President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped China and the World Health Organization (WHO) for mishandling the virus that led to a pandemic.
In recorded remarks to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Trump blamed China for the coronavirus that has killed nearly 200,000 Americans and almost 1 million worldwide, <a href="https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6">according</a> to Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
“As we pursue this bright future, we must hold accountable the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world: China,” Trump said in the speech, filmed Monday in Washington, D.C.
“The Chinese government and the World Health Organization, which is virtually controlled by China, falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Later they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease,&#8221; Trump said. “The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions.&#8221;
A congressional report released Monday claims China could have prevented a vast majority of coronavirus cases before the end of February if officials followed international health guidelines after the first outbreak occurred in Wuhan.
The report, authored by Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, found that China initially covered up the spread of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, and that the World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit because it “parroted” Chinese propaganda.
“It is beyond doubt that the [Chinese Communist Party] actively engaged in a cover-up designed to obfuscate data, hide relevant public health information, and suppress doctors and journalists who attempted to warn the world,” the report says. “Research shows the CCP could have reduced the number of cases in China by up to 95 percent had it fulfilled its obligations under international law and responded to the outbreak in a manner consistent with best practices.”
The report notes that “as early as mid-December [2019], and no later than December 27th, the CCP had enough information to assess it was legally obligated to inform the WHO that the outbreak in Wuhan was an event ‘that may constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.&#8217;”
“It is highly likely the ongoing pandemic could have been prevented,” the report said.
On Jan. 1, CCP officials ordered the Wuhan wet market from which the virus reportedly emerged to “be closed and sanitized, destroying forensic evidence that may have provided insight into the origins of the outbreak.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t until Jan. 30 that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The report says WHO simply accepted Chinese propaganda about the virus and therefore misinformed other nations about its spread.
“The WHO has been complicit in the spread and normalization of CCP propaganda and disinformation,” the report stated. “By repeating as truth statements that were misleading, if not lies, the WHO negatively impacted the global response.”
“From the early stages of the outbreak, the WHO, under Director-General Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus]’ leadership, parroted and upheld as inviolable truth, statements from the CCP,” the report said. “An examination of their public statements, including the praise heaped on the CCP’s handling of the pandemic, reveal a disturbing willingness to ignore science and alternative credible sources.”
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A new Congressional report claims China could have prevented a vast majority of coronavirus cases before the end of February if officials followed international health guidelines after the first outbreak occurred in Wuhan.
The report, released Monday and authored by Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, found that China initially covered up the spread of SARS-CoV-2 &#8212; which causes COVID-19 &#8212; and that the World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit because it “parroted” Chinese propaganda.
“It is beyond doubt that the [Chinese Communist Party] actively engaged in a cover-up designed to obfuscate data, hide relevant public health information, and suppress doctors and journalists who attempted to warn the world,” the report says. “Research shows the CCP could have reduced the number of cases in China by up to 95 percent had it fulfilled its obligations under international law and responded to the outbreak in a manner consistent with best practices.”
The report notes that “as early as mid-December [2019], and no later than December 27th, the CCP had enough information to assess it was legally obligated to inform the WHO that the outbreak in Wuhan was an event ‘that may constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.&#8217;”
“It is highly likely the ongoing pandemic could have been prevented,” the report said.
On Jan. 1, CCP officials ordered the Wuhan wet market from which the virus reportedly emerged to “be closed and sanitized, destroying forensic evidence that may have provided insight into the origins of the outbreak.&#8221; It wasn&#8217;t until Jan. 30 that WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
The report says WHO simply accepted Chinese propaganda about the virus and therefore misinformed other nations about its spread.
“The WHO has been complicit in the spread and normalization of CCP propaganda and disinformation,” the report stated. “By repeating as truth statements that were misleading, if not lies, the WHO negatively impacted the global response.”
“From the early stages of the outbreak, the WHO, under Director-General Tedros [Adhanom Ghebreyesus]’ leadership, parroted and upheld as inviolable truth, statements from the CCP,” the report said. “An examination of their public statements, including the praise heaped on the CCP’s handling of the pandemic, reveal a disturbing willingness to ignore science and alternative credible sources.”
In addition, China nationalized various production lines of medical equipment, in essence seizing the medical supply chains of other nations.
“According to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), [the] nationalized control of the medical supply chain included ‘commandeer[ing] medical manufacturing and logistics down to the factory level,&#8217;” the report states. “It is highly likely that China’s nationalization of the manufacturing capacity of foreign companies, including 3M and General Motors, directly impacted the ability of the United States and other countries to procure [personal protective equipment] on the global market.”
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said in a statement Monday that “it is crystal-clear that had the CCP been transparent, and had the head of the WHO cared more about global health than appeasing the CCP, lives could have been spared and widespread economic devastation could have been mitigated.”
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden repeatedly refused to call China an &#8220;opponent&#8221; on Thursday when he was pressed multiple times by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
Cooper and Biden had the following exchange where Biden repeatedly refused to call China an &#8220;opponent&#8221;:
<blockquote>Cooper: Do you view China as an opponent? Because the president says you&#8217;ve been too cozy with China, too accepting of them in the international community.
Biden: I, I&#8217;m not the guy, look, China, we now have a larger trade deficit with China than we&#8217;ve ever had with China and in our administration when the World Trade Organization he keeps going on about, just ruled that his trade policy violate the World Trade Organ&#8211;we sued, we went to the World Trade Organization 16 times.
Cooper: Do you view China as an opponent?
Biden: I view China as a competitor. A serious competitor. That&#8217;s why I think we have to strengthen our relationships and our alliances in Asia.</blockquote>
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Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell responded by writing on Twitter: &#8220;China wants Biden to win. So he won’t criticize them. This is a scandal.&#8221;
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China wants Biden to win. So he won’t criticize them. 
This is a scandal. <a href="https://t.co/bVs2CzjoJ7">https://t.co/bVs2CzjoJ7</a>
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National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) Director William Evanina <a href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public">said</a> in a statement last month the following about China as it pertains to foreign nations looking to interfere with U.S. elections this fall:
<blockquote>We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win reelection. China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China’s interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China. Although China will continue to weigh the risks and benefits of aggressive action, its public rhetoric over the past few months has grown increasingly critical of the current Administration’s COVID-19 response, closure of China’s Houston Consulate, and actions on other issues. For example, it has harshly criticized the Administration’s statements and actions on Hong Kong, TikTok, the legal status of the South China Sea, and China’s efforts to dominate the 5G market. Beijing recognizes that all of these efforts might affect the presidential race.</blockquote>
A week later, National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-security-adviser-china-trying-to-elect-biden-has-most-sophisticated-global-influence-programs-and-capabilities">warned</a> that China was &#8220;trying to elect Joe Biden&#8221; and that China had &#8221; the most sophisticated global influence programs and strategies and abilities and capabilities in the world.&#8221;
Barr <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/02/sitroom.01.html">told</a> CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that China was more aggressive and assertive than Russia in terms of trying to interfere in U.S. elections, according to U.S. intelligence.
