What Are Governors Doing To Counter Communist China? The Answer Is Disturbing
Communist China’s nefarious activities directly intersect with a number of areas over which governors can effect change, so what are our leaders doing?
By Ben Weingarten
December 17, 2020
In recent days, Americans have seen clearly the staggering extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence efforts. Americans now know that Chinese agents cultivated relationships with not just former Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., but current House Intelligence Committee member Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., whom the CCP strategically approached from the start of his political ascent as a city councilmember.
Americans also now know that the story the corporate and social media did everything possible to kill in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election was no Russian information operation: Hunter Biden is under federal criminal investigation. Part of that investigation reportedly concerns his allegedly illicit business dealings with CCP-linked people and entities. Said dealings might well implicate the “big guy,†his father, Joe Biden.
These stories made the explosive yet plausible remarks of Renmin University School of International Studies Associate Dean Professor Di Dongsheng, recently sent viral by Tucker Carlson, ring all the more true. According to a translation, during a November 2020 panel Di claimed China’s “friends†on Wall Street had influenced American policy since the 1970s through opening American banking to China.
He also said Wall Street’s influence — and by extension, China’s — had waned greatly during the Trump presidency, and that the prospects of China influencing U.S. policy would again likely wax under a Biden presidency, thanks to the Wall Street-tied establishment’s likely resurgence and Hunter’s “business†activities.
Given the alarm bells these stories raise, punctuating China’s history of domestic oppression and international aggression, one would think our elected officials would be doing everything they can to defend the homeland against the interference of rich, strong, and powerful China. These troubling realities should stir the American public to demand action and leadership from their governors.
Are they taking up the charge? Judging by the author’s survey of all 50 governor’s offices across the country, the answer is at best inconclusive and thus highly troubling.
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