President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that he and his administration were doing &#8220;everything&#8221; they could to stem the flow of fentanyl into and throughout the United States, but critics did not appear to be buying it.
Biden&#8217;s comments came just days after his meeting in San Francisco with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — during which Biden said the two had come to a consensus about stopping the fentanyl that has been coming into the United States from China.
&#8220;Deaths from fentanyl are an American tragedy that requires global action. I’m committed to doing everything I can to control this crisis – from expanding prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, to working with Chinese, Mexican, and Canadian partners to tackle this,&#8221; he said in a post to X.
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Deaths from fentanyl are an American tragedy that requires global action.
I’m committed to doing everything I can to control this crisis – from expanding prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, to working with Chinese, Mexican, and Canadian partners to tackle this.
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1727031428120998363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and vocal Biden critic Roseanne Barr said in her own way that if Biden were truly serious about keeping fentanyl out of the country, he would do something about the fact that much of it was coming across the porous southern border.
&#8220;Close the f***ing border then, dips***,&#8221; she said.
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Close the fucking border then, dipshit.
&mdash; Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1727126465983258926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Caitlyn Jenner agreed, adding, &#8220;Hey here&#8217;s a thought! CLOSE. THE. BORDER.&#8221;
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Hey here’s a thought! CLOSE. THE. BORDER. <a href="https://t.co/WnTk5M9Eel">https://t.co/WnTk5M9Eel</a>
&mdash; Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1727338003524378875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Monica Crowley suggested that in addition to the open border, Biden&#8217;s repeated deference to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was part of the problem. &#8220;You just kissed the a** of Xi Jinping, who is sending the fentanyl across your wide open border to kill us. Sit TF down.&#8221;
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You just kissed the ass of Xi Jinping, who is sending the fentanyl across your wide open border to kill us.
Sit TF down. <a href="https://t.co/bDsibV6IUQ">https://t.co/bDsibV6IUQ</a>
&mdash; Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1727144345302888748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Congressional candidate Joe Kent (R-WA) weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;Biden &amp; dems like Marie Perez will talk about fentanyl while deliberately leaving our borders wide open. They don’t care that over 100k Americans have been killed by fentanyl if they did, they’d close the borders. Records matter, not their hollow words &amp; performative acts.&#8221;
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Biden &amp; dems like Marie Perez will talk about fentanyl while deliberately leaving our borders wide open. 
They don’t care that over 100k Americans have been killed by fentanyl if they did, they’d close the borders.
Records matter, not their hollow words &amp; performative acts. <a href="https://t.co/243VRSkZSH">https://t.co/243VRSkZSH</a>
&mdash; Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) <a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1727101878897611018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You had our top fentanyl supplier in our country last week, dumba**,&#8221; podcaster Eric Matheny replied. &#8220;You rolled out the red carpet for him, flew Chinese flags, and even cleaned the s*** and needles off the streets of San Francisco.&#8221;
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You had our top fentanyl supplier in our country last week, dumbass. 
You rolled out the red carpet for him, flew Chinese flags, and even cleaned the shit and needles off the streets of San Francisco. <a href="https://t.co/gFKWZb52hB">https://t.co/gFKWZb52hB</a>
&mdash; Eric Matheny 🎙️ (@ericmmatheny) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericmmatheny/status/1727127294752243768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden Claims He’s Doing ‘Everything’ Possible To Stop Fentanyl, And People Have Thoughts

Biden Claims He's Doing 'Everything' Possible To Stop Fentanyl, And People Have Thoughts

