According to Toutaio, a news and information content platform that is a core product of the Chinese company ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance has no plans to sell TikTok.
Last weekend, Congress passed a measure that gave ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok or it will be banned in the United States. If a sale is in progress during those nine months, an additional three months would be added. On Wednesday, President Biden <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/biden-signs-israel-ukraine-tiktok-bill-into-law.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> the measure into law.
“Foreign media reports that ByteDance is exploring the sale of TikTok are untrue. ByteDance has no plans to sell TikTok,” Toutaio <a href="https://www.toutiao.com/article/7361817898732536359/?wid=1714059077114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> on Thursday.
TikTok had responded to Biden signing the bill with a <a href="https://twitter.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1783149300471525637">statement</a> on X:
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This unconstitutional law is a TikTok ban, and we will challenge it in court. We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side, and we will ultimately prevail. The fact is, we have invested billions of dollars to keep U.S. data safe and our platform free from outside influence and manipulation. This ban would devastate seven million businesses and silence 170 million Americans.
</blockquote>
Despite the fact that Biden signed the measure into law, his reelection campaign informed <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/biden-signs-israel-ukraine-tiktok-bill-into-law.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> Wednesday that it still uses TikTok to appeal to voters for another year.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), an outspoken critic of TikTok who has been fighting against its influence for years, called for a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review of TikTok back in 2019. He <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-in-2019-communist-china-will-use-tiktok-against-america/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
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For years, we’ve allowed the Chinese Communist Party to control one of the most popular apps in America. That was dangerously shortsighted, but thankfully we are waking up to the threat China-controlled companies pose to America. We must move more quickly in the future when we encounter similar threats, because China won’t give up. There will be lawsuits, new apps, and new plots from Beijing.
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Rubio said in an August 2023 <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/as-tiktok-comes-for-american-businesses-its-past-time-to-ban-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a>, “TikTok’s public-policy chief blatantly lied under oath when he denied US data is stored in China. &#8230; ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, was caught in October using the app to spy on American journalists.”
Rubio noted that The New York Times reported TikTok stores Americans’ private information, which includes driver’s licenses, addresses, and device IDs, in China, where they can be accessed by ByteDance employees. He also pointed out that Forbes revealed that the tax information and Social Security numbers of content creators on TikTok are also stored in China.
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“China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power,” Rubio wrote. “If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict­­ — they need to think again.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/think-again-rubio-warns-americans-against-tiktok-wants-it-banned">‘Think Again’: Rubio Warns Americans Against TikTok, Wants It Banned</a>

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Chinese Company ByteDance Appears To Ignore Threat Of U.S. Ban, Says It ‘Has No Plans’ To Sell TikTok: Report

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Marco Rubio

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on his administration to consider tripling the tariff on Chinese steel, reminiscent of the trade policy of his predecessor and chief rival in 2024, former President Donald Trump.
Biden spoke at United Steelworkers headquarters in Pittsburgh, pitching union members on stricter trade policy on China to protect American jobs. During his address, Biden called on United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai to consider tripling the tariff on Chinese steel, which currently averages 7.5%, according to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/04/17/president-biden-moves-to-triple-tariffs-on-chinese-steel-and-aluminum/73346915007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today</a>.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/biden-calls-for-steep-hike-to-tariff-on-chinese-steel-dd131264">reported</a> that the increase &#8220;would be in addition to a separate 25% tariff on steel and a 10% duty on aluminum imposed under the Trump administration.&#8221;
Biden has borrowed Trump’s strategy to confront China after criticizing it during the 2020 campaign. In 2019, Biden <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/07/11/joe-biden-slams-trump-china-trade-war-in-foreign-policy-speech.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> that Trump’s trade policy regarding China has delivered negative results for Americans.
“President Trump may think he&#8217;s being tough on China. All that he&#8217;s delivered as a consequence of that is American farmers, manufacturers and consumers losing and paying more,” Biden said during a speech in New York. “His economic decision-making is so shortsighted and as shortsighted as the rest of his foreign policy.”
While Biden said the U.S. needed to “get tough” on China, the then-candidate argued that the best way forward would be to strengthen ties with the Communist-run country.
“China can&#8217;t afford to ignore half the global economy if we&#8217;re united. That gives us substantial leverage to shape the future rules of the road on everything from the environment to labor to trade to technology to transparency,” Biden said.
Biden appeared to walk back that campaign stance on Wednesday, the reversal coming as Trump has sought to make inroads with staunchly pro-Democrat unions.
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The Teamsters union, a reliable source of support for Democrats, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/02/21/teamsters-trump-biden-union/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave</a> $45,000 to the Republican National Committee through the union’s political action committee in February. The donation is the maximum amount the PAC can give.
The donation itself isn’t as significant as what it could represent for the future of the union’s support. Teamsters’ political committee donated the money after Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-teamsters-union-washington-0689d1d586a9b0760610ae619086691f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met</a> with the union’s executive board in what the former president described as “a very productive meeting.”
Biden’s Wednesday speech also comes as steel industry labor leaders have protested against a potential sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese-based Nippon Steel Corporation. The Biden Department of Justice last week <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/10/doj-opens-formal-investigation-us-steel-takeover-00151615" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> an antitrust investigation into the sale, a move that could have negative impacts on the United States’ relationship with Japan.

