On Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping — whose country has been accused of stoking the fentanyl trade with Mexican drug cartels that has killed tens of thousands of Americans — reportedly told President Biden that their two nations “should prioritize stability, not provoke troubles, not cross lines but maintain the overall stability of China-U.S. relations.”
The White House called the phone call between the two leaders “candid and constructive,” according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-xi-china-yellen-ai-taiwan-fentanyl-c3317fae3e45b04cffcda5bb63adee56?taid=660c2585f117680001e24287&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter">Associated Press</a>, which added, “Xi told Biden that the two countries should adhere to the bottom line of ‘no clash, no confrontation’ as one of the principles for this year.”
Next month, Taiwan will inaugurate Lai Ching-te as its president. He has promised to protect Taiwan’s independence from Communist China. Biden reportedly told Xi that he supported the United States “One China” policy. <a href="https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/">According</a> to the U.S. State Department, the policy means that the U.S. opposes “any unilateral changes to the status quo from either side,” but does not support Taiwan&#8217;s independence and expects cross-Strait differences to be resolved by peaceful means.
Xi threatened that Taiwan remains the “first red line not to be crossed” and Beijing wouldn’t tolerate any actions from Taiwanese independence supporters, AP reported.
According to investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer, China is the main driver behind fentanyl being smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels.
Schweizer, author of “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” discussed the crisis on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fentanyl-america-s-silent-epidemic">Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic</a>,” part of a DailyWire+ series by Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on The Divided States of Biden. The author said the fentanyl trade that contributes to tens of thousands of American deaths every year begins in China.
“They’re the senior partner. The drug cartels are really the junior partner in the fentanyl trade,” Schweizer told Shapiro, speaking of the Chinese regime led by President Xi Jinping.
Ninety percent of fentanyl precursor chemicals shipped from China to Mexico arrive via Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo. The port is run by a Chinese company, according to Schweizer. From the port, the chemicals are taken to a town in northern Mexico close to the U.S. border. About 2,000 Chinese workers work in cartel labs to craft the precursor chemicals into fentanyl and then the fentanyl into pills resembling common drugs such as Vicodin or Adderall.
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Money from the drug trade is then laundered through the Chinese financial system.
Tim Pearce contributed to this article.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-is-the-senior-partner-directing-the-fentanyl-crisis-killing-americans-author-peter-schweizer-says">Related: China Is The ‘Senior Partner’ Directing The Fentanyl Crisis Killing Americans, Author Peter Schweizer Says</a>

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

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Chinese communist dictator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/xi-jinping" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xi Jinping</a> told President Joe Biden to his face last month that China is going to take over Taiwan and that there was nothing the U.S. could do to stop it.
The way that his private remarks were delivered to Biden was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-beijing-will-reunify-taiwan-china-rcna130087" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> by NBC News as &#8220;blunt and candid,&#8221; as he said that China preferred that the process happened peacefully, although warned that China would use its military if any foreign power tried to stop China from achieving its goal.
While U.S. Military officials believed that Xi intends to take over Taiwan as soon as 2025, he said that no official timeline has been decided upon at this point. U.S. officials were concerned about the timing of his remarks as Taiwan prepares to conduct elections and China has shown increased belligerence toward the island nation.
The report said that the Biden administration was &#8220;aggressively trying to avoid a military conflict with China,&#8221; a move likely to embolden Chinese military action as Biden&#8217;s weakness on foreign policy issues around the world have led to countless examples of increased aggression from America&#8217;s adversaries.
Biden himself said after the meeting that what he was &#8220;all about&#8221; was making sure the U.S.-China relationship &#8220;doesn&#8217;t result in conflict,&#8221; which comes as the communist nation steals billions of dollars of intellectual property per year from the U.S. and floods America&#8217;s streets with fentanyl by giving the Mexican drug cartels the precursor chemicals that it needs to make the lethal drug.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) responded to the report by calling on Democrats and Republicans to come together to defeat the Chinese threat to Taiwan.
“This story as reported is beyond unnerving,” Graham said. “I will be working with Democratic and Republican Senators to do two things quickly. First, create a robust defense supplemental for Taiwan and second, draft pre-invasion sanctions from hell to impose on China if they take action to seize Taiwan.”

