countries who raised concerns about China’s forced organ harvesting.

Huang also bragged to the reporter about the support he received from Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Pope, for his participation in the conference.

Bishop Sorondo not only welcomed Huang to the Vatican, but also looked forward to being invited to visit China. His wish was quickly fulfilled, and in subsequent interviews with the media, he praised the CCP and downplayed the CCP’s organ transplant abuses.

In the past few years, Pope Francis has repeatedly extended an olive branch to Beijing, expressing his willingness to visit China. This may also be the next goal of the Holy See after signing the appointment agreement for bishops between China and the Vatican in 2018. The South China Morning Post reported in August 2014 that Francis told a group of reporters who traveled with him to South Korea and were flying back with him to Europe: “Do I want to go to China? Of course, even tomorrow.”

The CCP’s coverup and delayed response to the CCP virus outbreak caused the pandemic and now the world is suffering from the consequences. However, Pope Francis publicly praised the CCP for its efforts in containing the CCP virus within its borders.

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Decoupling New York From the CCP

Epoch Times Commentary
Paul Vallely Steve Bannon
April 26, 2020. Updated: April 27, 2020


Tragically, New York, the No. l city in the world, has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. Over the last four decades, New York has also been the city infiltrated the most by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

“To conquer the enemies, the first priority is to capture the head,” states a Chinese proverb.

To counteract the CCP, the priority is to start cleansing the CCP infiltration from New York. Not only will this greatly help New York recover from the pandemic, but also will set a good model for the rest of the nation, leading the entire nation and the western countries to a recovery. The sooner these actions can be implemented, the sooner the recovery will take place.

On April 16, an article titled, “Comparing New York with Hong Kong, Why Is Hong Kong So Lucky (in this Pandemic)?” was published in the Chinese version of The Epoch Times.


The article states that both New York and Hong Kong are world financial centers. The population in New York is 8.5 million, while Hong Kong is one million less, or 7.5 million. Both cities are tourist centers, attracting almost the same number of tourists, each at a whopping 65 million every year.

In terms of tourists from mainland China, New York receives 1.1 million visitors from mainland China every year, while Hong Kong receives a shocking 51 million annually, 46 times that of New York.

Geographically, New York is 7,500 miles from Wuhan, the origin of the pandemic, while Hong Kong is only 570 miles away, 13 times closer. Just about every figure suggests that Hong Kong should have a much higher risk of pandemic outbreak than New York. However, the actual data are exactly the opposite.

As of April 26, the number of confirmed infections in New York City is 158,000, compared to 1,038 in Hong Kong; New York is more than 100 times higher.

The number of deaths in New York is 12,067, compared to only four in Hong Kong; New York is 3,000 times higher. As of April 26, Hong Kong remained still open, while New York had already implemented shelter-in-place for over 4 weeks. What is wrong with New York?
“The Closer to the Chinese Communist Party, the Worse the Pandemic”

On March 11 and April 26, The Epoch Times published two consecutive editorials on the pandemic, disclosing deep, mysterious insights, “The spreading of the virus shows a clear pattern, which is, it is selectively targeting the CCP and is aimed at eliminating the CCP and those who are pro-communist or who have close ties with the CCP.

“All regions that are hard-hit by the virus outside China are those having intimate ties with the CCP, those who have supported the CCP in terms of trade, investment, or helping the CCP improve its international image. Likewise, individuals who have been the CCP’s supporters often find themselves vulnerable to the CCP virus.”(3)

As the world’s No.1 city, New York is the center of the global economy, finance, commerce, and media. It also has great influence on global politics, education, and entertainment. It is the headquarters of the United Nations and other international organizations. Through decades of penetration, these organizations are heavily controlled by the CCP.

The significance of New York City made it the No. 1 target of the CCP’s infiltration. “By infiltrating New York’s economy, finance, commerce, media, culture, education, Chinese-American community and other fields, the CCP has channeled wealth and technology back to China. While exporting its ideology and abuse of human rights to the world, it has attempted to seize world leadership and challenge the United States.”(3)

The April 26 editorial also provided good prescriptions for the pandemic: “Staying away from the CCP, condemning the CCP, not supporting the CCP can help any individual, organization, and country alleviate or even avoid the attacks of the CCP virus. They will then embrace a wonderful future.”(3)

Wall Street Must Stop Funding the CCP

For the Communist China regime to survive, one necessity is wealth—like blood for a human. Sadly, the survival of the CCP is sustained by Wall Street, the American financial capital. Wall Street has played a dominant role in transfusing blood to the CCP for many years. “Wall Street … has become the behind the curtains financier helping the Chinese Communist regime prolong its life.”(3)

“In the past 20 plus years, financial groups on Wall Street have been encouraging Americans to invest in Chinese businesses. Meanwhile, large financial firms underwrite transactions for Chinese firms to purchase or control U.S. companies, real estate, and other businesses. Wall Street was also lobbying policy-makers for decisions that favor China.”(4)

For instance, three major institutions (MSCI—Morgan Stanley Capital International, FTSE Russell, Bloomberg Index) have endorsed A-share stocks and CCP government bonds, enriching the CCP by at least $500B.

Many securities firms, investment banks, and accounting firms colluded with China to cheat, helping more than a thousand Chinese companies to profit through IPOs.

In addition, JP Morgan established a “Children Project” that hires the children of the CCP elites. This project has become a symbol of close cooperation between Wall Street and the CCP elites.(4)

Wall Street should end the blood transfusion to China and separate itself from the CCP:
1. move the wealth back to America or elsewhere until the CCP collapses
2. end any “Children Projects” and let go CCP agents within American firms
3. stop IPOs of Chinese companies until the CCP collapses
4. audit Chinese companies listed on the stock market

Not only will these actions greatly accelerate the disintegration of the CCP, but also will protect Wall Street itself and New York from the pandemic. Only by ending the collaboration with the CCP could Wall Street welcome a good future.

