China’s top foreign relations official said that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/taiwan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taiwan</a> independence was a charging “gray rhino” that needed to be stopped during an event in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> late this week.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi took aim at Taiwan during his Thursday comments at the Asia Society in New York while he was attending meetings at the U.N.
&#8220;Taiwan independence is like a highly disruptive gray rhino charging towards us that must be stopped resolutely,&#8221; he <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/taiwanese-independence-charging-rhino-must-023713789.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the event. “We have always worked with the greatest sincerity and effort to pursue peaceful reunification, but we will never tolerate any activity aimed at secession.”
In the past, the term “gray rhinos” has been used by Chinese officials to describe a financial risk. Wang also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/24/china-taiwan-united-nations-00058714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> Taiwan on Saturday during an address to the U.N. saying that those who stood in the way of reunifying the mainland and the island would be “crushed by the wheels of history.”
“Only when China is fully reunified can there be true peace across the Taiwan Strait,” he added in his first in-person speech at the venue in two years. “The PRC government is the sole government representing all of China.”
The strong language from Wang <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-declares-u-s-troops-will-engage-in-war-with-china-if-taiwan-attacked-white-house-walks-back-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed</a> President Biden saying in an interview with “60 Minutes” that the U.S. Military would engage in war with communist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a> if China attacked Taiwan. Biden’s statement that was quickly walked back by the White House.
Biden made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” with leftist host Scott Pelley.
Pelley asked Biden, “What should Chinese President Xi know about your commitment to Taiwan?”
“We agree with what we signed onto a long time ago. And that there’s one China policy, and Taiwan makes their own judgments about their independence,” Biden responded. “We are not moving — we’re not encouraging their being independent. We’re not — that — that’s their decision.”
“But would U.S. Forces defend the island?” Pelley asked.
“Yes, if in fact there was an unprecedented attack,” Biden responded.
Pelley said that after the interview, a White House official told the show that U.S. policy has not changed and they refused to say if the U.S. Military would defend Taiwan.
“So unlike Ukraine, to be clear, sir, U.S. Forces, U.S. men and women would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion?” Pelley pressed.
“Yes,” Biden doubled-down.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) announced new executive actions and legislative proposals on Thursday aimed at combatting the influence of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> and other hostile foreign nations in the state.
The new actions from DeSantis are aimed at addressing threats posed by China, Cuba, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Venezuela in cyberspace, real estate, and academia.
The actions seek to block the nations from being able to engage in espionage or influence operations within the state and preventing purchases of agricultural land and lands surrounding military bases by those governments or their agents.
“From server farms to farmland, the Communist Party of China has been worming its way into our nation’s data storage systems and buying up tracts of land near sensitive national security sites,” DeSantis <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2022/09/22/governor-ron-desantis-counteracts-malign-influence-by-china-and-other-hostile-nations-in-florida-through-new-action/">said</a> in a statement. “By prohibiting the purchase of lands, state contracts with Chinese technology firms, and the infiltration of CCP-affiliated groups such as Confucius Institutes, Florida is leading the way to protect our nation from international foes.”
DeSantis signed an executive order that, effective immediately, prohibits government entities from procuring technology products and services from companies owned by, controlled by, or domiciled in foreign countries of concern. The governor also proposed legislative action that would ban government organizations from contracting with companies owned by, controlled by, or domiciled in hostile foreign countries if the contract would provide access to personal information of the state&#8217;s residents.
DeSantis announced new legislative proposals to ban those countries being able to purchase land near military bases, which comes after China has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pompeo-warns-communist-chinese-entities-buying-farmland-near-u-s-military-bases">purchased</a> land near U.S. Military bases and has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-infiltrates-critical-u-s-infrastructure-can-disrupt-nuclear-response-and-spy-on-u-s-military-report">infiltrated</a> critical U.S. infrastructure.
DeSantis also proposed new legislative action aimed at amending state law that would ban any donations or gifts to a higher education institution in Florida from any individual residing in or entity domiciled in a hostile country or from any governmental entity from those hostile nations.
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Today, I took action to protect Floridians from the bad intentions of adversaries abroad, such as the Chinese Communist Party.
This Legislative Session, I am proposing additional protections for our homeland against threats arrayed by those who seek our nation’s downfall. <a href="https://t.co/2yVxf33fL6">pic.twitter.com/2yVxf33fL6</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1573073403807875072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“The Chinese Communist Party cheats on trade, steals our intellectual property, and produces deadly drugs like fentanyl that are pouring into our southern border,” said Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez. “Governor DeSantis’ announcements today are not only critical to protecting American interests and Florida farmlands but also to maintaining our national security. Florida will never kowtow to the oppressive regime of China.”
“With today’s Executive Order, Governor DeSantis takes decisive action to defend the State of Florida and all Floridians from the cyber threats posed by foreign countries of concern and associated groups,” said Department of Management Services Secretary Pedro Allende. “The Governor’s direction to develop cybersecurity and procurement rules and standards will make it harder for bad actors to gain a foothold on state infrastructure, will protect Floridians’ personal information and intellectual property, and will further secure key information systems and the critical infrastructure that our state and its citizens rely on each day.”
“Thanks to Governor DeSantis, Florida will not allow foreign adversaries and Communist dictatorships to have insights into some of the most sensitive data and cutting-edge research taking place in U.S. academia,” said Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz, Jr. “As a Cuban-American, I know how Communist countries attempt to infiltrate schools and universities to steal intellectual property and indoctrinate young people with their dangerous and radical ideology. By removing this influence and focusing on the importance of American ideals and citizenship through civics education, Florida is again leading the way for the nation to follow.”

