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https://server3.kproxy.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/saowxnqnbzsw/p2/2021/02/09/biden-confucius-institute-trump-china/">Beijing Biden Reverses Trump Proposal To Track Chinese Influence Campaigns In U.S



The Biden administration quietly withdrew a rule proposed by the Trump administration that would have required American schools and universities to disclose their partnerships with Confucius Institutes, which some U.S. officials allege are front groups for Chinese Communist Party propaganda.



The Trump administration submitted a proposed rule to the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 31, 2020, entitled "Establishing Requirement for Student and Exchange Visitor Program Certified Schools to Disclose Agreements with Confucius Institutes and Classrooms."



Around 500 K-12 schools and 65 colleges in the U.S. have partnerships with the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, a U.S.-based affiliate of the Beijing-based Confucius Institute Headquarters. The institute, also known as Hanban, is affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education.



Many of Hanban's directors are members of the Chinese Communist Party or have close ties to the organization, The Daily Caller has previously reported.

Of course Biden did.

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He is handing the country to the ccp on a platter



Best start learning to speak Chinese so we will understand their orders

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He is handing the country to the ccp on a platter



Best start learning to speak Chinese so we will understand their orders

I am sticking with Spanish. But I am out of here in three years.

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We just might go back to the Philippines

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo maintained there is "significant evidence" the coronavirus escaped from a Chinese laboratory despite a recent determination to the contrary from World Health Organization investigators.

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He must have been appointed under the Obama administration.



Sole American Member Of WHO Panel Investigating COVID Origins Says US Intel Isn't To Be Trusted

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/10/peter-daszak-us-intelligence-coronavirus-origins/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=mbhsrv5ZCgyN10sTAoK0fA1YPOKYCMlKa.iX_1su">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/10/pete ... lKa.iX_1su">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/10/peter-daszak-us-intelligence-coronavirus-origins/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=mbhsrv5ZCgyN10sTAoK0fA1YPOKYCMlKa.iX_1su





Dr. Peter Daszak, the sole U.S. member of the World Health Organization panel investigating the origins of COVID-19 in China, suggested Tuesday that American intelligence on the matter shouldn't be trusted.



Daszak said in a tweet that the White House should blindly trust the panel's determination that it's highly unlikely the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan.



Daszak worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology prior to the pandemic.

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Investigators, who recently returned from a fact-finding trip to the Chinese city of Wuhan, said disagreements over patient records and other issues were so tense that they sometimes erupted into shouts among the typically mild-mannered scientists on both sides.



China's continued resistance to revealing information about the early days of the coronavirus outbreak, the scientists say, makes it difficult for them to uncover important clues that could help stop future outbreaks of such dangerous diseases.

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Justine will hold back the media's allowance if they aren't nicer to China.



Beijing demands Canadian media do more to promote China

https://tnc.news/2021/02/08/beijing-demands-canadian-media-do-more-to-promote-china/?fbclid=IwAR2XXUKtY4ZMz2lTvgGynxCrUGd-3UGCQUaU2Ihg9nJrNKddw0uJ_wL1Ko0">https://tnc.news/2021/02/08/beijing-dem ... 0uJ_wL1Ko0">https://tnc.news/2021/02/08/beijing-demands-canadian-media-do-more-to-promote-china/?fbclid=IwAR2XXUKtY4ZMz2lTvgGynxCrUGd-3UGCQUaU2Ihg9nJrNKddw0uJ_wL1Ko0



The Chinese embassy in Canada issued a statement last week demanding that Canadian media outlets do more to promote "China-Canadian friendship." The embassy also accused Canadian outlets of being used by "anti-China" forces to slander Beijing.



"We call on relevant Canadian media to abide by professional ethics, respect facts, distinguish right from wrong, and do more to promote China-Canadian friendship and mutual understanding between the two peoples, instead of being used by anti-China forces as a platform for disseminating disinformation, attacking and slandering China," wrote a spokesperson for the embassy.



China has been recently ramping up its propaganda efforts to contain the international blowback to the Chinese Communist Party's mass internment and human rights abuses against the Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang region.



The statement was issued in response to an article by the National Post which characterizes the situation as a genocide. However, this is not the first instance where the CCP regime has taken issue with Canadian reports it views as unflattering.

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Aint this typical of the corrupt WHO. And aint it typical of the msm to bury important details.



The Man At The Center Of the World's Biggest Story Has A Conflict Of Interest. Why Won't The Media Report It?

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/13/world-health-organization-peter-daszak-conflict-of-interest-china-coronavirus/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=hrZoseMJGwKNv.HVm7_iUEe3KRPkn9cuFCUoV6Ys">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/13/worl ... cuFCUoV6Ys">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/13/world-health-organization-peter-daszak-conflict-of-interest-china-coronavirus/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=hrZoseMJGwKNv.HVm7_iUEe3KRPkn9cuFCUoV6Ys



ne of the key members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team looking into where COVID-19 originated has a lengthy history suggesting he may hold a vested interest in determining the virus did not leak from a lab – and the media is hardly talking about it.





