American business titans who paid thousands to be in the room with Chinese President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xi-jinping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xi Jinping</a> gave the communist country&#8217;s leader a standing ovation after his remarks in San Francisco this week.
On Wednesday evening, Xi dined with more than 300 American business executives and delivered remarks promoting investment in China, a country many Americans <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/27/americans-name-china-as-the-country-posing-the-greatest-threat-to-the-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consider</a> the greatest threat to the U.S., at a gala in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency in downtown San Francisco.
“The number one question for us is: are we adversaries or partners?” Xi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/business/economy/china-us-business-xi-jinping-ceos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during his remarks. “China is ready to be a partner and friend of the United States.”
Among the American executives gathered to listen to Xi were Apple CEO Tim Cook, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Stanley Deal, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, and Mastercard&#8217;s independent board chairwoman Merit Janow.
Apple&#8217;s chief was <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/xi-dinner-with-us-ceos-tim-cook-elon-musk-steve-schwarzman-spotted.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seated</a> next to Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao, place cards reportedly showed.
Also in attendance were executives from Amway, Honeywell, Broadcom, Las Vegas Sands, Gilead Sciences, investment firm KKR, and Fulgent Genetics, a genetic testing lab in Los Angeles.
Attendees rose and applauded when Xi concluded his half hour of remarks, a video from the event shows.
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My view of the standing ovation for Chinese President Xi Jinping tonight in San Francisco from a ballroom full of some of the most powerful American CEOs and Chinese officials. I’ll have more Thursday morning on ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SquawkCNBC</a>⁩ on ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNBC</a>⁩. <a href="https://t.co/WP6MVeBLfZ">pic.twitter.com/WP6MVeBLfZ</a>
&mdash; Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) <a href="https://twitter.com/EamonJavers/status/1725037760149631248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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BREAKING: List of elite American executives dining with genocidal communist “Guest of Honor” Xi Jinping last night for $40,000 in San Francisco. 
&#8211; Tim Cook <a href="https://twitter.com/Apple?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Apple</a> &#8211; Stephen Schwarzman <a href="https://twitter.com/blackstone?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@blackstone</a> &#8211; Larry Fink <a href="https://twitter.com/BlackRock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BlackRock</a> &#8211; Stanley Deal <a href="https://twitter.com/Boeing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Boeing</a> &#8211; Merit Janow <a href="https://twitter.com/Mastercard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mastercard</a> -… <a href="https://t.co/QnRItp7Kpo">pic.twitter.com/QnRItp7Kpo</a>
&mdash; Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) <a href="https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/1725125452447068249?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Tesla CEO Elon <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/16/xi-dinner-with-us-ceos-tim-cook-elon-musk-steve-schwarzman-spotted.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Musk</a> attended the VIP reception, but did not stay for the dinner, according to event organizers.
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Several members of the Biden administration attended the dinner, including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, and top White House China advisor Kurt Campbell.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed was seated at the head table. California State Treasurer Fiona Ma attended the dinner as well.
Tickets for the event <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/15/apec-xi-jinping-san-francisco-dinner-business/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cost</a> $2,000 each. However, companies could pay $40,000 for eight seats at a table plus one seat at Xi’s table.
The dinner was organized by the U.S.-China Business Council and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Outside, protesters gathered to demonstrate against the Chinese president&#8217;s visit. One woman strapped herself to a pole 25 feet in the air in the rain, yelling “Free Tibet!”
Americans with Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Uyghur heritage expressed frustration that Xi was being given a friendly reception.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Chinese president met with President Biden just south of San Francisco at the Filoli estate, where they spoke for several hours.
Republicans quickly slammed Xi&#8217;s visit as &#8220;fruitless.&#8221;
&#8220;Having these senior level meetings without getting anything in return and without having any desired outcomes sets a horrible precedent and makes the United States look incredibly weak,&#8221; House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) <a class="Link" href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/mccaul-on-president-bidens-disappointing-meeting-with-chairman-xi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday.
Xi last visited the U.S. in 2017 during the Trump administration.
Last year, China did <a href="https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/china-mongolia-taiwan/peoples-republic-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly</a> $760 billion worth of trade with the U.S., and the trade deficit with China was $367.4 billion in 2022.

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The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is propagandizing young Americans to back terrorists against Israel, according to Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI).