The NCSC added the following about Russia and Iran, which were the top two other nations that were deemed to be a threat in the upcoming U.S. elections:
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<li>RUSSIA – We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia “establishment.” This is consistent with Moscow’s public criticism of him when he was Vice President for his role in the Obama Administration’s policies on Ukraine and its support for the anti-Putin opposition inside Russia. For example, pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption – including through publicizing leaked phone calls – to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump’s candidacy on social media and Russian television.</li>
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<li>IRAN – We assess that Iran seeks to undermine U.S. democratic institutions, President Trump, and to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections. Iran’s efforts along these lines probably will focus on on-line influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content. Tehran’s motivation to conduct such activities is, in part, driven by a perception that President Trump’s reelection would result in a continuation of U.S. pressure on Iran in an effort to foment regime change.</li>
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One of the co-founders of the official Black Lives Matter group, Alicia Garza, is reportedly partnering up with a Chinese organization that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party — and that group now appears to be funding one of Garza&#8217;s ventures, according to an investigation by <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/15/this-blm-co-founder-and-pro-communist-china-group-are-partnering-up-heres-why/">the Daily Signal</a>.
Garza is one of several co-founders of the official &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; group, and in 2018, she launched a project called &#8220;Black Futures Lab,&#8221; which aims, <a href="https://dev-blackfutureslab.pantheonsite.io/about/">its website says</a>, to help activists in the black community maintain interest in civic participation and civic activism year-round. The group &#8220;gathers information about the ways that policy affects Black communities and one that uses that information creatively to educate and challenge policymakers.&#8221; It also lobbies on behalf of BLM&#8217;s interests at the local level.
The Daily Signal&#8217;s Mike Gonzalez, though, discovered that donations to the Black Futures Lab don&#8217;t seem to go directly to the foundation itself but rather to a group called the &#8220;Chinese Progressive Association&#8221; — a group that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
&#8220;According to an authoritative 2009 Stanford University paper tracing its early days to the present, and which can be found on Marxist.org, &#8216;The CPA began as a Leftist, pro-People’s Republic of China organization, promoting awareness of mainland China’s revolutionary thought and workers’ rights, and dedicated to self-determination, community control, and &#8220;serving the people,&#8221;&#8216;” Gonzales reports.
&#8220;To this day, the CPA continues to be a partner of the PRC in the United States. Three years ago, the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports, getting praise from China’s official mouthpiece, China Daily,&#8221; he continues. It also helped raise the Chinese flag over Boston City Hall to honor the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s takeover of China.
“It is clear, then, that CPA works with China’s communist government, pushes its agenda here in the United States, and is regularly praised by China’s state-owned mouthpieces,” Gonzalez says. “It is clear, too, from, this perspective, why the CPA would sponsor a new enterprise by Garza: They espouse the same desire for world communism.”
<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/chinese-organization-with-communist-party-ties-funds-black-lives-matter-ventures/">As The Federalist notes,</a> Garza&#8217;s Black Lives Matter organization is unabashedly Marxist, so there are certainly shared goals between BLM and the CCP: &#8220;The BLM organization sponsors and proposes Marxist public policy such as socialized ownership of resources, banks, and businesses, a highly unequal income tax, putting everyone on welfare through a ‘minimum income,’ and government jobs. In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said she and her fellow organizers are &#8216;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">trained Marxists</a>.&#8217;”
Garza herself agrees. She told a gathering of progressive activists in 2015 that &#8220;It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism, and it’s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression.&#8221;
China has also <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/05/us-injustice-protests-china-condemnation-cynical/">spoken out in support of American anti-racism protests</a>, though largely as a way of undermining the American position on China&#8217;s crackdown of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and, <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/05/us-injustice-protests-china-condemnation-cynical/">Foreign Policy notes</a>, to deflect attention from concerns over its decision to impose Chinese law on Hong Kong residents and evidence that it may be trying to systematically eliminate Chinese ethnic Muslims.
Gonzalez&#8217;s discovery, at least, does seem to indicate that there is a more formal relationship between Chinese activists and the American anti-racism movement.
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Actor John Boyega, who played Finn in the Disney &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise, quit his role as global ambassador for the perfume brand Jo Malone after the company hired a Chinese actor for the Chinese campaign.
In a Twitter announcement posted on Tuesday, Boyega said that he helped create the ad campaign for Jo Malone before the company decided to use a Chinese actor for marketing in China.
&#8220;I have decided to step down as Jo Malone&#8217;s global ambassador. When I joined the brand as their first male global ambassador last year, I created the short film we used to launch the campaign. It won the Fragrance Foundation Virtual awards 2020 for Best Media Campaign,&#8221; he began.
&#8220;Their decision to replace my campaign in China by using my concepts and substituting a local brand ambassador for me, without either my consent or prior notice, was wrong,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The film celebrated my personal story– showcasing my hometown, including my friends and featuring my family.&#8221;
Though Boyega understood that brands do use a variety of ambassadors for global branding, he felt that Jo Malone was &#8220;trading out one&#8217;s culture.&#8221;
&#8220;While many brands understandably use a variety of global and local ambassadors, dismissively trading out one’s culture this way is not something I can condone,&#8221; he tweeted.
&#8220;It’s back to back but I assure you this will be dealt with swiftly. I don’t have time for nonsense. We press on and strong. Stay blessed people,&#8221; he concluded.
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Their decision to replace my campaign in China by using my concepts and substituting a local brand ambassador for me, without either my consent or prior notice, was wrong. The film celebrated my personal story– showcasing my hometown, including my friends and featuring my family.
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It’s back to back but I assure you this will be dealt with swiftly. I don’t have time for nonsense. We press on and strong. Stay blessed people ❤️
&mdash; John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnBoyega/status/1305638666635796483?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to The <a href="https://apnews.com/aaa719fdc5cefb2cbb65920ccd16757d">Associated Press</a>, the original ad, titled &#8220;The London Gent,&#8221; aired last year and indeed featured much of Boyega&#8217;s own personal touch.
&#8220;It features the London-born actor walking around the neighborhood where he grew up and riding a horse in a park, and it makes a reference to his Nigerian heritage in a scene featuring West African attire,&#8221; said the report.
&#8220;It’s not the first time Boyega has been deleted from a China-based ad,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;He played a leading role as Finn in 2015′s &#8216;Star Wars: The Force Awakens,&#8217; but he and other non-white characters were removed or diminished from a Chinese poster for the blockbuster movie.&#8221;
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Speaking with <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/john-boyega-interview-2020">Britsh GQ</a> earlier this month, Boyega said his character in the Disney &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; franchise was sidelined while all the white actors received more nuanced treatment.
“You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything,” he said. “[But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a Black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.”
Boyega charged that Disney “knew” what to do with Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver’s characters while not having a clue what to do with Oscar Isaac, Kelly Marie Tran, or himself.
“Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he said. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know f**k all. So, what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience.”
“They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything,” he added.
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A Disney executive acknowledged the controversy surrounding the live-action “Mulan,” which was partly filmed in a region of China with internment camps for the ethnic minority Uyghur population, after critics also pointed out that Disney thanked various arms of the local communist government in its film credits.
Disney CFO Christine McCarthy made the remarks during a virtual conference in which she was asked if she believed the film&#8217;s success would be hindered in Chinese markets — where Disney reportedly wanted the film to thrive — because all of the different backlash toward the movie, reports <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/09/mulan-disney-cfo-christine-mccarthy-concedes-china-uproar-has-generated-a-lot-of-issues-for-us-1234574761/">Deadline</a>.
“I’m not a box-office prognosticator, but it has generated a lot of publicity,” McCarthy told the virtual conference. “Let me just put something into context. The real facts are that Mulan was primarily shot — almost in entirety — in New Zealand. In an effort to accurately depict some of the unique landscape and geography of the country of China for this period drama, we filmed scenery in 20 different locations in China. It’s common knowledge that, in order to film in China, you have to be granted permission. That permission comes from the central government.”
