What Really Happened in Wuhan: Investigating the Chinese lab leak theory

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How Hunter’s $30M Chinese Deals “Enriched the Entire Family”: Peter Schweizer​



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Shanghai Garbage Truck Transports COVID-19 Patients​



A massive protest breaks out at an Apple factory in another fight between locals and authorities amid Shanghai's strict lockdown. A new mode of transportation for Shanghai’s virus patients: traveling by garbage truck. They’re being used amid a shortage of other vehicles, just like in Wuhan back in 2020. Why is Beijing sticking to its “Zero-Cases” policy? We take a closer look. China may not have been the only nation monitoring movement during the pandemic. Documents show the United States may have been doing the same. And, should the United States reduce tariffs on Chinese goods? The Senate and President Joe Biden say yes. But pushback is mounting.
 

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Dr. Strange in China–Censorship Bloc of Madness​

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Brendon Fallon


Political agendas, like those that lead a government or regime to censor data, news, or entertainment can have severe economic consequences. This frames our discussion today on some startlingly bad economic decisions surrounding the Marvel film phenomenon.
“Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has been making headlines, but not solely for its box office achievements. It’s been blocked by China’s film censors for a most unexpected reason: A newspaper box for The Epoch Times that appears in the corner of a street scene. It goes without saying that Epoch Times, due to its frank coverage of China, is no favorite of the Chinese Communist Party; but that’s only the latest of what’s had Chinese censors in a spin over Marvel.
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Chinese Hackers Steal Trillions of Dollars of Intellectual Property


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China in Focus
Tiffany Meier


Pushback against Shanghai’s restrictions are getting more violent. Protests between residents and law enforcement have sparked authorities to ramp up the rules.
Reports say those problems aren’t limited to Chinese citizens in the global financial hub, either. Foreigners living in the city are also dying at home.
Trillions of dollars in intellectual property are reported stolen after Chinese state-linked hackers attacked over 30 companies from the United States, Europe, and Asia. But the onslaught isn’t over.
An American company is trying to revive traditional Chinese culture that was almost lost. But Beijing is trying to put a stop to it, even from an ocean away.
 

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Farmers Forbidden From Farming Under Lockdown​


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China in Focus
Tiffany Meier


On Mother’s Day in Shanghai, Chinese authorities forcibly separated a mother from her son. An expert breaks down why Beijing is sticking to its “Zero COVID-19” policy.
Are China’s food shortages primed to get worse? In some regions, farmers are getting banned from working their fields. Instead, they’re forced to stay at home.
Is Washington changing its stance on Taiwan? Two sentences were removed from the State Department’s website defining U.S.-Taiwan relations. The update has drawn anger from Beijing.
A top U.S. intelligence official says Beijing is carefully weighing the Russia-Ukraine war, while keeping its eye on Taiwan.
Aircraft carriers from three nations are sailing the waters around Taiwan. The United States, Japan, and China are all maintaining a presence there as tensions heat in the region.
 

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How the Chinese Communist Party Turned My Homeland Into the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison


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American Thought Leaders
JAN JEKIELEK


“They think all the sexual violence that they’re subjecting Uyghur women to—this mysterious drug that they’re giving, forced sterilization, collective punishment through gang rape—are the methods [through which] they are liberating Uyghur women. I mean, just let that sink in.”
I sit down with Uyghur-American human rights advocate Nury Turkel, vice-chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
Nury Turkel was born in a Chinese re-education camp. His new book, “No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs,” is a chilling look into China’s techno-autocracy, and what can result when a communist regime is allowed to run unchecked for decades.
 

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Chinese regime tightens border control; Economic woes: Shanghai sold no cars in April​



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Is China #Decoupling from the outside world? The Chinese regime says it wants the opposite. But sweeping lockdown measures are driving foreigners and their businesses out of the country. At the same time, more restrictions are on the way for Chinese citizens going abroad, while the values praised by the regime drift farther from Western principals.

Shanghai’s lockdown takes a toll on the auto industry. Not a single car was sold in the city in April.

Some of China’s community banks say they don’t have enough paper bills to support cash withdrawals, and it’s been going on for a while. And Beijing may be stepping up its aggression near Australia. A Chinese spy ship has been spotted off the Australian coast.
 

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China’s View of Russia May Be Changing; Seth Cropsey Talks US-China Relations​



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Parts of China’s sky turned red, supposedly because of a fishing vessel light. Many call it a bad omen for the Chinese regime. Is it celestial messaging or science gone mad in China? We talk about the Russia-China relationship as some inside the communist circle express dissent. Do they have unwavering support for the Russian Federation or are they taking a step back and staying away from a sinking ship? Then I talk with Seth Cropsey, president of the Yorktown Institute, on the U.S.-China relationship amid all this Russia and Taiwan talk.
 