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Photos and videos emerged Friday of a 42-story skyscraper in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">China</a> going up in flames in Changsha, a city that is home to nearly 10 million people.
Chinese-state media said that the building housed offices of the government-owned telecommunications company China Telecom.
“To prevent serious danger, some equipment in the building has been switched off,” China Telecom said in a statement. “Right now, fixed-lined communication and mobile internet service can be accessed as normal, though the voice function in some mobile phones may be affected. This is being handled urgently.”
AFP <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/major-fire-breaks-out-at-skyscraper-in-changsha-china">reported</a> that these types of fires are not uncommon in China due to &#8220;lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorized construction.&#8221;
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❗️In <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/China?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#China</a>, the skyscraper of the largest telecom operator China Telecom in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Changsha?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Changsha</a> is on fire. Hundreds of people could be burned alive. <a href="https://t.co/GDNC74k8Tj">pic.twitter.com/GDNC74k8Tj</a>
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China did not immediately report any casualties from the fire that engulfed the 720-foot building. 280 firefighters and nearly 40 fire engines were dispatched to the combat the fire.
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Reports out of China have to be taken worth a grain of salt, especially when it concerns something that makes the country look bad.
For example, U.S. officials have <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/chinese-plane-crash-killed-132-caused-intentional-act/story?id=84782873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that they believe a pilot flying for China Eastern Airlines intentionally crashed a Boeing 737-800 passenger plane earlier this year, killing all 132 people on board. Chinese officials have yet to release their report on the crash.
During the coronavirus pandemic, top U.S. officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-report-leaked-docs-prove-china-underreported-pandemic-numbers-hid-previously-unreported-number" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicated</a> that they believe China “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intentionally</a>” underreported their true numbers “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-official-gives-fox-news-stunning-estimate-on-chinas-real-coronavius-numbers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by at least a factor of 50</a>.” British officials reportedly told former Prime Minister Boris Johnson early in the pandemic that China could have underreported their numbers “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">by a factor of 15 to 40 times</a>.”
The Washington Post reported in April 2020 that “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence</a>” coming out of Wuhan suggested that the real death count was over 40,000, which came as China claimed at the time that it only had a little over 4,600 deaths nationwide. A conservative estimate in April 2020 from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) — which gave China every benefit of the doubt when coming up with their calculations, and then some — suggested that China severely and “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deliberately</a>” underreported their numbers and that China’s true numbers at the time had to be at least 2.9 million infections with well over 100,000 deaths.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/world-health-organization-head-now-privately-blames-chinese-lab-for-coronavirus-pandemic-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Health Organization Head Now ‘Privately’ Blames Chinese Lab For Coronavirus Pandemic: Report</a>

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/india-s-adani-is-first-asian-to-become-world-s-third-richest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fifth-richest man</a>, thinks that Communist China should be praised for the way it has handled poverty.
New York Times Magazine columnist David Wallace-Wells, the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” opined that progress on poverty around the globe “has been really remarkable.” Asserting that said progress reflected “progress in China,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Gates if the trend toward eradicating poverty would continue since China has “sort of finished eradicating real poverty.”
“If you’re allowed to say the truth about things in China, they’ve done a very good job,” Gates responded. “They’re now a middle-income country, in fact, one of the wealthier middle-income countries.”
In 2018, an <a href="https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/07/23/could-chinas-financial-repression-be-good-for-growth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> written by a professor of economics at Peking University, Beijing and a then PhD scholar at Peking University surmised that China had initially used a repressive financial policy in order to stimulate the economy.
The article stated that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) was still guiding commercial banks’ settings of deposit and lending rates, adding that “repressive financial policies have not stopped China from achieving rapid economic growth,” but that “economic growth has decelerated and systemic financial risks have escalated sharply.”
In March 2021, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974173482/what-chinas-total-victory-over-extreme-poverty-looks-like-in-actuality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that extreme poverty was defined by China as making less than $2.30 per day in contrast to the World Bank&#8217;s suggested poverty line of making less $5.50 per day for China&#8217;s upper middle-income category.
“China still has around 13% of its population falling below that line, or close to 200 million people,&#8221; the World Bank&#8217;s Martin Raiser pointed out.
NPR correspondent John Ruwitch, who covers Chinese affairs, added, “But for Xi Jinping, proclaiming victory over extreme poverty is propaganda gold.”
In February 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that China had eliminated extreme poverty the previous year.
“According to the current criteria, all 98.99 million poor rural population have been taken out of poverty, and 832 poverty-stricken counties as well as 128,000 villages have been removed from the poverty list,” he stated.
Some critics of China have pointed out that China’s campaign to eliminate poverty ignored a root cause of rural poverty: poor rural education. Some research has shown a school drop rate of up to 63% for rural students before the end of high school, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/how-successful-was-chinas-poverty-alleviation-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Diplomat.

