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Decoupling from China is worth the price

Say what you want about trade deficits, national debt, sovereignty, financial markets, the U.S. dollar, executive authority, etc. There are a variety of good-faith opinions about how to structure the trade practices that would put the United States in the best position to succeed in the near and long term.

However, the future of America’s relationship with China must be based on reality before ideology. China is, in fact, “ripping us off” six ways from Sunday. For decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), despite how one may feel about its core political ideology, has not operated in good faith in its relationship with the United States, choosing to commit blatant fraud, outright cheating, and routine deception.

I’ve been one of those annoying people on social media this week insisting that, yes, the stock market is indeed a significant component of the U.S. economy, despite the claims of some over-reminiscent protectionist maximalists in government and the media. I’ve come to the defense of the free market advocates who rightly point out that shocking the markets too ferociously will result in negative consequences for Americans.

However, when it comes to China, Wall Street cannot be allowed to dictate the terms of America’s relationship with the CCP. They are too fixated on quarterly reports and short-term interests to support a long-term pivot away from China and towards America’s allies abroad. Moreover, too many Wall Street firms and banks have been corrupted by Beijing’s influence, and they don’t have the independence to act in America’s best interests in a way that the White House can in this situation.

Beyond its promotion and advancement of domestic and global tyranny, the CCP steals, lies, and cheats, and it refuses to reform.

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Senate Probes Meta Over Alleged Censorship Tools and Data Sharing Ties with Chinese Communist Party, Whistleblower Testifies

US Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, on Wednesday organized a hearing about Meta’s alleged work to develop custom censorship tools for China’s Communist Party (CCP) and share user data with China – which Meta denies.

Whistleblower and former Facebook Director Global Policy Sara Wynn-Williams, who left the company at some point around 2018, presented her testimony during the hearing dubbed, “A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress.”

Senator Josh Hawley, who chaired the meeting, showed internal Facebook documents that Wynn-Williams previously shared with Congress, that appeared to corroborate the whistleblower’s claims.

Wynn-Williams accused Meta executives of “repeatedly” undermining US national security and betraying American values as they allegedly set out to build “an $18 billion business in China” and work directly with the CCP, including censoring a Chinese dissident.

According to her testimony, Meta executives are guilty of lying to employees, shareholders, Congress, and the American public about the giant’s dealings with China, which she dubbed “illegal and dangerous,” dating back to 2015.

One of Wynn-Williams’ allegations is that Facebook’s “moderation” tools for the CCP allowed those using them to censor access to content in entire regions, or on particular dates, such as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Wynn-Williams also claimed that Meta was willing to allow access to user data, including that of Americans, as it built a physical pipeline between the US and China, which the latter country could have used to intercept information.

“The only reason China does not currently have access to US user data through this pipeline is because Congress stepped in,” she told the committee.

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Trump Considering Buying Foreign Ships To Make Up Gap With China

Upset by the pace of domestic shipbuilding, President Donald Trump said he may look to foreign companies to produce vessels for the U.S. His comments came after his sweeping executive order seeking to revamp the American shipbuilding industry that pales in comparison to China’s, which has been assessed to have a whopping 200-times larger capacity than the United States. Trump didn’t spell out whether he was talking about commercial ships, naval vessels or both. However, this makes particular sense for expanding the U.S. Navy and is an option we have repeatedly highlighted in the past, given the litany of issues the service is facing.

“We may order, would have to go to Congress for this, but we may buy some ships from other countries that we’re close to and do great jobs with ships,” Trump told reporters on Thursday.  “But we’re going to start the process of rebuilding. We don’t really essentially build ships anymore, which is ridiculous. It’s going to be very big business for us in the not-too-distant future. But in the meantime, we have countries that do very well at building ships, and we’ll be dealing with those countries. So we may be ordering top-of-the-line ships from those countries. And within a fairly short period of time, we’ll be building our own ships. So we’ll probably have to go to Congress for that, but we’re not going to have a problem.”

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Treason: Top Biden Officials Held Secret Talks with Chinese About Their Spy Balloon Traversing the US Before the Public Spotted It in the Sky – They Were Worried About Optics

In January 2022, the Biden administration knew about the Chinese spy balloon traversing across the continental United States, from Alaska to the Carolinas, but sought to conceal this from the American public.

A newspaper photographer first spotted the balloon over Montana.

The Chinese spy balloon first entered US airspace over Alaska in late January.

Joe Biden and Mark Milley knew the surveillance balloon was over the US, yet Biden chose to stand down.

The balloon soared over nuclear silos and military installations across the US with Joe Biden’s full approval.

In fact the Chinese spy balloon was using US parts and US internet as it crossed the US to spy on military installations and nuclear silos.

The balloon was shot down over the Atlantic just off the coast of the Carolinas.

According to the Pentagon, the spy balloon carried explosives to self-detonate, was 200 feet tall, and weighed thousands of pounds.

The Administration knew about the spy balloon but sought to conceal it from the American public.

The Biden regime did not even notify the Gang of Eight Congressional leaders about the security breach by the Communist Chinese.