Gallagher, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, said in a video posted Saturday that TikTok “is perhaps the largest-scale malign influence operation ever conducted.” The Wisconsin Republican said the platform is in large part responsible for anti-Israel attitudes among young Americans.
Gallagher cited a Harvard CAPS-Harris poll from last month that showed 51% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 believe that Hamas’ October 7 terror attack on Israel “can be justified by the grievance of Palestinians,” according to the <a href="https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/HHP_Oct23_KeyResults.pdf">poll</a>.
“How do we reach a point where a majority of young Americans hold such a morally bankrupt view of the world? Where many young Americans were rooting for terrorists who kidnapped American citizens and against a key American ally, our closest ally in the Middle East?” Gallagher asked.
The answer is TikTok, he said. The social media app is run by its parent company, Bytedance, a Chinese tech company. Republicans and Democrats have accused TikTok of being a Chinese propaganda outfit. Multiple state governments have banned the app over security concerns.
“TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, is Chinese, and in China there is no such thing as a private company. We know for a fact that the CCP uses TikTok to push its propaganda and censor views that diverge from the party line,” Gallagher said.
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Numerous reports have found TikTok censoring and suppressing content about Xinjiang, Tibet, Tiananmen Square, and other issues sensitive to the CCP. TikTok has also suppressed content about LGBT issues, and even temporarily blocked a teenage American Muslim activist who criticized the CCP’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims,” Gallagher said. “If you doubt that the CCP would introduce anti-Semitic or anti-Western bias into apps under its de facto control, consider that on October 31st, The Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese web platforms Baidu and Alibaba have wiped Israel off the map.”
The Wisconsin representative compared TikTok’s impact on America to “if, in 1962, right before the Cuban Missile Crisis, we had allowed Pravda and the KGB to purchase The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, and NBC.”
“It’s time to ban TikTok, or at least force the sale to an American company. The clock is ticking,” Gallagher said.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGallagher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@repgallagher</a>: How are so many young people in America siding with Hamas terrorists?
Who have killed at least 30 Americans and kidnapped a dozen more, still at this moment holding 10 hostages.
Where are they getting their news? 
The answer, increasingly, is TikTok &#8211; an… <a href="https://t.co/RDaTamjrHC">pic.twitter.com/RDaTamjrHC</a>
&mdash; The Select Committee on the CCP (@committeeonccp) <a href="https://twitter.com/committeeonccp/status/1720791984632127715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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House Republicans are questioning the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ford Motor Company</a> about an electric vehicle battery factory project in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan</a> and its ties to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a>. 
Republicans from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce <a href="https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/09_01_23_E_and_C_Letter_FORD_ae9859a956.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to Ford CEO James Farley on September 1 requesting information on the company’s relationship with Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL). The partnership, made in February, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ford-slammed-for-teaming-up-with-chinese-company-to-build-batteries-becoming-a-national-security-threat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garnered criticism</a> from some lawmakers who pointed to national security concerns. 
“While Ford has labeled this project a ‘commitment to American manufacturing’ and asserts it will create 2,500 new American jobs, we are concerned that Ford’s partnership with a Chinese company could aid China’s efforts to expand its control over United States electric vehicle supply chains and jeopardize national security by furthering dependence on China,” the letter said. 
The letter referenced a move by Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin to scuttle a similar potential partnership between Ford and CATL in his state before the Michigan partnership was announced.
“While Ford is an iconic American company, it became clear that this proposal would serve as a front for the Chinese Communist party, which could compromise our economic security and Virginians’ personal privacy,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter <a href="https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/ford-plant-halted-by-youngkin-would-have-created-2-500-jobs-in-southside/article_9edc230a-95dc-11ed-bdd8-2301b6df2e06.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Richmond Times-Dispatch</a> at the time. 
In the letter to Farley, Republicans referenced congressional testimony that said CATL could stop working on the project if tensions between the U.S. and China escalated, leaving the vehicle maker in a bind over how to source batteries for its vehicles. The lawmakers also questioned who would be employed at the plant currently under construction in Marshall, Michigan. 
“Additionally, Members learned at this hearing that Chinese companies often supply their own workers to projects in Latin America and Africa, reinforcing fears that CATL will import workers for this facility rather than creating jobs for United States workers,” the letter said. 