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> attacked tech executives this week for &#8220;groveling&#8221; to Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping this week as he appeared in San Francisco for a meeting with President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom.
DeSantis made the remarks during a campaign event on Friday where he talked about the terrible condition that the city is in.
&#8220;You know, the city is in squalor, there’s poop on the streets, there’s people using drugs, people getting mugged, crime, all this stuff,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But then Xi Jinping’s coming to town and what do they do? They got the poop off the sidewalk, they cleared the homeless, they stopped the drugs, they stopped the crime.&#8221;
&#8220;And then, you have this meeting where Xi is there, and you&#8217;ve got some of these American CEOs basically just groveling in front of this dictator,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And that just shows you, even with where we are now, and China wants to have more power over our country, but how many people in this country bend their knees to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party?&#8221;
&#8220;Those guys make money on Wall Street and stuff, but they’re empowering an adversary at the expense of the well-being of the American people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;So we cannot be in a position where we’re relying on an adversary for key things that are necessary for our national survival.&#8221;
DeSantis said that he as president will bring back the tech supply chains back to the United States or countries friendly to the U.S.
&#8220;Relying on China is a big, big mistake,&#8221; he added.
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DESANTIS lights up Wall Street CEOs for &quot;groveling&quot; in front of Xi Jinping and “empowering an adversary at the expense of the well-being of the American people.”
&quot;That just shows you…how many people in this country bend the knee to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party.” <a href="https://t.co/fLr1GLtrJx">pic.twitter.com/fLr1GLtrJx</a>
&mdash; DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1725564667416678598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>RON DESANTIS: And you know I look to see what’s going on, what went on in San Francisco the last couple days. You know, the city is in squalor, there’s poop on the streets, there’s people using drugs, people getting mugged, crime, all this stuff. But then Xi Jinping’s coming to town and what do they do? They got the poop off the sidewalk, they cleared the homeless, they stopped the drugs, they stopped the crime. And then, you have this meeting where Xi is there, and you&#8217;ve got some of these American CEOs basically just groveling in front of this dictator.
And that just shows you, even with where we are now, and China wants to have more power over our country, but how many people in this country bend their knees to the whims of the Chinese Communist Party?
Those guys make money on Wall Street and stuff, but they’re empowering an adversary at the expense of the well-being of the American people. So we cannot be in a position where we’re relying on an adversary for key things that are necessary for our national survival.
So we are going to re-shore supply chains. Not everything, every component has to necessarily be here. I want as much as possible, but there are friendly nations where supply chains work and that’s great. But relying on China is a big, big mistake.</blockquote>

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DeSantis Rips Tech Execs For ‘Groveling’ To CCP Dictator Xi Jinping: ‘Empowering An Adversary’

DeSantis Rips Tech Execs For 'Groveling' To CCP Dictator Xi Jinping: 'Empowering An Adversary'

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Jewish celebrities blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> after a surge of viral anti-Semitic content on the platform surfaced following the Hamas terrorists attacks on Israel that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,200 people.
Amy Schumer, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Debra Messing were just a few of the more than two dozen influential people who called out executives of the social media platform for comments like, “Hitler was right,” or “I hope you end up like Anne Frank,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/tiktok-jewish-open-letter-antisemitism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> reported.
“What is happening at TikTok is it is creating the biggest antisemitic movement since the Nazis,” Cohen said in the 90-minute video call.
“Shame on you,” he added, stating that TikTok could “flip a switch” to stop it.
“If you think back to Oct. 7, the reason why Hamas were able to behead young people and rape women was they were fed images from when they were small kids that led them to hate,” the “Borat” star continued.
One executive tried to claim phrases like, “from the river to the sea,” just meant different things to different people, suggesting some used it “casually.” But Messing pushed back.
“It is much more responsible to bar it at this juncture than to say, ‘Oh, well, some people, they use it in a different way than it actually was created to mean,'&#8221; the “Will and Grace” star said. “I understand that you are in a very, very difficult and complicated place, but you also are the main platform for the dissemination of Jew hate.”
One anti-Semitic video that went viral recently on the platform involved a “Letter To America” from Osama bin Laden written in 2002, the man behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, and young people showing support for him.
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TikTok has since deleted the video that sought to justify the horrors of that day when nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/sacha-baron-cohen-amy-schumer-jewish-celebrities-tiktok-antisemitism-1235657209/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.
“We recognize this is an incredibly difficult and fearful time for millions of people around the world and in our TikTok community,” the company said. “Our leadership has been meeting with creators, civil society, human rights experts and stakeholders to listen to their experiences and feedback on how TikTok can remain a place for community, discovery and sharing authentically.”

