The US joined in Confederation with Britain and Russia to defeat Germany in WW2. In Seinfeld Russian Yiddish logic "the friend of a friend is a default friend." I am not saying I agree with Confederating one bit, but that is what is going on. The "Police" are a Confederated World Wide institution.
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How China Is Engineering America’s Energy Surrender
China is slowly steering the U.S. toward energy slavery.
A Senate subcommittee led by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, probed China’s methodical efforts to steer America toward total energy subservience to Beijing during a Wednesday afternoon hearing. The hearing revealed that Chinese-aligned entities have coopted climate lobbying and research in the U.S. Worse yet, this campaign of sabotage is abetted by a low profile effort to influence American judges, greasing the way for junk climate change lawsuits that will bankrupt American energy providers.
If the U.S. surrenders its own energy resources in favor of alternatives, America will functionally become a Chinese vassal. China dominates the production of energy alternatives. Supply chains for technology like solar are largely based in China and controlled by state entities. Thus the enthusiasm of Chinese entities who are promoting climate alarmism and energy alternatives in the U.S.
A recent, alarming report from State Armor highlights the activities of Energy Foundation China (EFC), which received extensive attention from lawmakers. Though EFC poses as a U.S. nonprofit operating in China, in point of fact, it is essentially a CCP-controlled entity bent on disrupting the U.S. economy. EFC CEO Ji Zou is himself a CCP member who served in senior environmental and diplomatic roles for the Chinese government. And EFC’s work is supervised by the CCP security services.
Ted Cruz Shines Light on the Left’s Lawfare Machine Against American Energy
This week, Senator Ted Cruz chaired one of the most important hearings in the U.S. Senate has hosted in years: “Enter the Dragon—China and the Left’s Lawfare Against American Energy Dominance.” At a time when American energy producers are being targeted by a coordinated assault of litigation and foreign influence, this hearing was a long-overdue spotlight on the shadowy forces behind the war on domestic energy.
Cruz, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, is uniquely positioned to probe the abuses at the intersection of law, politics, and global competition. For years, progressive activists and their legal enablers have weaponized the court system to try to destroy U.S. oil and gas production—not through the democratic process, but through a barrage of climate lawsuits designed to shame and bankrupt companies that fuel the American economy.
At the center of this effort is Sher Edling, a for-profit law firm that has filed more than 20 lawsuits against energy companies on behalf of Democratic-led cities and states. Despite being in operation since 2016, the firm has never taken a climate case to trial—let alone won one. But that hasn’t stopped it from collecting millions in dark money through nonprofits like the New Venture Fund and the Tides Foundation. These suits aren’t about justice or protecting the environment—they’re about reputation destruction and political theater.
China Purges Navy, Nuclear Officials from Top Legislative Positions
On the same day, Admiral Miao Hua was kicked out of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the governing body of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Li, Liu, and Miao appear to be the latest targets of dictator Xi Jinping’s endless “anti-corruption crusade,” a rolling purge of top officials who have displeased or embarrassed the absolute ruler for one reason or another. They join the two defense ministers, two PLA missile commanders, and two senior CMC officials Xi has sacked over the past two years.
Adm. Li was chief of staff for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). Liu was deputy chief engineer at the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation.
Miao may have been the most consequential of the day’s political casualties, as he was among the highest-ranking officials to be booted from the CMC in half a century. Seven lower-ranking CMC members have been purged since Xi rose to power in 2012.
If all you crazy conspiracy theorists thought the progressives who engineered the pandemic were secretly getting rich from covid graft, consider this story. Last week, the AP ran an article headlined, “Accused of acting as a Chinese agent, NY governors' ex-aide now faces pandemic fraud charge, too.” How could this happen, & etc.
Democrat luminary Linda Sun served in two consecutive New York gubernatorial administrations. She was Deputy Chief Diversity Officer, serving under “Love Guv” Andrew Cuomo (2018–2020), then was Deputy Chief of Staff for lockdown queen Governor Kathy Hochul (2021–2023). Over five years of influencing the top of New York’s Democrat political machine.
