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Kathy Hochul joins a growing list of prominent Democrats plausibly compromised by the Chinese Communist Party, up to and including Joe Biden and Tim Walz. //
The Chinese have compromised the Democrat Party in ways Democrats dream the Russians have infiltrated Republicans.
Two indictments this week shook the nation, revealing the lengths to which foreign adversaries have gone to compromise the integrity of the American political system. One indictment, however, was not like the other. In fact, one was far worse in just about every way imaginable. //
Yet the Russian interference effort to buy off a couple of oblivious influencers pales in comparison to Chinese operations that are targeting elected leaders who are actually in office.
Another indictment unsealed this week revealed the far more devastating details of a foreign rival compromising one of the most powerful governorships in the country. On Tuesday, the former deputy chief of staff for New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged with a laundry list of offences, including crimes under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Federal prosecutors say Linda Sun, whose 14 years in the state government also included time under Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was actually working on behalf of the Chinese government. Sun was charged along with her husband, Chris Hu, for myriad financial crimes compromising the governor’s office in the nation’s fourth most populous state.
Selling out your country for money is pretty low. Selling secrets to the enemy, with the knowledge that you are sending someone to their death, is the worst kind of spy. Robert Hanssen was that type of spy. Hanssen, an FBI agent who, from 1979 to 2001, fed information to his Soviet handlers that netted him over $600,000 in cash and $50,000 worth of diamonds. The information that he sold costs lives. Spies in the Soviet Block were outed and subsequently executed. The CIA and the FBI knew there was a mole, but Hanssen escaped detection for years. At one point he typed in his name on the FBI mainframe computer to see if he was under suspicion. Apparently, that wasn't suspicious. //
Ames and Hanssen combined to compromise the identities of hundreds of human assets, most notably Gen. Dmitri Polyakov. Polyakov was the head of Soviet Intelligence. He was fingered by Hanssen and Ames. Polyakov was arrested and executed.
Most recently, we have seen an increase in spies, and spying for China. Fang Fang, Eric Swalwell's alleged side-chick was (and still is?) a Chinese spy. He claims he didn’t know of her spying, and offered no information for her affections. Kathy Hochul, the nasally governor of New York, had a spy working under her nose. //
Diane Feinstein had a spy who loved her. Her longtime driver was a longtime Chinese spy. //
On Wednesday, another Chinese spy was sentenced. The New York Times reported that:
Alexander Yuk Ching Ma, 71, of Honolulu, was arrested and charged in August 2020 after he admitted to an undercover F.BI. employee, who had hired him as part of a ruse to investigate him, that he had used his security clearance to help get the protected information to the Shanghai State Security Bureau of the People’s Republic of China
More WIV News: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz worked to secure millions for a Minnesota-based lab that worked with the Chinese research facility. //
Researchers at France’s Pasteur Institute have just released a report suggesting that researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV, which may have been ground zero for COVID-19) may also be responsible for an outbreak of a “highly evolved polio strain.”
According to their findings, a young boy caught a case of polio ’99 percent’ identical to a polio variant that was stored 200 miles away at the Chinese research labs in Wuhan. //
The Pasteur researchers suspect that WIV14 polio, so named by the Wuhan scientists who first catalogued the strain, likely evolved from a well-preserved, 1950s strain of the virus used — almost exclusively — in vaccine production and laboratory settings.
But Iran? If Iran were to obtain a nuke, either by building their own or just buying one from North Korea or Pakistan, that might very well be the flashpoint. This is a line that has not been crossed since 1945, and was Iran to torch off a nuke in Haifa - or New York - that would almost certainly plunge the world into conflict.
Watch Iran. Watch the least stable players. Hopefully, reason will prevail, but as von Clausewitz famously said, "Only the dead have seen the end of war."
