Changing Politics & Economics of Western Countries vs The Pariah

[Anonymous]

If you want a piece of the Chinese market, companies must do the regime's bidding for them.

China passed a new law that orders all individuals and businesses in China to apply sanctions the regime has launched against foreign counterparts. It also bars companies from complying with foreign restrictions placed on Chinese firms and citizens.



Moreover, the law came into effect on June 10, when the regime's rubber-stamp legislature approved it without a third reading, which is a prerequisite under China's Legislative Law.



"It orders foreign citizens to act against their own homelands, and be loyal to the Chinese Communist Party [CCP]," said Tang Jingyuan, a U.S.-based China affairs commentator, in a phone interview with The Epoch Times on Thursday.



"The timing is key. The CCP passed the law right after President Joe Biden started his Europe trip. Biden will talk with European leaders about the investigation into the origin of the CCP virus, which likely leaked from the Wuhan lab," Li Hengqing, a scholar at the Washington Institute for Information and Strategy, told The Epoch Times on June 10.



Li believes that the CCP virus, commonly known as novel coronavirus, leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Once this fact is verified by the world, other countries will hold the CCP regime accountable, Li said.



New Law

The Chinese rubber-stamp legislature passed and released the "Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law" on June 10.



The law requires that all individuals and organizations in China, no matter their citizenship or registered status, must execute the sanctions that the Beijing regime launched.



Furthermore, clause 12 of the law states: "No organization or individual can enforce or help to enforce the discriminatory restrictive measures that foreign countries use against Chinese citizens and organizations ... Chinese citizens or organizations can file a lawsuit against foreign entities [who are complying with foreign-imposed sanctions], and ask them to stop the infringement and pay compensation for [Chinese] losses."

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Foreign Companies Must Act at Beijing's Behest Under New Law in China

[Anonymous]

Chinese companies are going public on U.S. stock exchanges at a record pace this year. China's ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is the latest firm that's poised to go public in New York, rebuffing an increased crackdown on U.S.-listed Chinese companies.

[Anonymous]

It looks like the leak from the Wuhan lab was no accident.



Top Chinese counterintelligence official defected to US, provided intel on Wuhan lab and China's bioweapons programs: Reports

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There are multiple reports that a top Chinese official, who is reportedly "close to" Chinese President Xi Jinping, has defected to the United States. The reports claim that the defector is cooperating with a U.S. intelligence agency, providing eye-opening intel about the Wuhan Institute of Virology and China's bioweapons programs.



There are reports that Dong Jingwei defected from China with his daughter Dong Yang in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States. Dong landed in California, where he contacted the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency to inform officials that he was defecting and could provide inside information about covert Chinese operations, according to a report from Red State, which says, "Dong then 'hid in plain sight' for about two weeks before disappearing into DIA custody."



Dong is a longtime official in China's Ministry of State Security, also known as the "Guoanbu." The U.S. Department of Justice describes the Ministry of State Security as an "institution similar to the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency (ClA) combined under one intelligence directorate responsible for counter-intelligence, foreign intelligence, and political security."



Dong's "publicly available background indicates that he was responsible for the Ministry's counterintelligence efforts in China, i.e., spy-catching, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018," as reported by the Daily Beast and SpyTalk, which is a news site offering analysis on national security topics and U.S. intelligence operations.



"If the stories are true, Dong would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People's Republic of China," the report says.



Dong is "close to" Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to Intelligence Online, a Paris-based newsletter specializing in coverage of the global intelligence community. "He previously headed the Guoanbu in the region of Hebei, which has produced many of Xi's securocrats," the publication reported in 2018.



The Daily Beast report states:



Dong's defection was raised by Chinese officials last March at the Sino-American summit in Alaska, according to Dr. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official before defecting after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. In a Wednesday tweet, Han, citing an unnamed source, alleged that China's foreign minister Wang Yi and Communist Party foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded that the Americans return Dong, and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused.

Dong allegedly supplied the U.S. with "information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology that changed the stance of the Biden administration concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic."



Red State reports, "Not only does Dong have detailed information about China's special weapons systems, the Chinese military's operation of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and the Chinese government's assets and sources within the United States; Dong has extremely embarrassing and damaging information about our intelligence community and government officials in the 'terabytes of data' he's provided to the DIA."



The Red State report also claims that Dong provided the DIA with information about: "Early pathogenic studies of the virus we now know as SARS-CoV-2, models of predicted COVID-19 spread and damage to the US and the world, financial records detailing which exact organizations and governments funded the research on SARS-CoV-2 and other biological warfare research, names of US citizens who provide intel to China, names of Chinese spies working in the US or attending US universities, financial records showing US businessmen and public officials who've received money from the Chinese government, details of meetings US government officials had (perhaps unwittingly) with Chinese spies and members of Russia's SVR, and how the Chinese government gained access to a CIA communications system, leading to the death of dozens of Chinese people who were working with the CIA."



The report alleges that Dong delivered copies of the contents of the hard drive of Hunter Biden's laptop, "showing the information the Chinese government has about Hunter's pornography problem and about his (and Joe's) business dealings with Chinese entities."



Emmy, AP, and RTNDA Award-winning American journalist Adam Housley said earlier this month that the United States "increased pressure on China in recent days is due to a defector with intimate knowledge."



On the same day as Housley's report, Red State published an article stating, "A person believed to be among the highest-ranking defectors ever to the United States from the People's Republic of China has been working with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months," according to sources inside the intelligence community.



"FBI Director Christopher Wray was 'ambushed' with the information, they say, and Langley was also unaware," the Red State report adds. "Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies."