Xi Jinping Tells Biden China Will Retake Taiwan, Biden Signals He’s ‘Aggressively Trying To Avoid Conflict’

Xi Jinping Tells Biden China Will Retake Taiwan, Biden Signals He's 'Aggressively Trying To Avoid Conflict'

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According to a report, Chinese President Xi Jinping lectured President Joe Biden when they met in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with Communist China and derided claims by American military officials that he has set a date for the unification of the two countries.
Those comments were reportedly made during a meeting between Chinese and American officials. Xi claimed that his preference would be to unite with Taiwan peacefully and not use force, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/xi-warned-biden-summit-beijing-will-reunify-taiwan-china-rcna130087" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported.</a> Xi mentioned the pronouncements by American military leaders that Xi would attempt to conquer Taiwan sometime in the next four years and said the predictions were incorrect because he had not set a date for when the two countries would be unified.
“His language was no different than what he has always said. He is always tough on Taiwan. He’s always had a tough line,” a U.S. official said of Xi.
Chinese officials allegedly asked before the two leaders met that Biden publicly state that the U.S. supports Communist China unifying with Taiwan and also aver that the U.S. does not support Taiwanese independence. That statement was not made.
In October 2022, at the Chinese Communist Party Congress, Xi <a href="https://english.news.cn/20221016/29113f9cbf3247978534dd1f4aee299e/c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Resolving the Taiwan question is a matter for the Chinese, a matter that must be resolved by the Chinese. We will continue to strive for peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and the utmost effort, but we will never promise to renounce the use of force, and we reserve the option of taking all measures necessary.”
Last February, the U.S. military used an F-22 Raptor to shoot down a Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean after it had crossed over Montana, where several defense assets and missile silos are situated, then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-flies-out-of-montana-and-over-new-u-s-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">traveled</a> over midwestern states such as Kansas and Missouri.
Biden later claimed during his “State of the Union” speech that he had protected U.S. sovereignty, saying, “Before I came to office, the story was about how the People’s Republic of China was increasing its power and America was falling in the world, Not anymore. I’ve made clear with President Xi that we seek competition, not conflict. &#8230; make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country. And we did.”

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Xi Told Biden He Would Prefer Not To Use Force To Unify With Taiwan: Report

Hackers affiliated with China’s military have reportedly tapped into dozens of critical U.S. systems over the past year to test its capacity to create chaos in American life, according to U.S. and security industry officials.
The hacks appeared to be made with an intention toward some future action rather than disrupting systems in the moment and suggest that the People’s Liberation Army of China is testing its and the United States’ capabilities in case hostilities break out over Taiwan, experts told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/china-hacking-hawaii-pacific-taiwan-conflict/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>.
One of the agencies responsible for monitoring and combating foreign cyber threats is the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security.
“It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict, to either prevent the United States from being able to project power into Asia or to cause societal chaos inside the United States — to affect our decision-making around a crisis,” CISA executive director Brandon Wales told the Post. “That is a significant change from Chinese cyber activity from seven to 10 years ago that was focused primarily on political and economic espionage.”
The cyber attacks hit various targets, including a water utility in Hawaii and at least one oil and gas pipeline. Hackers also attempted to break into Texas’ independent power grid. None of the attacks caused a significant disruption, and the hackers appeared to prioritize creating pathways into the systems that could be used again at a later date.
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“You’re trying to build tunnels into your enemies’ infrastructure that you can later use to attack. Until then you lie in wait, carry out reconnaissance, figure out if you can move into industrial control systems or more critical companies or targets upstream. And one day, if you get the order from on high, you switch from reconnaissance to attack,” Joe McReynolds, a China security studies fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, told the Post.
The jump in aggressive cyber activity out of China comes when U.S.-China relations are more tense than in previous decades.
Tensions have risen recently over China’s aggressive posturing and actions in the Indo-Pacific region, including threatening to take over Taiwan. The Biden administration has officially maintained a position of “strategic ambiguity” on Taiwan, neither committing nor declining to come to Taiwan’s aid in the event of an attack from China.
In February, the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon after it traversed the continental United States. China claimed that the balloon was an unmanned civilian airship used for meteorological study that blew off course. Another spy balloon <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chinese-spy-balloon-taiwan-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> over Taiwan last week, according to the Taiwanese defense ministry. The appearance of the new spy balloon comes months after U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believed that China had suspended its spy balloon program over the incident with the U.S.
President Joe Biden has recently attempted to cool tensions by meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a summit in San Francisco last month. Biden pressed Xi on reopening military channels between the U.S. and China and cracking down on the fentanyl precursor industry in China that fuels the Mexican drug trade.