A former aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested Tuesday morning on charges of violating and conspiring to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), visa fraud, alien smuggling, and money laundering conspiracy. The former aide, Linda Sun, is accused of acting on behalf of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, to further their interests in the United States. Her husband, Chris Hu, was also arrested and charged with money laundering conspiracy, as well as conspiracy to commit bank fraud and misuse of means of identification. //
In exchange for her assistance, it's alleged that Sun received millions of dollars in kickbacks and other benefits from the PRC, including:
"The Manchurian Candidate," a 1959 novel by Richard Condon, posits the son of a prominent American political dynasty who is captured by a Soviet Union commando unit during the Korean War and brainwashed into becoming a Soviet sleeper agent, an assassin who is triggered into action by, of all things, a card game. The goal of the Soviet Union in this exercise? To have their sleeper agent kill a presidential candidate to install his running mate, who is secretly controlled by his wife, a secret KGB operator. //
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DUFFY: Walz taught in China, he visited China 30 times, he honeymooned in China, and he promoted Chinese communism to his American students as a teacher. Is Tim Walz a national security risk?
@KristiNoem: Absolutely. I am 100% convinced he's a national security risk. Show more
10:51 AM · Sep 1, 2024 //
When I was on a general staff, working for the Command Surgeon, U.S. Army, Europe (USAEUR), I had to have a Top Secret clearance. It was quite the process; the FBI talked to my parents, they talked to my in-laws, they talked to old friends; they even talked to my first wife, who later mentioned to me that she told them that while she and I had our differences, I was as solid an American patriot as one was likely to find. I give her full honesty points for that.
But had I had Tim Walz's China background, I doubt I would have received my clearance. //
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.@KristiNoem on Tim Walz: He's a bully, and he pushes mandates down on his people. He's got ties to companies in China. You don't go to China 30 times to be a tourist. You go because you have an affiliation with their government. Show more
10:35 AM · Sep 1, 2024. //
In summary: Tim Walz is a national security risk. Governor Noem points out that Tim Walz wants America to become more like China. China, I remind you, is entering into an economic crisis because of all their years of economic fakery. They are entering into a demographic collapse because of decades of the idiotic "one-child policy." China, I remind you, tightly controls every aspect of the lives of Chinese subjects; I will not call those poor people citizens, as they are not. One cannot own a home in China; land and apartments are leased from the Chinese Communist Party. China is on a dark road into an uncertain future, including very possibly a complete collapse.
"China Tim" Walz wants to take us down that same road.
"Friendly" is an understatement. From Walz' teaching days in Nebraska until now, the Minnesota governor has all the leanings of a Manchurian Candidate. In this 2016 interview with Agri-Pulse, Walz calmly admits that he traveled to China over 30 times. Listen to how he speaks about America forging a non-adversarial relationship with the People's Republic. This interview was given while he was a sitting member of Congress and part of the House Agriculture Committee. //
Walz first traveled to China on a year-long teaching fellowship in 1989, months after the Chinese Communist Party slaughtered thousands of pro-democracy activists and student protesters in Tiananmen Square.
Despite the country's turmoil, Walz—a 25-year-old National Guardsman at the time—wrote in a letter to one of his former college professors that he was "being treated like a king" in China.
In China, Walz said he received a salary that was double the pay of Chinese teachers, was given a decorated apartment with a color TV, and had the only air-conditioned residence on campus. He said he was also thrown parties on his birthday and Christmas. //
This makes Walz' Stolen Valor even worse. Walz was literally being paid by a foreign country while supposedly serving and being paid by the United States military. This is highly questionable, and if he failed to be debriefed, could portend something even worse.
Walz' choice of the date of his marriage to his wife Gwen is also cringe-inducing.
Walz and his wife Gwen held their wedding on the fifth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre—with Gwen Walz saying her husband "wanted to have a date he'll always remember." The Walzes spent their honeymoon in China. They also founded a travel company, Educational Travel Adventures Inc., which specialized in trips to China. //
Now, a former student who says he joined Walz on a 1995 trip to China is speaking to Alpha News about the experience. That student, Shad, asked that we not use his last name.
For several weeks, Walz and his group of students explored China together in the summer of 1995, Shad said. They saw Tiananmen Square, walked along the Great Wall of China, and traversed the country. However, the former student says he was struck by Walz’s adoration for China and its communist ideology.
Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team
Secure Technology Value Solutions is a company with a boring name and a bland website that is staffed by jovial-looking former policemen and corrections officers. It doesn’t exactly scream “Chinese Communist Party threat,” and that’s precisely the point.
Secure Technology Value Solutions is actually a front for Nuctech, a Chinese government- and military-owned company, and it’s selling sensitive security equipment to police and corrections departments all across the United States.