End CCP’s Propaganda in Times Square, in Media

Times Square is the landmark of New York City. “Since Aug. 1, 2011, Xinhua News has maintained a 24/7 presence on a 60-by-40-foot billboard overlooking Times Square. ‘The sign sits atop flashing ads for Prudential, Coca-Cola and Samsung, making it one of the most visible billboards in the world,’ NPR reported.”(5)

“On May 19, 2011, the CCP’s mouthpiece Xinhua moved its North American headquarters to 1540 Broadway with a 20-year lease. Another mouthpiece, People’s Daily Online, became a tenant of the Empire State Building on July 13, 2011.”(5)

“China Daily has been paying major U.S. newspapers for supplements or inserts, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today. All the inserts are called ‘China Watch,’ and all the contents are from China Daily.”

Taking advantage of freedom of speech, the CCP propaganda has been insidiously spreading the poisonous communist ideology to brainwash the American public.(6) Freedom of Speech is not for the evil to spread its poison.

All forms of CCP propaganda in New York, including billboards at Time Square and around the city, advertorial inserts into American newspapers, and broadcast or publication by CCTV, China Daily, People’s Daily (by Xinhua News Agency), China Global Television Network (CGTN), China Radio International, should end as soon as possible.

Universities, Colleges Must Stop Collaboration With CCP

“In the name of cultural exchange and collaboration, the CCP has launched Confucius Institutes, donated funds, and instructed Chinese students to steal information and suppress freedom of speech on U.S. campuses. According to the U.S. Department of Education, at least 9 top colleges in the U.S. received funding from China’s tech giant Huawei in the past 6 years, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of California at Berkeley, and Cornell.”(5)

The infiltration into American universities and colleges is an important part of China’s overseas propaganda setup. Hence,
1. All universities and colleges must stop accepting donations from any Chinese companies or Chinese organizations.
2. All professors and intellectuals must stop collaborating with Chinese universities/institutes/companies.
3. All Confucius Institutes must be immediately shut down.
4. The CCP agents on campus must be dismissed.

End the CCP’s Infiltration of U.S. Communities

“Chinatown communities in Manhattan and Flushing, New York have been controlled by the CCP for decades. For example, the Northeast Chinese Community Federation (unofficial translation of its Chinese name) is one of three CPPRC (Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China) organizations established in New York.”(5)

The Association for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China (APPRC) has about 200 branches worldwide. All of them are strong advocates for the Chinese regime. “Experts say the organization’s goal is to advance China’s interests and silence criticism of the emerging superpower. In fact, these associations affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party often disguise themselves as ordinary NGOs.”(5)

Another example is Ms. Li Huahong. The leader of a local communist front group in Flushing, NY called the Chinese Anti-Cult World Alliance, Li has been organizing brutal assaults on Falun Gong practitioners since as early as 2008.

All these NGOs affiliated with the CCP must be disbanded with the key leaders investigated.

End Sister-City Relation With Beijing, the Capital of Communist China

As early as 1980, New York formed sister-cities with Beijing—the capital of Communist China. The Brooklyn borough of New York formed sister-city relationships with the Chaoyang District of Beijing and the city of Yiwu in 2014. There are more pairs of sister-cities with the CCP in the area. In the name of friendship, all these sister-cities are set up by the CCP to further infiltrate New York city government and communities.

New York City should end these sister-city relationships with the CCP, especially the one with Beijing, to prevent the city from being exploited.

Steve Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, former investment banker, and the former executive chairman of Breitbart News. He served as White House chief strategist during the first seven months of President Donald Trump’s administration. He currently hosts the radio show “War Room: Impeachment.”

Paul E. Vallely, MG US Army (Ret), is chairman of Stand Up America USA. His latest book is “Operation Sucker Punch: Blood for Our Future.” He is the co-author of “Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror.”

This article is released by Stand Up America US Foundation and is part of its Operation Nemesis 2.0, Retribution Against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).


References

1 “Comparing New York With Hong Kong, Why Is Hong Kong So Lucky (in this Pandemic)?” By Wu Xu’er, The Epoch Times, Chinese-language edition, April 16, 2020.
2 “Editorial: Where Ties With Communist China Are Close, the Coronavirus Follows,” The Epoch Times Editorial Board, The Epoch Times, March 11, 2020.
3. “Editorial: There Is a Cure for the Chinese Communist Party Pneumonia—Say No to the CCP,” The Epoch Times Editorial Board, The Epoch Times, April 26, 2020.
4. “”Chinese Communist Party’s Growing Clout and Explosion of Coronavirus Cases in
New York and the U.S. (Part 1),” En.Minghui.org, April 8, 2020.
5. “Chinese Communist Party’s Growing Clout and Explosion of Coronavirus Cases in New York and the U.S. (Part 2)” En.Minghui.org, April 9, 2020.
6. “How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World,” The Epoch Times Editorial Team of “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” 2018.
7. “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,” Anonymous, The Epoch Times, November 2004.

 

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How Much ‘Capital Transfusion’ Has New York Provided to Communist China?

Wang Jin
April 30, 2020, Updated: May 1, 2020


Commentary

New York, the world’s top financial and business center, has been hit hard by the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

Amid the Chinese regime’s cover-up and mishandling of the outbreak, which has caused a global pandemic, many countries and institutions are reevaluating their relationship with Beijing.

Could New York’s powerful institutions, such as Wall Street and the pharmaceutical giants headquartered in the city, ever consider “decoupling” from China, given their long history of close economic ties?

How much “blood transfusion” have they provided to the CCP in the past?

During an interview with CNBC on April 25, 2019, former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said, “The entire operation of the Chinese Communist Party and what they’re running in China is being funded by Wall Street. Corporate America today is the lobbying arm of the Chinese Communist Party and Wall Street is its investor relations department.”