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Jewish Celebrities Blast TikTok

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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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WATCH: American Executives Give Chinese President Standing Ovation In San Francisco

American Executives Give Chinese President Standing Ovation In San Francisco

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Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) said during an interview on Sunday that top U.S. officials fear that the Chinese-government-controlled app TikTok is being used as a &#8220;propaganda channel&#8221; by the Chinese Community Party and that it could have severe implications in the U.S.
Warner made the remarks during a Sunday CBS News interview on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked about combatting Chinese influences in the U.S., including their use of artificial intelligence and social media.
Warner said that it was important for the U.S. to not only focus on TikTok but on &#8220;all foreign technology that might pose&#8221; a national security threat.
He said that legislation he introduced on the issue needed to move forward because &#8220;literally 40 percent of young people get all their news from TikTok.&#8221;
&#8220;This technology competition, we&#8217;ve had military competitors like Russia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never had an economy that&#8217;s making the investments the way China is in these new technology domains.&#8221;
Warner said he feared TikTok &#8220;could be used as a propaganda channel for the CCP, the Communist Party of China.&#8221;
TikTok has faced growing calls from U.S. lawmakers to be banned because it is allegedly boosting heavily anti-Semitic content on its platform that has distorted the reality of what is happening with Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas. The content on TikTok matches the stances of China&#8217;s communist government, which has criticized Israel and <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2023/10/17/beijing-refuses-to-condemn-hamas-steps-up-criticism-of-israel/">refused</a> to condemn Hamas after it murdered 1,200 people in Israel, wounded 5,300+, and took more than 240 people hostage.
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&#8220;But around artificial intelligence where I think we need to be humble because candidly we&#8217;ve done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&#8221; Warner added. &#8220;The two areas where artificial intelligence could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow is interfering in our public elections, but it also could have a tool in terms of interfering in our public markets.&#8221;
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Warning about how AI could be used for election interference in 2024, <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkWarner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkWarner</a> says Congress has &quot;done nothing on any guardrails on social media and on technology writ large,&quot; and that AI &quot;could have an enormous negative effect tomorrow&quot; in elections and public markets. <a href="https://t.co/owL9BYjYb0">pic.twitter.com/owL9BYjYb0</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1723737465968554333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Senate Intel Chairman: We Fear TikTok Being ‘Used As A Propaganda Channel For The Chinese Communist Party’

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Missouri GOP Senator Eric Schmitt is speaking out about China’s role in the world, saying the “dynamic” in world affairs has “changed dramatically.” 
Schmitt made the comments on Sunday during an <a href="https://catsroundtable.com/sen-eric-schmitt-the-us-has-serious-problems-confronting-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on “The Cats Roundtable” talk show with host John Catsimatidis. He said “China’s ambitions” pose a bigger threat than previous adversaries because it is both a military and economic rival.
“I don’t think we’re starting to come to grips with that as a country, but China views themselves as a, you know, 5,000-year-old civilization,” he continued. “They are hell-bent on world domination – now they’ve kind of showed their fangs.”
Schmitt said China is using the belt-and-road initiative to achieve its rise by trapping poorer countries in a “debt trap.” He added that China’s increasing aggression in the South China Sea, where the communist country has built islands in an attempt to increase its claims over the territory. 
The Missouri Republican also warned about China’s military and space capabilities, pointing out that it has a larger navy than the U.S., that it obtained hypersonic missiles, and that they are in space. China&#8217;s People&#8217;s Liberation Army has approximately 340 warships, a number that&#8217;s expected to grow to 400 in the next couple of years. The United States has fewer than 300 ships, according to the Pentagon’s 2022 China Military Power <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/asia/china-navy-fleet-size-history-victory-intl-hnk-ml/index.html#:~:text=The%20People's%20Liberation%20Army%20Navy,two%20years%2C%20the%20report%20says." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Report</a>. U.S. officials expect to have 350 ships by 2045. 
“If you think about that, the dynamic has changed dramatically,” Schmitt said. “The United States of America, you know, during the Cold War, we had a nuclear rival with Russia – a military rival. But never a military and an economic rival. That’s what we have with China.”
The former Missouri attorney general said the United States has to take the threat China poses “seriously” because we don’t have a “military-industrial base right now.” He said that for the U.S. to be able to compete on the world stage, it must “build that back up.” 
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Schmitt, who <a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/membership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sits on</a> the Senate Committee on Armed Services, blasted “climate alarmism” and Biden&#8217;s policies for sending American jobs to China when Catsimatidis asked if the U.S. “may be in trouble” in the case of a “real war.” 
“This is a big concern,” Schmitt said. “I think it plays into, again, the Biden agenda, when you have this obsession with climate alarmism like they have, we have all the energy we’ll ever need right under our feet to be competitive from an industrial perspective.&#8221;
“But we’re shipping all those jobs essentially to China, and they’re mining all those rare earth materials there,” Schmitt said. “We could be doing it here. … Our supply chains are compromised. We need to bring those home.”
Schmitt blasted Biden’s broad foreign policy as well, noting the current administration’s &#8220;soft on Iran approach,&#8221; Biden’s pick for ambassador to Israel, and the 2020 withdrawal from Afghanistan potentially leaving resources that are now being used by Hamas, saying, “Everything they could get wrong, they’ve gotten wrong on foreign policy.”