Joe Biden

In Reversal, Biden Turns To Trump’s Playbook To Get Tough On China

2024 Election

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Joe Biden, the president of the United States, says one word over and over and over: “Don’t.”
He said it of the Taliban with regard to attacks on American troops. And then they did. He said it to the Russians with regard to going into Ukraine. And then they did. Now he’s said it to the Iranians with regard to directly attacking Israel. And then, of course, they did.
All of which means that Joe Biden is not a credible player on the world stage.
There is something in foreign policy called deterrence. It&#8217;s the single most important concept of the postwar era. The Defense Department defines <a href="https://perconcordiam.com/modern-deterrence/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20Department%20of%20Defense,to%20communicate%20to%20counter%20an">deterrence</a> as the “prevention of action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and/or belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits.”
In other words, you do not attack me because I am threatening you. If you attack me, I will clock you into next week.
You know who is an expert at deterrence? President Donald Trump. He was excellent at deterrence because every threat that he uttered was perfectly credible. He kept everybody off-balance.
It&#8217;s a kind of madman theory of foreign policy. You never knew when he meant it and you never knew when he didn’t. It didn&#8217;t matter whether you understood it. It only mattered whether he understood it. He could push you off the ball simply by saying, “If you cross the line, you don’t know what’s going to happen, but it&#8217;s going to be really bad.” 
And other nations took that seriously. The Taliban took that seriously. Russia took that seriously. China took that seriously. Iran took that seriously. 
But when Joe Biden — over and over and over again — keeps saying “Don&#8217;t,” and then other parties do, and the United States not only doesn’t respond but also slow-walks aid to America&#8217;s allies so even America&#8217;s allies cannot respond, or also intervenes to tell America&#8217;s allies not to do too much, the party that is deterred is not, in fact, the opponents, the enemies of the United States.
The party that is deterred is the United States herself.
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It is one thing to suggest that the United States should be deterred from forward action by the presence of, for example, the Soviet Union. But to suggest that the United States should be deterred from providing full aid to Ukraine, such that Ukraine is not overrun, and that we should be deterred by the possibility Vladimir Putin is going to unleash nuclear weapons — which of course is not a credible threat when it comes to simply maintaining the current battle lines in Ukraine — that&#8217;s stupid.
Or the suggestion that the United States should be deterred by Iran, which is what&#8217;s happening right now. Iran is saying, “We fired 300-odd missiles and drones at Israel. Most of those got knocked down. Virtually all of them got knocked down. But don&#8217;t go further or we are going to go further.” 
Iran is saying if Israel were to counterattack, then it would unleash 1,500 cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. So Biden is putting pressure on Israel.
The United States is the deterred party.
Being deterred is a sign that you are the weaker party in any conflict. The stronger party typically is not deterred. It is the weaker party who is worried that the cost of action will outweigh the perceived benefit. Typically, if you are on the playground, it is not the bully who is being deterred by the weakling. It&#8217;s the weakling who is being deterred by the bully.
When it comes to foreign policy, the United States has the world&#8217;s largest and most powerful military presence spanning the globe in terms of technology — far more advanced than anything on the table by a factor of probably five.
And yet, the United States is being deterred over and over by significantly smaller powers, which is why smaller powers are feeling their oats right now.
So the question is why? Why exactly has it become rote for smaller powers to deter the United States?
The answer is not the insufficiency of American materiel. The answer is not the insufficiency of America&#8217;s military might. America is so far beyond, for example, the Chinese military in terms of advancement. China going to a full-scale war with the United States would be the biggest mistake China ever made.
And if that&#8217;s true of China, who has nuclear weapons, think about Iran, who does not have nuclear weapons and whose ballistic missile system is so bad that half of the rockets just fired at Israel fell in its own territory or the territory of other countries before they even hit Israeli airspace.
So, again, why is America being deterred? The answer is simple: moral cowardice. Under Biden, the United States has become a morally cowardly force. Under Biden, the United States has basically decided that any engagement in the world&#8217;s sphere is some sort of act of aggression. Even so much as funding our allies so those allies can defend themselves with forward action to deter — for example, Iran from doing this again — would be some sort of American aggression that would escalate.
The reality is that when it comes to the Middle East, every single conflict is a game of chicken. The game of chicken, as we all know, is a game wherein two sides drive toward a cliff and whoever gets closest to the cliff without driving over wins. The worst case scenario is you&#8217;re the one who goes off the cliff.
But when it comes to the United States versus other countries, we have both the best gas and the best brakes. The reality is that if there were to be a cliff and if we were to hit it, the significant impact would be on Iran and not on the United States.
The United States is already engaged in wartime activity against Iran. It was American forces striking down drones directly from Iranian territory.
But it is Joe Biden who is acting the weakling, not just with regard to Iran directly, but also with regard to Hezbollah, with regard to Hamas, which is a basically defunct terror group at this point. The only reason that is happening is because Biden does not have the courage of American convictions.
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This is not an argument for America to be involved in war. There&#8217;s an argument that American deterrence relies on credible threat of force, and that in a world where America&#8217;s deterrence is gone, everybody gets a lot more aggressive, the world becomes a lot more violent.
There&#8217;s this theory out there from both the far-libertarian Right and from the far-Left Noam Chomsky group that the way world wars start is through a series of escalating steps that no one can stop.
There are two ways world wars start. That can be one way world wars start: when you have a relative balance of power. But when you have one full-on dominant power, the way the world war starts is by simply mistaking your way into it by failure of credibility.
The reality is that the United States owes it to the West to be an iron wall and to provide enough support to its allies that those allies can be an iron wall against forces of countries like Iran.
And yet, that is not what the Biden administration is pursuing.
That is a moral shortcoming. That is a question of will and a question of common sense.