According to a document released by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), which reports regularly to the U.S. Congress, as of Feb. 25, 2019, there were 156 Chinese companies listed on the NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange, and the NYSE American (formerly known as the American Stock Exchange)—the three largest U.S. stock exchanges—with a total market capitalization of $1.2 trillion.

This document also shows that among the Chinese companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges, Alibaba had a market value of $458.6 billion. Its main investment institutions include top U.S. financial institutions such as New York-based Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, among others.

PetroChina has a market value of $123.6 billion. Its major investor institutions include New York-based BlackRock Group, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs. BlackRock Group is one of the largest investment management corporations for listed companies in the United States. PetroChina is a state-owned enterprise directly controlled by the CCP.

Sinopec, another Chinese state-owned enterprise, has a market value of $5.4 billion, and Morgan Stanley is one of its major investor institutions.

Needless to say, the funds Chinese companies obtained from the U.S. stock market have fallen into the pockets of the CCP or these financial institutions.

If any Chinese company is delisted from U.S. exchanges, apparently both China and the U.S. financial institution would have to suffer the loss.

How Much Has Wall Street Invested in Listed Chinese Companies?

Wall Street has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese companies listed in the United States.

Statistics from Bloomberg at the end of November 2017 revealed that one-third of the 215 major investment funds on Wall Street bought Alibaba’s stocks.

In October 2019, BBC compiled a table based on data provided by Refinitiv and CNN, which showed that BlackRock held about $9 billion worth of Alibaba shares, nearly $1 billion worth of Baidu stock, and tens of millions of dollars’ worth of Tencent shares.

Among all U.S. institutional investors, BlackRock, T. Rowe Price Associates, and Vanguard Group are the top three in total investments in China. Their combined investments in Chinese companies exceeded $40 billion.

Two other major investment funds—State Street Global Advisors US and Invesco Advisers Inc.—also held a large amount of Chinese company stocks, with a total market value of approximately $15 billion.

What Is the Return on Investment?

In 2019, data released by the Washington State Investment Board showed that from 2017 to 2018, the internal rate of return on investment (ROI) in Warburg Investment China Fund reached 24 percent, while the fund’s private equity portfolio ROI was only 15.3 percent in 2018.

Chinese state media touted Alibaba as an outstanding performer for investors. The return was usually several times that of the initial investments.

So, to what extent has the CCP penetrated the U.S. capital market?

In an interview with NTD reporter Simone Gao at the end of 2019, Roger Robinson, former economic and financial strategist under U.S. President Ronald Reagan, gave an estimate of the scale of investments in China. He said, “I’ve seen a number of $1.9 trillion from the equity or stock side alone and as much as another trillion in bonds.”

Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Francis Chan and Sharnie Wong estimate that—barring a major economic slowdown or change of course—foreign banks and securities companies could rake in profits of about $9 billion a year in China by 2030, according to a market analysis report by Bloomberg in 2019.

Facing the temptation of huge profits, would Wall Street use its voice to support the CCP in Washington?

Wall Street Lobbies the White House Not to Label China as a Currency Manipulator

In fact, some top Wall Street executives have been acting as CCP lobbyists for many years.

In addition to lobbying former U.S. President Bill Clinton to allow the CCP to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), Wall Street also lobbied the White House not to label China as a currency manipulator.

The New York Times reported that former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama both had considered designating China a currency manipulator, but Wall Street always opposed it. Both Bush and Obama eventually failed in their attempts.

Why did Wall Street help China to avoid being designated as a currency manipulator?

If the United States designates China as a currency manipulator, and gains support from the International Monetary Fund, it will be a lot easier for the U.S. government to intervene in the operations of American financial institutions. For instance, the White House would be able to ban American funds from buying U.S. debts issued by Chinese companies in Hong Kong.

It has also been reported in the media that Wall Street used its political power in the United States to influence U.S. policy toward China, such as intervening in U.S.-China trade negotiations.

Not only Wall Street, but also many American high-tech companies, including pharmaceutical giants, have also continually “transfused blood” to the CCP.

New York’s Major Pharmaceutical Companies Invest Heavily in China

In the current pandemic, the CCP once threatened to stop exporting active pharmaceutical ingredients and medical products to the United States. The Trump administration has therefore called on pharmaceutical companies to move production back to the United States, thus reducing their dependence on China.

However, lobbying organizations for several American pharmaceutical giants sent a letter to President Trump, opposing the “Buy American” executive order promoted by the White House.

White House economic adviser Peter Navarro criticized these pharmaceutical companies for their reluctance to move production back to the United States.

He specifically mentioned a lobbying agency PhRMA, which is working for at least two top pharmaceutical companies headquartered in New York—Pfizer and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

For decades, these two well-known companies have made huge profits by investing in China.

Pfizer ranks among the Fortune Global 500 and is the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. With three advanced production facilities in China and R&D centers in Shanghai and Wuhan, Pfizer has more than 11,000 employees in China, and its business covers more than 300 cities across the country. The company has invested nearly $1.5 billion in China and has also profited hugely from its China investments and operations.

Bristol-Myers Squibb is also a Fortune Global 500 and a well-known multinational pharmaceutical company. It is best known for cardiovascular drugs, anticancer drugs, and central nervous system drugs. It also develops and produces anti-rejection drugs (Nulojix) for organ transplantation, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2011.

Where Is the United States Heading?

Communist China is the worst human rights violator in the world. “Blood transfusion” to the CCP is undoubtedly also a transfusion of blood to a criminal regime.

On March 11, 2020, the U.S. Department of State issued the “2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.” The report cited a study by Australian National University on China’s official statistics of organ donations, which concluded that there was “highly compelling evidence” based on statistical forensics that the data was “falsified.”

In June 2019, China Tribunal, a London-based independent tribunal investigating allegations of forced organ harvesting in China, published its final judgment, confirming that the CCP had forcibly harvested organs from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience “on a significant scale” for many years.