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Disney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backlash-against-disney-for-filming-mulan-in-chinese-province-with-concentration-camps">thanked several government entities</a> in the film’s credits, including the Turpan Municipal Bureau of Public Security, which reportedly helps maintain so-called “re-education” camps for minorities and has been sanctioned by the United States Department of Commerce for its role in doing so, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/disneys-mulan-faces-criticism-for-filming-in-chinas-xinjiang-region/2020/09/08/c45a80d2-f17d-11ea-8025-5d3489768ac8_story.html">The Washington Post</a>.
During the virtual conference, the Disney executive also said that the thank-you to the arms of the Chinese communist government is a typical practice for the movie industry, in which studios will “acknowledge in a film’s credits the national and local governments that allowed you to film there,” reports Deadline.
“So, in our credits, it recognized both China and locations in New Zealand. I would just leave it at that, but it has generated a lot of issues for us,” she continued.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/business/media/disney-mulan-china.html">The New York Times</a>, Disney “worked overtime” to make the “Mulan” live-action movie work for a Chinese audience, which included sharing a movie script with the Chinese Communist Party in advance, using household names in the film to appeal to the Chinese market, and showing it to at least one Chinese test audience to find out what didn’t work so well (such as a kissing scene that was ultimately deleted). The Times reports that sharing scripts with Chinese officials is a &#8220;not-uncommon practice in Hollywood.&#8221;
Meanwhile, regarding Xinjiang, China, a steady stream of media reports and first-hand accounts have been detailing the lengths to which the Chinese communist government has been going in order to forcibly assimilate the ethnic Uyghur population. Some of these measures include forced sterilization, mandatory re-education in so-called “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backlash-against-disney-for-filming-mulan-in-chinese-province-with-concentration-camps">re-education camps</a>,” widespread video surveillance, and promoting “repentance and confession.”
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c">The Associated Press</a>, local government officials have made it practice to force families to pay fines for having too many children — and split them up and ship off family members to internment camps if they cannot comply. From 2017 to 2018, the birth rate in the Xinjiang region fell 24% while the nationwide birth-rate only declined 4%.
During an interview with the BBC earlier this year, Chinese Ambassador to the U.K., Liu Xiaoming, was confronted with drone footage that appeared to show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-chinese-official-confronted-with-disturbing-detainment-footage-he-deflects-region-beautiful">blindfolded and shaven prisoners</a> kneeling in front of a train station in Xinjiang.
Liu deflected, saying that Xinjiang is regarded as a “beautiful place.” After being pressed, he refused to explain what was happening in the video.
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Amidst Backlash, Disney CFO Acknowledges ‘Mulan’ Has ‘Generated A Lot Of Issues For Us’

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The not-for-profit College Board gave the Chinese Communist Party unprecedented access to America’s K-12 education programs in exchange for funding, according to a new <a href="https://www.nas.org/reports/corrupting-the-college-board">report</a> from the National Association of Scholars.
The report, titled “Corrupting the College Board: Confucius Institutes and K-12 Education,” found that since at least 2003, “the College Board has sponsored Confucius Institutes at K-12 schools, served as a recruiter for Chinese government programs, and helped the Chinese Communist Party design and gain control over American teacher training programs.”
A press release for the report stated that the College Board worked with the CCP “to develop an AP Chinese Language and Culture course, served as a recruiter for Chinese government initiatives, and helped the CCP design and gain control over American teacher-training programs such as the National Chinese Language Conference.”
The College Board was founded in 1899 and develops and administers standardized tests as well as curricula for American education institutions. The Board is probably best known for the SAT and Advanced Placement Tests. The NAS report found that the Board worked closely with Hanban, the Chinese government agency that oversees Confucius Institutes, which have been targeted by the Trump administration as a threat to America. In February, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-states-and-the-china-competition/">speech</a> at the National Governors Association winter meeting that universities across the country were shutting down their Confucius Institute programs after independent reviews.
“Many of you are familiar with Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes purport to have the sole purpose of teaching Mandarin language skills and Chinese culture. A bipartisan Senate committee found last year in 2019 that the Chinese Communist Party controls nearly every aspect of the Confucius Institutes’ activities here in the United States,” Pompeo said at the time. “Sadly, China’s propaganda campaign starts even earlier than college. China has targeted K through 12 schools through its ‘Confucius Classrooms,’ the CCP’s program to influence kids at elementary, middle, and high schools around the world.”
The NAS report found the College Board “strongly promoted Confucius Institutes” and allowed the Chinese government to become a stakeholder by providing millions in funding for the curriculum.
From the report:
<blockquote>Early critics of the AP partnership expressed concern that the College Board had behaved inappropriately by making a foreign government a stakeholder in its course design. Bob Schaeffer, public education director for the National Center for Fair &amp; Open Testing, asked, “What is the Chinese or Italian government buying for their sponsorship? Will they be able to specify or influence the content of the exam, which is, in turn, designed to drive the AP course curriculum? Can they, for example, urge the inclusion of reading passages from the &#8216;Little Red Book&#8217;?”
…
The AP test asks students to learn simplified Chinese characters, a more basic set of brush strokes imposed by the Chinese government in the 1950s and 1960s, with particular fervor during the Cultural Revolution. The PRC praised simplified characters as a boon for literacy: easier characters meant more people could master Chinese, a language notoriously difficult to write even for native speakers. But the promotion of simplified characters also served a political purpose. It prevented readers from accessing the older, traditional Chinese literature that Mao sought to supplant, leaving readers reliant on newer materials put forth by the Chinese government and Chinese Communist Party. Contemporary readers of simplified characters are likewise cut off from much of traditional Chinese literature, as well as materials coming from Taiwan and Hong Kong—including dissident literature—where traditional characters remain in use.
Perhaps, in choosing simplified characters, the College Board simply decided that ease of reading was paramount. But regardless, the College Board has aided the Hanban in rendering traditional Chinese literature increasingly inaccessible—leaving readers more and more reliant on post-Mao materials.</blockquote>
The report made five policy recommendations to try and fix the American education system’s corruption from China:
<ul>
<li>Replace the AP Chinese Language and Culture Test. The Department of Education and Department of Defense should convene a working group to prepare an alternative high school Chinese language and culture test.</li>
<li>Require schools to close Confucius Classrooms. The Department of Education should warn all school districts of the risks of hosting a Confucius Classroom or using the Chinese Guest Teacher Program, and Congress should require, on penalty of losing public funding, the closure of Confucius Classrooms.</li>
<li>Require the College Board to cut ties with the Chinese government. Congress should condition federal funding to the College Board on the immediate severance of all partnerships with the Hanban or any of its replacement organizations.</li>
<li>Investigate the College Board’s corruption. The Department of Justice should open up an inquiry at once.</li>
<li>Replace the National Chinese Language Conference. The Department of Defense should sponsor an alternative program to train and provide professional development for American teachers of Chinese language.</li>
</ul>
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Century Old College Board Gave Chinese Government Access To U.S. Education In Exchange For Funding, Report Finds

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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden struggled during a CNN interview that aired on Thursday to answer questions about communist China and went as far as to say, &#8220;We want China to grow.&#8221;
&#8220;Look what he’s done with China. It’s a disgrace,&#8221; Biden claimed about President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy. &#8220;What he’s done, he’s allowed the corporate America to be able to make money by continuing to export American jobs. It’s not made in America. Make it in another pl—for example, those, those, those, those carry bags that the military is using, they are supposed to be made—they are being deployed, made in America. They are made in China. They are made in China. He doesn’t do anything about any of that.&#8221;
CNN anchor Jake Tapper then pressed Biden on some of the things that the former vice president has done on the issue.