President Biden Delivers Virtual Remarks To The National Action Network Convention

Biden Keeps Saying ‘Don’t.’ Enemies Don’t Give A Damn. Trump’s Threats Established American Deterrence.

Biden Keeps Saying 'Don’t.' Enemies Don’t Give A Damn. Trump’s Threats Established American Deterrence.

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Sulfur hexafluoride, a gas 24,300 times more potent at creating the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide, is being released into the atmosphere at an alarming rate as China seeks to expand its electric power grid.
The findings were from a new <a href="https://eaps.mit.edu/news-impact/atmospheric-observations-in-china-show-rise-in-emissions-of-a-potent-greenhouse-gas/">study</a> conducted by researchers at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Fudan University, Peking University, University of Bristol, and Meteorological Observation Center of China Meteorological Administration.
&#8220;Greenhouse gases differ widely in their global warming potential (GWP), or ability to absorb radiative energy and thereby warm the Earth’s surface,&#8221; MIT said. &#8220;For example, measured over a 100-year period, the GWP of methane is about 28 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2), and the GWP of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) is 24,300 times that of CO2.&#8221;
Sulfur hexafluoride, SF6, is used &#8220;primarily in high-voltage electrical switchgear in electric power grids,&#8221; the report said, adding that atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas have skyrocketed as the global demand for electric power increases.
The report said that the increase in SF6 in the atmosphere, which communist China is largely responsible for, threatens the world’s efforts to combat so-called &#8220;climate change.&#8221;
&#8220;The researchers found that SF6 emissions in China almost doubled from 2.6 gigagrams (Gg) per year in 2011, when they accounted for 34 percent of global SF6 emissions, to 5.1 Gg per year in 2021, when they accounted for 57 percent of global total SF6 emissions,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;This increase from China over the 10-year period — some of it emerging from the country’s less-populated western regions — was larger than the global total SF6 emissions rise, highlighting the importance of lowering SF6 emissions from China in the future.&#8221;
SF6 gasses that escape in the atmosphere last for more than a thousand years and with a negative impact 24,300 times greater than CO2, the stakes could not be higher as officials seek to force consumers to abandon gas powered vehicles and switch to electric vehicles which requires having a robust power grid.
“Any increase in SF6 emissions this century will effectively alter our planet’s radiative budget — the balance between incoming energy from the sun and outgoing energy from the Earth — far beyond the multi-decadal time frame of current climate policies,” says MIT Joint Program and CGCS Director Ronald Prinn, a coauthor of the study. “So it’s imperative that China and all other nations take immediate action to reduce, and ultimately eliminate, their SF6 emissions.”