Much reporting on the WHO's recent visit to Wuhan has done little to characterize Dr. Peter Daszak, the sole U.S. citizen on the team, and his background. Daszak has a long financial history with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), previous reporting shows. He even organized a PR campaign in early 2020 to paint the lab leak hypothesis as a "conspiracy" in order to relieve the lab and Beijing of any potential scrutiny.



WHO's investigative team recently ended its mission and declared it unlikely that the virus originated from a lab, only to flip flop on the assertion hours later. By then, dozens of pro China headlines echoing Beijing's talking points had already been published.



Members of the press widely covered the WHO's findings, with publications like The New York Times declaring that "China Scores a Public Relations Win After W.H.O. Mission to Wuhan."



NBC reported the news, too, and cited "Chinese researchers working at the lab" as among those who have dismissed the theory that the virus leaked from the lab. Business Insider wrote that the WHO experts were so sure of the lab theory post-investigation that they were able to take the "hypothesis off the table" entirely.



Other publications, like BBC News and the Associated Press, even cited Daszak in their reporting, but not his direct financial ties in the lab and its research. The AP noted that Daszak said the team "enjoyed a greater level of openness than they had anticipated, and that they were granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested."



That level of "openness" Daszak bragged about was actually the exact opposite, we found out later. China withheld key information from the WHO team, according to the Wall Street Journal.



CNN's Becky Anderson spoke with Daszak about the investigation, too. Over the course of about five minutes, Anderson did not ask Daszak any questions regarding his history with the Wuhan lab and his open condemnation of the lab theory from the very start of the pandemic.



The hypothesis contends that COVID-19 might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. Members of the media, along with Chinese operatives on Twitter, dismissed the theory as a "baseless" conspiracy for nearly a year.



President Joe Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, disagreed Saturday in no uncertain terms.



"We have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them," Sullivan said in a statement released by the White House.



Daszak's Wednesday comments are just the latest in his effort to exclude the very real probability the virus leaked from a lab, despite the fact that he's part of a team working to uncover the truth into how COVID-19 began. He did not respond to questions from the Daily Caller.



To start, Daszak heads up a nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance that "has channeled money from the National Institutes of Health" to the WIV, according to a lengthy article published by New York Magazine in Jan. 2021.



The money that EcoHealth Alliance provided helped the Wuhan lab continue conducting research regarding the diseases of humans and bats, according to the NY Mag article. He also used money from another program researching "Emerging Pandemic Threats" through his nonprofit and into the Wuhan virology lab, the NY Mag article reported.



This money was mixed in with funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and Daszak's nonprofit was eventually "instructed to cease providing any funds to Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)" in April 2020, a few months after the global pandemic began.



Daszak pushed back on the NIH and helped get 77 Nobel Prize winners to sign a letter condemning its demands. The letter claimed that cancelling the funds would hurt the "nation and the world of highly regarded science that could help control one of the greatest health crises in modern history and those that may arise in the future."



When the NIH later asked Daszak to get an outside inspection for the Wuhan virology lab – "as a condition of further funding," according to NY Mag – he pushed back once again.



"I am not trained as a private detective," Daszak declared.



Later, he openly decried FOIA efforts made by, in his words, "conspiracy-theory outlets and politically motivated organizations."



And it isn't just money Daszak gives to support WIV. When COVID-19 hit and the lab fell in center focus as a suspect, Daszak quickly mobilized efforts to squash the suggestion.



Daszak led in part a counter-statement published in The Lancet in February and signed by 27 scientists that "strongly condemn[ed]" the "conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin."



The letter declared that scientists "have published and analyzed genomes ... and they overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife."



"We have a choice whether to stand up and support colleagues who are being attacked and threatened daily by conspiracy theorists or to just turn a blind eye," Daszak told Science magazine in February.



A spokesperson for Daszak later admitted to The Wall Street Journal that Daszak's letter was intended to protect Chinese scientists.



"The Lancet letter was written during a time in which Chinese scientists were receiving death threats and the letter was intended as a showing of support for them as they were caught between important work trying to stop an outbreak and the crush of online harassment," Daszak's spokesman said.

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And no doubt old Jim Crow Joe has no qualms about giving them taxpayer money.



Wuhan Lab Eligible To Receive US Taxpayer Funding Through 2024, NIH Confirms

https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/16/wuhan-lab-eligible-taxpayer-funding/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=2PJyteJIFAGNZtlKmDryVzAAwb0gu0Sz02jD1AIW">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/16/wuha ... Sz02jD1AIW">https://dailycaller.com/2021/02/16/wuhan-lab-eligible-taxpayer-funding/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2360&pnespid=2PJyteJIFAGNZtlKmDryVzAAwb0gu0Sz02jD1AIW



The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) is authorized to receive taxpayer funding for animal research through January 2024, according to the National Institute of Health.