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Bill Gates Praises China: ‘They’ve Done A Very Good Job’

Bill Gates Praises China on how they've dealt with poverty

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon">Pentagon</a> paused shipments of F-35s to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-military">U.S. military</a> and other buyers after discovering that an engine component in the jet is sourced from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a>.
The Defense Contract Management Agency notified the Pentagon’s office handling F-35s that an alloy used in the plane’s turbomachine pumps comes from China. Lockheed Martin, which assembles the aircraft, may need a special exemption to bypass the Buy American Act if it wishes to restart production, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/07/pentagon-suspends-f-35-deliveries-china-00055202">Politico</a>.
The alloy is present in magnets inside the turbomachine pumps. The alloy has not harmed the jet’s integrity, and F-35s already in operation will remain in operation, according to the F-35 Joint Program Office.
“We have confirmed that the magnet does not transmit information or harm the integrity of the aircraft and there are no performance, quality, safety or security risks associated with this issue and flight operations for the F-35 in-service fleet will continue as normal,” F-35 program spokesman Russell Goemaere told Politico in a statement.
“Defense contractors voluntarily shared information with DCMA and the JPO once the issue was discovered and they have found an alternative source for the alloy that will be used in future turbomachines,” he added.
Lockheed Martin spokeswoman Laura Siebert said: “We are working with our partners and DoD to ensure contractual compliance within the supply chain. The magnet has no visibility or access to any sensitive program information. The F-35 remains safe for flight, and we are working with the DoD to resolve the issue as quickly as possible to resume deliveries.”
While the plane is assembled by Lockheed Martin, the turbomachine pumps are produced by Honeywell.
“Honeywell remains committed to supplying high-quality products that meet or exceed all customer contract requirements,” Honeywell spokesman Adam Kress told Politico. “We are working closely with DOD and Lockheed Martin to ensure that we continue to achieve those commitments on products Honeywell supplies for use on the F-35.”
In late July, the U.S. Air Force temporarily <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/air/2022/08/15/all-us-air-force-f-35s-are-flying-again-after-ejection-seat-checks/">grounded</a> all in-service F-35s in its fleet over concerns about ejector seat initiator cartridges. Service technicians inspected hundreds of cartridges across 349 jets, as well as more cartridges kept in reserve. Inspectors located four that they thought may be defective. The fleet was back to normal operations within about two weeks.

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The New York Times offered an indirect paean to Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/asia/china-communist-cadre-fashion.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">reporting</a> that many young Chinese people are emulating his fashion choices.
Titling their article, “So Square It’s Hip: ​​Gen Z Tries on the Communist Cadre Look,” the Times opined the movement to dress like the repressive leader and other Chinese civil servants might arise from a “longing for stability in uncertain times.”
“A dull blue jacket, oversize trousers, a Communist Party member pin adding a splash of red on the chest, a small briefcase in hand,” the Times describes, outlining the typical dress of a Chinese Communist Party worker. It then added that “now the cadre look is cool.”
Young men have taken on the look, whose “paragon of this determinedly dull look is China’s top leader, Xi Jinping,” The Times wrote, arguing that although for some young people, the look is ironic, for others the fashion statement “suggests a stable career path and a respectable lifestyle.”
“The emergence of the unabashedly conventional look reflects China’s conservative political turn,” The Times decided, adding that “Xi’s signature blue jacket has echoes of the Mao suit,” in a reference to the Chinese leader whose brutal reign killed an estimated 60 million people.
The Times apparently has an abiding interest in how Chinese leaders are dressed; in August, the Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/asia/china-wang-yi-diplomacy.html">article</a> revolving around China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi. The article began by mentioning Yi was a “dapper man in well-pressed suits,” before noting, “He is the campaigner for the global ambitions of his boss, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, carrying the message that Beijing will not be pushed around, least of all by the United States.”
The Times has not evinced any reluctance to publish articles by someone Chinese bashing the U.S. In early August, the Times published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/china-us-relations.html">guest essay</a> titled “Why China’s People No Longer Look Up to America.” The author wrote, “ &#8230; after years of watching America’s wars overseas, reckless economic policies and destructive partisanship — culminating in last year’s disgraceful assault on the U.S. Capitol ­­— many Chinese, including me, can barely make out that shining beacon anymore.”
“The sense of America as a dangerous force in the world has filtered into Chinese public attitudes as well,” the author continued, concluding, “Solving some of the planet’s biggest problems requires that we work together. But that doesn’t mean following America over the cliff.”
The Spectator <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/new-york-times-quashed-covid-origins-inquiry/">reported</a> in August 2021 that two employees of the Times alleged that a top editor at the Times told staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID.
One of the employees stated, “In early 2020 I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].”