Commissioning of the Nordring Berlin high-voltage line

MIT Study: Gas 24,000x More Powerful Than CO2 Being Released From Power Grid

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electric vehicles

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A former lawyer who worked for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">Chinese</a> gaming company Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday for fatally <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder">poisoning</a> its billionaire founder, Lin Qi.
Xu Yao was accused of serving Lin and other colleagues poison following a dispute over business operations, per a report from <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/03/ex-gaming-exec-company-3-body-problem-film-rights-sentenced-death-1235872375/">Deadline</a>. Lin became very ill between September and December 2020 and died from complications on Christmas Day 2020. Xu, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/01/world/asia/china-three-body-problem-murder.html">described</a> as &#8220;disgruntled&#8221; by the New York Times, was taken into custody by Chinese police several days later.
Yoozoo Games owns the rights to the massively popular new <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/netflix">Netflix</a> series, “3 Body Problem.” 
The company gave Netflix the right to produce an adaptation of the sci-fi trilogy in 2020, the outlet noted. “3 Body Problem” is produced by “Game of Thrones” creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Lin was also named as an executive producer for the project.
BBC News <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-68705857">reported</a> that Xu was hired as the company&#8217;s chief risk officer in 2017. He initially had a good relationship with Lin and his co-workers. The publication noted that Lin appointed Xu to spearhead a subsidiary called The Three Body Universe one year after his hiring. Both men worked together closely on putting together the Netflix deal.
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Authorities claim that Xu made his plans to poison his enemies when those relationships fractured after Lin put other executives in charge of business operations. He first tested the poison on animals, then moved on to people. An article from The Hollywood Reporter citing local media said that Lin gave Xu and others poisoned tea, while the Deadline report claims the poison was distributed via fake probiotic pills.
In 2020, company reps issued a statement on the passing of its founder on its official Weibo microblog. &#8220;Goodbye youth,&#8221; it said. &#8220;We will be together, continue to be kind, continue to believe in goodness, and continue the fight against all that is bad.”
“3 Body Problem” has become a huge success for Netflix, with 11 million views in its first four days on the streaming platform. It follows an astrophysicist who sees her father beaten to death during a struggle session in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. She is conscripted by the military to help save Earth from an alien invasion.

Yoozoo

‘Disgruntled’ Exec From Company That Owns Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ Rights Sentenced To Death In China

'Disgruntled' Exec From Company That Owns Netflix's '3 Body Problem' Rights Sentenced To Death In China 

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World

Chinese nationals are illegally entering Guam, posing a “major cause for concern” for the island which is home to an important U.S. military base and around 20,000 American troops, Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13249963/chinese-migrants-guam-republican-ccp-exploit-military-base.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>.
Since 2022, Guam Customs and Quarantine has reported 118 unlawful or attempted unlawful entries by Chinese nationals, agency spokeswoman Alana Chargualaf-Afaisen told <a href="https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-02-26/guam-china-illegal-entry-northern-marianas-13130497.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stars and Stripes</a>. There were 85 cases of attempted illegal entry into Guam by Chinese migrants in 2022, followed by 27 in 2023, and six so far in 2024.
Guam is just under <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2020/07/23/china-aims-missiles-at-americas-pacific-bomber-base-how-should-the-pentagon-defend-guam/?sh=4578d4f729a5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2,000 miles</a> from the Chinese mainland and is home to Naval Base Guam, the only U.S. Navy submarine base in the western Pacific. The island also hosts America’s main Pacific bomber fleet at Andersen Air Force Base.
“Count on the Chinese Communist Party to exploit every potential vulnerability on the map. What the CCP is doing in Guam is almost certainly no exception,” Green told the Mail. “The United States maintains a significant military presence on the island, a vital outpost for helping America defend our strategic interests in the region.”
The “surging numbers of Chinese nationals coming into Guam” is a “major cause for concern, in part because we simply do not know for what purpose these individuals are coming,” Green said, adding, &#8220;It&#8217;s not just rising numbers of Chinese nationals illegally crossing our Southwest border that demands attention—what&#8217;s happening in Guam does, as well.&#8221;
The Department of Homeland Security told Stars and Stripes that the Chinese migrants are mainly going to Guam for economic reasons. Special Agent in Charge John Tobon of Homeland Security Investigations in Honolulu said, “The one thing about all those individuals is that they are all vetted before they are admitted into Saipan.”
“Once they’re in Saipan, they may try to come over to Guam, but the overwhelming majority are really doing it for economic reasons,” Tobon added.
Republicans, such as Green and Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, maintain apprehensions about the Chinese migrants, however, saying that loopholes in the Visa process allow bad actors to take advantage of the U.S. Last November, 32 Republicans wrote a letter, warning Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of the loopholes.
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&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party has already proven they will stop at nothing to infiltrate and outpace the United States, and I&#8217;m working to close loopholes that allow any further espionage,&#8221; Ernst told <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/republican-warns-about-chinese-spies-near-military-bases-1884666" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsweek</a> on Wednesday. &#8220;We must put an end to Chinese nationals accessing our military installations on U.S. territories and conducting malign activity.”
Last month, CBS News reported that Chinese nationals are the fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. Over 24,000 Chinese citizens were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past year, a number higher than the combined data on apprehensions from the ten previous years, according to a November <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/us/politics/china-migrants-us-border.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Times.