“On the basis of all direct and indirect evidence, the Tribunal concludes with certainty that forced organ harvesting has happened in multiple places in the PRC and on multiple occasions for a period of at least twenty years and continues to this day,” stated the Summary Judgment, which was later quoted by the U.S. State Department.

It also noted, “Waiting times [for organ donors] in the PRC … are much shorter than usual in the rest of the world and often as little as two weeks.”

An independent investigation team, formed by David Kilgour, former Canadian Secretary of State (Asia-Pacific), and human rights lawyer David Matas published a report on July 6, 2006 after two months of investigation and evidence collection. The report stated that with verification and re-verification of 18 categories of evidence, the team concluded that “there has been and continues today to be large scale organ seizures from unwilling Falun Gong practitioners.”

At a news conference, Matas called forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners “an unprecedented evil on this planet.”

At a press conference of the “Committee on the Present Danger: China” (CPDC) in June 2019, committee member Stephen Bannon criticized Western elites, such as Wall Street, for dancing with the CCP even though they were fully aware that the regime has severely violated human rights and freedom of religion.

“The problem is that the elites in this world, the capital markets guys from Frankfurt, the city of London, Wall Street, the international corporations—they have been running this scam for 20 years, financing and providing the technology to the radical cadre of the CCP that has built up such a Frankenstein monster,” he said.

In November 2019, the CPDC held another press conference, pointing out that Chinese companies financing in the U.S. capital market, including ZTE, Hikvision, and others, not only threaten U.S. national security, but also violate human rights inside China.

Roger Robinson spoke at the press conference, saying that the United States is now at a crossroads. He warned about the multi-trillion-dollar stakes associated with China’s access to U.S. capital markets, and the problematic nature of many of the Chinese companies now being financed by major U.S. corporations.

He said the CCP should stop receiving financing from the United States immediately. Otherwise, the consequences for the United States would be devastating.


https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-m...york-provided-to-communist-china_3332781.html

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

As is the skinny kid (Biden) - I think he's even worse than Trump cuz most of Trump's "lies" were not actually lies but purposefully misinterpreted by the MSM. For example - he encouraged people to drink bleach - that's not what he said but that's what was reported. So the hypocrisy goes both ways! It's a matter of picking who is the least disastrous and I now believe it's Trump!

Be sure to vote for the crazy fat kid.

He's depending on a clean sweep of the lower half of the random-distribution curve.

 

[spilledthebeer]

Be sure to vote for the crazy fat kid.

He's depending on a clean sweep of the lower half of the random-distribution curve.

As opposed to the Soviet Socialist, anti white, want to go full speed on reverse discrimination



that his opponents are dedicated to?


How will driving corporations out of the country


and taxing anything that moves


and making nice with Beijing Butchers HELP THE AVERAGE YANKEE?


If your thoughts get any more muddled - you will end up chasing your tail right up your own backside!

 

[taxslave]

And Canada sent then right back because they were absolute shyte.

Being made in China should have been their first clue.

 

[Hoid]

China announces $2 billion foreign aid

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/chi...to-help-fight-coronavirus-at-who-meeting.html

As America retreats China advances

 

[spilledthebeer]

China announces $2 billion foreign aid

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/chi...to-help-fight-coronavirus-at-who-meeting.html

As America retreats China advances

Red China will NEED TO OFFER A LOT MORE than 2 billion in foreign aid if it ever wants to REGAIN world trust!






Here is an article illustrating how our teacher HOGS are trying to poison Cdn public opinion! With some comments of my own in brackets):

Canada needs to see the U.S. and its trade motives clearly
Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University

From: The Conversation web site

The Walter C. Koerner Library on the University of B.C. campus is considerably less busy than in the past, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The mass vanishing act at UBC was matched on thousands of campuses across North America, Europe and Australia this spring, says columnist Douglas Todd.
Lockdown triggers foreign-student flight from Canada.

Existential crises that threaten one’s entire society have a way of forcing us to see the world as it truly is. The coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Canada, once mocked by South Park as “not even a real country anyway,” has come together in remarkable fashion. Canadians and their leaders, from every region and across the political spectrum, are all pushing in the same direction.

(HOGWASH! Teachers are still pushing their Socialist agenda at the expense of ordinary tax payers! The LIE-beral war on oil and against economic logic goes on! Shameless LIE-beral vote buying persists as LIE-berals suck up to a radical few by attacking legal gun owners while excusing armed criminals! Further - LIE-berals
continue to demonstrate their hate of small biz by making life extra difficult for small owners who actually CREATE most new jobs in Canada - while at the same time LIE-berals hand out gravy to airline union HOGS - who WILL NOT be going back to work any time soon!)

But while the pandemic has showcased the country’s inspiring cohesiveness, it has also revealed the tragic costs, measured in lives lost and economic opportunity squandered, of Canada’s continued adherence to a one-dimensional ideology that long ago passed its best-before date.

(Teachers are enraged that capitalism and democracy and the principle of one person/one vote is being defended! HOGS DEMAND that their place be AN EXALTED ONE with special privileges - while crying falsely for social justice!)

Since the 1990s, Canadian economic development policy has been anchored in two words: free trade. The previously widely accepted notion that countries should have an industrial policy — a strategy for encouraging strong and desirable economic growth — was cast aside in the single-minded pursuit of comprehensive trade agreements.

(Nonsense! PM Mulroney had HIT THE DEBT WALL - and had an ugly choice: either get into NAFTA or DRASTICALLY CURTAIL CDN GOVT SPENDING! Mulroney was deep into LIE-beral style vote buying - ladling out gobs of gravy in an effort to get re-elected so he opted for NAFTA and the hated GST!)

(LIE-beral Jean Chretien replaced Mulroney as PM - promising to kill the GST - but after getting into office, Chretien “discovered” we could not afford to kill the GST as the red ink on Cdn govt books was running SO FAST AND DEEP!)