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Recent Chinese Cyberattacks Aim To Cause ‘Societal Chaos’ In U.S.: Report

Recent Chinese Cyberattacks Aim To Cause ‘Societal Chaos’ In U.S.

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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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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.

US-APEC-SUMMIT

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

American Executives Give Chinese President Standing Ovation In San Francisco

California

Chinese Communist Party

San Francisco

Recent comments from California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom surfaced online showing him defending San Francisco for clearing out areas of the city occupied by homeless camps and public drug markets before world leaders — including China&#8217;s President Xi Jinping — arrived for an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-clears-homeless-camps-ahead-of-international-summit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">international economic summit</a> this week.
&#8220;Anytime you put on an event — by definition — you know you have people over at your house, you&#8217;re gonna clean up the house,&#8221; Newsom <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1724139320930402321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters during the &#8216;Clean California&#8217; event in San Francisco on November 9.
APEC, known as the &#8220;Super Bowl of World Economies,&#8221; is holding its 2023 leaders meeting in San Francisco between November 11 and 17 this year. The summit includes leaders of 21 countries and regions, including President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and top CEOS amid tens of thousands of other attendees.
&#8220;21 world leaders &#8230; you got tens of thousands of people coming from all around the globe,&#8221; he added. &#8220;What an opportunity to showcase the world&#8217;s most extraordinary place — San Francisco.&#8221;
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Gavin Newsom again doubled down on his clean up of San Francisco for Xi:
“If you have people over at your house, you are gonna clean up the house.” <a href="https://t.co/8kkaBkga7w">pic.twitter.com/8kkaBkga7w</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1724139320930402321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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San Francisco has been in the throes of a homelessness and drug crisis that has come with rampant crime for years now while the city consistently struggles to make a dent in the humanitarian crisis unfolding daily on the streets.
Homelessness has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night — that&#8217;s up 35% since 2019. More than 7,000 people are homeless in San Francisco itself, and the city&#8217;s crime rate and open-air drug use have caused businesses to flee San Francisco&#8217;s downtown.
Although overall crime slightly dropped this year, certain types of violent crime like murder, robberies, and car theft have increased, according to police data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-francisco-hires-new-tourism-boss-who-says-hell-change-ongoing-narrative-as-city-battles-drug-use-homelessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Daily Wire in September.
According to a Gallup poll, nearly half of Americans — 48% —now view San Francisco as unsafe, up from just 30% in 2006.
But despite those figures, San Francisco became the host city for APEC 2023, which the city&#8217;s <a href="https://sf.gov/apec-2023#:~:text=Asia%2DPacific%20Economic%20Cooperation%20(APEC)%20is%20the%20leading%20economic,United%20States%20is%20chairing%20APEC." target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> described as &#8220;the most significant event with world leaders in San Francisco in recent history.&#8221;
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the city&#8217;s effort to clear the encampments is an attempt to avoid a repeat of 2016, when it hosted Superbowl 50 at Levi&#8217;s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aside from airing the game, the outlet noted that TV broadcasts had focused on the city&#8217;s homeless crisis along Division Street, which presented &#8220;a major civic black eye&#8221; for the Bay Area.
Internal emails obtained by The Chronicle show city officials were &#8220;concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas&#8221; and needed to format a plan to &#8220;stay on top of the growing encampments.&#8221;
Several videos circulating on social media appear to show various sidewalks cleared of homeless encampments and individuals, with some portions blocked off with barricades or covered with brand-new planters where tents had once stood.
According to local media, a federal injunction requires the city to provide adequate shelter for homeless individuals after removing their tents from public areas. Although the city did not set up new shelters specifically for individuals impacted by the international summit, it opened a 30-spot overnight winter shelter and has been working on adding 300 beds to some of the existing shelters.
Newsom also said last week that &#8220;it&#8217;s true&#8221; that city officials removed homeless encampments from sidewalks because of the international summit.
&#8220;I know folks are saying, &#8216;Oh, they&#8217;re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town,'&#8221; California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, as reported by Fox News. &#8220;That&#8217;s true because it&#8217;s true — but it&#8217;s also true for months and months and months before APEC, we&#8217;ve been having conversations.&#8221;
 Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