Guam

‘Surging Numbers’ Of Chinese Migrants Attempting To Illegally Enter U.S. Island Home To Vital Military Bases, Homeland Security Committee Chair Warns

'Surging Numbers' Of Chinese Migrants Attempting To Illegally Enter U.S. Island Home To Vital Military Bases, Homeland Security Committee Chair Warns

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Republican lawmakers said that the United States needs to tackle the fentanyl crisis by going after the source of the deadly drug abroad and taking action domestically to safeguard against the effects of the drug. 
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), the chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) spoke about potential legislative solutions on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fentanyl-america-s-silent-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic</a>,” part of a DailyWire+ docu-series on The Divided States of Biden. In 2023, more than 100,000 Americans <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1220881380/overdose-fentanyl-drugs-addiction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> from a drug overdose, with many of the deaths being related to fentanyl poisoning. 
Gallagher said that the Biden administration needed to be doing more to push China to crack down on the illicit fentanyl coming out of its country and into the United States. 
“For years, China has been the fentanyl factory of the world, and for years Xi Jinping has pledged to do something about it,” Gallagher told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro. “But that hasn&#8217;t happened. The Biden administration wants us to believe that another verbal commitment from Xi and more so-called task forces will finally stem the deadly tide of precursor production from China. But are we really to believe that the most powerful techno-totalitarian state in human history couldn&#8217;t stop this plague in a heartbeat if it wanted to?”
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Gallagher proposed that one way to combat the drugs would be to crack down on the money laundering that fuels the industry, as well as going after payment processors that allow drug trafficking payments. He also suggested putting sanctions on port operators and the shipping companies that facilitate fentanyl trafficking into the United States. 
“But even that, I think, will not be effective unless we secure our southern border,” he said. “If we are not strong at the southern border, districts like mine are going to continue to be effectively border districts, and sons, daughters, parents are going to suffer as a result of this ongoing fentanyl crisis we face in America.”
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Newhouse has proposed policies that would make Narcan, a treatment that can help reverse a drug overdose, available in all schools. He also proposed adjusting the law so that all fentanyl-related substances are classified as a Schedule One drug, meaning they can be targeted for stiffer punishments. In January, he <a href="https://newhouse.house.gov/issues/fentanyl-crisis#:~:text=I%20have%20also%20introduced%20the,and%20out%20of%20our%20neighborhoods.">introduced</a> a bill called the &#8220;Save Americans from the Fentanyl Emergency Act&#8221; to upgrade the classification of all fentanyl-related substances. He said the current system allows drug cartels to bypass current laws by using a different combination of substances that aren’t technically fentanyl. 
&#8220;And so prosecutors who are trying to nail dealers for selling illegal substances are faced with a much higher burden of proof,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we can regulate that by including all fentanyl-related substances under a Schedule One classification, that will eliminate that problem and reduce the amount of time we can it takes to prosecute and convict drug dealers.&#8221;

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China is the main driver behind fentanyl being smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels, according to investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.
Schweizer, author of “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” discussed the crisis on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fentanyl-america-s-silent-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic</a>,” part of a DailyWire+ series by Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on The Divided States of Biden. The author said the fentanyl trade that contributes to tens of thousands of American deaths every year begins in China. 
“They’re the senior partner. The drug cartels are really the junior partner in the fentanyl trade,” Schweizer told Shapiro, speaking of the Chinese regime led by President Xi Jinping.
Ninety percent of fentanyl precursor chemicals shipped from China to Mexico arrive via Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo. The port is run by a Chinese company, according to Schweizer. From the port, the chemicals are taken to a town in northern Mexico close to the U.S. border. About 2,000 Chinese workers work in cartel labs to craft the precursor chemicals into fentanyl and then the fentanyl into pills resembling common drugs such as Vicodin or Adderall.
“Now the drug cartels want to distribute their product in the United States. What do they do? They use Chinese apps. They use Chinese communications devices because they know that China will not share that information with U.S. law enforcement,” Schweizer said.
Money from the drug trade is then laundered through the Chinese financial system.
“The Mexican drug cartels now launder their money in Chinese state-owned banks, and, according to our government, they use Chinese students in the United States on education visas to do this,” Schweizer said.
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China will continue to fuel the fentanyl trade in the United States until U.S. political leadership decides to make China feel real consequences from participating in it, according to Schweizer.
“We need to start looking at punitive actions we can take to damage them. I’m generally a free trade guy, but do you want to have free trade with somebody who is poisoning your citizens in such a systematic way? I don’t think so,” he said. “We’ve got to get tough and we’ve got to make clear: you are going to suffer consequences and real damage until you stop doing this to our people.”

