‘Red-Handed’: 23 Former U.S. Senators and Congressmen Who Lobby for Chinese Military or Chinese Intelligence-Linked Companies
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Breitbart ^
| 31 Jan 2022 | SEAN MORAN
Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer’s latest investigative exposé, Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, reveals how 23 former U.S. senators and congressman have lobbied for Chinese military or intelligence-linked companies after leaving office. Many
lawmakers cash in after leaving office by becoming lobbyists for corporations and other special interests. But one would hope that they would not become advocates for America’s primary economic and political adversary — communist China — by lobbying for outcomes that run counter to the United States’ long-term interests. However, Schweizer’s book reveals that many former...
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US to cancel visas for thousands of Chinese grad students with ties to Chinese military schools: report
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Fox News ^
| May 28 2020 | Brie Stimson
The White House plans to cancel visas for thousands of Chinese graduate students and researchers affiliated with Chinese universities tied to the People’s Liberation Army, according to a report. Secretary
of State Mike Pompeo discussed the plan with President Trump during a meeting Tuesday, The New York Times reported, citing officials with knowledge of the discussions. The plan to cancel visas comes as the Trump administration is seeking to punish China after Beijing moved to impose new national security legislation on Hong Kong, which was condemned by Pompeo this week. Canceling visas were already being discussed by the administration before...
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Chinese Military: Battle Preparation Order to all 5 Military Districts due to Crisis in Korean ..
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Newsis ^
| 2017-04-12 | Lee Jae-jun
/begin my translation Chinese Military: Battle Preparation Order to all 5 Military Districts due to Crisis in Korean Peninsula Lee Jae-jun 2017-04-12 “Preparing to deploy additional 25,000 troops to N. Korean border where 150,000 troops had massed” [Seoul=Newsis] Lee Jae-jun reporter = According to Apr. 12 report of Oriental Daily News in
Hong Kong, in addition to the Northern Military District bordering on N. Korea, Chinese military issued battle preparation order to the remaining four Military District in response to potential crisis in Korean Peninsula as U.S. is ready to use military force due to N. Korea’s nuclear and missile...
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Chinese military lasers injure US military pilots in Africa
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CNN ^
| Ryan Browne
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US pilots and prompted the US to launch a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing, two military officials told CNN.
The US issued a notice to airmen "to exercise caution when flying in certain areas in Djibouti," which "was issued due to lasers being directed at US aircraft on a small number of separate occasions over the last few weeks," according to the notice obtained by CNN. "During...
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Chinese military lasers injure US military pilots in Africa
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CNN ^
| Ryan Browne
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US pilots and prompted the US to launch a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing, two military officials told CNN.
The US issued a notice to airmen "to exercise caution when flying in certain areas in Djibouti," which "was issued due to lasers being directed at US aircraft on a small number of separate occasions over the last few weeks," according to the notice obtained by CNN. "During...
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Chinese military lasers injure US military pilots in Africa
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cnn ^
| 05/03/2018
Chinese personnel at the country's first overseas military base in Djibouti have been using lasers to interfere with US military aircraft at a nearby American base, activity that has resulted in injuries to US pilots and prompted the US to launch a formal diplomatic protest with Beijing, two military officials told CNN.
The US issued a notice to airmen "to exercise caution when flying in certain areas in Djibouti," which "was issued due to lasers being directed at US aircraft on a small number of separate occasions over the last few weeks," according to the notice obtained by CNN. "During...
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Chinese Military Bases in The Caribbean?
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Gatestone Institute ^
| December 10, 2020 at 5:00 am | by Lawrence A. Franklin
China also seems to have a military agenda in the Caribbean region... Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe already is on record expressing China's willingness to deepen military cooperation with Caribbean countries. Of
more concern to US security interests is the ongoing seaport expansion project in the already commercially important port at Kingston, Jamaica, as well as the port at Freeport, Bahamas, China's possible new base of operations 90 miles off the US coast. China is clearly not a government that honors its agreements.... The US can ill afford any Chinese drive to place under threat any Western Hemisphere country, much...