The GOP lawmakers requested a copy of the licensing agreement between Ford and CATL, along with communications from Ford discussing federal incentives for the project. 
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“We seek to learn more about whether this partnership, and others like it, will potentially exacerbate our reliance on China. Should China gain control of domestic electric vehicle production, the United States would be exposed to serious national security risks at a time of escalating geopolitical tensions,” the Republicans said. 
Business relations between the U.S. and China have faced increased scrutiny in recent years over intellectual property theft and national security precautions as tensions with China remain high.

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A federal judge rejected attempts by four Chinese citizens and a real-estate firm on Thursday to block a new Florida law restricting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese nationals</a> and nationals of some other countries from purchasing land or homes in the state.
U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor denied an injunction requested by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs seeking to overturn the law, contending the group failed to prove the law’s purpose is to discriminate based on national origin and race rather than based on citizenship.
Winsor, who former President Donald Trump appointed, wrote in a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/cases/shen-v-simpson?document=Preliminary-Injunction-Decision#legal-documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51-page decision</a> that U.S. Supreme Court precedents have “held that states could deny aliens ownership interests in land within their respective borders absent an arbitrary or unreasonable basis.”
“It does not facially discriminate against noncitizens based on race or ancestry. It does not discriminate against noncitizens based on ‘the particular country in which one was born,’” Winsor wrote in part, quoting a Supreme Court precedent. “So contrary to plaintiffs’ arguments, the challenged law is facially neutral as to race and national origin.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled state legislature took on the Chinese Communist Party earlier this year when they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ron-desantis-takes-on-the-chinese-communist-party-by-signing-3-bills-into-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed SB 264</a>, which went into effect on July 1, severely restricting foreign entities or affiliates from buying farmland in Florida or land within 10 miles of military bases and critical infrastructure.
Lawmakers reportedly crafted the legislation to protect Florida from the rising “geo-political threat” of the Chinese government subverting national and state security. While Chinese nationals could face harsh criminal penalties, the law also puts less restrictive rules on immigrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Syria.
Almost immediately after DeSantis signed the law, the ACLU sued the state to strike down the legislation on behalf of four Chinese nationals living in Florida and the law firm Quinn Emanuel, arguing that it’s unconstitutional and violates equal protection rights and the Fair Housing Act.
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“In our view, which the U.S. Government has supported as an amicus, people from China should be no less welcome in Florida than they are elsewhere in the United States and free to participate in the housing market on equal footing with everyone else,” Derek Shaffer, a partner at Quinn Emanuel, said in a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-district-court-refuses-to-halt-floridas-discriminatory-housing-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Ashley Gorski, senior staff attorney at ACLU’s National Security Project, said in a news release that the civil rights group plans to appeal the decision.
“While today’s decision is disheartening, our clients will continue to fight for their rights to equality and fairness on appeal,” Gorski said. “Florida’s law legitimizes and expands housing discrimination, in violation of both the Constitution and the Fair Housing Act.”
The Biden administration also filed a “statement of interest” in support of the lawsuit, contending that the new law violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
“These unlawful provisions will cause serious harm to people simply because of their national origin, contravene federal civil rights laws, undermine constitutional rights, and will not advance the state’s purported goal of increasing public safety,” Justice Department attorneys <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flnd.466023/gov.uscourts.flnd.466023.54.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.

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The Biden administration&#8217;s climate czar <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;rlz=1C5GCEM_enUS998US998&amp;oq=john+kerry+dailywire&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i64l3.2537j0j4&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kerry</a> can&#8217;t help but gush about China even as the Chinese Communist Party continues to embarrass him diplomatically while suggesting they don&#8217;t care one iota about Kerry&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finally-congress-is-investigating-kerrys-chinese-communist-climate-change-chicanery" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate change chicanery</a>. The guy is a total CCP simp, and his comments after an international meeting between U.S.-CCP leaders this week prove it.
First, the term &#8220;simp&#8221; refers to guys &#8220;<a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Simp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who do way too much</a>&#8221; for girls they have zero chance of dating. In turn, those women walk all over them and take advantage. It&#8217;s sort of new, online slang. Those caught &#8220;simping&#8221; are typically unaware of how pathetic they look. It is arguably worse than being friend-zoned. At least in the friend zone, the man is aware he is stuck.
You don&#8217;t want to be a simp, but that&#8217;s exactly what Kerry is to the CCP.