(In his third term of office - Chretien HIT HIS OWN DEBT WALL and was forced to drastically curtail his govt spending which resulted in virtual elimination of federal transfer payments to the provinces! IN Ontari-owe this meant that federal health contribution to OHIP dropped from 57% of the total to 17%! Other provinces with Conservative premiers suffered as well!)

Economic security and prosperity, so the conventional wisdom held, was best ensured by lowering trade barriers and encouraging specialization. Production would be global, which wouldn’t pose any problems in a free-trade world.

(Cdn HOGS care nothing for logic or efficiency - they care only for the distorted vision of Yankees as the “enemy”! Such Soviet Socialist thinking has its roots in LIES and selfish greed! The united States represents a large and prosperous economy and is conveniently next door to Cdn producers who NEED to export their products as our home grown economy is to small to absorb all we produce!)

There have long been two flaws in this policy. First, while Canada may be “a trading nation,” trade is merely a means to an end: securing markets for Canadian producers and ensuring Canadians’ access to foreign goods and services. At the end of the day, it’s production, not trade, that matters most for a country’s economic security and power.

(And HOGS REFUSE TO CONSIDER the LIE-beral imposed LIMITS on Cdn production! For 150 years - the EASY Cdn economic solution was to offer govt gravy to international corporations to set up a branch plant here to exploit the lower Cdn dollar and exploit easy access to Yankee markets!)

(But such branch plant economics RESTRICT Cdn economic freedom as the parent company dictates where Cdns MAY SELL products! For that reason we can buy a Swedish car or German tools but CANNOT sell many Cdn products in EUROPE or Asia! We are blocked by rules imposed by foreign CEO`s!)

Second, policy-makers failed to appreciate the extent to which the entire free-trade world was dependent on the actions and support of the United States given its global superpower status. After the Second World War, the U.S. decided to underwrite a liberal multilateral order that encouraged free trade, which it was able to reinforce in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War.

(Teacher HOGS REFUSE to educate themselves regarding the threats created first by Nazi Socialism and then by vicious Soviet Socialists! HOGS do not wish to recognize that our current freedom is the result of Yankee aid during WW2! Nor do HOGS wish to recognize the threat from the Soviet Union - which finally died out during the Ronald Reagan years as a result of Yankee and Western re-armament in defiance of the Soviet “Evil Empire”!)

(Nor do HOGS wish to admit that Red China has cleverly camouflaged itself as a more capitalist entity - that HIDES the standard Soviet Socialist slave labour camps and general brutality and intimidation of citizens that all Soviet tyrant regimes NEED IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN ORDER and ruthless discipline!)

For a long while in the 1990s, Canada was able to get away with neglecting industrial policy and to imagine that free trade would be our economic salvation. This was because the world of open borders, ostensibly supported by U.S. power, hid the long-term costs of de-industrialization since we still had easy access to cheap production in other countries.

(HOGS have a surprisingly LIMITED field of economic vision! The Pierre Trudope LIE-beral “National Energy Policy” was such a disaster that it forced Trudope out of office!)

(The LIE-beral created Petro Canada never made a penny of profit in spite of getting FREE ACCESS to oil fields that private companies were PAYING to exploit and profit from - with Petro Canada finally being sold off to private interests that PROMPTLY made the biz PROFITABLE - once the HOGS were cleared out of the way!)

(In the 1980`s - that NDPee baby - Urban Transport Development Corp lurched along in a swamp of red ink and spending scandals until the HOGS were fired and the Crown Corp dismantled in disgrace!)

The City of Toronto held a scandalous show trial as details of the MFP computer corruption contract mess came to light!)

(In 1950, Canada was a leader in nuclear power - but by 1990`s there had been so much costly and INEPT work done at Ontari-owe nuclear reactors by lazy and poorly trained workers that Hydro HOGS were fired and a British Consortium staffed by ex sailors retired from British and French nuclear submarines took over operation of the Bruce Nuclear Power Station - with those foreign experts now training Cdns to more efficiently operate the Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations - even as LIE-berals spew nonsense about replacing nuclear power with mouldy green energy!)

(We should also consider the rise and fall of Bombardier - the Quebec based entity that went from investment darling to bumbling near bankrupt shambles - while also sucking up great gobs of govt gravy! Bombardier messed up SO BADLY that Justin Trudope LIE-berals gave Bombardier a BILLION DOLLARS IN GOVT GRANTS in one year - in hope of salvaging the Bombardier public relations DISASTER that was the Toronto Transit Commission contract to buy new street cars!)

(Sadly the Toronto Transit contract followed a similar CRAP PROCESS - already experienced by customers in San Francisco and New York! Bombardier has now sold off most of its holdings in order to get enough cash to pay most of its bills! Bombardier even sold its rail car division to a French company that promptly won a contract for Light Rail Cars to be operated in Ottawa!)

(But such is the CURSE of Cdn union HOG culture that the French company is having MASSIVE TROUBLE keeping its LRT cars operating in Ottawa! Things are SO BAD that on some very bad days - less that HALF of the cars can leave the repair sheds under their own power!)

(Cdn corporation Lavalin became a BIG NAME in the construction field - until its BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION both internationally AND HERE IN CANADA were exposed! With Our idiot Boy Justin risking JAIL TIME to interfere in the trial process and minimize the damage to Lavalin in a shameless partisan violation of Cdn ethics laws! Trudope even admits he meddled - but excuses his actions by claiming he was simply saving good Cdn jobs - WITHOUT considering HOW MANY JOBS Lavalin STOLE from other Cdn companies with its BRIBERY!)

(Worst of all - we MUST speak of LIE-beral and HOG IRRATIONAL hatred of Yankees - with LIE-berals insisting that we would do better expanding trade with China while GLOSSING OVER the sacrifice of Cdn sovereignty that selling out to China would entail!)