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Famed historian and author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/niall-ferguson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Niall Ferguson</a> warned during an interview with CNBC late last week that the world was heading into a period that will potentially be worse than the 1970s, and that many are failing to see what is coming.
Ferguson compared current events to events that happened in the 1960s and 1970s, which led to war, financial turmoil, and mass civil unrest.
“The ingredients of the 1970s are already in place,” Ferguson <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/1970s-inflation-historian-niall-ferguson-has-a-warning-for-investors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> while speaking to CNBC at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy. “The monetary and fiscal policy mistakes of last year, which set this inflation off, are very alike to the 60s.”
Ferguson noted how the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which lasted only three weeks, sparked an energy crisis, and then he compared that to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, which has also sparked an energy crisis.
“This war is lasting much longer than the 1973 war, so the energy shock it is causing is actually going to be more sustained,” Ferguson said.
“Why shouldn’t it be as bad as the 1970s?” he continued. “I’m going to go out on a limb: Let’s consider the possibility that the 2020s could actually be worse than the 1970s.”
“At least in the 1970s you had detente between superpowers,&#8221; he added. “I don’t see much detente between Washington and Beijing right now. In fact, I see the opposite.”
Ferguson said part of the problem is that people tend to be overly optimistic about the future, often thinking that too many bad things can&#8217;t happen at once because they see reality as a game of averages.
“The distributions in history really aren’t normal, particularly when it comes to things like wars and financial crises or, for that matter, pandemics,” Ferguson said. “You start with a plague — or something we don’t see very often, a really large global pandemic — which kills millions of people and disrupts the economy in all kinds of ways. Then you hit it with a big monetary and fiscal policy shock. And then you add the geopolitical shock.”
Ferguson, who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-historian-u-s-dealing-not-just-with-decay-of-traditional-religion-but-something-far-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> last summer that “woke” culture is a “fake religion” that must be reined in or else it could have deadly consequences.
“The people on the Left didn’t really want to have a conversation about economics, because they had lost their arguments in the 1980s; they really hadn’t been able to make the case for socialism successfully,” Ferguson said. “And the conclusion was that there was more money to be made, or more power to be gained by exploiting identity politics and emphasizing cultural, racial, gender differences.”
Ferguson warned that Western society does not yet “fully realize, although it’s becoming more and more clear,” that “wokeism, is in fact, a religion.”
“It’s not a secular political ideology … it’s not really about economics,” he continued. “It is about salvation, membership of the elect of the woke. It’s about persecuting heretics. It’s about elaborate rituals of speech that can only be pursued by the believers. It’s rather cult like. Matt Yglesias is not somebody I usually agree with, but he called it the Great Awokening. This was a very astute observation. So we are dealing not just with the decay of traditional religion, but far worse, the rise of new fake religions, political religions, and one thing that’s very clear from the 20th century is that when people take their religious feelings and they apply them to political ideologies, terrible things can happen.”
“Central to what made communism so deadly, was it’s ultimately a religion, Marx is ultimately a prophet and Marxism is a kind of religion,” he continued. “The same was true of Nazism. The most ardent Nazis thought of Hitler and explicitly called him a redeemer of the German nation. So we’ve got to be very careful of political religions. Politics is not something that you should approach with a religious impulse. If you start feeling religiously about politics, take a lie down, you know, have some sleep, take a long walk and try again because politics should not be imbued with religious sentiment.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shameless-famed-historian-blasts-biden-for-blaming-inflation-on-putin-oil-and-gas-companies">‘Shameless’: Famed Historian Blasts Biden For Blaming Inflation On Putin, Oil And Gas Companies</a>

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Famed Historian Warns The World Is Sleepwalking Into Something ‘Worse Than The 1970s’

Famed Historian Niall Ferguson Warns The World Is Sleepwalking Into Something ‘Worse Than The 1970s’