Governor Gavin Newsom visits San Francisco for Clean California event

Newsom Defends San Francisco Homeless Sweep Before International Summit

Newsom Doubles Down On San Francisco Homeless Sweep Before International Summit

Democratic Party

Gavin Newsom

Justin Trudeau

When he was the mayor of San Francisco in 2008, Gavin Newsom announced a ten-year plan to &#8220;end chronic homelessness&#8221; in the city. This was a big challenge, Newsom said, and that&#8217;s why it would take a decade — longer than it took us to land the first men on the moon after Kennedy promised to do so. But after ten years, Newsom insisted, the residents of San Francisco would finally be able to enjoy their city without hordes of junkies and prostitutes and mentally ill vagrants wandering around downtown and defecating on everything. Watch:
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In case you missed the logic there, here it is one more time: &#8220;Food solves hunger. Shelter solves sleep. And housing solves homelessness.” These are deep insights. I’m surprised he didn’t also point out that dry land solves drowning, breathing solves suffocation, and not having cancer solves cancer. At the time, people living in San Francisco thought that this platform made sense. They didn&#8217;t think it was a bunch of meaningless platitudes. They also didn&#8217;t ask what it means for shelters to &#8220;solve sleep.” Does he think that people with houses don’t sleep? What does that mean exactly? Anyway, they just went with it. Give the guy ten years, they said. &#8220;Let him cook,” as the kids say. Pretty soon everyone will have homes and nobody will be sleeping, or something.
But predictably enough, Gavin Newsom&#8217;s ten-year plan turned out a lot like Greta Thunberg&#8217;s <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/15/greta-thunberg-reportedly-deletes-grim-2018-tweet-about-climate-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promise</a> that the world would end by 2023. It never materialized, and everyone involved knew it would never materialize. Not that Newsom stuck around for ten years to find out — he became lieutenant governor of California just three years after announcing his big ten-year-plan. And then he moved up to governor in 2019. And through it all, in the hands of Newsom and his deputies, the problem of homelessness in San Francisco — and in California at large — only became progressively worse. And year after year, the residents of San Francisco have heard excuse after excuse for this failure. The excuses kept changing, but one thing remained constant, which is that it was never the politicians&#8217; fault. It&#8217;s always someone else&#8217;s.
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Lately, politicians in the city have settled on a new excuse. They&#8217;re blaming federal courts for the homelessness crisis. Here&#8217;s San Francisco Mayor London Breed, for example, just a couple of months ago:
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So London Breed blames a federal judge for the homelessness problem in the city. And people apparently agree with her, as you saw. More than a decade after Newsom promised to end homelessness, people are cheering for a mayor who&#8217;s coming up with excuses for why her party completely failed to do that. The problem, Breed says, is a judge who issued some injunction within the past year. That&#8217;s why the plan to end homelessness didn&#8217;t work over the past 15 years. By the way, government is the only place where it works this way. It’s the only place where you can go to your boss with an excuse for why you utterly failed to do what you were paid to do, and then get a standing ovation.
To be fair to London Breed, though, a judge did recently issue an injunction against the city, preventing them from removing homeless encampments unless they had shelter beds to house everyone. And yes, that was a dumb ruling. The Ninth Circuit later clarified that the city can remove homeless encampments, as long as the homeless people <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11962388/san-francisco-will-enforce-sit-lie-laws-when-people-refuse-shelter#:~:text=Last%20month%2C%20the%20Ninth%20Circuit,in%20parks%2C%20in%20those%20cases." target="_blank" rel="noopener">decline</a> an offer of housing. So that&#8217;s something.