Nuctech sells devices such as the body scanners that passengers must use during airport security checks, as well as larger devices, such as cargo scanners for commercial ports.
It was an early adopter of a technique that’s become popular among Chinese companies that fall under national security scrutiny: Change the name of your American subsidiary to something that sounds benign and hope to fly under the radar.
Nuctech’s U.S. subsidiary changed its name to Secure Technology Value Solutions in 2022, after Nuctech was hit by several forms of national security sanctions.
Nuctech equipment was blocked from U.S. airports a decade ago by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration and sanctioned by the U.S. Commerce Department in 2020 on national security grounds.
Some 500 miles west of Beijing, in the desert of the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, a solar-power project is underway that is — even by China’s standards — audacious in scale and, most remarkably, in ambition.
Officials in Ordos are over the next several years going to install 100 gigawatts of solar panels — more than three times as much capacity as the United States is currently building nationwide — along a stretch of land 250 miles (400 kilometers) long and 3 miles (5 km) wide.
The goal isn’t just to generate huge amounts of clean power. It is also to restore a no man’s land, bringing greenery and even livestock to an area roughly the size of Puerto Rico. In doing so, the local authorities are doubling down on two of China’s most successful efforts of recent years: An epic expansion of solar power, and major progress in combating desertification. //
Initially, those operating in desert climes adopted measures such as creating sand barriers and planting trees in order to safeguard their operations. “They must take actions to minimize the damage they would bring to the local ecology and environment while also protecting their own bases from being damaged by sandstorms,” Wang Weiquan, the general secretary of the Energy and Environment Committee of China Energy Research Society, a Beijing-based NGO, told me. “Much to their surprise, they found that their work led grass to grow in the desert.”
Indeed, according to a 2022 study, desert-based solar power projects have resulted in “a significant greening trend”: About one-third of the land under solar plants built in 12 Chinese deserts has seen vegetation grow.
As another recent study showed, solar panels do not only create shade, enabling plants and vegetables to grow, but also reduce the ground wind speed, preventing sand from being picked up.
Solar companies saw opportunities: They started to search for suitable crops to grow under the panels. One plant they found worked was liquorice, which can survive in the harsh environment and make the soil more fertile by absorbing nitrogen from the air and converting it to the ground. //
There are also environmental concerns. For one, most Chinese developers build their desert bases by bulldozing sand dunes, and this could ultimately lead to sand and dust storms, a Chinese sand-control expert told me, speaking on condition of anonymity. A previous study also showed that covering the Sahara with solar panels may, in fact, worsen global warming by potentially increasing surrounding air temperatures markedly and reshaping rainfall patterns worldwide.
The U.S. Constitution explicitly grants Congress the power to issue letters of marque and reprisal (Article I, Section 8, Clause 11), providing a legal foundation for privateering. This concept remains an option under U.S. law. //
Engaging privateers to target the Russian ghost fleet could also have the secondary effect of incentivizing international shippers to register under the U.S. flag. The prospect of U.S. Navy protection against potential retaliation by Russia or other adversarial powers would be a significant draw for these companies. Currently, U.S.-flagged vessels are entitled to the protection of the U.S. Navy, providing a security assurance that can be crucial in unstable maritime environments.
This shift could bolster the U.S. merchant marine fleet, enhance national security, and ensure better compliance with international laws and sanctions. Moreover, a larger U.S.-flagged fleet would create a more robust logistical network — absolutely vital in deterring the PRC across the vast expanse of the Pacific.
Popdaddy
30 minutes ago
It’s a good thing President Trump’s team has all of this archived for future use. They can’t erase Stolen Valor just by cleaning a website.
I noticed they have whitewashed Wikipedia by removing all references to this ass taking leave of his Minnesota National Guard position to teach in Red China, that contract had to be at least a year. No mention of getting married on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre or honeymoon in Red China. Also no mention of his at least 30 trips to Red China.
There’s a serious problem with this guy, he shouldn’t get near classified information.
mopani Popdaddy
a few seconds ago
Do you think this might be the mystery reason he got the bid instead of Shapiro? Is Beijing Biden still earning his pay?