China has no interest in making any concrete commitment to climate change, let alone cutting back on carbon emissions. Nonetheless, Kerry continues the praise.
&#8220;We came to Beijing in order to unstick what has been stuck for almost a year, and that’s the in-person dialogue between the United States and China,&#8221; he beamed this week.
Kerry has been fighting for the chance to speak with the CCP face-to-face for nearly 365 days — and he&#8217;s absolutely giddy that it finally happened. He sounds like a teenager who is excited because the popular girl smiled in his direction after months of being ignored.
So how did the meeting go? Well, he came up empty-handed.
“We had very frank conversations, but we came here to break new ground, which we think is important at this stage, and it is clear that we are going to need a little more work to be able to complete that task, which we still believe, both of us, is doable,&#8221; Kerry <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/kerrys-visit-to-china-ends-with-no-major-agreements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bemoaned</a>.
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The former Massachusetts senator was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2021. Since then, he has gallivanted around the world <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jetsetter-john-kerry-asks-worlds-poorest-to-cut-back-on-oil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bullying third-world countries into giving up fossil fuels</a>, down-played his family&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-kerry-fumes-over-private-jet-question-gets-checked-under-oath" target="_blank" rel="noopener">private jet usage</a>, and told countries that &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-davos-john-kerry-praises-select-group-of-people-for-saving-the-planet-but-says-they-need-money-money-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">money, money, money&#8230;</a>&#8221; is what will move climate change &#8220;progress&#8221; along.
However, all of what Kerry does is moot — if you actually believe that he wants to reduce pollution — if China is not on board with his plans.
Kerry has even been willing to ignore China&#8217;s troubling human rights record in hopes of scoring a carbon emissions deal with the country.
In the past, when Kerry has been asked about such issues, he has claimed that climate change takes the higher priority.
“Yes we have issues, a number of different issues, but first and foremost, this planet must be protected,” Kerry <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/john-kerry-justifies-climate-change-urgency-over-human-rights-abuses-in-china-life-full-of-tough-choices" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after being asked about the problem in September 2021.
In turn, China ramped up coal production, began ignoring Kerry’s emails, and, as noted, didn’t even have the courtesy to meet with him face-to-face. So far in 2023, China emitted nearly 12 gigatons of carbon. The next closest country is the U.S. — which has emitted roughly five gigatons of carbon based on the <a href="https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/co2-emissions-by-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest data</a>.
So what does CCP leader President Xi Jinping have to say about all of this? Well, after Kerry met with CCP leaders, Xi effectively told Kerry to kick rocks.
Xi did say that China would work to reduce C02 emissions. He <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/china/china-xi-carbon-climate-kerry-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, &#8220;the path, method, pace and intensity to achieve this goal should and must be determined by ourselves, and will never be influenced by others.&#8221;
Ouch. 
Kerry, it&#8217;s time for a message your buddy Biden should have told you: Xi&#8217;s just not that into you, dude.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Official data was accidentally published in a province of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communist China</a> this week showing that the country has dramatically underreported the true extent of the damage that the coronavirus pandemic has had on its people.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/world/asia/china-covid-data-toll.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the data from the eastern province of Zhejiang was published on a local government website and was later reported on by a Chinese news outlet. Within a couple of days, both reports were deleted.
China has claimed that approximately only 83,700 people have died throughout the course of the entire pandemic across the country. However, the new data showed that in Zhejiang, the province saw a 72,000+ increase in excess deaths during the first quarter of this year alone compared to the same time period last year.
The 70% increase of excess deaths in the province of roughly 65 million people, when extrapolated across the entire country of nearly 1.5 billion people, results in an estimated 1.5 million excess deaths for just the first three months of this year.
China, where the coronavirus pandemic originated in 2019, experienced a coronavirus outbreak so massive late last year that the communist government was forced to end their draconian lockdown measures as nearly the entire country — up to 90% — were infected over the course of just a few months.
The Times previously estimated in February that up to 1.5 million people were killed from China&#8217;s latest mass coronavirus wave and, with the accidentally published numbers from China, multiple groups of independent experts agreed that the estimate was likely very accurate.
Those numbers only represent a fraction of the total number of deaths that the country has faced during the course of the pandemic, which originated in Wuhan.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released a &#8220;conservative&#8221; estimate in April 2020 of the number of deaths the country had experienced during the first few months of the pandemic.