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American doctors go to great lengths to maintain the highest ethical standards as they work to save thousands of desperately ill patients waiting for an organ match, as underscored in recent reporting of innovative transplant experiments using genetically modified pig hearts. China’s transplant sector, unconstrained by rigorous ethical rules, found a more expedient solution. China created a thriving transplant industry, the world’s <a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm">second largest</a>, based on a supply of organs forcibly harvested from executed prisoners – most likely prisoners of conscience.
Though China announced that it banned this hideous practice in 2015, transparency is lacking and mounting evidence indicates that it continues. Nevertheless, the American transplant sector, while adhering to medical ethics at home, openly supports China’s transplant doctors and industry.
In 2006, shocking reports first surfaced of China forcibly harvesting organs from detained Falun Gong adherents. According to these reports, after Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual meditation group, was targeted for “elimination” by China’s president in 1999, thousands of practitioners were thrown into labor camps and jails and subjected to organ screening, unexplained deaths, and disappearances. Many, the group says, were killed for their organs, which were sold to China’s transplant sector, just as it surged and became a billion-dollar industry. Credible <a href="https://bitterwinter.org/organ-harvesting-in-china-is-real-smoking-guns/">testimony</a> from former detainees, relatives, patients, and surgeons supports this. It was during this period that scores of Chinese transplant surgeons published articles, openly describing procedures on prisoners who “were alive and breathing as the <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/china-killer-doctors">surgeons</a> cut their hearts out,” as documented in a 2022 article in the respected <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969">American Journal of Transplantation</a>, written by Victims of Communism Foundation fellow Matthew Robertson and Israeli Dr. Jacob Lavee.
Last year 12 independent <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/china-un-human-rights-experts-alarmed-organ-harvesting-allegations?LangID=E&amp;NewsID=27167">UN experts</a> stated they were “extremely alarmed” by “credible information” that forced organ harvesting was continuing and, moreover, targeting China’s various religious minorities. Several sources report evidence that the atrocity has spread to Xinjiang’s massive network of closed detention camps, which, significantly, were built after 2015, and which both Republican and Democratic administrations recognized as the site of ongoing genocide against China’s Uyghur Muslims.
Nury Turkel, who chairs the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, documented forced blood sampling and organ screening of Uyghur detainees, including a Christian, Ovalbek Turdakun, whom one of us interviewed. As noted in a May 2022 European Parliament resolution, a Beijing hospital brazenly advertised its use of “‘halal organs’ from Uyghurs and Muslim minorities.” At the International Religious Freedom <a href="https://irfsummit.org/">Summit</a>, held in Washington, D.C. in June, <a href="https://www.hudson.org/research/17967-forced-organ-harvesting-american-organ-transplant-collaboration-with-china-despite-damning-evidence">Ethan Gutmann</a>, the leading field researcher on China’s forced organ harvesting, estimated that 25,000 to 50,000 Uyghurs have been killed annually for their organs. Gutmann’s research implicates a former SARS hospital in Aksu, Xinjiang, which is served by an airport with a designated “fast lane” for expressing organs to hospitals throughout China.
No satisfactory explanation exists for how – despite only a million registered volunteer donors in China, compared with America’s 145 million in 2019 – China’s patients can schedule appointments for transplant surgeries within days or weeks, as patients and investigators reported, instead of waiting months or years, as in the U.S. In addition, Robertson, Lavee, and Australian statistician Raymond Hinde have <a href="https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6">determined</a> that the growth curves of China’s voluntary donation lists for three organ types formed implausible, nearly perfect quadratic equations. In a peer-reviewed <a href="https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12910-019-0406-6">medical ethics journal</a> article in 2019, they conclude that China’s donor database was “falsified” as a result of being “manufactured and manipulated from the central levels of the Chinese medical bureaucracy.” Also, China’s reported number of annual transplants, <a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm">5,000-6,000</a>, appears understated. Documenting Chinese transplant hospitals, beds and surgeons, Gutmann and Canadian human rights experts David Mattas and David Kilgour <a href="https://endtransplantabuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Bloody_Harvest-The_Slaughter-June-23-V2.pdf">estimated</a> that 60,000 to 100,000 organ transplants are occurring annually in China, with 8,000 a year at just one hospital.
Though shocking, China’s lack of medical ethics is not entirely surprising considering that it perpetrates ethno-religious genocide. But, given the grave questions about organ sourcing raised in these reports and China’s lack of transparency, it is unconscionable that major American universities and hospitals support China’s transplant sector. As brandished on their websites, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pittsburgh, and many other others provide China with fellowships, academic exchanges, conferences, and joint research projects. American institutions are <a href="https://www.upholdjustice.org/node/547">documented</a> to have trained 344 of China’s transplant doctors.
Some in the American medical community apparently collaborate in the hope of persuading their Chinese partners to ensure organ donation is indeed voluntary. But when blocked from verifying claims of reform, these same U.S. institutions accept China’s word at face value and even <a href="https://chinamedicalboard.org/news/china_transplant_conference_focuses_%E2%80%9Cchina_model%E2%80%9D">praise</a> its progress. They are not alone in buying China’s lies. The medical ethics journal cited above observed: “The World Health Organization, the Transplantation Society, the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences have all provided endorsements of the reforms based on what appears to be contaminated data.”
The WHO’s organ transplant task force, for example, was <a href="http://en.nhc.gov.cn/2017-02/14/c_71188.htm">proposed</a> in 2017 by Dr. Huang Jiefu, who<a href="https://english.www.gov.cn/news/top_news/2018/07/05/content_281476209784504.htm"> directed</a> China’s transplant donor registry, long served on the <a href="https://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Huang_Jiefu">Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee</a> and, though far from independent, was appointed to the task force itself. Under the chairmanship of Harvard’s Dr. Francis Delmonico, who toured China’s hospitals as Huang’s guest and praised Huang as a “<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-114hhrg20533/pdf/CHRG-114hhrg20533.pdf">courageous leader</a>” in congressional testimony, the task force was mandated to flag crises in the transplant field. Yet, Gutmann, Robertson, and Mattas each say that it <a href="https://jamestown.org/program/examining-chinas-organ-transplantation-system-the-nexus-of-security-medicine-and-predation-part-3-chinas-united-front-tactics-in-managing-the-narrative-on-organ-trafficking/">dismissed</a> out of hand their devastating research.
To date, no U.S. administration has taken seriously the charges of China’s ongoing organ harvesting. In 2018, the State Department tried to close the book on the issue, <a href="https://www.state.gov/reports/2018-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/china-includes-tibet-hong-kong-and-macau-china/">declaring</a> point blank that China’s government “officially ended the long-standing practice of involuntarily harvesting the organs of executed prisoners for use in transplants in January 2015.” It, too, failed to undertake independent verification. The Biden administration should reexamine all forced organ harvesting evidence and make its own determination. Congress should pass the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1592/related-bills">Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act </a>to ensure this happens.
Former Chinese military surgeon Dr. Enver Tohti, testifying before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, recently <a href="https://humanrightscommission.house.gov/events/hearings/forced-organ-harvesting-china-examining-evidence">commented</a> on Western indifference to this issue. Forced organ harvesting seemed just “too bad to be true,” he said. But the evidence is too compelling to persist in that naïve belief. Until compliance with international ethical norms is verified, the American transplant sector should halt all collaboration with China’s.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
Nina Shea is a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute where she directs its Center for Religious Freedom. She is a former vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, to which she was appointed by House Republicans.
Katrina Lantos Swett is president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights &amp; Justice. She is a human rights professor at Tufts University and the former chair of the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom, to which she was appointed by Senate Democrats.

