The ongoing pacificism of the Biden Administration in the face of Chinese aggression against the United States has become a massive danger to the safety of the nation. It’s bizarre nonchalance as Beijing’s spy balloon hovers around U.S. nuclear weapons sites is only the latest example.
The current White House has allowed the southern border to remain open as illegal shipments of Chinese-made fentanyl, in quantities sufficient to poison the whole country, are smuggled in. It abolished anti-espionage efforts aimed at addressing Beijing’s intensive spying. It has tolerated, for a time, the attempted purchase of U.S. land near sensitive military installations. It has looked the other way at Beijing’s financing of violent groups, and its massive propaganda efforts in American universities. As Americans struggled to afford gas, Biden allowed part of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to be sold to China.
FBI Director Christopher Wray has stated that China is “waging this fight not through legitimate innovation, not through fair and lawful competition… [it is] engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world’s only superpower by any means necessary.” It is doing so not only by developing a massive military but by buying U.S. politicians, spying, hacking, intellectual property theft, bribery, blackmail and other nefarious means.
China has developed extraordinary influence in key parts of the American body politic, including the California Democratic Party. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s chauffeur, who according to CBS News, ”also served as a gofer in her Bay Area office and was a liaison to the Asian-American community (who) even attended Chinese consulate functions for the senator. ” He was a Chinese spy, reporting to the Chinese government about local California politics for 20 years.
Another Chinese communist spy who compromised Congressman Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang, also “socialized, networked with Rep. Judy Chu and then-Rep. Mike Honda, campaigned for now-Rep. Rho Khanna, volunteered for Bill Harrison, the mayor of Fremont, California at the time, and fundraised for other, and in some cases, developed romantic or sexual relationships with politicians to gain intelligence and send it back to her handlers, who were believed to be stationed in mainland China.”
It is not a coincidence that California Democrats, especially Rep. Adam Schiff and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi were at the forefront of the false assaults on Donald Trump. Whatever one might think of the former president, he was undeniably the most anti-China president the U.S. ever produced, explaining the fury that Beijing’s U.S. political allies had for him.
The ultimate prize for Beijing is the presidency itself. And that brings us to a question that is muddied by partisanship, both from elected officials and a biased media: why has Biden been so reluctant to confront China’s illicit and aggressive actions.
In some areas, Biden has taken some appropriate steps. His Administration has engaged American allies in the Indo-Pacific region to work closer together to discourage potential military action initiated by Beijing. But in the 21st Century, aggression may not begin with a dramatic, Pearl Harbor type assault. The more likely path will be through less kinetic means, a fulfillment of Karl Marx’s prediction that “capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
Author and researcher Peter Schweizer reports the following. Chinese researcher Di Dongsheng, speaking in Shanghai shortly after Biden’s election, stated that “China now had ‘old friends… inside America’s circle of power…he reassured the audience that Beijing could settle issues with ‘people at the top’ in the United States. When he asked that question—rhetorically—about Biden’s son’s deals, [he said] there are indeed buy and sell transactions involved here.” His candid comments prompted the Chinese government to remove the speech from its social media platforms.
The Biden family’s financial ties to China, in which significant sums of money were gained without the provision of any actual service, appear to be a textbook case of pay for play influence peddling. America needs to put aside partisan considerations and take a clear-eyed look at this.