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> said that only a few months in, China likely had a minimum of 136,000 deaths from the pandemic.

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China has established itself as a world leader in the creation of “NeuroStrike weapons” that target brain function, according to a new report.
The 12-page report, from three intelligence analysts, was first obtained by <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/6/chinas-military-leading-world-brain-neurostrike-we/?utm_source=Boomtrain&amp;utm_medium=subscriber&amp;utm_campaign=morning&amp;utm_term=newsletter&amp;utm_content=morning&amp;bt_ee=tWC%2BJ%2F00fWQrNib1HwXFPn1Mlpjnbe%2F5TS8I5KOI%2BKckiuAiuwI%2BAnGMOLGYS%2FEa&amp;bt_ts=1688726720931" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Washington Times</a> and says that the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army have been developing weapons that could use microwaves or other directed energy to control brain function. 
“Unknown to many, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have established themselves as world leaders in the development of NeuroStrike weapons,” the <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6444894f2a886e74091c9e1b/t/6490791efa95ba0a3008ef1b/1687189791347/Enumerating%2C+Targeting+and+Collapsing+the+Chinese+Communist+Party’s+NeuroStrike+Program.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report says</a>. “These platforms directly attack, or even control, mammalian brains (including humans) with microwave/directed energy weapons via standalone platforms (i.e., handheld gun) or the broader electromagnetic spectrum.”
The report, “Enumerating, Targeting and Collapsing the Chinese Communist Party’s Neurostrike Program” was written by scholar Ryan Clarke, former Army microbiologist Xiaoxu Sean Lin, and former Air Force intelligence officer L.J. Eads. 
“The CCP views NeuroStrike and psychological warfare as a core component of its asymmetric warfare strategy against the United States and its Allies in the Indo-Pacific,” the report says. “Their new landscape of NeuroStrike development includes using massively distributed human-computer interfaces to control entire populations as well as a range of weapons designed to cause cognitive damage.”
The U.S. Commerce Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/officials-warn-china-is-creating-brain-control-weaponry-biden-administration-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took action</a> in December 2021 against Chinese entities they said were working with the CCP to develop “biotechnology processes to support Chinese military end uses and end users, to include purported brain-control weaponry.”
At the time, a senior U.S. official <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/US-China-tensions/U.S.-accuses-China-of-developing-brain-control-weaponry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Financial Times that China was seeking to use emerging biotechnologies to try to develop future military applications that included “gene editing, human performance enhancement [and] brain-machine interfaces.”
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The new report says that China may seek to use the technology against Taiwan, which it has continued to take aggressive postures toward. 
“Any breakthrough in this research would provide unprecedented tools for the CCP to forcibly establish a new world order, which has been Xi Jinping’s lifelong goal,&#8221; the analysts said. 
In response to the developments, the report said that Americans should work to spread awareness of the “NeuroStrike” weapons, sabotage supply lines and development of the technology, and enact more sanctions against Chinese companies that partner with the military to develop the technology.

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China’s top diplomat urged South Korea and Japan to form a race-based alliance with Beijing to “revitalize East Asia.”
Wang Yi, the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Commission and former foreign minister, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/china/wang-yi-china-japan-south-korea-intl-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Japanese and South Korean guests at the 2023 International Forum for Trilateral Cooperation that Americans can’t tell the three countries apart.
“Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are all viewed as &#8216;Asians&#8217; by Americans. They cannot tell the differences between us, and it’s the same in Europe,” Wang <a href="https://twitter.com/statecraftdaily/status/1676502046164516864" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “No matter how you dye your hair blonde, or if you lift your nose tip, you can never become a Westerner.”
“We need to remember where we came from,” Wang continued, calling for China, Japan, and South Korea to “prosper together, revitalize East Asia, revitalize Asia and benefit the world.” 
Wang then appeared to take a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-japan-korea-race-controversy-b1fb99824d31b3f88a0893cacf6f54f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">swipe</a> at the United States, stating that “some major countries outside the region deliberately exaggerate ideological differences, weave various exclusive small circles, and try to replace cooperation with confrontation and unity with division.”
The racialized comments might have been brushed aside in Seoul and Tokyo, given their troubled relationship with Beijing and close military partnership with Washington. 