But all this legal wrangling is just the latest excuse that people in San Francisco have heard, when they ask why homelessness is still completely out of control. Every year, there&#8217;s a new explanation. Last year, for example, Newsom <a href="https://apnews.com/article/business-california-los-angeles-gavin-newsom-homelessness-f971c42abf024e8c84ab2d89bc4a8910" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blamed</a> the economy and COVID for why his plan to end homelessness wasn&#8217;t actually ending homelessness: “We’re dealing with unprecedented economic contraction, the worst in our lifetimes, induced by a pandemic,” Newsom said. A few years before that, in 2012, Newsom <a href="https://youtu.be/B4hQyR4dwFI?si=hi9ACvUo7E6E8-VQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked people</a> who pointed out that homelessness was getting worse, saying they were just being cynical and playing politics. Then, speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Newsom <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-homelessness-san-francisco-20181023-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> his 10-year-plan, saying that Michelangelo taught him that it&#8217;s better to set a high bar and fail, than to set a low bar and meet it. Of course Michelangelo was talking about artistic pursuits, where that rule may apply. But with politicians, you’d much rather they set out to do simple things and then actually do those things, rather than claim that they are going to do a big thing and instead do nothing at all.
What do we take from this? If you live in California, the message is pretty clear: homelessness is just something you have to deal with. No ten-year-plan, no matter how well funded it is, can possibly solve homelessness. It&#8217;s a fact of life. The best you can hope for is helping a few thousand homeless people, as hordes more homeless people arrive. That&#8217;s the reality of life in a big city. And if you disagree, Gavin Newsom will tell you that you&#8217;re the problem.
That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s been so interesting to watch what&#8217;s been happening in San Francisco over the past few days. This week, San Francisco is hosting the APEC Summit, which will attract business leaders, tourists, and nearly two dozen heads of state, including Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. In response, for the first time in a generation, virtually overnight, the city of San Francisco has cleaned the streets. Homeless encampments have been forcibly moved out of sight. 
The place looks presentable again — even livable, if you can believe it. Residents are completely stunned. They had no idea anything like this was possible. Watch:
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The last question from that guy in the clip is a good one. Why exactly doesn&#8217;t the city of San Francisco do this all of the time? Later in that news report, the news station makes it clear that the city isn&#8217;t spending any extra money on this clean-up. All the funds are coming out of existing budgets. They could easily be doing this all the time. So why aren&#8217;t they? 
Another local resident in the SoMa neighborhood had the same question. He <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/10/news/san-francisco-clears-drug-addicts-and-homeless-out-of-downtown-ahead-of-biden-and-xi-jinping-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post, “They’ve cleared out the tents … on Howard Street, which tells me the city had the capability to do this all along — instead they just do the bare minimum.&#8221;
Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, <a href="https://twitter.com/Benioff/status/1702373402173120975" target="_blank" rel="noopener">echoed</a> that sentiment: &#8220;San Francisco has been incredibly clean, beautiful, and safe for the last 3 days &#8230; and it is great that the city is able to put its best foot forward for this major event that brings in 40K people from around the world, and $80M to the economy. It is important to ask why the city cannot be this clean and safe every single day?&#8221; 
Benioff has an especially good reason to ask that question, since he <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Benioff-uses-personal-and-corporate-power-to-get-13349594.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poured</a> roughly $8 million into Prop C in California, which taxed individuals and businesses to promote &#8220;homelessness services,&#8221; including a lot of nonprofits. What did he get in return for that money? Apparently not much. And that&#8217;s not surprising. When you hand Left-wing nonprofits money to fix any social issue — whether it&#8217;s homelessness or something more important like microaggressions in the workplace — you don&#8217;t actually give them incentives to fix the problem. Instead, you give them incentives to prolong it, so they can bilk more billionaires like Marc Benioff.
What&#8217;s the solution then? Well, it turns out that it&#8217;s pretty simple. Instead of dumping money into &#8220;homelessness services&#8221; and nonprofits, all that was needed this whole time was a little willpower. 
