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High-Level Biden Staffers Consulted For CCP-Linked Drone Firm Banned By US Govt
https://thenationalpulse.com ^ | December 22, 2020 | Natalie Winters

Posted on 12/22/2020 12:56:00 PM PST by Red Badger

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden counts high-level staffers – Senior Spokesman for Biden Inaugural Committee Matt Hill and Director of State Communication Meira Bernstein – as alumni of the Global Strategy Group: a consulting firm that represents Chinese Communist Party-linked drone company DJI.

In contrast, the Trump administration had moved to blacklist the firm from operating in the U.S. alongside a host of Chinese Communist Party-linked companies.

Since 2017, China-based DJI has been identified by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as “selectively targeting government and privately owned entities within these sectors to expand its ability to collect and exploit sensitive U.S. data.” These fears prompted the U.S. Department of Interior to ground its entire fleet of DJI drones, “citing increasing concerns about the national security risk from Chinese manufacturers.”

The Department of Defense and U.S. Army have also followed suit.

Despite these concerns, the Biden campaign felt comfortable hiring two individuals who previously worked for a consulting group that lobbied on behalf of the company: Global Strategy Group.

The firm lists DJI as one of its technology-sector “clients” alongside Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Biden-linked Global Strategy Group works for CCP-linked DJI.

Hill, who served as Biden’s Deputy National Press Secretary, during the campaign and is now a Senior Spokesperson for his Inaugural Committee, worked as an Associate at Global Strategy group from 2016 to 2018. Hill also served as an intern for then-Vice President Biden, describing himself as “help[ing] guide Vice President Joe Biden’s communications strategy.”

Additionally, Director of State Communications during the campaign, Meira Bernstein, was an Associate at Global Strategy Group from 2013 to 2014 before being being promoted to Senior Associate from 2014 to 2015.

Evidently, Hill and Bernstein had no issue affiliating with DJI – a company that routinely complies with data sharing requests from the Chinese Communist Party.

The New York Times reported on a 2016 DJI press briefing in China where company spokesman Zhang Fanxi described how DJI “is complying with requests from the Chinese government to hand over data”:

“In a briefing for Chinese and foreign journalists at DJI’s headquarters in Shenzhen on Wednesday, Zhang Fanxi, a spokesman for the company, said it was still working out how to deal with the data it collects in China. But for now, he said, DJI is complying with requests from the Chinese government to hand over data.”

While the Trump administration and its allies such as Rep. Matt Gaetz have cracked down on the Chinese company, there’s a chance a Biden administration could reverse the progress that has been made.

After all, Biden, his family members, and campaign staffers are all notoriously soft on China.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bidentreason; dnctreason; treasonignored; typicaltreason
Once a crook, always a crook....................
1 posted on 12/22/2020 12:56:00 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

normally treason/sedition would be investigated
BUT the congress only wants to sell out US Citizens
and the DO”J” and FIB only want to sell out US Citizens.

America is truly fkd.


2 posted on 12/22/2020 1:02:33 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: Red Badger

Another reason it is impossible for me to believe the election results last month.....

China

Did a majority of Americans really vote for a pro-China candidate?

I don’t think so.


3 posted on 12/22/2020 1:04:36 PM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Red Badger

We have arrived at a place in time where the CCP could send over top level spies to be appointed in the Biden administration, and it would we done.

What’s more, the media would cheer the diversity and qualifications of the CCP spies, while most of the political class would stay silent. Only a few “right wing extremist” politicians would even voice concern.


4 posted on 12/22/2020 1:09:44 PM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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M-107 50 caliber rifle ... It’s a beautiful thing.


5 posted on 12/22/2020 1:24:21 PM PST by JME_FAN
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To: Red Badger

This kind of situation is why I am of the opinion that Trump has no choice but to invoke the Insurrection Act. It is looking like we have more Chinese sympathizers/ compromised Swamp Rats in Washington than we do good, loyal patriots. . .enemies of the Constitution, foreign and domestic. . . .


6 posted on 12/22/2020 1:30:50 PM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: Red Badger

Bump


7 posted on 12/22/2020 1:42:01 PM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: Red Badger; rlmorel; AdmSmith
12/22/2020:

Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden counts high-level staffers – Senior Spokesman for Biden Inaugural Committee Matt Hill and Director of State Communication Meira Bernstein – as alumni of the Global Strategy Group: a consulting firm that represents Chinese Communist Party-linked drone company DJI.

Ukraine and Russia war - now [July 2023] using many thousands of such drones.

8 posted on 07/18/2023 11:02:37 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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Not good, any recent updates?
9 posted on 07/19/2023 2:58:20 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: linMcHlp

Surprised we don’t see Lindsey Graham’s name on there.


10 posted on 07/19/2023 5:21:04 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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