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Seven Chinese nationals on Monday were accused by the Justice Department of targeting American journalists and political figures, including senior members of a 2020 presidential campaign team, in a wide-ranging hacking operation. 
The defendants, Ni Gaobin, Weng Ming, Cheng Feng, Peng Yaow, Sun Xiaohui, Xiong Wang, and Zhao Guangzong, are accused of aiding a Chinese-backed hacking group in support of China&#8217;s Ministry of State Security’s foreign political and business espionage as well as surveillance of Hong Kong democracy activists and the Uyghur people. The seven allegedly worked for the Hubei State Security Department, which surveilled thousands of American politicians, academics, journalists, and businessmen from 2010 to 2024, according to the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/24-cr-43_indictment_redacted.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a>. 
“These allegations pull back the curtain on China’s vast illegal hacking operation that targeted sensitive data from U.S. elected and government officials, journalists and academics; valuable information from American companies; and political dissidents in America and abroad. Their sinister scheme victimized thousands of people and entities across the world, and lasted for well over a decade,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/seven-hackers-associated-chinese-government-charged-computer-intrusions-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> U.S. Attorney Breon Peace. 
During one operation during the Trump administration that lasted from June to September 2018, hackers targeted Republican and Democrat senators from more than 10 states, White House officials, members of the Departments of Justice, Commerce, Treasury, and State, and members of Congress with malicious emails, the indictment said. These emails were reportedly also sent to the spouses of some of the political figures. 
In a different operation, multiple European politicians were targeted, including members of the European Union and more than three dozen parliamentary accounts in the United Kingdom, as part of surveillance into a group of politicians examining threats from the Chinese Communist Party.  
During the 2020 presidential election cycle, a non-specified campaign was targeted by hackers.
“In or about May 2020, the Conspirators began targeting email accounts belonging to several senior campaign staff members for a presidential campaign,” the indictment says. “In or about November 2020, the Conspirators sent emails containing tracking links to targets associated with additional political campaigns, including a retired senior U.S. government national security official.”
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The DOJ said in a press release that campaign staffers for Republicans and Democrats had been targeted ahead of the 2020 election but did not specify the campaigns or races. 
The indictment also said that millions of Americans were caught up in the hacking scheme, with phone call records, cloud storage accounts, and email accounts all being exposed. 
“America’s sovereignty extends to its cyberspace,” Peace added. “Today’s charges demonstrate my Office’s commitment to upholding and protecting that jurisdiction, and to putting an end to malicious nation state cyber activity.”