Mrs. deWinter Popdaddy
6 minutes ago
My husband had a security clearance for 40 years and he said last night that any of those trips to China would have been a hard NO on getting the clearance in the first place and he'd have been let go from his brand new job 40 years ago. That this guy could be the Vice-President is scary.
After nearly every flight, the upper stage of this rocket breaks apart in orbit. //
A new debris field of nearly 1,000 objects would be a significant addition to the approximately 46,000 objects Space Command tracks in Earth orbit. According to statistics compiled by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist who monitors global launch and spaceflight activity, this would rank in the top five of all debris-generation events since the dawn of the Space Age.
The Thousand Sails constellation aims to provide global internet access. It is one of two planned Chinese systems to challenge U.S. projects including Starlink. Thousand Sails is also intended to secure finite orbital slots and frequencies, and provide national internet coverage and data security. //
The Long March 6A rocket used for Tuesday’s launch combines liquid propellant core stages with solid rocket boosters. The launcher can carry 4,500 kg to a 700-km sun-synchronous orbit. The rocket’s upper stage appears to have suffered debris issues in orbit. //
Like Starlink, China's Qianfan satellites have an easy-to-pack flat-panel design.
During President Joe Biden’s address to the nation about his withdrawal from running for re-election this week, he claimed one of his foreign policy accomplishments was that China’s economy was no longer on pace to surpass the U.S. economy. The truth is the Biden administration’s China policy has been a failure and China’s economic decline has been self-inflicted.
Many people have been conditioned to think China would soon surpass the United States as the world’s dominant economic power. But that scenario seems less likely now due to Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s economic policies.
Deeply suspicious of entrepreneurs and economic reform, Xi has deliberately forced China back toward the socialist economic model envisioned by Mao by placing the Chinese Communist Party and himself in the driver’s seat and managing China’s economy through central planning. Xi also prioritizes national security over economic growth and values loyalty to him over competency.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told the People’s Liberation Army to be ready to conquer Taiwan by the year 2027. Most U.S. military and intelligence analysts believe Xi will attempt such an invasion before this decade is out. Xi views Taiwan’s subjugation under the Chinese Communist Party flag as a requirement of his personal destiny and the party’s political destiny. //
The United States is not obligated, under the current Taiwan Relations Act, to intervene with military forces should the Communist Chinese forces invade the island nation; we are committed to supporting Taiwan with arms and logistical support. But that, in itself, may make the mainland Communists see value in interdicting any such support, which would mean taking military action against U.S. forces in the Pacific.
That could make things in the Pacific downright spicy, and quickly. And China may be preparing to do just that. //
USA_Proud
9 hours ago edited
Their aging demographics alone make military attacks in the next 5 years likely. While their "One Child" policy resulted in a high percentage of Military age Males, it ran for decades, and only ended in 2015. The lack of females in prime child- bearing years makes it difficult to staff a Military. While China may have wanted to wait a few more years to further let Biden decimate our Military while they modernize theirs, fear of a GOP Administration may cause them to jump early. //
Chuck in TX
9 hours ago
China is surrounded by some very strong opponents that would view an attack on one as a likely attack on all of them. Also, Xi has to have serious questions about whether the PLA is as prepared and capable as he has been told. Fatal flaws seem to reveal themselves with the PLA pretty regularly. Any kind of high-tempo operations will reveal even more. Fortress Taiwan undoubtedly has agents within China ready to make life miserable for the CCP and a Three Gorges Dam failure wipes out almost a third of China (from the river to the sea, indeed).
Laocoön of Troy Chuck in TX
7 hours ago
Glad you caught the Three Gorges Dam problem. It really is a war-loser for the People's Republic if it's taken down. The threat of famine over the next coupla years if it goes is all by itself a PRC killer. Their garrisoned waterlogged sandbars in the South China Sea can be made into quicksand with a MOAB...we don't even hafta go nuclear to sink them back into the ocean one at a time.
The climax of the Cuban Missile Crisis was summed up in Secretary of State Dean Rusk's quip, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked." In this case, we didn't get eyeball to eyeball because Joe Biden did a kowtow based on a glare.
Even though the deployment of this missile system was intended to be "temporary," temporary was never defined. Pulling the missile out as China is grousing about it is a bad look as China is doing nothing to "reduce tensions" in the South China Sea because it looks, smells, and tastes like surrender.