The WIV received $600,000 in taxpayer funds between 2014 and 2019 through the nonprofit group EcoHealth Alliance to study bat-based coronaviruses.



The president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, was the sole U.S. member in the World Health Organization delegation that investigated the origins of COVID-19 in China.



Daszak said the White House should blindly accept the WHO's determination that it's highly unlikely that COVID-19 could have unintentionally leaked from the WIV.

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The Liberal chair of the Commons finance committee says a budget recommendation calling on Ottawa to pull out of the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank should serve as a "wake up and smell the roses" moment for Canada.



Liberal MP Wayne Easter, who also served as solicitor-general under Jean Chrétien in charge of Canada's security agencies, told The Globe and Mail Tuesday that Canada needs to recognize the serious threat China poses to western democracies. He also criticized the fact that universities are still conducting research projects with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.

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Wind and solar and electric vehicles will only accelerate the dangerous dependence on China for rare earth metals and energy.



China Targets America's Rare Earth Vulnerability



WASHINGTON—China is reportedly looking into curbing the export of rare-earth minerals to the United States, which may become a new source of friction between the two countries.



China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in January proposed draft controls on the production and export of rare-earth minerals and provided 30 days for public comment.



During the comment period, industry executives were asked to assess how U.S. and European companies could be affected if Beijing decided to cut rare-earth exports during a bilateral dispute, the Financial Times reported, citing people involved in the discussions.



"The government wants to know if the U.S. may have trouble making F-35 fighter jets if China imposes an export ban," a Chinese government adviser told the Financial Times.



Industry executives were also asked to comment on how quickly the United States could secure rare earths from alternative suppliers or increase its production capacity.



Rare earths are 17 metals that are required in the manufacturing of airplanes, computers, cell phones, electricity generation and transmission systems, and advanced electronics.



China controls about 80 percent of the global supply of rare-earth minerals and sees its dominance as leverage that can be used against the West. It's not clear whether China can really weaponize rare-earth exports, as it could backfire by forcing other countries to increase their own production capacity.



The timeline to increase production capacity at home "could in fact be very, very short" with more government support and industry innovation, according to Pini Althaus, CEO of USA Rare Earth, a mining company that is developing the Round Top rare-earths deposit in Texas.



"The writing has been on the wall for decades, and now we are seeing first-hand why we've been raising the alarm that China's dominance over the rare earth and critical minerals industry is a highly volatile geopolitical concern," Althaus said in a statement.



"To counter the effort of the CCP to put a chokehold on defense and other high-tech metals, the U.S. and its allies must continue to invest in this space."



Former President Donald Trump last year signed an executive order to expand and strengthen domestic mining of rare earths and other critical minerals.



"The United States now imports 80 percent of its rare earth elements directly from China, with portions of the remainder indirectly sourced from China through other countries," Trump stated in the executive order. "In the 1980s, the United States produced more of these elements than any other country in the world, but China used aggressive economic practices to strategically flood the global market for rare earth elements and displace its competitors."

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https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/biden-says-uighur-genocide-is-part-of-chinas-different-norms/">Biden dismisses Uighur genocide as part of China's 'different norms'



Biden is dismissing the genocide against the Uighur population in China, dubbing the mass internment a "different norm" — despite the State Department this month responding to "atrocities" in the camps, following reports of systemic rape and torture.



The commander-in-chief made the remarks after being asked during his CNN town hall Tuesday evening about his recent conversation with his Chinese counterpart, starting his response by relaying Xi's justification for the abuses.



"If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven't been unified at home," Biden began. "So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that."



"Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow," he continued.



The "norms" in China, as shown in a recent BBC News exposé, include systemic torture and rape occurring in Uighur concentration camps.



Following the release of the BBC report, China banned the outlet in its territory.

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https://hidedoor.com/servlet/redirect.srv/sruj/scczblb/p2/2021/02/17/biden-says-uighur-genocide-is-part-of-chinas-different-norms/">Biden dismisses Uighur genocide as part of China's 'different norms'



Biden is dismissing the genocide against the Uighur population in China, dubbing the mass internment a "different norm" — despite the State Department this month responding to "atrocities" in the camps, following reports of systemic rape and torture.



The commander-in-chief made the remarks after being asked during his CNN town hall Tuesday evening about his recent conversation with his Chinese counterpart, starting his response by relaying Xi's justification for the abuses.



"If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been, the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven't been unified at home," Biden began. "So the central — well, vastly overstated — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that."



"Culturally there are different norms that each country and their leaders are expected to follow," he continued.



The "norms" in China, as shown in a recent BBC News exposé, include systemic torture and rape occurring in Uighur concentration camps.



Following the release of the BBC report, China banned the outlet in its territory.

Justin Trudeau can say the g word either.