Retired General Mark Milley knew about the Chinese balloon but followed the lead of the Biden regime and kept it from the public.

That was not the only lie told by Mark Milley.

General Milley also knew the spy balloon was collecting data as it flew over the continental US but kept this from the American public.

Now, there is evidence that Biden officials, including Secretary of State Tony Blinken, were holding private talks with the Chinese before the American public spotted the spy balloon in the sky.

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Sen. Hawley Considers Criminal Referral for Zuckerberg — Demands Testimony Under Oath After Whistleblower Exposes Meta’s Dangerous Collusion with Communist China

The globalist empire of Big Tech is being dragged into the light, and U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) is leading the charge.

In a scathing letter sent Thursday, Hawley invited Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, following explosive testimony from a former Meta executive turned whistleblower.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, who served as Facebook’s Director of Global Public Policy from 2011 to 2017, delivered a bombshell under oath: Meta didn’t just sell out American users — it surrendered to the Chinese Communist Party.

In her riveting testimony, Wynn-Williams exposed Meta’s secret project—code-named “Project Aldrin”—an initiative that allegedly handed China’s Communist regime access to sensitive U.S. artificial intelligence technologies.

Her most alarming claim? That Meta executives deliberately briefed Chinese officials on cutting-edge AI to give Beijing the upper hand over American companies.

“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams.

She warned that Meta’s LLaMA AI model is already being used by China in military applications and stated that the only reason the CCP doesn’t currently have unrestricted access to U.S. user data is because Congress intervened.

This is no longer just about privacy—it’s about national survival in the face of an aggressive foreign adversary, aided and abetted by America’s own Big Tech titans.

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COVID Could Have Been Engineered in Wuhan Lab, U.S. Intelligence Agency Concluded 5 Years Ago

An analysis by the U.S. Department of Defense’s intelligence agency concluded five years ago that the virus that caused COVID-19 could have been engineered in a Chinese laboratory and later escaped to spawn the pandemic that eventually killed millions of people, recently released documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know show.

The never-before-published analysis by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) points out that the lab in question — the Wuhan Institute of Virology — was highly capable of genetic manipulation, and includes an assessment that the genome of the coronavirus strain that caused COVID-19 is “consistent with the hypothesis” that it was “a lab-engineered virus” that “escaped from containment.”

The analysis by scientists in the DIA, which is charged with collecting and analyzing medical and health intelligence as part of its operations, also concluded that the virus that became known as SARS-CoV-2 could have come from “a bank” of bat coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab that was under the research of senior virologist, Shi Zhengli.

The DIA referred questions about the analysis to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Shi, who also did not respond to interview requests, previously denied in news reports that her lab held the virus strain that caused the pandemic.

The DIA has not publicly recognized the analysis as its official position on the matter. But, unlike other federal assessments that provide few details to back up their findings that COVID-19 likely emerged from a lab, the DIA assessment offers the most detailed U.S. agency scientific analysis made public to date supporting why such a conclusion was drawn.

The DIA analysis appears to be the work of reputable government scientists whose findings, made during the first months of the pandemic, were kept secret while a competing hypothesis that COVID-19 emerged by natural means gained traction and became widely accepted.

“The slides are highly significant because they show that a strong scientific basis supporting a potential lab leak was identified early on,” said Steve Massey, a University of Puerto Rico bioinformatics professor and researcher for DRASTIC, a group of scientists investigating COVID-19 origins.

“Much of that basis has subsequently been fortified by new information, such as the absence of furin cleavage sites in newly sequenced coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2,” he added.

The DIA analysis, which is dated June 25, 2020 —  about three and a half months after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic — has not been previously disclosed to the public.

The documents consist of a 46-page slide deck and are labeled with the classification “secret/noforn” — or, not releasable to foreign nationals. Eight pages of the analysis remain classified and were withheld from disclosure.

The analysis was part of a batch of documents — some heavily redacted and one marked “top secret” — recently released to U.S. Right to Know after it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and later sued to get the records.

The DIA analysis does not prove how the pandemic began. Rather, it argues that the virus could have come from a lab, and shows that multiple features in its genome are consistent with genetic manipulation. The analysis also offers a plausible scenario for how the virus could have been made in the lab and then escaped.

Over the past two years, U.S. agencies, including the FBI, the U.S. Department of Energy and the CIA, have publicly acknowledged assessments concluding that COVID-19 could have emerged from a lab, though most intelligence agencies assess that the virus likely occurred naturally by passing from an infected animal to a human.

Neither scenario has been disproved.

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Whistleblower Drops Bombshell During Senate Hearing: Accuses Facebook (Meta) of Secretly Aiding China in Undermining U.S. National Security 

A former Meta executive turned whistleblower just dropped a political nuke that has rocked Capitol Hill and should terrify every American who values freedom, privacy, and national sovereignty.

Sarah Wynn-Williams, once Facebook’s director of global public policy (now Meta), appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism on Wednesday and leveled jaw-dropping allegations against her former employer.