(Canada does about $80 billion dollars worth of trade with China and in the process we often end up importing TAINTED GOODS - such as kids toys laced with dangerous chemicals and food products sealed with poisonous plastics and we get PESTS such as the Emerald Ash Borer whose larvae was hidden in Chinese packing crates and who now call North America home - with the result that Cdn govt has cut down over ten million Ash Trees infested and killed by Emerald Ash Borer Beetles!)

(By comparison we do over $800 billion dollars worth of trade with Yankee neighbours and it all goes MUCH MORE SMOOTHLY and logically - in large part because Untied States has an honest legal system that WE CAN use to SUE if we are treated unfairly! This is in SHARP CONTRAST to Red China with its SLAVE LABOUR CAMPS and special economic zones that are OFF limits to foreigners! China even LIES and denies the camps exist!)

(Cdn HOGS have demonstrated an UNHEALTHY PREFERENCE for dictatorial regimes such as Iran, North Korea, Red China and the Palestinian Authority! HOGS display a GROSS BIAS by trying to present Washington as being as bad or worse than the Dictators!)

(Yankees are NOT SAINTS but they ARE SUPERIOR to ANY Muslim radical or Socialist leader! The fact is we Cdns are SAFER in cooperating with Yankees and with our NATO allies than we ever will be dealing with third world despots!)

(HOW ABSURD that HOGS are critical of Cdn economic policy but cannot offer any alternatives that DO NOT RESULT in bribery and corruption and red ink! And too bad HOGS are so blinded by LUST FOR GRAVY they cannot see these FACTS!)

 

[taxslave]

China announces $2 billion foreign aid
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/18/chi...to-help-fight-coronavirus-at-who-meeting.html
As America retreats China advances

Do tell, why are we sending aid money to CHina if China can afford to give money to other countries? Or are they just skimming a handling fee off the top of the money trudOWE borrowed to donate to china?

 

[spilledthebeer]

Do tell, why are we sending aid money to CHina if China can afford to give money to other countries? Or are they just skimming a handling fee off the top of the money trudOWE borrowed to donate to china?

Yeah - I think you probably nailed that one!


Bedsides - Red China is a lot like my EX-Wife - making MODEST LITTLE APOLOGIES!


To cover EXTREME FCUK UPS!


And expecting a HALF ASSED EXCUSE to pay for all!



As we have been told at various times - CHINA FEELS IT MUST HAVE ten percent economic growth per year!


If it gets 8 percent in one year - then IT NEEDS 12 percent growth the following year!


Otherwise the Beijing Butchers FEAR THERE WILL BE CIVIL UNREST that may destroy the Party!



The HARD FACT IS that Beijing wants things to go back to normal EVEN MORE THAN TRUMP DOES!


If things get too bad in United States - they will VOTE IN another leader and party!


If things get too bad in China - then the country MAY SPLINTER AND QUITE POSSIBLY HOLD ANOTHER REVOLUTION!


The "Melamine in the Milk" scandal that KILLED THOUSANDS of Chinese Babies who were fed the POISONOUS CRAP



revealed HOW DEEP the CORRUPTION REALLY IS IN CHINA!


And the TVO documentary on working conditions in a "typical" Chinese factory showed EVEN MORE of the CORRUPTION!


After Beijing made economic reforms in the 1990`s after the failure of Communism - China went through a MUCH MILDER FORM


of economic revolution than the Russians did!


the Russian Oligarchs are ALL VICIOUS GANGSTERS AND THUGS!


The Chinese Oligarchs are ALL EX PARTY OFFICIALS! Like the Ex- police chief running a factory making jeans and employing



500 people - mostly women - getting paid NINETEEN CENTS Cdn PER HOUR!


Its all piece work and shift work and TWENTY FOUR HOUR SHIFTS are not unusual!



And if they are in a hurry - MEALS GET SKIPPED AS WELL!



And yet if after 24 hours of MIND NUMBING WORK - AT BREAK NECK SPEED - often with NO FOOD AND LITTLE WATER -


while endlessly snipping threads or trimming pockets etc - IF YOU HAPPEN TO FALL ASLEEP at your desk



the ex-cop DOCKS YOUR PAY!


And then he hops into his brand new Mercedes and goes home to a NICE CHRISTMAS DINNER!



AND LEAVES BEHIND A NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES in the dormitories - who are TOO POOR



to afford the bus ticket home to visit their families!


And of course the ex - cop charges for rent and food over the Christmas Holiday!


Expenses that the non union women must work off in the new year!


Each of the women is assigned a bunk in a dormitory set up on floors ABOVE the factory work area and to ensure privacy



each bunk has a SHOWER CURTAIN AROUND IT!



Naturally anything you do in your spare time is done in the narrow corridors between the rows of bunks!


Each person gets a little box to hold personal gear and each meal is eaten either sitting on your bunk or standing in the corridor



since there is NO MONEY WASTED on a thing like a cafeteria or recreation facilities!


And to ensure the women do not wander off to find a better job - THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF PAY



ARE TYPICALLY HELD BACK! You CAN LEAVE and find other work - at the same scummy rates!


but YOU WILL NEVER SEE that first few months of pay!


With the added bonus that if you get angry and leave - you may get blackballed and find it HARD to gain another job in that city!



And this is life in a NICE Chinese factory - meaning one they WERE WILLING TO LET WESTERN FILM CREWS INTO!


What do you suppose happens at the SLAVE LABOUR CAMPS?


Our idiot Boy has told us "He likes the way the Chinese get things done"!


And that OUGHT TO BE A DAMNING ADMISSION about his LACK OF Morals and BAD CHARACTER!

 

[Ellanjay]

https://youtu.be/Lsc9sOSLXXU


American Guinea Pigs in a Chinese Lab

By Cliff Kincaid

“This a global problem that will require global solutions, not more ignorant, nationalist fear-mongering.” So says a writer with an outfit called Popular Resistance about the coronavirus and President Trump’s response. In the midst of this Marxist drivel, President Trump offers a calm answer to a pandemic – protect our people and defend our borders.