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Chinese Military Using Jamming Against U.S. Drones
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THE WASHINGTON FREE BEACON ^
| 5/22/2015 | Bill Gertz
China tried to electronically jam U.S. drone flights over the South China Sea in a bid to thwart spying on disputed island military construction, U.S. officials said. Global
Hawk long-range surveillance drones were targeted by the jamming in at least one incident near the disputed Spratly Islands, where China is building military facilities on Fiery Cross Reef. Disclosure of the jamming came as a U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance flight on Wednesday was challenged eight times by the Chinese military to leave the same area. “This is the Chinese navy … This is the Chinese navy … Please go away …...
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Can America and Japan Take Down the Chinese Military Together?
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https://nationalinterest.org ^
| December 4, 2021 | by Kris Osborn
ere's What You Need to Remember: Ultimately, the country with the more advanced AI-enabled sensors, long-range weapons and surface-to-air-to-undersea networking would destroy the other. A
recent think tank wargame explores the prospect of a massive war between China and America and Japan in 2030, introducing many war-time questions about submarines, amphibious attack, surface ships and fifth-generation fighters. According to a story in Foreign Policy, the Center for New American Security’s wargame unfolds as follows: “…A Chinese flotilla lands 50 soldiers on Uotsuri Jima, an island in the East China Sea that is part of the Senkakus, an island chain owned...
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The Chinese military will reportedly cut forces by 300,000
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Reuters via Business Insider ^
| 09/03/2015
BEIJING (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday he would cut troop levels by 300,000 as China held its biggest display of military might in a parade to commemorate victory over Japan in World War Two, an event shunned by most Western leaders. China's
confidence in its armed forces and growing military assertiveness, especially in the disputed South China Sea, has rattled the region and drawn criticism from Washington. Xi, speaking on a rostrum overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square before the parade began, said China would cut by 13 percent one of the world's biggest militaries, currently 2.3-million strong. He...
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RedState has a new exclusive about the Chinese military and COVID
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American Thinker ^
| 12 Jun, 2021 | Andrea Widburg
The more one thinks about the events of the past year in light of the information we’re now learning, the angrier one gets. Last
week, RedState reported that the Defense Intelligence Agency had for some months been working with a legitimate, high-level Chinese defector who knew about the Chinese military’s work on bioweapons. Worse, the DIA had refused to let other alphabet agencies know about the defector because they were concerned about Chinese agents having infiltrated those other agencies. Now, RedState’s Jennifer Van Laar is back with more: (a) the virus was deliberately leaked from a Chinese military lab and...
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Is A Chinese Military Attack On Taiwan Inevitable?
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19FortyFive ^
| 10/6/2021 | James Holmes
Xi Jinping’s options Let us go through his options in broad terms. First,
Beijing would doubtless prefer to win without fighting, true to Chinese strategic traditions.[6] That is not because party magnates harbour scruples over using violence, or goodwill towards Taiwan. It is because aggressors love peace.[7] A bloodless triumph lets them get their way while sparing them the dangers, hardships, and costs of war. But it is increasingly doubtful that Taiwan will capitulate without warfare. Polls reveal that an overpowering majority of islanders now define themselves not as Chinese but as Taiwanese.[8] As a corollary, they reject the legitimacy...
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US Investors Continue To Fund The Chinese Military
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Epoch Times ^
| 06/21/2022 | Antonio Graceffo
The U.S. Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an online FAQ allowing Americans to continue funding China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).The PLA is on the verge of launching its third aircraft carrier as part of its $9 billion dollar carrier program. This
hefty price tag represents a small fraction of money the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has received from U.S. investors.China “exploits United States investors to finance the development and modernization of its military” wrote then-U.S. President Donald Trump on Nov. 12, 2020, in an executive order banning investment in Chinese stocks linked to the PLA. In the order, Trump accurately...