Sen. Eric Schmitt

GOP Senator Warns Of China’s Ambitions, Says ‘The Dynamic Has Changed Dramatically’

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Eric Schmitt

President Joe Biden is planning to meet with Chinese President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xi-jinping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xi Jinping</a> in California later this month, the White House said Tuesday.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/31/biden-will-meet-with-chinas-xi-jinping-next-month-white-house-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> during a Tuesday press briefing. She said the president would meet with the Chinese leader on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, which is set to take place in mid-November.
&#8220;The president said he’s looking forward to meeting with President Xi and so [I&#8217;m] not going to get into details about this meeting that’s going to happen […] next month,&#8221; Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-meet-xi-jinping-face-face-san-francisco-white-house-confirms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It’s going to be in San Francisco, it’s going to be a constructive meeting, the president’s looking forward to it.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre wouldn&#8217;t divulge any further details on the planned meeting, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/31/biden-will-meet-with-chinas-xi-jinping-next-month-white-house-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> CNBC, but said that she expects the two world leaders to have a “tough conversation.” She added that the administration&#8217;s stance on the communist country has not changed.
“This is intense competition — that we have said that we want to move forward with China — and intense competition means intense diplomacy, that’s what you’re going to see,” she said. “That’s what the president is going to be doing and having a tough conversation but important conversation.&#8221;
On Wednesday, a senior Biden administration official <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-aims-biden-xi-meeting-san-francisco-november-2023-10-31/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Reuters Biden and Xi have an “agreement in principle” to meet, while advisers for each leader are still working through the details to “finalize” that plan.
According to the outlet, Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Friday to discuss the possibility of a meeting between the two leaders. Fox News reports that talks of a Biden-Xi meeting have been in the works for months, intending to build back trust and restore communication between the United States and China.
Potential topics of discussion between Biden and Xi include increased Chinese aggression toward Taiwan and Xi Jinping’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, all topics that U.S. officials have expressed concern about in recent weeks, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-xi-meeting-san-francisco-apec-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a>.
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In 24 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday, China <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-taiwan-aircraft-ships-harassment-5dd5c16577e33b7cf464a7de00e54092" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> 43 aircraft and seven ships near Taiwan &#8212; 37 of those aircraft reportedly crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait. And just weeks ago, Putin <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/xi-jinping-vladimir-putin-meet-china-russia-belt-road-israel-gaza-rcna120983" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled</a> to China to meet with Xi, where they discussed trade, the Israel-Hamas war, and maintaining “close foreign policy coordination,” as the Russian president put it.
The last time Biden met in person with Xi was a year ago while in Bali, Indonesia, for the G20 Summit.

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Biden Expected To Meet With Xi Jinping In California This Month, White House Says