The European Socialists, who have implemented open borders and hate the concept of national sovereignty, were caught off-guard. They are irate that Trump is closing America to their infected people and travelers. The Chinese, meanwhile, are angry that they are being blamed for a virus that emerged from their country – and perhaps from their lab.

It looks like key Trump White House personnel are coming to the conclusion that the Chinese communist authorities have their fingerprints all over this deadly disease.

AP reports that Trump’s national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien, declared at a Heritage Foundation event that “this outbreak in Wuhan was covered up.” O’Brien, the author of a book critical of the foreign policy of Barack Hussein Obama, added that the communist regime’s cover-up “probably cost the world community two months” in responding.

In terms of the “outbreak,” the director of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, Kelvin Droegemeier, asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to “rapidly” look into the origins of the virus.

The words “outbreak” and “cover-up” suggest that, in this growing crisis, something other than a natural occurrence of a virus emerging from somewhere in a food market is happening. The sending of the Droegemeier letter raises questions about Chinese claims about the origin of the virus.

In his talk to the nation on Wednesday night, President Trump accurately described the threat as a “foreign virus.” China doesn’t like that. This, too, suggests that the White House doesn’t buy all of the propaganda about the disease being an unfortunate and accidental development that just happens to have come out of a region in China with a top-secret bio lab.

Yet many news organizations are following the Chinese communist line that this is somehow a “global” problem that has nothing to do with China. Commentators are actually criticizing those who accurately describe the disease as the “Chinese virus” or the “Wuhan virus.”

Some are saying that the virus is a flu-like disease that will dissipate when the weather gets warmer. Others are not so sure. The Droegemeier letter to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine notes the publication of a study claiming that the novel coronavirus has elements of HIV, the virus causing AIDS. While the paper was “widely-disputed” and withdrawn, he says we are all entitled to answers about the origin and nature of the virus.

As part of this review, Droegemeier could examine the published studies on the Communist Chinese chemical and biological warfare capabilities. A good place to start is Eric Croddy’s report, “China’s Role in the Chemical and Biological Disarmament Regimes.” Among other disclosures, he cites a Soviet defector, Ken Alibek, as saying that Soviet scientists concluded that outbreaks of hemorrhagic fever in China in the 1980s were caused by an accident in a lab “where Chinese scientists were weaponizing viral diseases.”

At the time of the publication of this paper, 2002, China didn’t even have a maximum containment (Biosafety Level 4) lab. Such a Biosafety Level 4 lab is now in place in Wuhan, the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This is the place where the virus originated and the cover-up began. Nature magazine reports it is just one of five or more such labs scheduled to be built in China. The magazine quotes its own experts as saying that the SARS virus “has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times….”

SARS is another virus that somehow “appeared” in China and spread. Perhaps it’s time to question how these viruses are “escaping” or “appearing” in China. But skepticism is in short supply at the major media outlets eager to find fault with Trump.

The Washington Post ran a story claiming that various “experts” have debunked the “fringe theory linking China’s coronavirus to weapons research.” But that’s not what the experts were actually quoted as saying.

The paper said that Milton Leitenberg, an expert on chemical weapons at the University of Maryland, “had discussed the possibility that weapons development at the Wuhan lab could have led to the coronavirus outbreak in a private email chain but that no one had found convincing evidence to support the theory.” One wonders what form “convincing evidence” would have to take. And how is this possible considering this is a communist regime known for lying, cheating and cover-ups?

Leitenberg then added “Of course, if they are doing bioweaponry, it is covert,” and reportedly said it was “unlikely” the Chinese were making such weapons at that lab.

So the theory that the virus came out of the lab has not been debunked. If it was a natural occurrence, why the cover-up? The Post doesn’t want to blame China because its culprit, for this and dozens of other perceived problems, is always Donald J. Trump. It wants to blame Trump for the impact of the Chinese virus without investigating why this keeps happening.

The Trump administration’s failures in confronting the virus consist almost entirely in the reaction of the Medical Deep State, including the Centers for Disease Control, in quickly developing quick and easy testing procedures for the virus. Trump relied on these “professionals” and they were clearly not prepared. Perhaps they had a naïve view of the communist regime and never imagined that a disease of this kind would emerge from China.

Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, wrote in his 2006 book, The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won, that China was a “disease incubator” because of its pollution problems. Now we fear that disease may have been turned into a weapon.

As citizens in a still-free society, we don’t have to wait for the “experts.” Common sense dictates there are just too many coincidences surrounding the appearance of this virus in a region with a controversial lab. Indeed, one doesn’t have to be an “expert” to come to the obvious conclusion that China is experimenting with these weapons and that the communists are treating us like guinea pigs.

Even before this virus is contained, our country has to get back to the business of containing China itself. Our survival as a nation depends on it.

Cliff Kincaid is conservative columnist and media critic.
This article was first published in Renew America on March 12, 2020

 

[Ellanjay]

https://youtu.be/Olx0D1SOOsY


Global Crisis Caused by the CCP Regime

May 03, 2020 | By a Minghui correspondent in Toronto, Canada

(Minghui.org) As of May 1, 2020, the coronavirus has infected over 3.3 million people worldwide and caused more than 235,000 deaths in this devastating global pandemic. World leaders across continents have been reprimanding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its initial cover up and ongoing misinformation about the disease.

On April 14, more than 100 China experts and senior political figures signed an open letter describing the CCP’s cover-up of the coronavirus as “China’s Chernobyl Moment.” Addressed to Chinese citizens and friends of China, the letter begins, “The current global crisis has been caused by the [CCP] regime so many of you have been tolerating or supporting for decades.”