&#8220;Let me ask you about China because in 2011 when you were vice president, you said, ‘It is in our self-interest that China continue to prosper,'&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;A lot of people think that allowing China into the World Trade Organization, which you supported, extending most favored nation status to China, which you supported, that those steps allowed China to take advantage of the United States by using our own open trade deals against us.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think in retrospect that you were naive about China?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;No, here’s the thing. In the context of that, we want China to grow,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;We don’t want a war with China. I said to Xi Jinping when I was, I, you may remember the president wanted me to spend time with him as vice president, he was going to be president, and he couldn’t do it, so I traveled around the world with him. He asked, he said, &#8216;Why do you keep saying you’re a pacific power?&#8217; I said because we are. We are a pacific power and if we weren’t, you would not [have] been able to have any stability at all.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s in our interest that China be stable. It’s not in our interest for China to take advantage of us,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;So, what has Trump done? He&#8217;s poked his finger in the eye of all our friends and allies and he&#8217;s embraced every autocrat in the world and it&#8217;s now, we make up, we, we, we make up 15 percent of the world&#8217;s economy, 25 percent of the world&#8217;s economy, and we&#8217;ve lost all our friends.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>: Do you think in retrospect you were naive about China [re: allowing China into WTO and granting them most favored nation status]
Biden: &quot;No&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ctyZeoFi8r">pic.twitter.com/ctyZeoFi8r</a>
&mdash; Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) <a href="https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1304165639263793165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Biden Struggles When Asked If He Was ‘Naive’ On Communist China: ‘We Want China To Grow’

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The old “I didn’t do it, I was hacked,” excuse.
The Twitter account of Liu Xiaoming, China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, on Wednesday “liked” a pornographic video. This “like” reportedly remained visible for more than an hour before it was removed, the Agence France-Presse <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20200910-china-says-us-envoy-s-twitter-account-hacked-after-sex-video-like">reported</a>. While it was up, it garnered “a stream of comments and reactions.”
China’s embassy in London is now claiming the ambassador’s Twitter account was hacked and demanding the tech company investigate the matter.
&#8220;Some anti-China elements viciously attacked Ambassador Liu Xiaoming&#8217;s Twitter account and employed despicable methods to deceive the public,&#8221; the embassy said in a statement, according to the AFP.
&#8220;The embassy has reported this to Twitter company and urged the latter to make thorough investigations and handle this matter seriously,” the statement continued. “The Embassy reserves the right to take further actions and hope that the public will not believe or spread such rumour.&#8221;
A Twitter spokesman declined to provide a statement to the AFP.
More from the outlet:
<blockquote>Liu is known as one of China&#8217;s most outspoken diplomats, using a pugnacious approach in media interviews and online to defend his government.
Twitter and pornography are officially banned in China, which the ruling Communist Party heavily censors.
However China&#8217;s diplomats and journalists for the state-run media have in recent years set up Twitter accounts to promote and defend the government to foreigners.</blockquote>
The hacking excuse has been used by politicians before to hide their indiscretions. The most famous example was disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), who claimed his Facebook account was hacked after a lewd photo of him surfaced.
“The weiner gags never get old, I guess, ” Weiner said at the time.
The photo was actually sent in a Twitter message to a college woman in Seattle. After denying that he sent the photo and claiming that he was hacked, Weiner admitted that he had sent the photo and resigned. Years later he ran for New York City mayor, saying he put his past indiscretions behind him. Months into his campaign, new messages and photos surfaced and he was forced to end his campaign.
Another example, though less conclusive, comes from former Lowell, Indiana town council president William Farrellbegg, whose associated Twitter handle interacted with pornographic content, including depictions of sexual violence and comments about incest. Farrellbegg at first <a href="https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/council-president-resigns-amid-twitter-porn-post-scandal-claims-innocence/article_6ee3d615-532e-5f4e-ac27-d06dc9722cf9.html">confirmed</a> to The Times of Northwest Indiana that the account in question was his, as it had also been used to promote his campaign. He later said a different account belonged to him but also said the account he originally said was his had to have been hacked. A week after the interactions surfaced, Farrellbegg resigned, maintaining his innocence but saying the situation was “too much to bear.” He said at the time he was “looking into all avenues to clear my name.”
That was in February. No new information has been reported about Farrellbegg since.
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China Claims U.K. Envoy’s Twitter Account Was Hacked After ‘Liking’ Pornographic Video

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President Donald Trump revealed to author Bob Woodward that the U.S. has cutting edge nuclear weapons capabilities that are so secret that America&#8217;s enemies do not even know that they exist — a claim that Woodward said he confirmed with sources.
&#8220;I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody’s ever had in this country before,&#8221; Trump told Woodward. &#8220;We have stuff that you haven’t even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There’s nobody — what we have is incredible.&#8221;
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Woodward writes that anonymous people later confirmed that the U.S. military had a secret new weapons system, but they would not provide details, and that the people were surprised Trump had disclosed it.</blockquote>
National security adviser Robert O&#8217;Brien was asked about the revelation during a Fox News interview on Wednesday night.
&#8220;Well, look, I&#8217;m not going to get into what he&#8217;s talking about,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien told Fox News anchor Bret Baier. &#8220;But you can rest assured that the men and women who manufacture our weapons and who have always had us on the cutting edge, whether it was back in the old days of the F-117 Nighthawk, to the B-2 bomber, to the F-22, F-35. We&#8217;re always on the cutting edge. And we have always got something out there that our adversaries don&#8217;t know about.&#8221;
&#8220;The president didn&#8217;t talk about any specific weapons system,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien continued. &#8220;But you can rest assured that we can protect the United States of America against any foe, any threat that&#8217;s out there, because of the excellent manufacturing that we do here, the research and development that we do here, and the fine men and women, the servicemen and women who man those platforms.&#8221;
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Disney is under fire for filming its new live action version of Mulan in a Chinese city where Muslim minorities are held in prison camps. Mulan tells the legendary story of a young girl who becomes a famous warrior instead of being killed in the first fifteen minutes of any sword battle as she would have been in real life.
The Disney filming of Mulan in a city and country that is violating the most basic rights of its citizens is in direct contrast to Disney’s threat to boycott the state of Georgia if Georgia passed a law guaranteeing religious freedom.
When asked to explain why Disney filmed in a Chinese city that puts religious minorities in camps but refused to film in an American state if it guaranteed religious freedom, Disney spokesman Janus Smug, said, “That’s a very complicated question. No, I’m kidding. The answer is money. The long green. The Almighty Dollar. The Big Somolian. The smackeroo, the cheddar, the Benjamins, the dough, the bread, the casheroni.&#8221;
&#8220;You see, if we bend over backwards or even forwards for the Chinese tyrants who forcibly sterilize women, torture and murder dissidents and intern minorities, our films will be made available to a massive Chinese audience who can fill our pockets with great jingling piles of sweet, sweet ducats which we can then use to buy big houses, cars, private jets and underage girls or, this being Hollywood, boys, all of which is much better than having small houses and cars and having to fly commercial without the 15-year-olds,&#8221; Smug explained.