The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/10/news/san-francisco-clears-drug-addicts-and-homeless-out-of-downtown-ahead-of-biden-and-xi-jinping-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained emails</a> from city officials that demonstrate how easy this has been to accomplish, all along. Christopher McDaniels, the city&#8217;s superintendent of Street Environmental Services, wrote an email back in September explaining every street that needs to be completely cleared. He wrote, &#8220;With APEC coming, I am concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas.&#8221; McDaniels&#8217; boss added, &#8220;we need to stay on top of the growing encampments; do we have a plan?” Within days, according to the Post, &#8220;certain areas — including the notorious intersections of Van Ness Avenue and California Street, Hyde and Eddy streets, Taylor and Ellis streets — were cleared of homeless tents.&#8221;
Reading all of this, it&#8217;s hard not to laugh a little bit when you think about the fact that San Francisco&#8217;s bureaucrats managed to make the city look presentable for the leader of communist China. It’s like if your wife makes a point of doing her hair and putting on make-up whenever the pool boy comes to clean the pool. It shows you where her affections lie. San Francisco has revealed itself in the same way. It also kind of makes you wonder how San Francisco might look if Xi Jinping ran it. Does anyone seriously doubt that it would look a lot better than it does under London Breed and Gavin Newsom?
But the most important point is that this proves what I&#8217;ve been saying for a long time, which is that these are simple problems to fix and the government can easily fix them. It just takes a couple of emails from some mid-level bureaucrats, and it gets done. Of course, these bureaucrats have not &#8220;solved chronic homelessness.&#8221; They have not prevented people from losing their homes, or doing drugs, or developing mental illness. But they have moved those people out of sight, and they&#8217;ve used force to do it. They have cleaned up the city, at least parts of it. It can be done.
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For now at least, San Francisco is doing what is necessary. This is a very good indication that, as it turns out, our cities do not have to be crime-infested cesspools. They do not have to be third world wastelands with zombified drug addicts walking around and taking dumps in the street. If San Francisco can make at least parts of itself look clean and livable in order to impress China, it can make the whole of itself clean and livable for the sake of its citizens — if it cared to. 
But the vast majority of the time, San Francisco doesn&#8217;t care to do that. The Left likes to say that &#8220;poverty is a policy choice.&#8221; That&#8217;s not true. Poverty is a fact of life, an inevitability in human civilization. Social decay, on the other hand, is a choice. That does not have to happen. It only happens if it is allowed to happen. Or perhaps in our case, made to happen. Who would have thought that, after years of giving drug addicts taxpayer-funded needles, devaluing the currency and outsourcing manufacturing to China, we&#8217;d end up with even more homeless people? Who would have thought that suspending the enforcement of pretty much every misdemeanor would lead to more public urination, more public drug use, more public robberies, and more public sex acts?
For more than a decade, Democrats&#8217; solution to this rapidly growing crisis has been to throw more money at the problem, and give themselves more power in the process. Certainly, this approach has worked out well for Gavin Newsom. But it hasn&#8217;t worked out for people living in San Francisco. It tells you a lot that the city&#8217;s leaders — like so many political figures all over the country — felt no incentive at any point to make their community better, more prosperous, and more beautiful, just for the sake of their own people. The welfare of their own people simply doesn&#8217;t motivate them at all. But when Xi Jinping and an army of CEOs are in town, then our leaders will spring into action. Now those are some people that politicians really want to impress.
What&#8217;s happening in San Francisco right now is the end of plausible deniability for all of these bureaucrats and elected officials. It&#8217;s now beyond any doubt that they are the reason for the managed decline we are witnessing in major cities. This managed decline is deliberate. But by the same token, it&#8217;s also reversible. And it can be reversed very quickly. El Salvador fixed its violent crime problem in a matter of weeks. Now we learn that San Francisco has always had the ability to end its homelessness epidemic in a matter of days. And when APEC is over, and the floodgates reopen in SoMa and the homeless druggies pour back in, that will be obvious to everyone — even people who have the misfortune of living in San Francisco.