Global Politics

China and Cuba have reportedly teamed up to transport Chinese nationals across the Atlantic Ocean&#8217;s Straits of Florida and smuggle them into the United States, according to a top Florida Republican lawmaker.
U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, who represents the Florida Keys, warned about the alleged partnership between the two communist nations in an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12676999/carlos-gimenez-warns-cuba-smuggling-chinese-nationals-us.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the Daily Mail on Sunday — after 17 Chinese nationals were apprehended inside the congressman&#8217;s district last week.
&#8220;This is the first time I think we&#8217;ve caught [Chinese nationals] trying to cross getting into the Keys area &#8230; it&#8217;s concerning,&#8221; Gimenez told DailyMail.com during an exclusive interview. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who they are, why they&#8217;re here, or what they were doing.&#8221;
U.S. Border Patrol agents and Florida Highway Patrol troopers responded to a vessel landing in Key Largo on October 23, which led to authorities capturing three Ecuadorians and another 17 Chinese immigrants — 11 men and six women, <a href="https://keysweekly.com/42/chinese-migrants-apprehended-following-illegal-keys-landing/#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to local media.
Gimenez, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, Homeland Security Committee, and the new Select Committee on China, immediately <a href="https://gimenez.house.gov/2023/10/rep-carlos-gimenez-raises-the-alarm-on-chinese-nationals-apprehended-in-the-florida-keys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> additional information about the individuals.
&#8220;That really kind of concerns me that now they&#8217;re trying to make their way in through the Keys — my part of the country,&#8221; he told The Daily Mail. &#8220;I understand that the Chinese are having more and more influence. More and more infrastructure projects, more and more activity in our hemisphere, especially in Cuba.&#8221;
Such projects point to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-to-build-spy-base-in-cuba-focused-on-intercepting-communications-within-u-s-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secret deal China reached with Cuba </a>earlier this year to build an electronic eavesdropping base in the island territory — approximately 100 miles off the U.S. coast.
The latest incident followed a bombshell report from earlier this year that found <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roughly-100-incidents-where-chinese-nationals-tried-to-access-u-s-military-sensitive-sites-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 100 incidents</a> have occurred where Chinese nationals posed as tourists to test the security of military bases as well as other sensitive sites.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen many, many Chinese nationals, saying they&#8217;re tourists and stuff, and they&#8217;ve been photographing sensitive installations,&#8221; Giminez told the outlet, adding the individuals have targeted critical U.S. infrastructure to &#8220;see how that can be compromised.&#8221;
One case involved Chinese nationals who said they were tourists attempting to force their way past guards at the military base in Fort Wainwright, Alaska, the home to the Army&#8217;s 11th Airborne Division. Chinese nationals have reportedly repeatedly photographed the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the largest overland military test range in the U.S.
Chinese nationals were reportedly found swimming near a Key West, Florida, military facility. They claimed they were tourists. Other Chinese nationals seemed to be scuba diving near Cape Canaveral, where spy satellites are sent into space, according to the Journal.
Giminez blamed the potential national security threat on the Biden administration&#8217;s open border policies, which have led to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-authorities-warn-of-iranian-backed-terrorists-trying-to-enter-u-s-southern-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">record-breaking illegal immigrant encounters</a> since President Joe Biden took office in 2021 — an estimated 6.5 million just in the three fiscal years alone.
He warned of an increased threat of spying and terrorist activity in the United States.
&#8220;And we need to get to the bottom of it, and it&#8217;s a failure of the Biden administration,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Their porous border policies are making America less and less safe.&#8221;
Chairman Mark Green of the House Homeland Security Committee previously told the Daily Mail over 17,800 Chinese nationals have been released into the U.S. in 2023.
Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

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The heads of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance sat down for a joint interview for the first time to discuss the monumental threats posed to the West by communist China.
CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; broadcast the discussion on Sunday after host Scott Pelley met with the five in Palo Alto, California, where they emphasized that Silicon Valley was one of China&#8217;s top targets for hacking and influence operations.
The five intelligence chiefs include the United States&#8217; Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI; Australia&#8217;s Mike Burgess, Director-General of Security; Canada&#8217;s David Vigneault; Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service; the United Kingdom&#8217;s Ken McCallum, Director General of MI5; and New Zealand&#8217;s Andrew Hampton, Director-General and Chief Executive of the Government Communication Security Bureau.
&#8220;The People&#8217;s Republic of China represents the defining threat of this generation this era,&#8221; said Wray. &#8220;There is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to our ideas, our innovation, our economic security, and ultimately our national security. We have seen efforts by the Chinese government, directly or indirectly, trying to steal intellectual property, trade secrets, personal data &#8212; all across the country. We&#8217;re talking everything from Fortune 100 companies, all to smaller startups. We&#8217;re talking about agriculture, biotech, health care, robotics, aviation, academic research. We probably have somewhere in the order of 2,000 active investigations that are just related to the Chinese government&#8217;s effort to steal information.&#8221;
Burgess acknowledged that, to an extent, all countries spy, although it&#8217;s mainly done so that countries can be &#8220;covertly informed&#8221; about what their adversaries are doing.
&#8220;But the behavior we&#8217;re talking about here goes well beyond traditional espionage,&#8221; Burgess said. &#8220;This scale of the theft is unprecedented in human history. And that&#8217;s why we&#8217;re calling it out.&#8221;
The five chiefs in the last week held 15 meetings with top leaders and executives in Silicon Valley and at Stanford University, warning them about the threats the Chinese pose to the national security of the U.S. and its partners.
&#8220;This is not just about government secrets or military secrets. It&#8217;s not even just about critical infrastructure,&#8221; McCallum said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about academic research in our universities. It&#8217;s about promising startup companies. People, in short, who probably don&#8217;t think national security is about them.&#8221;
The Chinese target civilians working in the private sector through various traditional means for either hacking or influence operations.
McCallum is director general of MI5, the U.K.&#8217;s FBI.
&#8220;You have the biggest hacking program in the world by far, bigger than ever other major nation combined,&#8221; Wray said of what China is currently doing. &#8220;Stolen more of our personal and corporate data than every nation, big or small, combined.&#8221;
Wray warned that the threat was more serious than people realized and has &#8220;flesh and blood, kitchen-table consequences.&#8221;
He referenced an American wind turbine company from which the Chinese stole intellectual property, costing the company its competitive advantage and resulting in hundreds of people losing their jobs.
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Five Eyes Alliance: The Chinese Are Stealing More Information Than All Other Nations Combined