&#8220;This makes it very important to us that we bring our family friendly fare with its great values and inspiring storylines to the murderous Chinese whereas if we boycott the crackers in Georgia, we’ll look woke for the journos and it will barely cost us a sou,&#8221; Smug added. &#8220;I hope this clarifies the subtle reasoning behind our decision.&#8221;
Disney has already announced their delightful new animated feature &#8220;Mao,&#8221; about an adorable talking Panda who slaughters a hundred million people.
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Disney Explains Subtle Reasoning Behind Its Decision To Sell Its Soul To China For Tons Of Money [Satire]

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Disney’s live-action remake of “Mulan” has come under fire after the ending credits revealed for filming scenes in China’s Xinjiang Province, where more than a million Uyghur Muslims are housed in concentration camps by the Chinese government.
The Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-under-fire-for-filming-mulan-in-chinas-xinjiang-province">explained</a> that not “only did Disney shoot in the region, but the studio appears to have offered its gratitude to Chinese government agencies involved in alleged abuses.”
“Following Mulan&#8216;s release on Disney+ on Friday, some viewers began noticing a ‘special thanks’ in the film&#8217;s end credits to eight government entities in Xinjiang, including the public security bureau in the city of Turpan, where China is believed to operate over a dozen ‘re-education camps’ that hold Uighurs in extra-judicial detention,” the outlet reported. “Mulan&#8216;s credit sequence also extends a thank you to the ‘publicity department of CPC Xinjiang Uighur Autonomy Region Committee,’ the Chinese Communist Party agency responsible for producing and managing state propaganda efforts in the region.”
As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-leaked-documents-from-china-how-the-country-brainwashes-muslims-in-labor-camps">reported</a>, leaked documents from the Chinese Communist Party show just how far the oppression of Muslim minorities goes. Leaks <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50511063">reviewed</a> by BBC Panorama show that the re-education camps are intended to be run as prisons and not as educational facilities, as the CCP routinely claims. One nine-page memo included in the collection of documents, sent in 2017 by then deputy secretary of Xinjiang’s Communist Party, Zhu Hailun, explains how the prisons should be run:
<ul>
<li>“Never allow escapes”</li>
<li>“Increase discipline and punishment of behavioural violations”</li>
<li>“Promote repentance and confession”</li>
<li>“Make remedial Mandarin studies the top priority”</li>
<li>“Encourage students to truly transform”</li>
<li>“[Ensure] full video surveillance coverage of dormitories and classrooms free of blind spots”</li>
</ul>
The documents further explained how each “student” is to have their every move controlled:
<blockquote>The students should have a fixed bed position, fixed queue position, fixed classroom seat, and fixed station during skills work, and it is strictly forbidden for this to be changed.
Implement behavioural norms and discipline requirements for getting up, roll call, washing, going to the toilet, organising and housekeeping, eating, studying, sleeping, closing the door and so forth.</blockquote>
Those documents also showed the terrifying “Minority Report”-style surveillance system China uses to incarcerate people based on the prediction that they will one day commit a crime. In one of the leaked documents, this system is shown to have flagged 1.8 million people as potential future criminals because they had the Zapya app on their phone. Chinese authorities then investigated 40,557 people who had the app installed and that “if it is not possible to eliminate suspicion” then send them for “concentrated training,” the documents said.
Another stash of leaked documents were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html">reviewed</a> by The New York Times included internal documents showing how authorities in Xinjiang were to respond to college students returning home to discover their families had been sent to the labor camps.
Authorities were to respond: “They’re in a training school set up by the government,” and if the student pressed for more information, the authorities were to say their families were no criminals but could not leave the “schools.” Further, students would be threatened that their families may be held longer depending on the student’s actions.
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Backlash Against Disney For Filming ‘Mulan’ In Chinese Province With Concentration Camps

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It’s darn near impossible to review “Mulan” without assessing the histrionics that preceded it. Disney’s live-action remake of its 1998 animated film arrives with heaps of luggage, from the pandemic-fueled release changes to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-54024810">boycotts over the star’s pro-China sentiments</a>. Telling any China-based tale is fraught with land mines as is, given Hollywood’s fealty to Red China. (More on that in a minute) Liu Yifei, who plays the title character, supports the same Hong Kong cops accused of attacking pro-democracy protesters. And, for some, the film’s feminist main character will never be woke enough.
So is the actual film any good? Well, yes, in that homogenized Disney way where they throw so much money at an intellectual property it’s impossible to resist. Just don’t expect to think about it long after the end credits roll.
Yifei plays Mulan, a budding warrior well versed in mastering her Chi, or the life energy flowing through her body. Chi is a critical element of Eastern culture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, but here it acts like something Yoda might backward talk about. “Good for you, Chi is!”
Mulan’s fighting skills could serve the Emperor’s army, especially when a new threat led by Bori Khan (Jason Scott Lee) threatens their kingdom. Alas, only men are conscripted to fight in the Emperor’s army. That means Mulan’s frail father (Tzi Ma) must suit up … unless Mulan disguises herself as a man and takes his place.
It’s “Yentl,” but with swords and mystical powers.
For some stretches, “Mulan” soars, especially when its imaginative action scenes flood our senses. The film’s third act features a score of clever fights, although they never rise to the heights of modern Asian features like “Hero” or “House of Flying Daggers.”
The film’s supporting cast, including action superstars like Jet Li (the Emperor) and Donnie Yen (Commander Tung), elevate the material. Yen’s quiet dignity, used better during “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” plays well enough here.
Ironically, the most dramatic tension comes from Mulan’s clash with Xianniang, a shape-shifter played with panache by Gong Li. Their unlikely gender bond, and battles, suggest what “Mulan” might have been with a more nuanced screenplay.
Xianniang didn’t exist in the original “Mulan,” and her banter with the title character captures the era’s glaring sexism. Still, they offer a diversion from the often-inert exchanges with other characters.
“Mulan” can be breathtaking, what with its candy-colored vistas and sweeping camera shots. Disney ladled $200 million onto its prized property, and every penny can be seen on screen.
Even better?
The film doesn’t flood us with CGI, or it does so with a delicacy that belies the massive production scale. There’s an old-fashioned sweep to the cinematic canvas, one that’s rare and refreshing in our digital age.
Too bad we never fully invest in Mulan’s journey.
The stilted nature of the dialogue, the formality of both the military Mulan joins, and the cultural formalities, make it hard for raw emotions to emerge. The screenplay, by a quartet of scribes, doesn’t help. That’s a shame because the raw material exists for “Mulan” to thrive even in the quietest moments.
Yifei, who proves both lovely and lethal, appears up to the film’s considerable challenge. So, too, is her father, played by Ma (“24,” “The Man in the High Castle”). Yet their early scenes together play out as perfunctory, or even time filler.
One of the story’s biggest moments feels rushed, as if Disney realized audiences want more blockbuster action above all. The studio may be right, but it leaves “Mulan” as a brief sensation, hardly the impact of the 1998 film.
The live-action “Mulan” strips away much of what stood out about the source material, namely the songs and wacky side characters.
Sorry, Mushu.
That appears to be both calculated and wise. Remember Will Smith’s awkward singing, and swirling, the genie from the recent “Aladdin” remake?