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How the Chinese Regime Co-opts Our Elites and Weaponizes Our Systems Against Us​

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American Thought Leaders
JAN JEKIELEK


“If we think that the energy leverage Putin had over Europe was substantial, the leverage China potentially has over America and the West is extraordinary.”
I sit down with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to discuss how the Chinese regime has been systematically co-opting our elites for decades and leveraging the American system against us, from our innovation to our laws to our free markets.
If the supply chain for any “key industries—ranging from medicine to fighter jets, from technology to food—if any of it comes from China, we should assume that that will be weaponized against us in the future,” Rubio says.
China’s extreme “zero-COVID” lockdowns and the subsequent supply chain disruptions are one of the main drivers of rampant inflation in the United States, says Sen. Rubio. “And this is something they didn’t intend to do. It’s just happening. Imagine if they intend to do it.”
 

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What If China Dominated Global Vaccines? Operation Warp Speed Insider Explains​



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Are the “new Axis powers” caught in a bind? To each a different problem: in China, an economic downturn may be near as its lockdowns continue to impact daily operations. Russia is threatening a two-front war on Finland and Sweden, while it’s unable to finish what it started in Ukraine. And North Korea is now admitting to a massive COVID-19 surge. We dive into the details. Then I speak with Paul Mango, author of the new book “Warp Speed,” to explore the inner workings of producing vaccines and also what to make of the future of this strategic framework for combating future crises.
 

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The New Rift Between WHO and China


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From the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organization and China’s CCP have worked and spoken hand-in-glove, culminating in the Potemkin Village junket of mid-February 2020. The WHO-sponsored travel report—how wonderfully China had performed!—was written and signed by American public health officials who recommended Wuhan-style lockdowns, a disastrous policy that further inspired most governments in the world to do the same.

Twenty-six months later, it turns out that China in fact had not “eliminated the virus fully within its borders,” contrary to the over-the-top claims of TV pundit Devi Sridhar in her new book “Preventable.” They only pushed cases into the future, as the CCP discovered when positive tests appeared all over Shanghai, leading to 7 weeks of brutal lockdowns.

This move on China’s part has been a disaster for the country and the world economy, and presently endangers the financial and technological future of the entire country.

For Xi Jinping, lockdowns and zero-covid were his greatest achievement, one which was celebrated the world over, causing his political pride to swell beyond all bounds. Now, he cannot back off lest he face possible losses in upcoming party elections.

Just this past weekend, he made it clear to the entire government that there would be no backing off the zero-covid policy: the CCP will “unswervingly adhere to the general policy of ‘dynamic zero-Covid,’ and resolutely fight against any words and deeds that distort, doubt or deny our country’s epidemic prevention policies.”

The problem is acute: vast numbers in China likely need to acquire natural immunity via exposure. The lockdown policy likely puts a damper on the achievement of endemicity. That means long-term damage to China’s future.

Sensing this problem, the head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, offered a mild criticism: “Considering the behavior of the virus, I think a shift will be very important,” adding that he had discussed this point with Chinese scientists.

What happened next is truly fascinating: Tedros’s comments were censored all over China and searches for the name Tedros were immediately blocked within the country. Implausibly, merely by stating the incredibly obvious point, Tedros has made himself an enemy of the state. Meanwhile, another WHO/China partisan, Bill Gates, has been sheepishly saying something very similar in interviews, namely that the virus cannot be eradicated.

It’s not just Tedros and Gates who are trying to flee their advocacy of lockdowns. Anthony Fauci himself denied that the United States ever had “complete lockdowns”—which is technically correct but not because he didn’t demand them.

On March 16, 2020, Fauci faced the national press and read from a CDC directive: “In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”

In fact, one gets the strong sense that governments around the world are pretending as if the whole pathetic and terrible affair never happened, even as they are attempting to reserve the power to do it all over again should the need arise.

On May 12, 2022, many governments around the world gathered for a video call and agreed to pour many billions more into covid work, and reaffirm their dedication to an “all-of-society” and “whole-of-government” approach to infectious disease. The U.S. government under the administration readily agreed to this idea.

Leaders reinforced the value of whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches to bring the acute phase of COVID-19 to an end, and the importance of being prepared for future pandemic threats. The Summit was focused on preventing complacency, recognizing the pandemic is not over; protecting the most vulnerable, including the elderly, immunocompromised people, and frontline and health workers; and preventing future health crises, recognizing now is the time to secure political and financial commitment for pandemic preparedness.
 

