And this morning Twitter is hacked and going down all over the world.
Coincidence... I think not.
Coincidence... I think not.
CCP Actions In The US And Around The World
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China Is Openly Infiltrating Our Political System And The American Media Doesn’t Seem To Care
Reporters are supposed to be different. They are supposed to search for the truth. They are supposed to ask tough questions. Of course, the legacy media did not do that. In reporting on the whole incident, corporate media outlets have yet to examine the actual facts Lenczycki unearthed. They instead summarily wrote his work off as “unsubstantiated.” Lenczycki’s reporting is well-documented, and, more importantly, it’s on the web for anyone to analyze. Any reporter who felt the need to further substantiate it could go to his articles, find links to the source materials and experts who commented, and do all the necessary substantiation. But not a single corporate media reporter did that. Why? They don’t want to get to the truth. They don’t like where it may lead. It’s much cleaner to call it “unsubstantiated” or “racist” and write it off. This is the same way they handled the Hunter Biden laptop story, the story of whether COVID came from a lab in China and so many other story lines that they do not want to explore for political reasons.
It’s important to note that Lenczycki never once alleged in his reporting that either Ng or Chu were knowingly doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. He didn’t allege that because he doesn’t know if it’s true. What is true is that both parties have troubling ties to alleged Chinese intelligence front groups. Besides tarring those looking into these serious allegations as “racists,” both Chu and Ng have defended themselves either by totally denying any affiliations with these groups or by downplaying any ties as having fizzled out years ago.
There could be some truth to that, but these top American leaders’ mere associations with parties doing the bidding for the increasingly brutal Chinese Communist state is worthy of more scrutiny. This is doubly true in this case, where the subjects’ excuses don’t line up with all the available facts. And if it’s all innocent, then it seems really odd that these alleged Chinese intelligence groups are busy scrubbing their websites to try to retroactively cover their tracks.
The corporate media has not pressed Ng and Chu on any of this. Chinese Communist influence operations in America are not a story that interests them. Besides NBC News, none of the media outlets branding Lenczycki’s reporting as “racist” even reached out for comment — a journalistic norm that Lenczycki offered to both Ng and Chu numerous times without success.
WSJ reports that the ZPMC cranes made by the Chinese company are "comparably well-made and inexpensive" compared to other cranes produced by other manufacturers, but "they contain sophisticated sensors that can register and track the provenance and destination of containers, prompting concerns that China could capture information about materiel being shipped in or out of the country to support U.S. military operations around the world."
ZPMC, according to WSJ, "is a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co., a leading contractor for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative to develop infrastructure and trade links across Asia, Africa and beyond." In 2020, five units of the China Communications Construction Company saw their access to American technology "limited," due to the company's "role in Beijing’s military-civil fusion program, among other factors."
The WSJ report quoted the former cybersecurity lead at the port of Houston who warned "t wouldn't be hard for an attacker to disable one sensor on a crane and prevent the crane from moving" because the "systems aren't designed for security, they are designed for operations."
Among other worries enumerated in the report, some fear that the ZPMC cranes could, in addition to being shut down by an outside attacker or tracking what is moving in and out of U.S. ports, be turned into sabotage devices to cripple American ports without a foe needing to float its navy into U.S. waters.
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ZPMC, according to WSJ, "is a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co., a leading contractor for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road initiative to develop infrastructure and trade links across Asia, Africa and beyond." In 2020, five units of the China Communications Construction Company saw their access to American technology "limited," due to the company's "role in Beijing’s military-civil fusion program, among other factors."
The WSJ report quoted the former cybersecurity lead at the port of Houston who warned "t wouldn't be hard for an attacker to disable one sensor on a crane and prevent the crane from moving" because the "systems aren't designed for security, they are designed for operations."
Among other worries enumerated in the report, some fear that the ZPMC cranes could, in addition to being shut down by an outside attacker or tracking what is moving in and out of U.S. ports, be turned into sabotage devices to cripple American ports without a foe needing to float its navy into U.S. waters.
US Ports Full of This 'Trojan Horse' From China
Chinese Rocket That Launched Spy Satellites Breaks up Over Texas
The four-ton rocket reentered the atmosphere on Wednesday at 17,000 miles per hour and disintegrated, but it’s only being reported now. While they haven’t found any debris yet from the rocket stage, they’re saying the debris field could be miles wide and hundreds of miles long. It’s not clear what kind of a hazard this could pose, and the Chinese have had issues in the past with space debris like this.
Several times during the article, the authors stressed that China views Iraqi reconstruction as “more than just a brick-and-mortar exercise,” but a way to spread China’s political and cultural influence under the rubric of helping Iraqis realize their “hopes and dreams.”