Just as Biden's half-hearted efforts to roll back Russian aggression in Ukraine haven't gone unnoticed by our allies and adversaries, neither has Biden's reluctance to confront Chinese adventurism and provocations in the Pacific. Instead of standing firm, Biden has let China dictate to the US what kind of military equipment we can station on the territory of a willing ally. //
polyjunkie
6 hours ago edited
My guess is that the entire Biden foreign policy apparatus is compromised by China. The “Penn/Biden Center” was entirely paid for by China . FJB, Blinken, and the rest of his inner circle were all paid “employees” at the Center, where top secret documents were being kept. Connect the dots: FJB and his staff are paid agents of China, doing its bidding against US interests. Hunter is the Bagman, and the House has the actual wire transfer records showing Chinese money passing to FJB. And the “press” are willing participants/traitors in the coverup.
The only thing screwing this up is FJB’s senility, or China would own us by 2028…. //
Min Headroom llme polyjunkie
4 hours ago edited
The PRC compromise of America and its institutions extends far beyond the Bidens, although it certainly includes them. I used to think the Soviets were pretty good at compromising American assets, but the PRC has long ago said “hold my Tsingtao,” and made the Russians look like lightweight amateurs. They probably have the most massive effort to subvert an opponent in world history. //
Sojourner
5 hours ago edited
Main comment: I agree with Streiff that Biden is getting rolled by the Chinese.
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Secondary comment: I disagree with the second part of the headline where Xi is JFK (i.e., the winner). I think Xi is Khrushchev (because he, not JFK, was the winner). If you're interested why I take this view, read on.
I admit I'm in the minority, but I have an entirely different take of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I maintain Khrishchev got exactly what he wanted: getting the US Jupiter missiles out of Turkey and Italy. Which is exactly what happened as a result of a very secret agreement between Washington and Moscow that actually resolved the crisis.
So, contrary to Rusk's assertion, I think it's the US that blinked.
And it was only a post-crisis Madison Avenue-style PR blitz that relied on "Camelot" (especially in the wake of the Bay of Pigs PR hit to JFK's rep) to make JFK look the hero with the added claim that the Jupiters were going to be retired anyway.
See the Dec 1962 entry here:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-10-30/nuclear-weapons-turkey-1959
Also, see here:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/jupiter-missiles-and-endgame-cuban-missile-crisis-matter-great-secrecy
China is a nation in which families, who are heavily dependent on younger generations to care for the older ones, have no offspring to spare. Losing one son in China now means the end of a family line — which matters in China.
This hasn't stopped China — yet — from becoming ever more aggressive. Yet. //
China can't overcome many of these issues. Not under the system they have in place. So much of China's vaunted economic and military might is based on deception and outright fakery, as YouTuber serpentza, who lived in China for 14 years, has endlessly documented. //
they may yet be able to wrest strategic control of the Pacific from the United States. If they do, however, it will not be the result of any economic or military might on the part of China. No, it will be due to apathy on the part of the West and the deterioration of the United States military.
China's demographic issues will remain, though, regardless of any success or failures in the military sphere. A generation — maybe two — may well see the end of China as a nation, perhaps even as a culture. The Middle Kingdom may return to what it was in the past: a group of satrapies and regional fiefdoms. That won't be good for the Chinese people or their neighbors; it won't be good for the global economy. But China's demographic crisis, started by their one-child plan, fueled by decades of totalitarian rule and economic fakery, may have made it inevitable. //
Estefan
an hour ago
Top-down decision-making, lack of basic freedoms, and corruption are also not fortifying China.
The trend of China-based companies in Indiana has developed through centralized planning with the help of a CCP-linked nonprofit. //
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC), an unelected upgrade to the traditional commerce department, helps select and develop businesses in Indiana. The IEDC has set up many China-owned companies in the state, including 25 currently operational, according to the IEDC general counsel.
The trend of China-based companies in Indiana has not developed organically but through centralized planning with the help of a Chinese Communist Party-linked nonprofit. A contract on the IEDC’s website shows that it has been paying the America China Society of Indiana (ACSI) to facilitate deals with China-owned businesses. The contract outlines IEDC’s interest in “identifying and creating a pipeline of [foreign direct investment] prospects in China” and preparing trip itineraries, among other tasks.