APEC Leaders’ Meeting 2023 – Previews

Our Cities Don’t Have To Be Crime-Infested Wastelands. The Solution Is Simple.

Crime

Homelessness

Matt Walsh

Readers Pass

San Francisco officials reportedly cleared out areas of the city occupied by homeless camps and public drug markets before top world leaders and CEOS, and tens of thousands of other attendees, arrived in the Bay Area for the <a href="https://sf.gov/apec-2023#:~:text=Asia%2DPacific%20Economic%20Cooperation%20(APEC)%20is%20the%20leading%20economic,United%20States%20is%20chairing%20APEC." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit</a> (APEC).
APEC, known as the &#8220;Super Bowl of World Economies,&#8221; is holding its 2023 leaders meeting in San Francisco this year between November 11 to 17. The summit includes leaders of 21 countries and regions, including President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
&#8220;I know folks are saying, &#8216;Oh, they&#8217;re just cleaning up this place because all those fancy leaders are coming to town,'&#8221; California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-city-removes-homeless-beautification-bidens-summit-chinese-president-xi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Fox News. &#8220;That&#8217;s true because it&#8217;s true — but it&#8217;s also true for months and months and months before APEC, we&#8217;ve been having conversations.&#8221;
As homeless encampments, open-air drug markets, and crime continue to sweep some areas of the city, internal emails <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-apec-homeless-encampments-clear-hotspots-18478050.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by the San Francisco Chronicle showed city officials were &#8220;concerned about historical encampments that are close to priority areas&#8221; and needed to format a plan to &#8220;stay on top of the growing encampments.&#8221;
Several videos circulating on social media appear to show various sidewalks cleared of homeless encampments and individuals, with some portions blocked off with barricades or covered with brand-new planters where tents had once stood.
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San Francisco’s homeless population was entirely cleared out for Xi Jinping. 
The government can easily fix our cities overnight. It just doesn’t want to.<a href="https://t.co/tBGmWCbwtX">pic.twitter.com/tBGmWCbwtX</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1723508911792148756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For Xi visit San Francisco cleared our homeless and put about 100 new planters.
It’s amazing what can happen if government wants to actually fix things. <a href="https://t.co/Ea47CJtI8g">pic.twitter.com/Ea47CJtI8g</a>
&mdash; I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) <a href="https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/1723533094706176232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A local Fox affiliate said areas of the city look noticeably cleaner, with far fewer homeless encampments.
City employee Marc Savino told the outlet, &#8220;You just naturally start to wonder about houseless folks being displaced.&#8221;
According to local media, a federal injunction requires the city to provide adequate shelter for homeless individuals after removing their tents from public areas. Although the city did not set up new shelters specifically for individuals impacted by the international summit, it opened a 30-spot overnight winter shelter and has been working on adding 300 beds to some of the existing shelters
&#8220;The daily allotment will vary throughout the conference,&#8221; Cohen told the Chronicle in an email. &#8220;But we are making every effort to maximize shelter capacity across our portfolio for the community to access during APEC and ongoing.&#8221;
The Chronicle reported that the city&#8217;s effort to clear the encampments is an attempt to avoid a repeat of 2016, when it hosted Superbowl 50 at Levi&#8217;s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aside from airing the game, the outlet noted that TV broadcasts had focused on the city&#8217;s homeless crisis along Division Street, which presented &#8220;a major civic black eye&#8221; for the Bay Area.
San Francisco community activist Ricci Lee Wynne <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/10/news/san-francisco-clears-drug-addicts-and-homeless-out-of-downtown-ahead-of-biden-and-xi-jinping-summit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Post that city officials cleared out encampments near the Moscone Center on Howard Street, which she said signaled &#8220;the city had the capability to do this all along — instead, they just do the bare minimum.&#8221;
&#8220;Once APEC is gone, police presence will start to simmer down again, the tents will return, and it will slowly flare up again,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;What we need is a permanent solution.&#8221;
A significant event during this year&#8217;s summit is a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-chinese-president-will-see-a-feeble-and-compromised-politician-in-biden-at-upcoming-meeting?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwnewstwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sideline meeting</a> between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, which marks the first time the two have met since November 2022.
&#8220;Chinese officials will want to project to their domestic audience that Xi is received by Biden with dignity and respect,&#8221; director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute Ryan Hass told the AP.
CBS News reported in late October that potential topics of discussion between Biden and Xi Jinping include increased Chinese aggression toward Taiwan and Xi Jinping&#8217;s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, all topics that U.S. officials have expressed concern about in recent weeks.
San Francisco becomes the latest U.S. city to clean up its appearance before a scheduled visit from President Biden.
Earlier this year, illegal immigrants in El Paso, Texas, were arrested, their camps taken down, and some even sent back to Mexico in the week leading up to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-want-to-show-him-the-reality-of-things-illegal-immigrant-camps-in-el-paso-cleaned-up-before-biden-visit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s first visit to the border</a> during his term.
Ben Whitehead contributed to this report.