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) faced backlash online Tuesday after she said during an NBC News interview that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/communist-china">communist China</a> was &#8220;one of the freest societies in the world.&#8221;
Pelosi&#8217;s remarks come after she visited Taiwan last week, which triggered days of intense Chinese military drills that encircled the island.
“We still support the One China policy. We go there to acknowledge the status quo is what our policy is. There was nothing disruptive about that,” Pelosi said. “It was only about saying China is one of the freest societies in the world.”
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NANCY PELOSI: “China is one of the freest societies in the world…” <a href="https://t.co/8yN8W1q4CA">pic.twitter.com/8yN8W1q4CA</a>
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Donald Trump Jr. responded to the clip by writing on Twitter, &#8220;Pelosi thinks that the Communist Dictatorship in China is &#8216;one of the freest societies in the world,&#8217; which may explain why the Democrats are now emulating the same authoritarian tactics here at home, that the Chinese Communist Party uses against their political opposition!&#8221;
&#8220;Unbelievable,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded. &#8220;Scary. Idiotic.&#8221;
Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs responded, &#8220;Very embarrassing. She had to have meant Taiwan— all the difference in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;China is currently locking religious minorities in mass internment camps and committing genocide against them,&#8221; Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO) responded. &#8220;But Speaker Pelosi believes they are one of the freest societies in the world? This is #CCP propaganda.&#8221;
Former Trump White House adviser Steven Cheung responded, &#8220;Disturbing to see anyone, let alone an elected official, repeat Chinese Communist Party talking points. It&#8217;s almost like she is compromised.&#8221;
Drew Hammill, Pelosi&#8217;s deputy chief of staff, responded to the clip by saying that she misspoke and she meant to say, &#8220;Taiwan.&#8221;
&#8220;The Speaker is referencing Taiwan,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. &#8220;The Speaker’s record of speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party for 35 years in the Congress is unsurpassed.&#8221;
Pelosi’s visit to the island last week came despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-launching-targeted-military-operations-encircling-taiwan-after-pelosi-lands-on-island">threats</a> from Chinese government and military officials, including a Chinese propagandist at a state-run news organization who effectively <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-china-threatens-to-shoot-down-pelosis-plane-if-she-tries-to-visit-taiwan">threatened</a> that China could shoot down Pelosi’s plane.
The Washington Post published an <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/02/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-visit-op-ed/">op-ed</a> from Pelosi shortly after she landed on the island that explained her reason for going.
Pelosi noted that under the Taiwan Relations Act, the U.S. vowed to support defending Taiwan, and that the act said that the U.S. would “consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means … a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States.”
“Today, America must remember that vow. We must stand by Taiwan, which is an island of resilience,” Pelosi wrote. “In recent years, Beijing has dramatically intensified tensions with Taiwan. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has ramped up patrols of bombers, fighter jets and surveillance aircraft near and even over Taiwan’s air defense zone, leading the U.S. Defense Department to conclude that China’s army is ‘likely preparing for a contingency to unify Taiwan with the PRC by force.’”
“The PRC has also taken the fight into cyberspace, launching scores of attacks on Taiwan government agencies each day. At the same time, Beijing is squeezing Taiwan economically, pressuring global corporations to cut ties with the island, intimidating countries that cooperate with Taiwan, and clamping down on tourism from the PRC,” Pelosi added. “In the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) accelerating aggression, our congressional delegation’s visit should be seen as an unequivocal statement that America stands with Taiwan, our democratic partner, as it defends itself and its freedom.”

