The Chinese admit that Joe Biden’s weakness fed their trade depredations
By Andrea Widburg
In his press conference about the 90-day trade deal he reached with the Chinese, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant, in less than a minute, threw in a small detail about Joe Biden’s presidency that speaks volumes. First, it reveals how utterly feckless Joe Biden was and, second, it reveals how America benefits from a manifestly strong president.
Here’s Bessant explaining that the groundwork for the deal was already laid by the agreements reached with China during Trump’s presidency, deals China unilaterally ignored because it rightly understood that Biden was too weak to matter:
Chinese Payment Firm Probed by FBI Has Biden-Linked Backer
For example, Breitbart News has learned that PAX Global Technology Limited., a Chinese technology company under federal investigation for suspicious data transmissions and potential cyberattacks, is linked through ownership structures to Che Feng — a Chinese financier closely tied to Hunter Biden. The company is still operating in the United States, creating and managing the electronic payment terminals consumers used at thousands of U.S. businesses.
In October 2021, the FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Commerce, and Naval Criminal Investigative Services, raided the U.S. headquarters of PAX Technology Inc., a Florida-based subsidiary of PAX, over concerns about the company’s payment terminals, which were allegedly secretly funneling data to unknown overseas destinations.
“The investigation remains active and ongoing and no additional information can be confirmed at this time,” an FBI official told Bloomberg News after the raid.
KrebsOnSecurity reported that a trusted source confirmed PAX’s technology was being used for malicious intent. Per the outlet, “the payment processor found that the PAX terminals were being used both as a malware ‘dropper’ — a repository for malicious files — and as ‘command-and-control’ locations for staging attacks and collecting information.”
While PAX has denied wrongdoing, a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) obtained by Bloomberg in 2021 corroborates the federal concern around the matter.
Doesn't surprise me in the least. Reason # 1,394,384,111,606 to bring chip manufacturing back to the USA.
I was aware of this quite a while ago. The only charge controller and batteries I have that are "on the air" have been vetted.yeah about your charge controllers ....![]()
The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC), the body which represents the interests of some Europe-based PV companies, said that: “With over 200GW of Europe’s solar capacity relying on these inverters—equivalent to more than 200 nuclear power plants—the security risk is systemic.”
In a LinkedIn post, it called on the European Commission (EC) to examine the “risk potential for sabotage and espionage” of manufacturers of components that can “significantly influence the behaviour” of the European grid. It also called for “rigorous audit and validation tools” and a fully transparent software bill of materials (BOM).
The ESMC and fellow trade body SolarPower Europe have been ramping up calls for greater cybersecurity protection for European inverters. Earlier this month, the ESMC called for a restriction for remote access to inverters from “high risk” Chinese manufacturers.
Volt Typhoon is still active. Salt Typhoon is still active. As far as being in the networks, for Salt Typhoon, that’s a hard question for me to answer because the telcos themselves continue to look in those networks. The telcos have indicated to us, and publicly, that they’ve contained the actors. Until they’ve indicated they’ve eradicated them, there’s a presumption they could still be in the networks.
For advanced persistent threats like the Typhoons, their goal is to establish persistence. They’re very good. They’re state actors who have tremendous money and resources behind them. Once they get into an environment, they don’t want to rely on the vulnerability that got them in there all the time; they want to set up alternate ways to get in. That’s what the companies and the threat mitigation firms are doing, trying to identify were there areas of persistence that they were able to obtain for later use and stay in the environment.
Our confidence right now is that we have eliminated their ability to have a substantial impact against United States critical infrastructure. But we do know that they continue to seek positions, not necessarily in critical infrastructure, but on end-of-life legacy devices. Our goal is to prevent them from getting to the point where they amass that kind of access.
Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, citizens of the People’s Republic of China, were charged in a criminal complaint with conspiracy, smuggling goods into the United States, false statements, and visa fraud, announced United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr...
The FBI arrested Jian in connection with allegations related to Jian’s and Liu’s smuggling into America a fungus called Fusarium graminearum, which scientific literature classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon. This noxious fungus causes “head blight,” a disease of wheat, barley, maize, and rice, and is responsible for billions of dollars in economic losses worldwide each year. Fusarium graminearum’s toxins cause vomiting, liver damage, and reproductive defects in humans and livestock.
Do these rules against Chinese Communist Police apply to British Communist Police that have currently enslaved our country. Because last I checked the British were very much in control of China as they pretty much own Hong Kong, I have never been to Hong Kong, but I wonder if the slavery that they are doing in Hong Kong is anything like the way they have been able to maintain Police slave control over King George County VA and Prince Georges County MD. Does this mean that the Race of the People can take back the Republican party from the Black Communist British Police that have completely taken over the Republican party? Will the Race of We the People be allowed to represent themselves without Black British Communist Policing our every move, or does this sentiment only apply to Chinese Communist who have never lifted one finger in the name of Freedom?Republicans Move to Shut Down Chinese Police Stations Operating In the U.S.
“The Chinese Communist Party should have never been able to operate police stations in the U.S. to surveil American citizens and harass Chinese citizens who have fled the Communist regime,” Hinson said in a statement. “We should find, prosecute, and sanction any Chinese Communist Party official involved in standing up police stations on U.S. soil.”
She added that the act would “finally hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for such egregious violations.”
The proposed legislation would target individuals and groups running Chinese police stations in the U.S. with sanctions, asset freezes, and visa restrictions. It would also target those working under the direction of the United Front Work Department, the CCP's arm responsible for global influence operations that involve intimidation and harassment.
One of the most well-known Chinese police stations operates in New York City, managed by China’s Ministry of Public Security, which oversees domestic policing and surveillance for the Chinese Communist Party. In 2023, the FBI arrested two individuals connected to the station. One of the defendants, Chen Jinping, pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered foreign agent for China, while the other, Lu Jianwang, still faces federal charges.