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Former President Donald Trump blasted President Joe Biden during a Saturday campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, saying Chinese President Xi Jinping will be greeted with a “feeble and compromised” president during a meeting this week. 
Trump, the GOP frontrunner, blasted Biden’s foreign policy and said the world has become less safe during the current administration. He called out Biden’s “weakness,” which he said Xi would be able to exploit. Biden is expected to meet with Xi on Wednesday during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in San Francisco, California. 
&#8220;Under Biden, our adversaries see the weakness and foolishness of America’s leaders,” Trump <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-president-trump-pledges-to-end-ukraine-war-before-even-taking-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, according to The Post Millennial. “When President Xi sits across the table from Crooked Joe, as he will Wednesday in San Francisco, he will see a feeble and compromised politician who can be humiliated and steamrolled.&#8221;
&#8220;No one respects or fears this administration — and it’s leading to danger, death, destruction, war, chaos, and bedlam all over the world,&#8221; Trump added. 
Trump told the crowd that if they wanted to avoid a third world war – which he says has “never been closer” than under Biden – their choice in the election was “simple,” touting his foreign policy record as president. He said the country was “respected by everyone” during his term and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-bidens-foreign-policy-says-his-weakness-provokes-war-and-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reiterated</a> his warning to America’s adversaries that if they “spill a drop of American blood, we spill a gallon” of theirs. 
&#8220;So whether you are a Democrat, Republican or independent, if you don’t want your sons and daughters drafted to fight and die in distant foreign lands, if you don’t want your nation wrecked, if you don’t want your economy destroyed, if you don’t want American blood and American treasure squandered in a needless global war, then your choice in this election is simple: you must vote for President Donald J. Trump.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-xi-meeting-negotiations-delicate-protocol-apec-171051514458fbce3b83ed959c80b8cf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press, the details of the Biden-Xi meeting – which will be on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco – are still being hashed out. This is the first time Xi will make his way to the U.S. in six years. 
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“Chinese officials will want to project to their domestic audience that Xi is received by Biden with dignity and respect,” director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institute Ryan Hass told the AP. 
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 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">reported</a> in late October.
The last time Biden met in person with Xi was a year ago while in Bali, Indonesia, at the G20 Summit. Those talks lasted nearly three hours, the AP reported.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-blasts-bidens-foreign-policy-says-his-weakness-provokes-war-and-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went after</a> Biden&#8217;s foreign policy last month in a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Nevada: “To every American who is terrified that Joe Biden’s catastrophic weakness will bring our country to ruin … as your president, I will restore peace through strength on the earth.&#8221;

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