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On Thursday, Taiwan said that Communist China fired a number of Dongfeng series ballistic missiles into waters by Taiwan’s northeast and southwest.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/MoNDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MoNDefense</a> just confirmed that PLA fired several DF ballistic missiles into Taiwan’s northeast and southwest waters starting from 13:46 local time. In response, the ministry has launched defence systems and condemns irrational actions which undermine regional peace.
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Other reports said the Taiwanese government asserted that Communist China had fired two missiles from the nearby Matsu Islands.
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Further reports stated that roughly ten Chinese navy ships crossed the Taiwan Strait median line.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TAIWAN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TAIWAN</a> SOURCE BRIEFED ON THE MATTER: ABOUT 10 CHINESE NAVY SHIPS TEMPORARILY CROSSED TAIWAN STRAIT MEDIAN LINE AND REMAIN CLOSE IN THE AREA FROM WED NIGHT TO THUR MIDDAY
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Meanwhile, President Biden’s administration reportedly has been lobbying against a bill that would support Taiwan by naming it a major non-NATO ally, according to people familiar with the matter. The bill would give $4.5 billion in security aid and support its presence in international organizations.
Although one of the sponsors of the bill is New Jersey Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) proclaimed, “The White House has significant concerns. &#8230; I have significant concerns,” according to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-03/white-house-lobbies-democrats-against-bid-to-deepen-taiwan-ties">Bloomberg</a>. Murphy confirmed the Foreign Relations panel is stalling the bill; it was to have been voted on Wednesday.
Co-sponsor Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) commented, “It’s a miscalculation of how to keep the world in order. At every turn they take the weakest path.&#8221;
&#8220;If you put this on the floor of the Senate it would pass overwhelmingly,” he added.
Before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan this week, China&#8217;s foreign ministry issued a protest to the United States, threatening that a visit “seriously infringes upon China&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
China’s defense ministry said it would launch &#8220;targeted military operations,&#8221; <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220802-us-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-lands-in-taiwan-despite-chinese-warnings">France 24</a> reported, adding, “The Chinese military announced joint air and sea drills near Taiwan starting on Tuesday night and test launch of conventional missiles in the sea east of Taiwan, with Chinese state news agency Xinhua describing live-fire drills and other exercises around Taiwan from Thursday to Sunday.”
Last Thursday, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-chinas-xi-talk-as-a-pelosi-trip-to-taiwan-threatens-to-inject-new-tensions-11659013042">according</a> to the Chinese Embassy in Washington, Chinese leader Xi Jinping threatened the U.S. in a conversation with President Joe Biden about America’s ties to Taiwan. “Those who play with fire will perish by it. It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this,” the Chinese statement said Xi warned.
On Tuesday, Max Baucus, former President Barack Obama’s U.S. Ambassador to China, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/obamas-ambassador-to-china-china-views-poor-joe-biden-as-weak/">told CNN</a>, “Poor Joe Biden. He looks weak because he either told her [Pelosi] not to go and it looks weak to the Chinese guys or he&#8217;s weak because he told her not to go and she went anyway. And that makes us look a little bit weak to the Chinese.”
“I got to tell you, during the time I was serving in Beijing, one thing I really learned: Chinese understand strength better than do people in any other country, and they could smell weakness 100 miles away,” he added. “We&#8217;ve got to be strong but strong in the best sense.”