The Chinese Embassy in Canada harshly denounced the letter on April 19, labeling it as “anti-China.” Government officials and authors of the letter refuted the claim, adding that the response is typical of the regime’s practice of suppressing freedom of speech.

Similar to the CCP’s response to the letter, China analysts have observed a global propaganda war with the CCP regime as it faces increasing condemnation for the damage it has caused with the coronavirus.

One of the authors of the letters, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Senior Fellow of the Canadian think tank, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute for Public Policy, was recently interviewed by Minghui.org. He spoke about the current situation.

The CCP Is a “Master of Deception”

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute is the largest independent think tank in Ottawa, with the aim to “make poor public policy intolerable… by proposing thoughtful alternatives through non-partisan and independent research and commentary.” Mr. Majumdar said, “The world wants to see China succeed, but the CCP does not take criticism and shirks responsibilities instead. That was why such an open letter was needed to address the issue.

“And as we have seen, the crisis that has started in Wuhan and was badly managed for months, badly communicated and poorly coordinated with the world, has now grown into a global pandemic and a global economic crisis. I think the opening of the letter was designed for an audience of Chinese people who I think the world shares frustrations alongside.

“In China, we saw that the national, the communist party, sought to silence doctors that were trying to tell the truth and other voices that were trying to be helpful to the world and to other Chinese people on the threat that this pandemic was to the country.”

The crisis happened because of the system of communism in China. Majumdar said that the regime “is vastly repressive of its minorities. It obviously does not embrace free speech. It crushes the notion of any private property, even those are constitutional obligations.”

In addition, with the help of Western countries over the past few decades, China has grown to be the second largest economy in the world and believes that “all of the world’s political, military, and economic arteries should flow to China.” But China’s expansion is often achieved through deception.

Majumdar called the communist regime a “master of deception” and said that its “deception goes far deeper because they have weaponized the supply chains that China has produced for the world, they seek to exploit trade for their security advantage, and their political position in the world. And that is very troubling.”

Disruption of Global Norms

Majumdar said the CCP has historically employed coverups to distract “from the real issues that would help the world heal faster and the economy recover more decisively.” By doing so, it is “disrupting the idea of global norms on those basic principles.”

Recently, there have been many media reports about China hoarding personal protection equipment (PPE) without telling the world about the pandemic. Majumdar said such a strategy began late last year when the CCP was considering whether PPE and pharmaceuticals could be used as leverage for trade negotiation with the United States.

“It is unsurprising to see that as they knew and sought to control the crisis in Wuhan,” Majumdar explained. “They started reordering their manufacturing hubs and accepting and purchasing PPE around… while lying to the world about the problem that was spreading.”

Revisiting Relationship with the CCP

Majumdar reflected on his changing view of China. “The optimism for many years, by myself included, was that greater economic engagement with China, the development of its country, the literally creating more literacy and services for its people would also create greater demand for the rule of law, for property rights, for free speech, for freedom of religion, all the things that are essential to succeed. But what has happened? All good wishes, but what has happened and become even more real…is that actually the Chinese Communist Party has sought to partner with the world for its own prosperity, so that one day it could dominate the world with its own world order.”

Mr. Majumdar said Western nations need to “understand this ongoing threat by the irresponsible and reckless actions of the communist party. Have greater impetus to think through, how to partner with each other and how to engage China without creating any space for submitting to China.”

But the CCP’s influence has gone beyond individual nations. “We’ve seen it’s not just the WHO [World Health Organization], we’ve seen a very gradual and sophisticated approach by China across the multilateral system, whether it’s their chairmanship of INTERPOL, the international criminal police organization, whether it’s the relationship with the WHO, with the International Civil Aviation Organization, which deals with commercial airline traffic rules and regulations. [And] how they invest in UN peacekeeping missions on priorities that are important to the Belt and Road Initiative,” he added.

By doing so, Majumdar observed, the CCP has comprised the integrity and credibility of such organizations’ leadership for its own benefit. For example, “at the World Health Organization, we see a policy setting body, a regulatory setting body, and a policy implementing body. They [CCP officials] do these three things in the realm of global public health. They compromised at the very top,” he added.

Therefore, Mr. Majumdar believes it is time to reevaluate these issues, both the relationship with the CCP as well as its influence on these organizations.

A Global Propaganda War

Regarding the Chinese Embassy’s response to the open letter, Majumdar said it was “verbally abusive, poorly written, almost comically presented.”

Canada is not alone in being targeted by the CCP. “Chinese diplomats around the world are waging an aggressive disinformation campaign… aimed at controlling the narrative about the origins of the coronavirus,” reported MacroBusiness on April 30 in an article titled “China launches global propaganda war.”

This is happening across many countries in a style referred to as “Wolf Warrior” style of diplomacy. “Chinese envoys have been especially aggressive on Twitter, which they are using to attack, intimidate and silence Western journalists, lawmakers and think tank scholars—essentially anyone who contradicts China’s official version of events,” the article observed.

The article cited a few such examples. One case involved the Brussels-based news outlet Politico Europe that reported on China’s disinformation of the coronavirus pandemic. Shortly after the report was out, Chinese officials acted quickly and threatened to withhold medical supplies to Europe unless the report’s contents were modified.

Another example was an article on April 15 in Bild, a popular German newspaper. Under the title “What China Owes Us So Far,” the Bild article suggested that China should pay Germany €150 billion ($162 billion) in reparations for the coronavirus pandemic, to cover losses sustained by small businesses, tourism, and other industries.

The Chinese Embassy in Berlin responded and called Bild racist. Instead of expressing submission, the newspaper’s editor-in-chief refuted with his own letter titled “You Are Endangering the Entire World.”

Addressed to the top CCP leader, the letter said, “You rule by surveillance… You monitor everything, every citizen, but you refuse to monitor the diseased wet markets in your country.

“You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later,” the letter concluded.

http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2020/5/3/184306.html

 

[lannguyen2020]