Posted on 09/30/2020 1:56:28 PM PDT by Heartlander
The Communist regime in China is a dishonest trade partner, a malign actor in global geopolitics, a predatory lender, and a singularly minded threat to the combined economic and national security of the free world.
China continues a well-orchestrated campaign to dominate key sectors of the global economy. To this end, the full power of the Chinese state is exercised to gain market share for state-controlled companies, including through seemingly philanthropic investments in infrastructure that become debt traps for developing nations. Beijing exploits this dominance to advance Chinese geopolitical interests and to undermine democratic institutions.
Leading Chinese firms are incubated and developed based on innovations stolen from the West. Funded with virtually limitless government capital, they are promoted overseas by Chinese diplomats who bribe and threaten in order to secure market share. Beijing is thereby replacing Western influence throughout the globe, particularly in nations that have infrastructure loans through China or receive significant amounts of direct Chinese investment.
China is also the world’s most prolific cyber pirate. The information targeted for theft is not limited to traditional foreign intelligence targets, such as classified government networks—in fact, Chinese hackers have been found stealing data from virtually all sectors of the U.S. economy. Much of this is primarily of commercial interest and is being leveraged to gain advantage for Chinese state-controlled firms.
American universities are also a key focus of Beijing’s operations. Their open settings and emphasis on collaborative scientific research make them primary targets for the theft of U.S. innovation by Chinese agents and others bribed by the regime. Through its Thousand Talents Plan, the Chinese regime recruits foreign scientists to assist in stealing foreign technology. Confucius Institutes on U.S. university campuses function as Chinese state-run propaganda enterprises that, according to the American Association of University Professors, “advance a state agenda in the recruitment and control of academic staff, in the choice of curriculum, and in the restriction of debate.”
The Chinese intent to transfer everything of strategic value from the United States to mainland China is well documented. In response, the United States government has pursued numerous high-profile prosecutions, including the arrest of Chinese agents operating within the United States and the indictment of Chinese intelligence officers responsible for cybercrimes.
Stronger measures are needed to protect Americans from China’s depredations and to dissuade Beijing from continuing them. With the release of its comprehensive report today, the House Republican China Task Force is proposing specific, effective solutions to stop China’s shameless plundering.
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have also run a years-long investigation of Chinese threats. Under Chairman Mike Rogers, the Committee issued a comprehensive report as early as 2012 warning about the strategic threats posed by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE. I am continuing this work by advocating for the Holding China Accountable Act, which would improve the security of American innovation from China’s constant assaults. The bill would implement three effective measures:
– Require Chinese firms to conform to either U.S. or European accounting standards.
– Prohibit travel to the United States by Chinese nationals whose visit to the United States involves science, technology, engineering, mathematics or a related field. The bill allows for this restriction to be waived only if the President certifies to Congress that in the preceding year, China has not provided state support of cyber espionage against a U.S. company and that no person or entity in the U.S. has engaged in espionage against a U.S. company on China’s behalf.
– Tighten requirements on university reporting of foreign funding. The bill would reduce the reporting threshold to $25,000, designate China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea as covered nations, and increase the fine for noncompliance.
Since Beijing is continuing its unchecked program of massive theft of U.S. intellectual property and technology, we are left with no choice but to adopt stronger defensive measures. This bill will put Beijing on notice: America will not sit by idly while our citizens’ hard work and innovations are shamelessly stolen to benefit a totalitarian regime attempting to dominate the global economy.
Just return to the same state pre-Nixon. No direct trade with the Chicoms. Massive tariffs on any indirect trade with them.
Agree. One of the problems are OUR own domestic anti-individual rights collectivists up to and including CFR puppet Joe Biden and Soros puppet Kamala Harris.
One of Deng’s legacies is China’s current strategy of maximizing “Comprehensive National Power”.... from...Edge-esteemed “Evolutionary PSYCHOlogist”...
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
Wuhan Fauci, too. WMDs...”invisible enemy”. We leveled Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden to take out their weapons producing capabilities, yet L4 Wuhan still stands and it has done more damage to the entire world than either of the others ever had the capability of doing.
United Nations? United in WTF? Not even a “Coalition of the Willing” against Wuhan? Crickets CONgress? Jorge WMD Bush? Colin WMD Powell? Curious press? Angry scientists? Scarflady Bird? Concern for their citizens safety governors? Nada.
Just directives and LOCKDOWN of citizens WORLDWIDE. More DEATH BY GOVERNMENT without holding ANYBODY ACCOUNTABLE.
Sum Ting Wong
16 Intel agencies? 5-eyes? International governments? NGOs? Think tanks? Conservative pundits? Liberal pundits? Bueller? Bueller?
NADA
Let’s go forward to the next distraction. Whats several million non-essentials dead? It works for the POPCON artists.
Beijing got away with more crap than Japan (1941) and Islam (2001) combined did. They are the world’s pariah and should be treated as such.
JoeJoe the PUPPET is the PERFECT POTUS. Joementia talks like he has CFR dick “Age of Non-Polarity” haass in his mouth....or up his azz. See dick. Read dick’s mind...about “The NEWER WORLD ORDER”. Isn’t dick clever?
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2008-05-03/age-nonpolarity
(Remember how JoeJoe bragged about the money and getting someone fired in Ukraine at dick’s CFR? Wasn’t that arrogant FOREIGN POLICY “representation” of we the people. No wonder others dislike us.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRMf3wKBCPo
See JoeJoe with his mouth open? See dick.
A CONgre$$ person standing up to CHYna? HOORAY Devin Nunes!! Watch out for the ‘rona.
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