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Christopher Wray

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> is expanding its nuclear arsenal unexpectedly quickly while it continues to threaten Taiwan, warned a new Pentagon report on Thursday.
China has built up its nuclear arsenal to over 500 warheads, an increase of roughly 100 over the past year and more than U.S. security officials had predicted a year ago, according to the Defense Department’s annual <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2023/Oct/19/2003323409/-1/-1/1/2023-MILITARY-AND-SECURITY-DEVELOPMENTS-INVOLVING-THE-PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China Military Power Report</a>. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that China’s nuclear stockpile will double to roughly 1,000 warheads by 2030.
“In 2022, Beijing continued its rapid nuclear expansion, and DoD estimates that the PRC possessed more than 500 operational nuclear warheads as of May 2023 — on track to exceed previous projections,” the report says.
China’s stockpile of nuclear warheads is “on track to exceed previous projections,” a senior DOD official told <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/19/major-expansion-china-now-has-more-than-500-nukes-pentagon-says-00122440" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>. “What they’re doing now, if you compare it to what they were doing about a decade ago, it really far exceeds that in terms of scale and complexity.”
“They’re expanding and investing in their land, sea and air-based nuclear delivery platforms, as well as the infrastructure that’s required to support this quite major expansion of their nuclear forces,” the official said.
China has taken aggressive steps in recent years to threaten Taiwan, which China claims is part of the Chinese state. Taiwan maintains it is independent.
“In 2022, the PRC amplified diplomatic, political, and military pressure against Taiwan. The PLA’s increased provocative and destabilizing actions in and around the Taiwan Strait included ballistic missile overflights of Taiwan, sharply increased flights into Taiwan’s self-declared ADIZ and a series of major military exercises near Taiwan,” the report states.
The report says that Chinese leader Xi Jinping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, has made clear his desire to subsume Taiwan under the Chinese regime through “peaceful unification,” but “would never renounce the use of force as an option.”
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Ying-yu Lin, a military expert at Tamkang University in Taipei, said that China’s military buildup and its aggressive posture toward Taiwan are linked.
“I don’t think that China has a timetable for unification, but they have a timetable for upgrading the military strength of the People’s Liberation Army,” Ying-yu said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/world/asia/china-military-nuclear-weapons.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. “We cannot say that as the People’s Liberation Army’s strength grows, it will certainly take on Taiwan. The two must be clearly distinguished.”

China Expanding Nuclear Arsenal Faster Than Expected: Pentagon

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Taiwan

Washington D.C.