A report from the Washington Times in September 2020 claims that another defector, who was a member of the People's Liberation Army, furnished the U.S. with information about China's covert biological weapons program. The defector escaped to Europe and was reportedly "under the protection of a European government security service." "The PLA defector believes that Chinese intelligence has penetrated the U.S. government and is therefore wary of cooperating with the CIA and other Western spy agencies," the report alleges.



The Daily Beast article warns that rumors of defectors are common, "Former Pentagon, State Department, and CIA expert Nicholas Eftimiades, author of Chinese Espionage: Operations and Tactics, called the report 'exactly what it is, a rumor. It happens all the time' in the information warfare between Beijing and anti-communist overseas Chinese."



Mollie Saltskog, a senior intelligence analyst with the Soufan Group, notes, "While significant and certainly useful for our intelligence efforts, one high-level defection will not drastically change our understanding or approach to China. In short, if true, this is potentially significant but not a game changer."

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't mind if media like Epoch were allowed equal access to Chinese university students.



Chinese Regime Sets Up Global Campaign to Recruit Influencers to Counter Western Narratives



The Chinese communist regime's overseas English mouthpiece media CGTN (China Global Television Network) just finished a 2-month-long worldwide recruitment campaign of global media talents and social media influencers to produce pro-Beijing propaganda that "counters Western narratives." The state-backed media offers rich incentives to attract young participants and has been targeting Western university students, alerting international media and communities.

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[Anonymous]

The CEO of Nike said that the corporation is a "brand of China" earlier this week, amid recent allegations of the company being implicated with human rights violations conducted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).



John Donahoe, the new Nike CEO, while speaking to Wall Street analysts, said that "Nike is a brand that is of China and for China"

[Anonymous]

We know.



China Manipulating American Businesses to Serve Beijing's Interests



The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is manipulating American companies to help it achieve its aims of shaping public opinion, influencing government decisions, and acquiring U.S. technology, Republican lawmakers warned on June 27.



"U.S. businesses are receiving guidance and direction from Chinese officials to influence business operations, investment strategy, and strategic directions," according to interim findings provided to The Epoch Times by lawmakers on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.



The probe also found that U.S. corporate executives and employees practiced "self-censorship," adjusting their business strategies "due to concerns of Chinese opposition."



Some of China's influence came from inside U.S. companies. CCP members, either sitting on the boards or holding executive positions in American firms, are known to be "advancing China's initiatives in acquiring technology and penetrating U.S. markets," according to the interim findings.



The Chinese regime also is keen to get its hands on U.S. technology. According to the findings, U.S. firms have been "manipulated and/or coerced into sharing key technologies with China and helping Beijing acquire sensitive intellectual property, which benefits China-based firms at the expense of U.S. industry."

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[cc]

Republican California Rep. Michelle Steel called on Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to share additional COVID-19 vaccines with Taiwan Wednesday amid China's attempts to block access.

Trump would export vaccines to Taiwan, but I doubt Biden has the balls to do that.

Very good point(s)

[cc]

Joe Biden Is Compromised By China And Here's Your Evidence



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[Anonymous]

Joe Biden Is Compromised By China And Here's Your Evidence



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 ac_wot

[Anonymous]

Joe Biden Is Compromised By China And Here's Your Evidence



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This senile sellout has the backs working Americans. :001_rolleyes:

[cc]

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/france-warned-the-us-in-2015-about-the-wuhan-lab-it-helped-build-former-covid-19-investigator-claims_3918684.html">France Warned US in 2015 About Wuhan Lab It Helped Build, Former COVID-19 Investigator Claims



The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19's origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.



In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department and their own foreign ministry that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab, former State official David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.



By 2017, the French "were kicked out" of the lab and cooperation ceased, leading French officials to warn the State Department that they had grave concerns as to Chinese motivations, according to Asher.



The State Department alleged in January 2021, at the end of the Trump administration, that the Wuhan lab had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.



On Thursday, China said it would not allow the World Health Organization (WHO) to inspect the lab further. China has blocked the WHO from accessing important records at the lab.



"The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector," Asher said.

[Anonymous]

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The U.S. federal government should have stopped funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2015 when China reduced its cooperation with the French in building and operating the lab, according to the leader of an investigation into COVID-19's origins by the State Department under the Trump administration.



In 2015, French intelligence officials warned the U.S. State Department and their own foreign ministry that China was cutting back on agreed collaboration at the lab, former State official David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think tank, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.



By 2017, the French "were kicked out" of the lab and cooperation ceased, leading Frencboat.thecials to warn the State Department that they had grave concerns as to Chinese motivations, according to Asher.



The State Department alleged in January 2021, at the end of the Trump administration, that the Wuhan lab had engaged in classified research on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017.



On Thursday, China said it would not allow the World Health Organization (WHO) to inspect the lab further. China has blocked the WHO from accessing important records at the lab.



"The Chinese basically sucked State into its honey pot operation to gain access to U.S. technology, knowledge, and material support. Classic. Just as they have done in every sector," Asher said.

The USA is as much to blame as China.

[Anonymous]

I say horseshit. It was engineered.



WHO researcher: Wuhan lab worker infected in bat cave 'likely hypothesis' for COVID-19 origin; Chinese researchers tried quashing lab-leak theory amid probe

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[Anonymous]

I say horseshit. It was engineered.



WHO researcher: Wuhan lab worker infected in bat cave 'likely hypothesis' for COVID-19 origin; Chinese researchers tried quashing lab-leak theory amid probe

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Of course it was engineered.

[Anonymous]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials seized more than 3,000 fake COVID-19 vaccination cards in Anchorage, Alaska, that came from China—the second such instance in about a week.