Both countries’ partnerships with the U.S. center on countering China’s rising influence and the security threat posed by North Korea. Japan, South Korea, and the U.S. have conducted several trilateral military operations, and the U.S. <a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-270" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stations</a> more than 80,000 military personnel between the two countries.
“Both have made it clear they feel safer with the US around, and have no interest in abandoning their alliances to instead rely on Beijing’s goodwill,” said Joel Atkinson, a professor of international politics at Hankuk University in Seoul.
Japan and South Korea moved to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/15/asia/south-korea-yoon-japan-visit-regional-security-int-hnk/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mend</a> their troubled relationship with each other earlier this year after North Korea <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/world/north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a> two long-range ballistic missiles into the sea between the two American allies. The two countries have also released joint statements emphasizing their major security interests in the Taiwan Strait, drawing ire from China.
Experts criticized Wang’s statement, noting the major differences China has between the two countries and the fact that Japanese and South Koreans regularly become American citizens.
“The irony of &#8230; Wang Yi telling Japanese and Koreans ‘you can never become an American,’ is that Japanese and Koreans become Americans every day,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-japan-korea-race-controversy-b1fb99824d31b3f88a0893cacf6f54f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Jeff M. Smith, director of the Asian Studies Center at The Heritage Foundation, “They’re part of the fabric of America. What they can’t become is Chinese. Tone deaf.”
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Bonnie Glaser, Asia Director of the George Marshall Fund of the United States, <a href="https://twitter.com/BonnieGlaser/status/1676265570986074130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “This message will not land well with Japan and South Korea. Does Wang Yi really think that national interests are less important than appearance?”
One person from South Korea <a href="https://twitter.com/Joel_P_Atkinson/status/1676461568220090368" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to Wang on Twitter by tweeting, “If aliens invade, we will join hands with the aliens and attack you.”
According to the Associated Press, Wang brushed over several historical differences between the three Asian countries that exacerbate tensions to this day, including China’s involvement in the Korean War and Japan’s harsh occupation of China during World War II.

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China's Top Diplomat Urges Race-Based Alliance With Japan, South Korea

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the U.S. does not support Taiwan&#8217;s independence after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday.
Blinken was in Beijing to warm U.S. relations with China, which have become strained in recent years over several issues, including Taiwan.
“We do not support Taiwan independence,” Blinken said at a press conference after his meeting with the Chinese president in Beijing. &#8220;We remain opposed to any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side.&#8221;
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The Secretary of State met with President Xi for about 35 minutes at the Great Hall of the People on the west side of Tiananmen Square.
Blinken reiterated that the &#8220;longstanding&#8221; U.S. One China policy &#8220;has not changed.&#8221;
China holds that there is &#8220;one China&#8221; that <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/03/14/what-is-the-one-china-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> Taiwan as a Chinese territory and has considered annexing Taiwan by force.
The U.S. maintains informal diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Blinken added that the U.S. remains committed to its responsibility under the Taiwan Relations Act, which includes &#8220;making sure Taiwan has the ability to defend itself.&#8221;
During the meeting, Blinken said he raised U.S. concerns about China&#8217;s &#8220;provocative actions&#8221; in the waters around Taiwan.
&#8220;We and many others have deep concerns about some of the provocative actions that China has taken in recent years going back to 2016,&#8221; Blinken <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blinken-us-does-not-support-taiwan-independence-china-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And the reason that this is a concern for so many countries, not just the United States, is that were there to be a crisis over Taiwan, the likelihood is that could produce an economic crisis that could affect quite literally the entire world.&#8221;
Blinken referenced the high level of commercial container traffic that goes through the Taiwan Strait every day as well as the high percentage of semiconductors that are manufactured in Taiwan.
&#8220;If as a result of a crisis that was taken offline, it would have dramatic consequences for virtually every country around the world,&#8221; Blinken said.
&#8220;We continue to expect the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait differences,&#8221; Blinken said.
President Xi said, &#8220;This is very good,&#8221; reportedly referring to the progress made during the meeting.
However, the Chinese president also appeared to reference China&#8217;s grievances.
“State-to-state interactions should always be based on mutual respect and sincerity. I hope that through this visit, Mr. Secretary, you will make more positive contributions to stabilizing China-U.S. relations,” Xi <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/world/asia/blinken-china-xi-diplomacy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during his opening remarks at the meeting.