Born in Nanjing, China, Linda was naturalized in the U.S. after attending Barnard College and Columbia University. She rapidly rose through state government ranks before her awful tenure in two Democrat Governors’ offices.
During the spring of 2020, when New York was allegedly ‘struggling’ to source masks and other PPE, Linda oversaw the state’s PPE procurement team. She used her Chinese connections to broker procurement deals. She also steered $45 million in PPE contracts to two companies tied to her husband and her cousin— by forging official documents to make the men appear as if they had been vouchsafed by top Chinese government officials.
For their trouble, Linda and her husband are alleged to have received millions in kickbacks, including $2.3 million washed through her cousin, with the total illicit windfall reaching as high as $8 million. Linda was charged in September for being a secret paid Chinese agent. Last week, the DOJ added yet more charges, for her covid bribery and fraud.
They lived large during the pandemic. Prosecutors say the illicit kickbacks funded the couple’s purchases of several multimillion-dollar properties and loads of luxury cars.
Governor Kathy Hochul fired Linda in 2023 after allegations of misconduct began to surface.
When you scratch off the surface of pandemic-era rhetoric about “safety” and “public health,” what you often find instead are enormous piles of unaccounted-for money, hastily written no-bid contracts, and crony enrichment pipelines. In Linda Sun’s case, it allegedly involved tens of millions funneled to family-linked companies through covid procurement schemes— plus side allegations of foreign influence by Chinese communists.
Linda’s story is not just about a lone bad actor. Her story illustrates how the entire emergency powers structure —fast-tracked approvals, relaxed oversight, direct-award contracting— created a feeding frenzy for opportunists inside and outside government.
Once such a system is in place, who really wants it to stop? The masks and lockdowns may have been theater; the real show was backstage, in the spreadsheets and cash envelopes.
And the longer the “emergency” lasted, the longer the grift went on.
It wasn’t even close to just Linda Sun. New York City spent roughly $7 billion on pandemic supplies via emergency no-bid contracts. That included paying up to $7.50 per cloth mask. But when NYC auctioned off $225 million in surplus PPE, it only got $500,000— a massive loss for taxpayers.
New Jersey’s comptroller recently issued a report titled, “Investigation Uncovers Waste, Abuse in Essex County’s $40 Million COVID-19 Vaccination Program.” Among many other examples, the report said, “One worker was paid $130,000 over 11 months, yet the County didn’t know who that person was or what the person did.”
Another example (of many) appeared in February’s New York Post:
Julio Medina, 51, a local “nonprofit boss” (i.e., community organizer and NGO scammer), was funneled $150 million for putting up inmates in New York hotels during the covid era. He scraped off a bunch for himself. Here’s Medina taking an envelope of cash from a major Eric Adams donor (Chinese, of course):
Another 2023 report cited over three thousand DOJ criminal cases, two thousand convictions, 524 individuals charged, and about $188 million in confirmed losses. The same report said the GAO had already flagged over 3.7 million potentially fraudulent federal covid loans. That’s almost four million loans that look sketchy. It probably amounts to billions.
There are many more examples.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
Democrat luminary Linda Sun served in two consecutive New York gubernatorial administrations. She was Deputy Chief Diversity Officer, serving under “Love Guv” Andrew Cuomo (2018–2020), then was Deputy Chief of Staff for lockdown queen Governor Kathy Hochul (2021–2023). Over five years of influencing the top of New York’s Democrat political machine.
Born in Nanjing, China, Linda was naturalized in the U.S. after attending Barnard College and Columbia University. She rapidly rose through state government ranks before her awful tenure in two Democrat Governors’ offices.
During the spring of 2020, when New York was allegedly ‘struggling’ to source masks and other PPE, Linda oversaw the state’s PPE procurement team. She used her Chinese connections to broker procurement deals. She also steered $45 million in PPE contracts to two companies tied to her husband and her cousin— by forging official documents to make the men appear as if they had been vouchsafed by top Chinese government officials.