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U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate">Senators</a> formally signed off on expanding the Western military alliance Wednesday by ratifying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nato">NATO</a> membership for Finland and Sweden, which obligates American forces to defend the European countries in the event of an attack.
While the war between <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war">Russia and Ukraine</a> continues, Finland and Sweden submitted applications to join the alliance after NATO leaders formally invited the countries into the 30-member organization. Of those, 22 have already approved the two Scandinavian countries&#8217; bid for accession.
The resolution passed, 95-1, with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) dissenting, citing that expanding American security commitments in Europe would only make the problem worse and the nation less safe. Hawley argued that the Chinese Communist Party is America&#8217;s greatest foreign adversary at the moment.
&#8220;Our foreign policy should be about protecting the United States, our freedoms, our people, our way of life,&#8221; Hawley <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2Q0_7TCFY">said</a>. &#8220;And expanding NATO, I believe, would not do that.&#8221;
Hawley, who just three years ago voted to allow North Macedonia into the alliance, notes the U.S. already spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on defense, and the nation has stretched its manpower thin worldwide.
&#8220;The United States must prioritize the defense resources we have for the China effort while there is still time,&#8221; Hawley <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2Q0_7TCFY">said</a>. &#8220;Until our European allies make the necessary commitments to their own national defense, we must not put more American lives at risk in Europe while allowing China&#8217;s power to grow unchecked.&#8221;
However, Hawley stood alone in his plea to reserve American resources against the 95 other senators across party lines who largely disagreed with his sentiments.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that adding Sweden and Finland to the alliance would improve burden sharing across the organization and called the vote decisive as it is bipartisan.
&#8220;There&#8217;s just no question that admitting these robust democratic countries with modern economies and capable, interoperable militaries will only strengthen the most successful military alliance in human history,&#8221; McConnell <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2Q0_7TCFY">said</a>. &#8220;If any senator is looking for a defensible excuse to vote no, I wish him good luck.”
&#8220;This is a slam dunk for national security that deserves unanimous bipartisan support,&#8221; McConnell added. &#8220;Even closer cooperation with these partners will help us counter Russia and China.&#8221;
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said earlier that he and McConnell would ratify the resolution &#8220;as fast as we could,&#8221; citing Russia&#8217;s aggression on Ukraine.
&#8220;Our NATO alliance is the bedrock that has guaranteed democracy in the Western world since the end of World War II,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc2Q0_7TCFY">said</a>.
Now that the Senate passed the resolution with well over the required two-thirds vote, it now heads to President Biden to submit to the allied leaders.

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who staunchly opposed Communist China during his tenure during the Trump administration, warned this week of entities controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) procuring American farmland with much of it located near U.S. military bases.
In May, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced the <a href="http://newhouse.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/newhouse.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/NEWHOU_063_xml.pdf">Prohibition of Agricultural Land for the People’s Republic of China Act</a>, which would bar foreign nationals associated with the CCP from buying public or private agricultural land in the United States.
“China’s American agricultural land holdings have increased over tenfold in the last decade, and at the beginning of 2020, investments from China held $2 billion of American agricultural land,” Newhouse <a href="https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-introduces-bill-block-china-purchasing-american-farmland">stated</a>.
Pompeo tweeted this week, “CCP-controlled entities are now buying up American farmland, much of which is near U.S. military bases. Yet, our diplomats in China can’t even go to the grocery story without someone following them. We have to take this seriously.”
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CCP-controlled entities are now buying up American farmland, much of which is near U.S. military bases. Yet, our diplomats in China can’t even go to the grocery story without someone following them. 
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“Let me be clear,” he added. “China, under the rule of the CCP, is the greatest threat to the U.S. in our history. It touches every facet of American life: military, education, the private sector, our government, and more. It will take real, unified effort in each for America to stay on top.”
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Let me be clear &#8211; China, under the rule of the CCP, is the greatest threat to the U.S. in our history. It touches every facet of American life: military, education, the private sector, our government, and more. It will take real, unified effort in each for America to stay on top.
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Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota and Oklahoma have barred foreign ownership of farmland, but Newhouse pointed out Chinese investors can get around those restrictions if they purchase U.S. corporations that own agricultural land.
In Spring 2022, the Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group bought 300 acres of land near Grand Forks, North Dakota, roughly 20 minutes from the Grand Forks Air Force Base, where some of the United States’ most sensitive military drone technology is based. Additionally, a new space networking center is located at the base. One North Dakota senator said the base handles “the backbone of all U.S. military communications across the globe,” <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/01/chinese-purchase-of-north-dakota-farmland-raises-national-security-concerns-in-washington.html">CNBC</a> reported.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission noted “the location of the land close to the base is particularly convenient for monitoring air traffic flows in and out of the base, among other security related concerns.”
Florida GOP senator Marco Rubio asserted, “It is dangerous, foolish, and shortsighted to allow the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies to purchase land near U.S. military installations. This is something we must address.”

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