Blinken <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1670756108343066627" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that the U.S. had not accomplished one of the primary goals of the meeting — China did not agree to set up a crisis military-to-military communications channel.
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U.S. relations with China have deteriorated in the last few years. Topics that have strained the relationship include Taiwan, China&#8217;s close relationship with Russia, a suspected Chinese spy balloon over the U.S., and data security concerns with the Chinese app TikTok.
Meanwhile, there have been several close encounters recently between U.S. and Chinese military ships and aircraft.
Earlier this month, the U.S. military <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/u-s-military-releases-video-of-near-collision-between-chinese-u-s-warships-in-taiwan-strait#:~:text=BANGKOK%20(AP)%20—%20The%20United,slow%20to%20avoid%20a%20collision." target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> video of an &#8220;unsafe&#8221; move by a Chinese navy ship, which cut across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the American ship to slow down to avoid a crash. In May, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-fighter-jet-caught-video-intercepting-us-aircraft-south-china-sea-unnecessarily-aggressive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> a Chinese fighter pilot performed an &#8220;unnecessarily aggressive maneuver&#8221; while intercepting a U.S. aircraft over the South China Sea.
In 2022, the U.S. and China had <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/07/trade-china-relations-economies-00081301#:~:text=According%20to%20numbers%20released%20Tuesday,by%20Mexico%2C%20Canada%20and%20Japan." target="_blank" rel="noopener">$690 billion</a> in trade, a record for the two countries.

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House Homeland Security Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Green</a> (R-TN) said this week that “military-aged” Chinese nationals with ties to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chinese-communist-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese Communist Party</a> and the People’s Liberation Army had been released into the U.S. by the Biden administration. 
Green made the comments during a Wednesday press conference announcing an investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/chairman-green-alejandro-mayorkas-has-been-derelict-in-his-duty-as-the-united-states-secretary-of-homeland-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“dereliction of duty”</a> in regard to securing the southern border, which has seen record numbers of illegal crossings under President Joe Biden. 
“Secretary Mayorkas has put the national security of the United States at risk. Terrorists, suspected terrorists, and enemies of our nation have flooded across our borders,” Green <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyAcXAGiEY0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, before noting that there had been a “massive surge in Chinese nationals, many of whom are military-aged men, many with known ties to the PLA, ties to the CCP who have crossed our southern border and have just been released by Secretary Mayorkas into the United States.”
Green said that there were about 10,000 Chinese nationals who had been released into the U.S. so far this fiscal year. 
“We have no idea who these people are and it&#8217;s very likely, using Russia&#8217;s template of sending military personnel into Ukraine, China is doing the same in the United States,&#8221; Green said. 
Numbers released earlier this week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/border-patrol-records-1000-increase-in-illegal-immigration-from-china-afghanistan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show a massive number of migrants</a> being detained from faraway countries, including Afghanistan and China. Border Patrol <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">recorded</a> just 450 encounters with migrants from China on the southern border in fiscal year 2021, and 2,176 in fiscal year 2022, but has so far encountered 9,854 in the first seven months of fiscal year 2023. 
During the press conference, Green also said that Mayorkas’ policies were to blame for the declining number of deportations even as illegal crossings increased. 
&#8220;These individuals typically possess no legitimate claim to asylum and under prior administrations – both Democrat and Republican – most would have been quickly deported. The difference now? Mayorkas and his policies,&#8221; he <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/chairman-green-alejandro-mayorkas-has-been-derelict-in-his-duty-as-the-united-states-secretary-of-homeland-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
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Green said that emergency medical Medicaid spending “for illegal aliens more than doubled from FY20 to FY21, from around $3 billion to more than $7 billion.”
Republicans on the committee also pointed to the increasing fentanyl deaths in the U.S., some of which can be traced to drugs brought from Mexico, and the human trafficking taking place at the border. The committee also released a preliminary <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/media/2023/06/CHSPreliminaryReportFINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55-page report</a> on Mayorkas&#8217; and Biden&#8217;s handling of the border. 
An estimated <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/1-5m-gotaways-have-slipped-into-the-us-under-biden-three-times-as-many-as-during-3-years-of-trump/">1.5 million illegal migrant</a> gotaways have been recorded since President Joe Biden took office in 2021. Meanwhile, 415,000 total gotaways were reported for 2018, 2019, and 2020 under the Trump administration.