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> tightened restrictions on exporting advanced computing semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China on Tuesday to counter the Chinese government from producing military applications involving hypersonic missiles and artificial intelligence.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a <a href="https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/about-bis/newsroom/press-releases/3355-2023-10-17-bis-press-release-acs-and-sme-rules-final-js/file" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a> that the administration updated the export rules to further shut off pathways China uses to evade restrictions.
&#8220;These controls maintain our clear focus on military applications and confront the threats to our national security posed by the [People&#8217;s Republic of China] Government&#8217;s military-civil fusion strategy,&#8221; Raimondo said. &#8220;As we implement these restrictions, we will keep working to protect our national security by restricting access to critical technologies, vigilantly enforcing our rules, while minimizing any unintended impact on trade flows.&#8221;
The updated restrictions impose license requirements for companies from nearly two dozen countries under U.S. arms embargoes to prevent countries of concern from diverting access to restricted items to China.
Raimondo reportedly told members of the press on Monday that while AI has the potential for &#8220;huge societal benefits,&#8221; it could also invoke &#8220;tremendous and profound harm if in the wrong hands and in the wrong militaries.&#8221;
The move comes over a year after Biden officials announced they would revise China&#8217;s access to certain high-end chips critical for military advantage.
After visiting Beijing and Shanghai in August, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4260804-biden-administration-china-ai-chip-export-restrictions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Raimondo said that the Biden administration is &#8220;trying to choke&#8221; China&#8217;s military capacity.
&#8220;If they feel that, that means our strategy&#8217;s working,&#8221; she told NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; in early September. &#8220;Certainly, on my watch, we are not going to sell the most sophisticated American chip to China that they want for their military capacity.&#8221;
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But she <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/biden-export-restrictions-ai-chips-china?utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_content=politics&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;export controls are not designed to impair China&#8217;s economic growth.&#8221;
&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to be more restrictive than necessary,&#8221; Raimondo said, adding that the vast majority of semiconductors would remain unrestricted.
Mao Ning, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, <a href="https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_665399/s2510_665401/2511_665403/202310/t20231016_11161588.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> the U.S. for expanding export controls on Monday, accusing the U.S. of &#8220;politicizing and weaponizing trade and tech issues&#8221; and &#8220;destabilizing global industrial and supply chains.&#8221;
President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/08/09/executive-order-on-addressing-united-states-investments-in-certain-national-security-technologies-and-products-in-countries-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an executive order in August imposing restrictions on outbound 
investments in China&#8217;s industries ranging from artificial intelligence to semiconductor and quantum computing, but administration officials reportedly admitted that slowing down the Chinese military from gaining access to such technology without economic consequences could pose a challenge.
&#8220;Now I can&#8217;t say that there&#8217;s not going to be some slowdown in Chinese capability around artificial intelligence at that high level that could possibly be used for goodness,&#8221; a senior administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in a briefing ahead of the announcement, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/17/commerce-china-chip-sanctions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Washington Post. &#8220;But we have to focus on the national security implications there. Large language model applications or military applications can be very risky for the United States and its allies.&#8221;

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Biden Admin Tightens Exporting AI Chip Restrictions To China

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Gina Raimondo

Former South Carolina Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nikki-haley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikki Haley</a> exploded on pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy during the second GOP primary debate on Wednesday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
Haley made the remarks in response to Ramaswamy explaining why he decided to use TikTok after he previously said that people should not be using it.
&#8220;This is infuriating, because TikTok is one of the most dangerous social media apps that we could have,&#8221; Haley said. &#8220;And what you&#8217;ve got, I honestly, every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say.&#8221;
Elaborating on what TikTok does, Haley said that the company now has 150 million people using the platform and that it &#8220;can get your contacts, they can get your financial information, they can get your emails, they can get your text messages, they can get all these things.&#8221;
&#8220;And what we&#8217;ve seen is you&#8217;ve gone and you&#8217;ve helped China make medicines in China, not America, you are now wanting kids to go and get on the social media that is dangerous for all of us,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;You were in business with the Chinese that gave Hunter Biden $5 million.&#8221;
&#8220;We can&#8217;t trust you!&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We can&#8217;t trust you!&#8221;
Ramaswamy responded by saying the candidates would be better off if they didn’t throw “personal insults” at each other.
The entrepreneur caused a stir in the first primary debate when he <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gop-debate-scott-ramaswamy-heated-over-bought-paid-for-insult">called</a> all the other candidates &#8220;bought and paid for.&#8221; Ramaswamy and Haley have <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4177316-haley-knocks-ramaswamy-over-childish-name-games/">traded barbs</a> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/08/23/ramaswamy_slams_nikki_haley_good_luck_in_your_future_career_on_the_boards_of_lockheed_and_raytheon.html">publicly</a> over the last month.
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Haley Explodes On Ramaswamy After TikTok Remarks: 'Every Time I Hear You, I Feel A Little Bit Dumber'

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