This quasi-remake hews closer to the Chinese ballad that initially inspired Disney animators. And, once again, Hollywood strained to appease Chinese censors. One sequence from the animated film saw Mulan cutting her long hair to appear more boyish. That moment <a href="https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/4/21423062/mulan-haircut-scene-live-action-remake-changes-differences">angered Chinese audiences</a> for being historically inaccurate, the film’s producer said recently. So out it went.
The original film’s love story is altered dramatically here, in the very woke mode of today where women shouldn’t be defined by their cisgender bonds.
Here, there’s a spark between Mulan and Yoson An’s Chen Honghui, but it’s hardly a roaring flame. More like a campfire splashed with a bucket of lake water.
“Mulan” deserves credit for blazing a partially fresh trail, unlike the shot-for-shot moments from the “Lion King” remake that used computers to simulate a live-action experience.
Still, when “Mulan’s” character beats keep taking a back seat to the action, we’re left with an amusement park ride and little more.
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Disney’s New Live-Action ‘Mulan’ Fails To Deliver

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The Pentagon expects the Chinese military to double its store of nuclear weapons over the next decade but still remain far behind the arsenals of the United States and Russia.
The Department of Defense presented its <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2020/Sep/01/2002488689/-1/-1/1/2020-DOD-CHINA-MILITARY-POWER-REPORT-FINAL.PDF">annual report</a> to Congress on China’s military and other security issues on Tuesday, revealing that U.S. intelligence estimates that China’s nuclear weapons stockpile is in the “low 200s.” Analysts also expect it to grow in the coming years as the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-officer-from-hong-kong-charged-for-allegedly-giving-classified-info-to-motherland-china">Chinese Communist Party</a> (CCP) sees its place in the world grow more precarious.
China does not report how large its nuclear weapons arsenal is and has refused to engage in arms control talks, arguing that its stockpile is nowhere near as large as the United States’ or Russia’s, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/pentagon-says-china-could-double-nuclear-weapons-in-decade-11599000957?mod=hp_listb_pos1">The Wall Street Journal</a>. Experts said the real surprise of the report is that the Chinese nuclear arsenal is as small as it is.
“While China is modernizing its nuclear arsenal, the biggest news is that its nuclear stockpile is smaller than has been widely assumed,” Hans Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), told WSJ.
Russia has 4,310 nuclear weapons in its stockpile to the United States’ 3,800, according to FAS. The Trump administration has been attempting to negotiate a three-way arms control treaty that would govern all nuclear weapons of the United States, Russia, and China. So far, though, both Russia and China have resisted entering into any such deal.
The report summarized China’s actions concerning its nuclear arsenal in five points:
<blockquote>China’s strategic ambitions, evolving view of the security landscape, and concerns over survivability are driving significant changes to the size, capabilities, and readiness of its nuclear forces.
China’s nuclear forces will significantly evolve over the next decade as it modernizes, diversifies, and increases the number of its land-, sea-, and air-based nuclear delivery platforms.
Over the next decade, China’s nuclear warhead stockpile—currently estimated to be in the low200s—is projected to at least double in size as China expands and modernizes its nuclear forces.
China is pursuing a “nuclear triad” with the development of a nuclear capable air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) and improving its ground and sea-based nuclear capabilities.
New developments in 2019 further suggest that China intends to increase the peacetime readiness of its nuclear forces by moving to a launch-on-warning (LOW) posture with an expanded silo-based force.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-has-arrested-5800-people-for-alleged-virus-related-crimes-including-killing-health-workers-and-selling-defective-equipment">China</a> has grown increasingly aggressive with neighboring countries as the CCP expands its influence into the South China Sea and over the formerly independent territory of Hong Kong. The CCP has also continued what many experts and human rights activists are calling a “genocide” in the western province of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/creeping-genocide-china-is-forcing-abortions-and-birth-control-on-thousands-of-minorities">Xinjiang</a>.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-accuses-u-s-of-flying-spy-plane-into-no-fly-zone-disrupting-military-training-activities">China’s aggressive tactics</a> and its failure to control the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic that was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan last year has severely damaged the international reputation of the CCP and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The damage was compounded after China sent millions of defective pieces of equipment to virus hotspots while <a href="https://www.axios.com/beijing-demanded-praise-in-exchange-for-medical-supplies-16f5183e-589a-42e5-bc25-414eb13841b0.html">demanding</a> that heads of state to publicly praise Xi in return.
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Pentagon: China Aims To Double Nuclear Arsenal In Next Decade

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The Chinese government is cracking down on what it claims are crimes linked to the coronavirus, which originated in the country late last year.
The Agence France-Presse <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20200828-thousands-arrested-for-virus-related-crimes-in-china">reported</a> that nearly 5,800 people have been arrested in the country for “epidemic-related crimes since January.”
“One case involved a shopper who beat another customer to death for not wearing a mask in a supermarket,” the outlet reported. “Other cases included a person who deliberately mowed down medical workers with a car, and another was arrested for stabbing a health inspector with a dagger when monitoring temperatures. Some have also been accused of embezzling money collected from fundraisers to help coronavirus patients, selling defective medical equipment and lying about their travel history or health condition.”
The Supreme People’s Procuratorate released a statement Friday announcing that from “January to July, 5,797 people were arrested and 6,755 were prosecuted,” the AFP reported, noting that the statement did not say how many people were still detained or how many had been sentenced.
The AFP then praised China’s efforts to control the coronavirus:
<blockquote>China has largely brought the spread of the novel coronavirus under control &#8212; since it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan in December 2019 &#8212; with strict lockdowns, aggressive contact tracing and close monitoring of neighbourhoods.
The country has also deployed a range of smartphone apps to track the whereabouts of people to quickly identify possible cases.
Wearing a mask is mandatory in supermarkets, cinemas or on public transport, and many choose to wear one while outdoors as well, as a safeguard against the virus.
China has not reported any locally transmitted infections in recent days.</blockquote>
What the AFP leaves out, however, is exactly how China went about containing the virus and the fact that the numbers from the communist country can’t be trusted. China <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/08/26/906206090/china-calls-it-a-wartime-mode-covid-19-lockdown-and-residents-are-protesting">sealed the doors</a> of residents suspected of having the coronavirus to prevent them from leaving. The communist regime also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/15/business/china-coronavirus-lockdown.html">used tracking software</a> to spy on citizens.
The country boasted that it had contained the virus until new cases cropped up in June. The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-severe-china-starts-locking-down-parts-of-beijing-over-new-coronavirus-outbreak-after-failing-to-contain-pandemic">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/13/world/asia/beijing-market-coronavirus.html">reported</a> on Saturday that 53 people had tested positive for the coronavirus, which originated in China late last year, and that nearly everyone who tested positive for the disease had “worked or shopped at the Xinfadi market, a wholesale market on the city’s south side that sells seafood, fruit and vegetables.”
By Tuesday morning, China said that it had detected a total of at least 106 people who had been infected from the new outbreak in Beijing. Leading <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says">intelligence</a> agencies from around the world have largely viewed the statistics provided by the Chinese Communist Party throughout the pandemic to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says">intentionally</a> downplayed.
“The authorities in Beijing placed a swath of the city under lockdown on Monday and tested tens of thousands of people as they rushed to contain a new coronavirus outbreak that marked an unnerving breach in China’s capital,” the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/world/asia/beijing-coronavirus-outbreak.html">reported</a> late on Monday. “The authorities shut down and sealed the market over the weekend.”</blockquote>
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China Has Arrested 5,800 People For Alleged ‘Virus-Related’ Crimes Including Killing Health Workers And Selling Defective Equipment

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Beijing accused the United States of flying a spy plane over where the Chinese military, known as the People’s Liberation Army, was conducting military exercises on Tuesday.