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‘The most important ethical issue right now is keeping China’s hands off of our data’: Arthur Herman



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In this special episode, we sat down with #ArthurHerman, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative, as well as #RickFisher, senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. They talk about China’s push to use #ArtificialIIntelligence to develop unmanned weapons, how this could change warfare, and what the United States is doing to defend against it.
 

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Is the World’s Failed COVID Response Just the First of More Public Health Blunders to Come?

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LEE SMITH


A treaty brokered at the World Health Organization Summit this week threatens to forfeit national sovereignty and individual autonomy to a flawed international body compromised by communist China. Just back from a long reporting trip, Brendon Fallon tells Lee Smith what it will be like for Americans to entrust their health to foreign countries.
 
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Ex-WHO Scientist David Bell: Will New Pandemic Treaty Cause Permanent Lockdowns?

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JAN JEKIELEK


With the World Health Organization (WHO) set to discuss a global pandemic treaty and far-reaching amendments to the 2005 International Health Regulations, we sit down with Dr. David Bell, an expert in global health and infectious disease.
“Even though it doesn’t directly change sovereignty, in effect, it does. It takes away the ability of the people of that country to make their own decisions,” says Dr. Bell.
And more importantly, these proposals will create a bureaucracy “whose existence is dependent on pandemics,” says Dr. Bell. “They’ll have a very vested interest in finding outbreaks, declaring them potential pandemics, and then responding. It’s the way that they will survive.”
And it appears that they will make lockdowns “a permanent feature of pandemic responses,” Dr. Bell says.
Dr. Bell is a public health physician. He has previously worked at the World Health Organization, as programme head for malaria and febrile diseases at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) in Geneva, and as director of Global Health Technologies at the Intellectual Ventures Global Good Fund. He is now on the board of Pandemics, Data, and Analytics (PANDA), a group studying the world’s response to COVID-19.
 
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Documentary | Will Zero-Covid Become Xi Jinping’s Waterloo?​


Zooming In with Simone Gao

The Zero-Covid policy was met with stiff resistance from the Shanghainese when China’s largest city became a hot spot for the new Covid variant Omicron. Meanwhile China’s economy was hit hard by the lock down. Could Shanghai turn into Xi Jinping’s Waterloo because his zero-covid policy has backfired and there seems to be traps on both ends of the tunnel? Zooming In with Simone Gao finds out.
 

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Biden commits to defending Taiwan from China; E-vehicles top cobalt demand, more China dependence?​



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President Joe Biden reiterated the country’s commitment to Taiwan: defending the island amid attack from China. But are there any changes in U.S. strategy? A new economic strategy for allies in and around Asia is being formed under U.S. leadership. But is China invited? Is Taiwan invited? And what is the most difficult part in the strategy? The NBA returns to China after a three-year ban. An investigation finds NBA team owners have billions of dollars of investments in China. And we sat down with John O’Neill and Sarah Wynne, authors of “The Dancer and the Devil.” They tell us how communist China tried to stop their book from being published here in America. 00:00 Intro 00:56 Biden commits to defending Taiwan from China 03:55 Biden announces Indo-Pacific econ. framework 06;34 E-vehicles top cobalt demand, more China dependence? 08:16 ESPN analysis on NBA owners’ ties to China 11:03 Author: China destroyed manuscript to stop book.
 

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Biden Says US Will Defend Taiwan; Taiwan’s Canceled Arms Purchase—With John Mills​


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China Insider
David Zhang


President Joe Biden makes his first Asia trip, with the goal of targeting China. He said the United States will defend Taiwan, but the White House walks it back. What is China’s response?
I then speak with John Mills about his concerns that the United States may be forcing Taiwan into a bad position, related to weapons sales to the island for defense. As the Taiwan question becomes increasingly important, what should the United States do?
 

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Chinese-made subway cars fail in Massachusetts; QUAD vows to stand up for freedom, openness​



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Has the U.S. policy of “strategic ambiguity” toward Taiwan changed? President Joe Biden says no, just one day after he suggested the end of that position. But what are experts saying? Four leading #IndoPacific nations vow to stand together to keep the region free and open. They say they’re keeping an eye on China. Subway cars made by a Chinese company are being removed from service in Boston after a series of accidents over the past three years. Beijing tightens control over its COVID-19 narrative inside the country. One of our team members shares their first-hand experience. Data research tells us that investing in Chinese stocks may be a bad idea. Return is low—very low—compared to other markets.