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Here’s how World War III could happen.
To understand how, we should look historically at the closest that the world has gotten to World War III since the end of World War II.
The world came closest to World War III during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the Soviet Union attempted to ship nuclear-tipped missiles into Cuba and the United States put a blockade around Cuba to prevent that from happening.
The United States and the USSR stood eyeball-to-eyeball and eventually the USSR backed down. But — that was very, very close.
To understand why we came so close to the brink of nuclear war in 1962, you actually have to reverse field for a few years.
The reality is that the USSR started to challenge the United States so strenuously around the world because of roughly a decade of weakness in American foreign policy.
This is how world wars break out — miscalculation. They break out because one side believes that the other side is likely to cave in the face of its aggression.
It&#8217;s particularly true when the United States shows its neck to its enemies. So to really understand what was happening in the lead-up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, you have to return to 1956, when Dwight Eisenhower was president and there was a crisis that emerged in the Middle East.
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That crisis involved the Suez Canal. Nasser, the nationalist, pan-Arab nationalist leader of Egypt, decided that he was going to unite all the Arab countries by flexing muscle in the face of the West. And so he decided that despite the fact that he had nothing to do with the building of the Suez Canal, he would nationalize the Suez Canal.
The French and the British both had an interest in the Suez Canal. And they said to Nasser, you can&#8217;t do that. The United States stood on the sidelines and vacillated for a couple of reasons: They believed that if they were kind enough to Nasser, then Nasser would not align himself with the Soviet Union and that Nasser might, in fact, become the tip of the spear in some sort of American overture to the Arab world; if they were just kind and nice to Nasser, then everything would work out just fine. They were supposedly afraid that the USSR was going to get directly involved in the Suez Canal crisis.
Meanwhile, the British were no longer an international power of the sort of vintage they had been historically. The British and the French, who had historically not worked particularly well together, decided to work with the Israelis in order to liberate the Suez Canal, which the British had built.
They went to the Israelis, who were worried about the Egyptian militarization of the Sinai Desert, and Israel decided that it would work with the British and the French in order to free the Suez Canal and possibly overthrow Nasser and put in place somebody who was not going to be an enemy of the West.
The Israelis ended up moving into the Sinai desert, which they quickly overran, and then they were on the march to Cairo.
The plan was for the British and the French to intervene, tell the Israelis to stop, and take over the Suez Canal.
And then — Eisenhower stepped in and rapped everyone on the knuckles. The United States actually stepped in on Egypt’s side and said to the British and the French that this was a violation of international law, hoping Nasser would then align himself with the West. The United States was basically saying to the British and the French that they were no longer world powers.
Again, the Egyptian government didn&#8217;t build the Suez Canal. The British government did it. None of that mattered; the bottom line was that the United States decided to play non-aligned. And in playing non-aligned, Nikita Khrushchev, the new premier of the Soviet Union, decided now was the time to move.
The next thing that happened, just a few months later, was that there was an uprising in Hungary, a state in the Soviet sphere of influence. Suddenly there was a Hungarian revolution, an attempt to actually substitute the puppet government that had been installed by the Soviets with a new government, a better government that was going to essentially remain non-aligned.
The Soviets immediately invaded Hungary and crushed everything and killed everyone involved in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. By 1957, Sputnik was launched and the space race was on. By 1958, Nikita Khrushchev, believing that he had the impetus, felt he had the power to challenge the United States globally.
In 1958, he demanded the withdrawal of American troops and Western troops from Berlin, beginning what was known as the Berlin crisis. For three long years, the Soviet Union and the United States stood toe-to-toe over Berlin.
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union facilitated a Cuban revolution that ended with Fidel Castro in charge of Cuba. In 1961, Khrushchev stepped in and solved the Berlin crisis by building the Berlin Wall, which lasted until 1989.
All of this led to the Cuban Missile crisis.
There is one rule when it comes to World War: Lack of clarity in your intention, vacillation, failure to make clear to your enemies what exactly your lines are.
Fake bluffs, empty threats. These things lead to war. Very often the open threat of war actually deters war. Very often, the willingness to actually flex muscle leads the other side to believe, “Hey, maybe I shouldn’t actually go and have this firefight with somebody. They&#8217;re ready to have the firefight.”
Miscalculation is the most likely way the great powers end up in war. That&#8217;s precisely what happened during World War I and happened during World War II. The Germans miscalculated because they thought that since the West had caved at Munich and because they&#8217;d been able to occupy the Sudetenland, they would then be able to then occupy the rest of Czechoslovakia. The aftermath of that was that they thought they could then occupy the Danzig corridor.
Failure of willingness to convey your intention, failure to act as an iron wall against the aggression of your enemies, leads to escalation. And then you actually do get dragged into hot wars that involve extraordinary numbers of casualties.
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Today there is a story out of the <a href="https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/131715/taiwan-usa-troops-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Express</a> that American troops are to be permanently stationed in Taiwan, according to Taipei.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are buzzing the borders of the Taiwan Strait, which is divided between Taiwan and China in terms of offshore control. Chinese jets have been busing the Taiwan Straits. The Chinese are again pursuing hypersonic missile tests.
Now, why would they be doing all of this? The reason they are doing that is because Joe Biden has demonstrated he&#8217;s showing his neck while China has been busily facilitating the creation of an anti-American, anti-Western alliance predominantly staffed by China, Russia and Iran.
Those are countries that are very obviously working together, so much so that the Houthis, an Iranian-backed terror group that is currently attacking shipping in the Red Sea, announced that they would not attack any Chinese or Russian shipping in the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.
What the Biden administration should be doing is taking the position that it is going to destroy any Houthi attempts to harass shipping in the Red Sea. What the United States should be doing in Ukraine is holding the line; the United States does have an interest in holding the line against Russia. The United States, when it comes to Israel, should be saying that Israel has the full capacity to go in to strike Hamas, which is an Iranian proxy group.
The reason that China is getting aggressive with Taiwan, the reason that a war could possibly break out is because China is thinking, “We just don&#8217;t believe that Joe Biden is going to do anything about that. Not only that, you guys look so divided internally in the United States on foreign policy that if we make a move, we think that probably you will just let it go.&#8221;
The single most effective method of upgrading Chinese military capacity is to take or blockade Taiwan. It&#8217;s not about the money for the Chinese military; it is about the microchips. Taiwan is the largest manufacturer of microchips, sophisticated microchips on the planet.
Those microchips are the single greatest advantage the United States has in terms of military tech, because we design all the software here and then the hardware is then printed off and created in Taiwan, but we&#8217;re not even able to ramp up our microchip facilities in the United States fast enough to make up for Taiwan being lost.
But mostly, this is about will.
After the abandonment of Hong Kong, after the abandonment of Afghanistan, after the internal pressures in the United States over Ukraine and Israel, the Chinese are hoping that Taiwan is going to get the message and elect a government that is friendlier to China and then just give them the microchips. Suddenly their military would go from a very large but second-rate military to a first-class military.
It is a game of perception. How does the world perceive Joe Biden right now? They perceive him as weak. How does the world perceive the United States? They perceive the United States as divided. When you have a weak president and a divided United States, that seems like a really good time to march.
And that&#8217;s precisely why it matters.