China’s Defense Ministry spokesman Senior Col. Wu Qian said the U.S. military’s use of the spy plane, an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, was a purely provocative act against Beijing at a time when tensions between the two governments are running high. The spy plane “severely disrupted regular Chinese training activities,” Qian said according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-says-u-s-spy-plane-entered-a-no-fly-zone-11598371680?mod=followchnews">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The Department of Defense (DOD) was not available for comment. The DOD did not respond to a request for comment from WSJ.
Qian accused the U.S. of violating aerial and maritime safety guidelines agreed upon between the two countries, as well as international norms. The spy plane’s mission could have easily led to a misunderstanding or accident. Qian did not say where the Chinese military drills were taking place or where the spy plane was spotted or what its flight path was.
“China is firmly opposed to this and has made solemn representations to the U.S.,” Qian said, according to WSJ.
Tensions between Washington and Beijing have increased in recent years as President Trump has ramped up attacks on one of the United States’ largest trading partners over unfair trade practices and currency manipulation. The outbreak of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year and the virus’ subsequent global spread have further deteriorated relations between the two countries.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-proven-right-china-admits-that-it-intentionally-destroyed-coronavirus-lab-samples">Chinese government initially hid</a> the outbreak of the virus from the World Health Organization and the rest of the world, and for weeks after the outbreak misled the world about key aspects of the disease, such as how it spreads. The Chinese government also allowed roughly 5 million people to leave Wuhan while the outbreak was active, seeding the virus all over the world.
In an effort to restore some of its international reputation, the <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/china-demanded-world-leaders-praise-in-return-for-pandemic-aid-report-suggests">Chinese government shipped out</a> millions of units of coronavirus tests and personal protective equipment to other countries. Large amounts of the supplies were defective and useless, however.
The United States has also been critical of China’s conduct toward Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government was supposed to remain a separate democracy from apart from Beijing’s full control for decades longer under an agreement between China and the United Kingdom, which previously oversaw Hong Kong as a territory.
In recent months, China has chipped away at Hong Kong’s independence and essentially scrapped it altogether with a new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-bans-everyone-on-earth-from-promoting-hong-kong-democracy-expert-says-china-has-extradition-pacts-with-dozens-of-nations">national security law</a> that forbids Hong Kongers from advocating for Hong Kong’s independence. The law carries a maximum punishment of life in prison, and it not only applies to Hong Kong, but to everyone around the world.
“It literally applies to every single person on the planet. This is how it reads. If I appear at a congressional committee in D.C. and say something critical, that literally would be a violation of this law,” said Wang Minyao, a New York-based Chinese-American lawyer.
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China Accuses U.S. Of Flying Spy Plane Into No-Fly Zone, Disrupting Military ‘Training Activities’

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Venezuela has decided to follow China’s approach to coronavirus quarantines by locking those who test positive for the virus in filthy warehouses against their will.
Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/covid-victims-are-forced-into-filthy-warehouses-in-venezuela">reported</a> Monday that doctors and patients in the nation are so terrified of the awful quarantine centers that they are avoiding coronavirus tests.
“But with a hollowed-out health system, far too few tests and a dysfunctional public sector, patients are terrified. They say they’re crammed for weeks into filthy warehouses with little to eat, spotty water supply and increased risk of infection. This, along with the detention of dissident doctors and public shaming of violators, has led to a sense of impending disaster,” the outlet reported.
Bloomberg detailed the story of a taxi driver named Juan, who tested positive last month but was sent home by his doctor to avoid the quarantine facility. Government agents, however, found him and took him to one of the centers, located in a slum.
“I spent three days sleeping on an aluminum chair,” Juan told the outlet. “They fed us cold rice, lentils and arepas. The place was controlled by armed militias and Cuban doctors.”
After days in the quarantine center, he was moved to a stadium elsewhere in the city and have been there for two weeks.
Another patient, Luis, told Bloomberg that he was forced to quarantine for weeks in a classroom along with 30 others.
“We sleep on old, very worn mats, it’s almost like sleeping on the floor,” Luis told the outlet.
He also mentioned that the arepas are so small the people in quarantine call them “buttons.”
“Today I gave mine to a child,” Luis said. “They are always hungry.”
The socialist country has been following communist China’s lead in how to handle the coronavirus pandemic after cases spiked this summer.
Maria Graciela Lopez, the head of Venezuela’s Society of Infectology, told Bloomberg that the current approach worked in China.
“This worked in China, which has a much more robust public health system,” Graciela Lopez said. “Venezuela was already very short on medical staff. People are afraid. Now patients arrive immediately needing intensive care because they lived with the disease at home until they just couldn’t any longer.”
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro endorsed treating those infected with the coronavirus the same way China treated its infected.
“Venezuela has paid attention to every single step and learned big lessons from China,” Maduro said in April. “It has inspired our decisions in how to face this pandemic.”
Chinese doctors even visited the country to provide guidance. As Bloomberg reported, some of the quick tests provided by the country provide false positives, resulting in healthy people being torn from their homes and locked away with actual sick people.
Kathleen Page, professor at the Johns Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases, told Bloomberg that Venezuela was likely violating human rights by following China’s lead.
“The conditions at these centers suggest there’s violations of basic human rights and protections,” she said. “This feels punitive and will certainly be a disincentive to testing. More transmission will occur in the community as people who don’t get diagnosed with Covid are not likely to self-isolate.”
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Venezuelans Who Test Positive For COVID-19 Forced Into Dirty Warehouses With Armed Guards

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President Donald Trump issued a stark warning on Sunday: if Joe Biden wins in November, China will &#8220;own&#8221; the United States.
Speaking with Steve Hilton of <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-biden-china-decouple-trade-deal">Fox News</a>, the president said that Biden wants to tether the United States to China&#8217;s economy while expressing a willingness to sever that relationship.
&#8220;If Biden is elected, China will own our country,&#8221; the president said.
Though Trump said he does not &#8220;want to set the world on fire right now,&#8221; he stressed that China has put the United States, not to mention the whole world, in a difficult position.
&#8220;There has been no country that has ripped us off more than China,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We lose billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. We get nothing from China. Yes, we get some goods that we could produce ourselves….[but] we get nothing. All we do is lose money.&#8221;
This past January, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump and China reached a trade agreement that he would be willing to sever in the face of what the communist country did to the United States by hiding the virus long enough for it to spread across continents.
&#8220;If they don&#8217;t treat us right, I would certainly do that,&#8221; he said regarding severed ties. &#8220;We were doing better than we&#8217;ve ever done with China and I was all set to rock &#8216;N&#8217; roll. Then we got hit with this damn situation.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-china-working-to-ensure-trump-does-not-win-re-election-most-top-threats-want-him-out-u-s-officials-says">reported</a>, top intelligence experts have warned that China has secretly been working to sabotage President Trump&#8217;s reelection in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Many foreign actors have a preference for who wins the election, which they express through a range of overt and private statements; covert influence efforts are rarer,” National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) Director William Evanina said in a statement. “We are primarily concerned about the ongoing and potential activity by China, Russia, and Iran.”
&#8220;We assess that China prefers that President Trump – whom Beijing sees as unpredictable – does not win reelection. China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policy environment in the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China’s interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China,&#8221; the statement continued.