For their trouble, Linda and her husband are alleged to have received millions in kickbacks, including $2.3 million washed through her cousin, with the total illicit windfall reaching as high as $8 million. Linda was charged in September for being a secret paid Chinese agent. Last week, the DOJ added yet more charges, for her covid bribery and fraud.
They lived large during the pandemic. Prosecutors say the illicit kickbacks funded the couple’s purchases of several multimillion-dollar properties and loads of luxury cars.
Governor Kathy Hochul fired Linda in 2023 after allegations of misconduct began to surface.
When you scratch off the surface of pandemic-era rhetoric about “safety” and “public health,” what you often find instead are enormous piles of unaccounted-for money, hastily written no-bid contracts, and crony enrichment pipelines. In Linda Sun’s case, it allegedly involved tens of millions funneled to family-linked companies through covid procurement schemes— plus side allegations of foreign influence by Chinese communists.Linda’s story is not just about a lone bad actor. Her story illustrates how the entire emergency powers structure —fast-tracked approvals, relaxed oversight, direct-award contracting— created a feeding frenzy for opportunists inside and outside government.
Once such a system is in place, who really wants it to stop? The masks and lockdowns may have been theater; the real show was backstage, in the spreadsheets and cash envelopes.
And the longer the “emergency” lasted, the longer the grift went on.
It wasn’t even close to just Linda Sun. New York City spent roughly $7 billion on pandemic supplies via emergency no-bid contracts. That included paying up to $7.50 per cloth mask. But when NYC auctioned off $225 million in surplus PPE, it only got $500,000— a massive loss for taxpayers.New Jersey’s comptroller recently issued a report titled, “Investigation Uncovers Waste, Abuse in Essex County’s $40 Million COVID-19 Vaccination Program.” Among many other examples, the report said, “One worker was paid $130,000 over 11 months, yet the County didn’t know who that person was or what the person did.”
Another example (of many) appeared in February’s New York Post:
Julio Medina, 51, a local “nonprofit boss” (i.e., community organizer and NGO scammer), was funneled $150 million for putting up inmates in New York hotels during the covid era. He scraped off a bunch for himself. Here’s Medina taking an envelope of cash from a major Eric Adams donor (Chinese, of course):
Another 2023 report cited over three thousand DOJ criminal cases, two thousand convictions, 524 individuals charged, and about $188 million in confirmed losses. The same report said the GAO had already flagged over 3.7 million potentially fraudulent federal covid loans. That’s almost four million loans that look sketchy. It probably amounts to billions.
There are many more examples.
☕️ GIFTS AND GRIFTS ☙ Monday, June 30, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Inside joke for Portland pals; Canada folds in Trump’s trade war; NYT says no right to bank account as Texas hurls gold into the vault; ACIP shock; China-linked Dem aide exposes pandemic grift; more.
www.coffeeandcovid.com
How China rewrote the U.S. Playbook for global influence
By Matt RoweFor decades, the United States stood as the embodiment of capitalism’s promise—an open market economy where innovation, investment, and individual enterprise fueled not just prosperity, but unprecedented global power. Throughout the 20th century, the U.S. leveraged its financial systems, corporate reach, technological leadership, and cultural influence to build an international order shaped largely in its image.
China studied that success story—and decided to rewrite it.
Image by ChatGPT.
Chinese leadership watched how the U.S., through profit-driven capitalism, created a platform for global dominance. Not through conquest, but through a distributed web of economic control: the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency, Silicon Valley as the center of digital life, Wall Street as the epicenter of capital, and a military-industrial complex underwritten by unmatched economic scale.
But unlike the U.S., China did not leave its ascent to market forces alone.
Instead, it began building what might be called power-directed capitalism: a hybrid model in which market mechanisms are permitted—encouraged, even—but only insofar as they serve the strategic goals of the state. The key difference is “purpose..”