That Meta knowingly briefed the Chinese Communist Party on advanced U.S. technologies, including artificial intelligence, beginning in 2015—just to get a seat at Beijing’s lucrative tech table.

“These briefings focused on critical emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence – explicit goal being to help China outcompete American companies,” said Wynn-Williams, who worked at the social media giant from 2011 to 2017, according to the New York Post.

“There’s a straight line you can draw from these briefings to the recent revelations that China is developing AI models for military use, relying on Meta’s Llama model,” she added.

Project Aldrin, as it was known internally, was Meta’s covert initiative to worm its way into the Chinese market. But according to Wynn-Williams, it wasn’t just about business—it was about compromise.

Her testimony details how Meta’s briefings helped the CCP leapfrog U.S. competitors by giving them insights into emerging technologies meant to secure America’s future.

Her disclosures didn’t stop at AI. Wynn-Williams also revealed that Meta built a censorship engine for the CCP in 2015, and in 2017, willingly took down accounts belonging to Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after pressure from Beijing.

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Biden Administration Concealed Congressionally Mandated Report on Earliest Suspected American COVID Cases

Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that the Biden administration concealed from the public.

The December 2022 report, which the Biden administration was required by law to release to the public over two years ago but didn’t, reveals for the first time that seven U.S. military service members contracted COVID-19-like symptoms during or after their participation in the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019—contradicting the Biden administration’s public claims in 2021 that there was no evidence that any American participants contracted the virus at those games. The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab.

The 2022 National Defense Authorization Act required the Biden administration to make its report on the 2019 Wuhan World Military Games “publicly available on an internet website in a searchable format” by the summer of 2022. Though the Biden administration transmitted copies of the two-page report to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in December 2022, it didn’t see the light of day until sometime in late March when the Trump administration quietly uploaded it to a Defense Department website.

The potential COVID-19 illnesses from the American participants in the Wuhan World Military Games appear to have been a closely guarded secret of the Defense Department. Chinese authorities have suggested since as early as February 2020 that America could have unleashed COVID-19 into Wuhan through their participation in the World Military Games. Former Biden Defense Department spokesman John Kirby told the Washington Post in June 2021 that the military had “no knowledge” of any COVID-19 infections among the troops that participated in those games.

The first Trump administration issued similar statements regarding the Wuhan games. In June 2020, the Pentagon told the Prospect that it did not test any of the American troops that participated in the games because they were held “prior to the reported outbreak.”

The games were held within close proximity of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where Chinese scientists, backed by U.S. taxpayer funds, conducted risky gain-of-function research on the same sort of bat coronaviruses that caused the pandemic. That research, which was supported by former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci, “almost certainly caused COVID-19,” Rutgers University professor of chemical biology Richard Ebright told the Free Beacon.

The American military athletes traveled to and from Wuhan via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to the Prospect, which noted that Washington was one of the earliest COVID-19 hotspots in the country.

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Ukraine Captured 2 Chinese Soldiers Fighting for Russia, Zelenskyy Claims

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that his country’s army has captured two Chinese soldiers fighting for Russia.

On April 8, on his official Telegram channel, Zelenskyy wrote that this happened on “Ukrainian territory—in the Donetsk region.”

“These prisoners have documents, bank cards, and personal data,” he said.

“We have information indicating that there are significantly more Chinese citizens in the occupier’s units than just these two. We are currently verifying all the facts. Intelligence, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and relevant units of the Armed Forces are working on this.”

He said that he has instructed the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine to “immediately contact Beijing and find out how China intends to respond to this.”

“Russia’s involvement of China—whether directly or indirectly—in this war in Europe is a clear signal that Putin intends to do anything but end the war,” Zelenskyy said.

North Korea has sent thousands of its troops to Russia to support Moscow.

Last year, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said that North Korean soldiers were being sent to Russia and are likely to be deployed to the front lines in Ukraine.

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Old Video Of Pelosi Echoing Trump On China Tariffs Resurfaces

An old video of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) urging Congress to retaliate against China’s tariffs on the United States is going viral for its uncanny resemblance to President Donald Trump’s current tariff policies.

Recorded on the House floor in June 1996, the video features Pelosi calling on her colleagues to challenge the “status quo” trade policies that had contributed to America’s growing trade deficit with China. She specifically urged lawmakers to address the disparity between American tariffs on Chinese goods and the higher tariffs imposed by China on U.S. products.

“In terms of tariffs, it’s interesting to note that the average U.S. MFN [Most Favored Nation] tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States is two percent, whereas the average MFN tariff on U.S. goods going into China is 35 percent,” Pelosi said then.

She then asked, “Is that reciprocal?” before calling the U.S.-China trade relationship a “job loser” for America.

“In terms of jobs, this is the biggest and cruelest hoax of all. Not only do we not have market access, not only do they have prohibitive tariffs, not only are our exports not let in very specifically, but China benefits with at least, at least, 10 million jobs from U.S.-China trade,” she said.

Pelosi went on to point out how the U.S. was only getting 170,000 American jobs out of the relationship at the time.

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