In the same interview with Fox News, Trump said that a Biden presidency would spell a Chinese doom for the United States.
&#8220;If he gets elected, China will own our country,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you look at what we&#8217;ve done with China, nobody&#8217;s ever done to China.&#8221;
&#8220;China owns Joe Biden. His son got a billion and a half dollars,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;His son with no experience, no brainpower, no anything, never did it, not only Ukraine, he got hundreds of thousands of dollars of money from Ukraine and the upfront payment and then with China he walks up with a billion and half dollars in fees. It&#8217;s ridiculous. They own Joe Biden. They own him and they want me to it lose so badly.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-china-working-to-ensure-trump-does-not-win-re-election-most-top-threats-want-him-out-u-s-officials-says">China Working To Ensure Trump ‘Does Not Win Re-Election’, Most Top Threats Want Him Out, U.S. Officials Say</a>
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Trump: ‘China Owns Biden,’ ‘Will Own Our Country’ If He Wins

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In June, a Chinese-American student at Fordham University, Austin Tong, posted a photo of retired St. Louis police officer David Dorn, who was killed after defending a friend&#8217;s store from looters. The photo was accompanied by a note citing the “nonchalant social reaction” to Dorn’s murder. In addition, Tong posted another photo of himself holding a Smith &amp; Wesson rifle pointed toward the ground with the photo captioned &#8220;Don&#8217;t tread on me #198964,&#8221; in reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre on June 4, 1989. That photo included emojis of the American and Chinese flags.
Tong had also posted statements including, “freedom comes from a strong and armed populace” and “Violence against any citizen should not be tolerated, and The Second Amendment protects us from that.”
The photos triggered the university to put Tong on probation.
Now the Trump administration’s Department of Education has launched an investigation into Fordham University. One department official told <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15499">Campus Reform</a>, &#8220;Of course, this raises questions about the influence of the Chinese government on American colleges and universities.”
The Department of Education sent a letter to Fordham University, which stated in part:
<blockquote>On the night of June 4, 2020, allegedly due to “multiple student complaints related to [Mr. Tong’s] social media posts,” including the claim that his posts were “grotesque” and “racist,” Fordham dispatched two uniformed public safety officers to visit Mr. Tong at his parent’s home in Long Island, New York. … Mr. Tong allegedly told the officers he purchased the rifle so his family would have protection from the threat posed by ongoing riots and social disorder in New York City …
Fordham deemed Mr. Tong’s constitutionally protected speech “a security threat” (emphasis added). Fordham apparently was concerned because “in referring to Black Lives Matter protests, [Mr. Tong] stated that he was ‘aware of the chaotic situation that needs me to keep (sic) family safe.’”</blockquote>
On July 24, the Dean of Students informed Tong that he was on probation because his social media posts violated university policy. He would <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15384">need permission</a> from the Dean of Students to enter the campus; he would need to undergo “bias training,” and he would need to compose an apology.
The university informed Tong he would have to complete his courses online. The university added that the sanctions were non-appealable.
Those actions prompted Tong to sue the school, claiming his First Amendment rights had been violated.
In its letter, the Department of Education noted:
<blockquote>In its Demonstration Policy, Fordham promises prospective students, their parents, and other potential consumers in the market for education certificates &#8216;[e]ach member of the University has a right to freely express their positions and to work for their acceptance whether they assent to or dissent from existing situations in the University or society. Fordham further promises not to infringe on students’ right “to express [their] positions” and engage in “other legitimate activities.”
However, Fordham fails to warn prospective students, their parents, and other potential consumers in the market for education certificates of their liability to potential discipline for the lawful off-campus expression of thoughts and constitutionally protected conduct that happens to be disfavored by Fordham’s education bureaucrats.</blockquote>
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Trump Administration Investigating University That Punished Chinese-American Student For Firearm Photo Protesting Tiananmen Square Massacre

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An image taken by Planet Labs shows a Chinese submarine that one military writer surmises could be a nuclear-powered attack submarine possibly exiting a secretive James Bond-like cave built into the side of a Chinese mountain.
Journalist Tyler Rogoway writes at <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35837/image-shows-chinese-submarine-entering-mysterious-cave-facility-at-south-china-sea-base">The Drive</a> that China&#8217;s huge Yulin Naval Base on Hainan Island, home to China&#8217;s <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3720/china-will-send-nuclear-ballistic-missile-submarines-into-the-pacific-report">nuclear ballistic missile submarine fleet</a>, has a “submarine cave built into the side of a mountain that dominates the southern end of the installation.”
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NEW Details: Submarine spotted at Yulin was EXITING, not entering, underground bunker. Caught it on satellite yet again the next day. &quot;Rare Glimpse of Chinese Sub Outside Concealed Bunker Near <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SouthChinaSea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SouthChinaSea</a>&quot; <a href="https://t.co/h0vtOFiuS7">https://t.co/h0vtOFiuS7</a>
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“Satellite imagery from Aug. 18 shows what appears to be a Type 093, or Shang-class, submarine in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) outside an underground bunker at Yulin Naval Base, on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan. The bunker, accessed from the sea, is known for harboring submarine construction and repair facilities,” Drew Long writes at <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/southchinasea-submarine-08202020180110.html">Radio Free Asia</a>.
Long adds, “As part of China’s military build-up over the past two decades, it has rapidly improved its submarine force, and now has about 70 submarines, dwarfing the fleet of any other country that abuts the South China Sea, according to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency’s annual <a href="https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Power%20Publications/China_Military_Power_FINAL_5MB_20190103.pdf">China Military Power Report</a>.”
&#8220;The Type-09III (commonly written as Type-093) is China&#8217;s main nuclear-powered attack submarine. It is known to NATO as the SHANG Class. While it is not the most common submarine in the Chinese Navy&#8217;s (PLAN) fleet, it is currently the most potent. It is deployed alongside the country&#8217;s ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and so likely plays a role in defending them from other country&#8217;s subs,&#8221; hisutton.com <a href="http://www.hisutton.com/Chinese-Navy-Type-093-Shang-Class-Submarine.html">notes</a>.
Oriana Skylar Mastro, a fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, told Long, “Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is one of the last remaining U.S. strengths against China … Chinese submarines, as they become more advanced, are still noisier than U.S. submarines. But it’s not really a question of their submarines versus our submarines. It’s their submarines versus our ASW, and our submarines versus their ASW. When you’re trying to kill a submarine, being able to find them and track them is the most important thing.”
The Navy Times <a href="https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/07/21/secdef-were-not-going-to-be-stopped-by-anybody-from-operating-in-south-china-sea/">reported</a> in July, “After U.S. aircraft carriers Nimitz and Ronald Reagan and their strike groups conducted dual-carrier operations in the South China Sea this month, Chinese outlet <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1193485.shtml">The Global Times reported</a> that ‘any US aircraft carrier movement in the region is solely at the pleasure of the PLA,’ citing analysts.”
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper stated, “I don’t know what the Chinese meant by that hollow statement about American carriers being there by the pleasure of the PLA or something. Look, American aircraft carriers have been in the South China Sea in the Indo-Pacific since World War II and we’ll continue to be there, and we’re not going to be stopped by anybody. We’re going to sail, fly and operate where international law allows and we do that, again, to assert international law and rights to back up the sovereignty of our friends and partners and to reassure them that we will be there to defend those things.”
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