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A new poll found that more than two-thirds of Americans, a whopping 68%, agree with legislation forcing ByteDance, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist government, to sell its stake in TikTok. That legislation has been passed by the GOP-controlled House and is waiting for Senate passage.
The <a href="https://america2100.org/america-2100-poll-bipartisan-majority-of-americans-support-tiktok-divestment-bill/">poll</a>, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and released by America 2100, also found that 73% of Republicans agreed with the legislation as well as 64% of Democrats and 65% of independents. Seventy-five percent of Trump voters and 67% of Biden voters also agree, and in a telling statistic, 56% of TikTok users echo the sentiment.
“Americans see China for the threat that it is, and they don’t want their social media apps controlled by a hostile foreign adversary,” America 2100 Senior Advisor Nate Hochman stated. “Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats will have to choose between placating a loud, left-wing, TikTok-addicted activist base, and the American majority that wants the Chinese Communist Party out of our tech platforms — and our country.”
News of ByteDance’s involvement with TikTok has apparently spread like wildfire; a massive 84% of Americans know that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company; additionally, 73% are concerned TikTok is owned by China.
On March 13, the House passed the bill that could lead to a ban on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok">TikTok</a> unless ByteDance divested in the popular social media app.
The legislation, known as the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” was <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486">approved by a 352-65 vote</a>. Fifty Democrats and 15 Republicans voted against the measure. 
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The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> noted that an “entity that violates subsection (a) shall be subject to pay a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed the amount that results from multiplying $5,000 by the number of users within the land or maritime borders of the United States determined to have accessed, maintained, or updated a foreign adversary controlled application as a result of such violation.&#8221; 
<blockquote>It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the  United States, any of the following: 
Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary con- trolled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application. Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.</blockquote>
The penalties could be staggering: TikTok <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/150-m-us-users">boasted</a> in March 2023 that it had 150 million American users.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiana</a> has enacted a law that prohibits cities in the state from entering &#8220;sister city&#8221; agreements with localities in adversarial foreign nations such as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>, Russia, and Iran.
Such agreements are meant to boost cultural and economic ties between communities in different nations, but some U.S. officials have been raising concerns about malign influence. One Indiana city — Carmel — recently <a href="https://fox59.com/indianapolitics/carmel-withdraws-relationship-with-united-states-heartland-china-association/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">withdrew</a> its <a href="https://youarecurrent.com/2024/02/08/carmel-to-end-membership-with-u-s-heartland-china-association/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">membership</a> with the United States Heartland China Association.
Last week, Governor Eric Holcomb (R-IN) <a href="https://www.in.gov/gov/newsroom/2024-bill-watch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a <a href="https://iga.in.gov/pdf-documents/123/2024/house/bills/HB1120/HB1120.05.ENRS.pdf#page=87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">112-page bill</a> that includes a small provision that institutes the sister-city ban for counties, cities, towns, or townships. It <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subpart-A/section-7.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hinges on U.S. Code</a> to define foreign adversaries, of which there are currently six: China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who is running for Senate, celebrated the bill&#8217;s enactment, particularly as it relates to China and its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-panel-releases-memo-on-chinas-influence-strategy-in-the-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Central United Front Work Department</a> that he says manages sister city agreements through a proxy group.
“Sister city agreements are managed by the United Front, the Chinese Communist Party’s overseas influence arm which Xi Jinping called a ‘magic weapon’ for ‘national rejuvenation.’ The CCP pushes sister city agreements to get a foothold here, not to help Indiana,&#8221; Banks said in a <a href="https://banks.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Monday.
&#8220;I’m glad that state lawmakers are focused on ridding Communist Party influence from our state, whether that means banning [agricultural] land purchases or cooperative agreements with our foremost adversary,&#8221; he added.
The <a href="https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2024/03/18/indiana-bans-sister-city-agreements-with-foreign-adversaries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Indiana Capital Chronicle</a> said that the provision goes into effect on July 1, but notes there is some uncertainty about whether the ban is retroactive to affect existing agreements — and it does not apply to a state-level agreement with the Chinese province of Zhejiang.
There has been bipartisan support for action as state Rep. Mitch Gore, an Indianapolis-area Democrat, first proposed the provision and said that he believes sister-city agreements with foreign adversaries &#8220;deserve a little more scrutiny,&#8221; according to the report.
Critics included Jenna Bentley, the government affairs director at Accelerate Indiana Municipalities, who told the news outlet, &#8220;We have concerns when any kind of preemption prevails at the statehouse. Sister City relationships are often entered into for hyperlocal reasons.&#8221;

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