Whereas the U.S. system directs economic policy toward capital gains, shareholder value, and private innovation, China channels its economy toward national power, strategic self-reliance, and global influence.
China’s model isn’t a rejection of capitalism—it’s a recalibration. Capital is still deployed for growth, competition still exists, and private enterprise plays a major role. But all of it occurs within strategic boundaries set by the Chinese Communist Party. Entire industries—AI, quantum computing, green energy, semiconductors—are not just markets; they’re battlegrounds for future supremacy.
Initiatives like Made in China 2025 and the Belt and Road Initiative aren’t just economic programs—they’re deliberate efforts to dominate supply chains, write global standards, and entrench Chinese influence in regions where Western liberal capitalism has retreated or stagnated.
How China rewrote the U.S. Playbook for global influence
It looked at what America did for profit and decided that it could do the same for power
U.S.-China Dual Citizen Pleads Guilty to Stealing Missile-Tracking Tech from L.A. Firm
The Department of Justice (DOJ) described Gong as a dual citizen of the United States and China. He came to the United States around 1993 and became a U.S. citizen in 2011. He earned a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Clemson and has done Ph.D. work at Stanford.
He was hired by the unnamed research and development firm in January 2023 as an “application-specific integrated circuit design manager responsible for the design, development and verification of its infrared sensors.”
Three months after he was hired, Gong allegedly began downloading thousands of files from his work computer to “personal storage devices.” Many of those files contained proprietary data and trade secrets, including details of a space-based system for detecting missile launches and tracking hypersonic weapons.
The company Gong took the files from was also involved with designing sensors that allow American military aircraft to detect and defeat heat-seeking missiles.
Gong was terminated by the “victim company” in April 2023. By that time, he had evidently accepted a job at a competing company, but he was still downloading sensitive files to his personal storage devices. DOJ said the data he downloaded was “worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Arizona woman who admitted to helping North Korean tech workers infiltrate US companies gets prison time
An Arizona woman is headed to prison for nearly a decade after perpetuating a fraudulent foreign worker scam that benefited the North Korean government.
Christina Marie Chapman, 50, was sentenced to 102 months in a federal lockup for an elaborate scheme that involved helping North Korean residents pose as US citizens and helping them get remote IT jobs at 309 American companies, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The identities of 68 Americans were stolen in the process.
Chapman’s scam generated more than $17 million for herself and the government of North Korea and was perpetuated from 2020 to 2023.
In furtherance of the operation, Chapman received and hosted laptops in her home from the companies she defrauded, which included a Fortune 500 company, a major TV network, a Silicon Valley tech company and others.
Two Chinese nationals arrested for illegally shipping AI microchips to China: DOJ
From October 2022 to July 2025, Geng and Yang allegedly knowingly and willfully exported from the U.S. to China the “most powerful [graphic processing unit] chip on the market,” which is “designed specifically for AI applications,” such as “to develop self-driving cars, medical diagnosis systems, and other AI-powered applications,” according to the criminal complaint.
The defendants allegedly exported the sensitive technology through their El Monte-based company, ALX Solutions Inc., without first obtaining the required license or authorization from the Commerce Department. The company was founded shortly after the department began requiring licenses for the advanced microchips that the defendants allegedly illegally exported, per the complaint.
A shipment from Dec. 2024 and at least 20 before that by ALX Solutions involved exports from the U.S. to shipping and freight-forwarding companies in Singapore and Malaysia, which are commonly used to conceal illegal shipments to China.
While ALX Solutions did not receive payments from the entities to which they purportedly exported goods, the company received numerous payments from companies based in Hong Kong and China, including a $1 million payment from a China-based company in January 2024.
Trump Demands Intel CEO’s Immediate Resignation Over Alleged Chinese Military Ties
Trump demands Intel CEO resign over alleged Chinese military ties, raising concerns for investors.