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Montana GOP Governor Greg Gianforte discussed his decision to sign legislation banning China&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> app, saying that the communist regime uses it to steal the data of American citizens and use it for &#8220;nefarious purposes.&#8221;
&#8220;I would first say the ability of the Chinese communist government to use TikTok to spy on Americans is well documented,&#8221; he told Fox News host John Roberts. &#8220;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m pleased that we&#8217;ve banned the application here in Montana. I wish the bill actually was broader. I would have liked to have picked up other social media apps that [are] owned by foreign adversaries. But this is a good step in the right direction.&#8221;
Gianforte slammed the leftist American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for claiming that the bill was too broad and that his government could not impose a total ban.
&#8220;Well, they&#8217;re just wrong,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;The Montana Constitution has a very broad protection for individual privacy. And TikTok violates that. And this is why we&#8217;ve banned it here. I mean, spying on Americans, enough is enough. We&#8217;re not going to let foreign adversaries surveil the people of Montana.&#8221;
He said that he welcomes the ACLU&#8217;s attempts to challenge in court because his administration has already considered all the ways that this could play out and believes that they will be victorious.
&#8220;The issue with TikTok and these other applications owned by foreign adversaries is they&#8217;re able to steal data about Americans and ship it back for nefarious purposes,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not what the app does. It&#8217;s where the personal data goes. This is a national security issue. It&#8217;s a violation of the Montana privacy clause in our Constitution. And we&#8217;re pleased that we&#8217;re the first state in the country to outright ban the application.&#8221;
&#8220;Again, I wish it was broader. I wish it picked up, though, the Russian apps and the other Chinese apps,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We just ran out of time in our legislature to get that done.&#8221;
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Montana Governor Gianforte On Banning TikTok: They're 'Spying On Americans, Enough Is Enough'

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Federal authorities arrested a U.S. citizen on Tuesday accused of spying for the Chinese government by coordinating with Chinese Communist Party officials to share information on political dissidents in Boston, Massachusetts, from 2018 to 2022.
Litang Liang has been indicted by a grand jury for acting as an agent of a foreign government without notice to the U.S. attorney general, according to <a href="https://www.universalhub.com/images/2023/liang-indictment.pdf">court documents</a> reported by the Boston Globe.
Liang, 63, allegedly spent four years spying on local Chinese communities around Boston neighborhoods by turning over lists of names and photographs to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) — and made attempts to organize rallies supporting Taiwan&#8217;s reunification with mainland China and counter-protests against pro-democracy dissidents.
&#8220;Liang communicated with [People&#8217;s Republic of China] government officials — knowing them to be PRC government officials — in several ways,&#8221; the indictment alleges. &#8220;These included telephone calls and messaging using the social media application WeChat,&#8221; a PRC-based communication app that stores all messages on servers outside the United States.
The affidavit alleges instances involving Liang reporting a student who destroyed a PRC flag to Chinese officials, inquiring about the &#8220;political standing&#8221; of a local lawyer to place the professional on a &#8220;blacklist,&#8221; and other informant activity about local Chinese family associations in New England and New York.
Liang has also been accused of coordinating with United Front Work Department, a CCP committee that targets agencies, social organizations, businesses, universities, research institutes, and individuals to further China&#8217;s goal, court documents say.
Frances Hui, policy and advocacy coordinator for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, organized a rally in 2019 opposing the government of Hong Kong&#8217;s proposed bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China.
Hiu said Liang&#8217;s actions over the past years were &#8220;definitely nerve-wracking to just learn all about what he has done in the past years, and especially to the people that participated in the rally that I organized in August of 2019.&#8221;
&#8220;I saw all of these threats coming through the WeChat groups that we were overseeing,&#8221; Hui told <a href="https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/brighton-man-accused-of-helping-chinese-government-spy-on-opponents-in-boston-area/3041681/">NBC10 Boston</a> on Tuesday. &#8220;There were gun threats and people threatening to bring guns — like firearms — to the rallies, and to shoot me, even.&#8221;
Hui urged dissidents from Hong Kong to pay attention to the alleged organized spy activity.
&#8220;I think that we just have to wake up to this and realize that this is the trans-national repression that we are facing under China&#8217;s extensive rule.&#8221;
Liang faces up to 15 years in prison.

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