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Why the Chinese Military Wants Magnetized Plasma Artillery
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ttps://nationalinterest.org ^
| March 13, 2021 | by Michael Peck
ere’s What You Need to Remember: China claims to be developing “magnetized plasma artillery.” The
Chinese military recently published a notice inviting researchers to devise a weapon that sounds like a sort of electromagnetic rail gun—which uses magnetism instead of gunpowder to fire shells—that several nations are developing. But actually deploying railguns has been hampered by the size of the weapon and especially the vast amount of electrical energy needed to propel a shell to speeds of greater than Mach 7. For example, despite years of research and vast sums of money, the U.S. Navy appears less than optimistic about...
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Chinese Military on Target to Surpass US, Russia
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https://www.voanews.com ^
| October 28, 2021 | Jeff Seldin
It is only a matter of time before China's plan to replace the United States as the world's preeminent military becomes reality, a top U.S. general warned, calling on the Washington and its allies to speed efforts to counter Beijing’s bid for dominance. General
John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Washington’s second-most-senior military officer, called the rapid rise of the Chinese military “stunning.” “The pace they're moving and the trajectory that they're on will surpass Russia and the United States if we don't do something to change it," he told the Defense Writers Group on...
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Chinese Military Personnel Expected to Arrive in Syria
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The Arab Source ^
| 9/23/2015 | Leith Fadel
The recent arrival of the Russian Marines and Air Force to the Syrian port-city of Tartous has generated a significant amount of interest around the world, as the possibility of Russia’s direct military intervention becomes the focal point of the war on ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham). [....] Instead, the
Russians appear to have a contingency that involves another world power that was absent from the U.S. led Anti-ISIS Coalition: China. On Tuesday morning, a Chinese naval vessel reportedly traveled through Egypt’s Suez Canal to enter the Mediterranean Sea; its destination was not confirmed. However, according to a...
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Wuhan Lab Connected to Chinese Military, Documents Reveal
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PJ Media ^
| APR 25, 2021 2:19 PM ET | Rick Moran
A Daily Mail investigation has uncovered additional evidence that the COVID-19 coronavirus may have originated in a military virus lab in Wuhan, China, despite denials from the Chinese Communists that the military was involved. In
February, the World Health Organization concluded that there was no evidence for the lab origin theory, and that the team investigating the virus’s origins should stop pursuing that theory. Hundreds of scientists around the world were outraged and demanded the WHO continue looking into the Wuhan lab hypothesis. The Wuhan Institute of Virology project began nine years ago and was tasked with studying bat viruses....
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Chinese military planes intercept US aircraft: reports
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Breitbart / (AFP) ^
| May 19, 2017 | AFP
Washington (AFP) – Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted an American military plane over the East China Sea, media in the United States have reported, citing US officials. NBC
News said the US aircraft, a WC-135 Constant Phoenix, was conducting a routine mission in international airspace Wednesday when it was intercepted over the East China Sea by two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 fighter aircraft. The WC-135 is a so-called “sniffer plane” designed to scan the atmosphere for signs of nuclear activity. NBC said the crew of the US plane described the encounter as “unprofessional,” although not necessarily dangerous.
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Report: Former Los Alamos scientists later helped Chinese military
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https://www.kob.com ^
| September 22, 2022 | Tommy Lopez
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – A new report revealed on Wednesday shows dozens of scientists have left Los Alamos National Laboratory in northern New Mexico and fueled military technology innovation in China. The shocking details show how American taxpayers may have unintentionally helped China’s military become more of a threat to the U.S.
over decades, as government-funded defense research later made its way to China’s labs. The report details how China poached talent from New Mexico and then stole American ideas for cutting-edge technology, shining a light on the security of top-secret U.S. research on sophisticated weapons at the country’s top...
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Microsoft Worked with Chinese Military University on AI Development
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Breitbart ^
| 11 Apr 2019 | Lucas Nolan
Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly been working on artificial intelligence research with a Chinese military-run university, recent reports claim that the research could be used for both surveillance and censorship. Tech
giant Microsoft has been working with a Chinese military-operated university on research relating to A.I. which could be used for surveillance and censorship practices, according to the Financial Times. Between March and November, three scientific studies were published which were co-written by academics from the Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing. Other researchers involved in the studies had close affiliations to China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). Senior fellow...
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