Posted on 11/16/2020 8:33:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
If President Trump is not re-elected, he has no incentive to not make Joe Biden pay a price for the perfidy of himself, his family, and the Democrat party with regard to the Chinese Communist Party.
Axios reported yesterday that sources within the Administration confirm that Pres. Trump will cement his legacy as having sounded the alarm about the malevolence of the Chinese regime in its attitude towards the United States by announcing a series of sanctions against the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army.
The announcement will be coupled with a report by Director of National Security John Ratcliffe calling on China to account for its record of human rights violations, espionage, and hegemonic intentions in East Asia and the Western Pacific Ocean.
He’ll try to make it politically untenable for the Biden administration to change course as China acts aggressively from India to Hong Kong to Taiwan, and the pandemic triggers a second global wave of shutdowns.
- Watch for National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe to publicly describe in granular detail intelligence about China’s nefarious actions inside the U.S.
Details: Trump officials plan to sanction or restrict trade with more Chinese companies, government entities and officials for alleged complicity in human rights violations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, or threatening U.S. national security.
- The administration also will crack down on China for its labor practices beyond Xinjiang forced labor camps.
- But don’t expect big new moves on Taiwan or more closures of Chinese consulates in the U.S., officials say.
National Security Council spokesperson John Ullyot told Axios, “Unless Beijing reverses course and becomes a responsible player on the global stage, future U.S. presidents will find it politically suicidal to reverse President Trump’s historic actions.”
“Future US Presidents” should be read as “Joe Biden if he’s the next US President.”
Catherine Herridge followed up on this report on Twitter, stating that the Axios story had been confirmed to CBS News.
NEW: Senior administration official confirms to @CBSNews as accurate, adding @DNI_Ratcliffe will publicly detail the “depth + breadth of Chinese espionage + influence operations targeting the US” FIRST reported @axios https://t.co/Kv5yAREHSE
— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) November 15, 2020
There is no way for Joe Biden to escape his association with a “pro-China” foreign policy in the second term of the Obama Administration. We don’t even need to go into the business entanglements of Hunter Biden and various Chinese government-backed entities. This announcement coming from the Trump Administration will stamp this brand across the forehead of a Biden Administration if it takes any steps to undo that which Trump does on the way out. It’s the same tactic the Obama Administration used against Trump with regard to Russia.
The difference is that the hostile intentions of the Chinese in conducting intelligence and espionage activities inside the United States is not open to debate.
Senior administration officials are discussing expanding a Defense Department list of Chinese companies deemed to have ties to the Chinese military.
- An executive order issued last week barred U.S. investment in 31 such companies, and any additions would likely face a similar restriction.
- Officials plan to target China’s growing use of forced labor in the highly competitive fishing industry. Coerced and unpaid labor isn’t just a human rights concern — it can also give Chinese fisheries an advantage over rivals in an industry with geopolitical significance.
- Trump officials have been looking to move more hawkish China experts into senior roles across the government, another senior official added.
What they’re saying: “Director Ratcliffe will continue playing a leading role, in coordination with other national security principals, in delivering a necessary mindset shift from the Cold War and post-9/11 counterterrorism eras to a focus on great power competition with an adversarial China,” DNI senior adviser Cliff Sims tells Axios.
The Trump Administration is absolutely correct to take the position that there is no “private” enterprise in China, and to treat every Chinese-owned business operating in the United States as an asset of the Chinese Communist Party on an intelligence basis. Every Chinese business allowed to operate inside the United States, or in partnership with United States businesses, does so only with the permission of the Chinese government. Suggesting otherwise is merely a fiction meant to deflect attention away from the fact that corporate American has been in business with the Chinese government for three decades in order to reduce production costs.
It is long past time for the United States to face the one truly hostile actor in the world with designs on confronting the US as the source of all Western global power within our sphere of influence. The Chinese Communist Party is committed to supplanting the United States as the world’s leading superpower — both economically and militarily. The Chinese are the single existential threat to the US position in global politics.
If Donald Trump is a one-term President, this will be the most consequential act he will have taken in his four year time in office.
Thud!....oh mercy!
Joe has plans to let the Chinese Communist Party have a wing of the White House so they can Rule in comfort
The feeble demented Joe Biden is about to get a wake up call that even he will open his eyes too.
the left will encircle the exposure with theories of their own construction... this is a constitutional mess and i pray the courts have the wherewithal to see it through. or cajones.
“The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” Burke
Release it all. Declassify it all. Put it all out there for all to see. The original evidence, so no one can claim it as opinion. Show everyone once and for all exactly what is going on. Name names!!!
please forgive me if this is overly optimistic....but....seems to me that Ratcliffe talking about this to CBS is very different than reading about the lawyers making claims on Fox and Gateway PUndit?
Is it possible that the story is going “mainstream” at least a little bit?
My President is not tied to politicians.. he probably is ready to play HIS ballgame
I don’t think Joe cares.
I don’t think he has any plan to finish a first term, much less run for a second term.
Maybe through a Canadian software firm already deep into U.S. gov data?
See below from Obama’s reign:
“The Obama administration awarded the U.S. subsidiary of CGI Federal a $93.7 million contract to construct the website healthcare.gov. But that figure was only part of the $678 million total in health care services contracts that was awarded to the company.”
“CGI Federal is a wholly owned subsidiary of CGI Inc., partnering with U.S. federal agencies to provide mission-critical solutions in defense, diplomacy, intelligence, healthcare, environment, homeland security, justice, treasury and more.”
https://www.cgi.com/us/en-us/federal/about-cgi-federal
“CGI Inc., also known as CGI Group, is a Canadian multinational information technology consulting and systems integration company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.”
https://www.cgi.com/en/overview
Bttt
I don’t think Joe cares.
Why would he care. They’re his pals and they pay well.
I don’t think Joe’s aware enough to care or not care !
Release it all. Declassify it all. Put it all out there for all to see.
Yea, just like Durham did. Oh wait . . .
Joe has plans to let the Chinese Communist Party have a wing of the White House so they can Rule in comfort
Let? Motel 1600 is a cash-on-the-barrelhead establishment. You have to pay to stay.
While Trump fulfilled more 2016 Campaign promises and agenda points than any President in my lifetime, these 2020 Election promises from him and his campaign/attorneys read like a clickbait article link headline... and have had no more meat or action than those.
It’s time to put up or shut up and pack his bags to get out of the White House. Day after day, we hear “TOMORROW!!!” with promises of some kind of bombshell, election-flipping information... and day-by-day, we get none. Morsels. Just enough to keep the rabid followers excited (and giving). But like the Casino slot machine practice of tiny, statistically-meaningless payouts to keep gamblers spinning the one-armed bandits... I feel more and more like a played sucker. And we are rapidly running out of time. Georgia will have their Biden-certification by Friday and that will be the end of it.
I think they have given out lots of info. It’s just that the media isn’t reporting it. It would seem like a fire hose of evidence if the media would start doing its job. First thing we need to do is get a free and honest press. The press only pressures republicans. That’s not how it’s supposed to work.
Joe has plans to let the Chinese Communist Party have a wing of the White House so they can Rule in comfort
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More like Supreme President XI has plans that will allow Biden to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom while he dictates to US President Harris.
"More like Supreme President XI has plans that will allow Biden to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom while he dictates to US President Harris."
The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.
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