Chinese managers such as Wu Lin of Tianjin International Marine Engineering Co., which is spearheading an Iraqi port project seen as part of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative (BRI), are making an effort to exploit the lingering resentments of Iraqis over the U.S. invasion:
Chinese managers such as Wu Lin of Tianjin International Marine Engineering Co., which is spearheading an Iraqi port project seen as part of China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative (BRI), are making an effort to exploit the lingering resentments of Iraqis over the U.S. invasion:
China Brags About Slowly Taking over Iraq 20 Years After U.S. Invasion
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday boasted that Chinese companies are taking a leading role in the reconstruction of Iraq.
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Outrage brewing over plans for China-linked battery company in Michigan: 'Don’t want CCP in our small town'
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon blasted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Wednesday for moving forward with plans to allow $715 million dollars of taxpayer money to fund a Chinese Communist Party-linked business in the state.
Gotion High tech-Co., a battery company based in Hefei, China, announced its plans last year for a roughly $2.4 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Big Rapids, Mich. that would bring an estimated 2,350 jobs to the state, according to a press release from Whitmer’s office.
Dixon, however, said a CCP-linked business shouldn’t be allowed to operate in the state and called out Whitmer for allowing the company to come to Michigan.
China sanctions US groups, Taiwan official over Tsai's visit
China announced sanctions against two Asia-based organizations, two US-based organization's and against Taiwan's representative to the United States on Friday.
The sanctions are a retaliation to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen's recent visit to the United States and her meeting with US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California.
China previously announced that it would take countermeasures against Taiwan's engagement with the US.
"We will take resolute measures to punish the 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces and their actions, and resolutely safeguard our country's sovereignty and territorial integrity," China's Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement Thursday, calling Tsai and her political party separatists.
Two NYC Residents Arrested for Running CCP Police Station in U.S.
Chinese government operatives are already acting as law enforcement in America. Two residents of New York City have been arrested as the Justice Department says they were secretively running a police station in America for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
With China becoming increasingly hostile and autocratic toward the United States, and revelations of worrying financial ties between President Joe Biden and the CCP, shutting down these CCP police stations has perhaps never been more vital.
The Post Millennial reported on April 17:
Two criminal complaints included charges against 44 defendants, 40 of whom are part of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) while another two are officials in the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC). The defendants allegedly partook in efforts to target Chinese individuals with political viewpoints of which the communist regime does not approve.
The first complaint targets 34 MPS officials, detailing their alleged use of fake digital personas to harass Chinese opponents of the communist regime. The operators of these fake accounts also made videos and wrote articles critical of U.S. policy on China and of Chinese dissidents.
The second complaint charges 10 individuals, six of whom are MPS officials. Two more are the CAC officials while the third is an China-based employee of a U.S. telecommunications company and the tenth is believed to reside in Indonesia. They face charges of conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification.
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The first complaint targets 34 MPS officials, detailing their alleged use of fake digital personas to harass Chinese opponents of the communist regime. The operators of these fake accounts also made videos and wrote articles critical of U.S. policy on China and of Chinese dissidents.
The second complaint charges 10 individuals, six of whom are MPS officials. Two more are the CAC officials while the third is an China-based employee of a U.S. telecommunications company and the tenth is believed to reside in Indonesia. They face charges of conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer means of identification.
Feds charge 40 Chinese police officials for repression efforts against U.S. residents
News of the charges comes the same day that the DOJ announced charges against individuals suspected of operating a clandestine police station in New York City on behalf of the Chinese National Police.
Beijing Exports Religious Suppression by Printing Propaganda in US Textbooks: Report
https://img.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2023/05/30/id5300395-GettyImages-80729271-1200x800.jpgTitled “Surveillance, Slander, and Censorship,” the report released on May 25 by the New York-based Falun Dafa Information Center surveyed dozens of university campuses across the United States with a presence of Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline heavily persecuted in communist China, to examine how the Chinese regime’s persecution is affecting adherents of the faith in the United States.
It found that at least 10 universities, including Yale University, Brown University, the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan, and Wellesley College, use curriculum materials for a Chinese language course that contained defamatory propaganda about the spiritual practice.
The textbook, titled “Discussing Everything Chinese,” contains a section on Falun Gong that “attempts to legitimize the CCP’s religious persecution against Falun Gong by misrepresenting the practice and framing its adherents as possessing psychological problems,” the report stated, using the acronym for the Chinese Communist Party.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline involving meditative exercises and moral teachings based on three core principles: truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice gained popularity in China during the 1990s, with estimates putting the number of adherents at 70 million to 100 million.
The communist regime, fearing that the number of practitioners posed a threat to its authoritarian control, initiated a sweeping campaign starting in July 1999 and continues today, to suppress the practice and its adherents.
COVID-19: A 'biological 9/11'
By John Dale DunnThis June 3 remarkable essay by Brandon Weichert, former congressional staffer and essayist, author, and geopolitical analyst, is adapted from a book he wrote on Chinese ambitions and commitment to world dominance, Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life (Encounter, 272 pages, $30.99).
He opens his discourse on the Chicom attack by quoting People's Army officials in a 2015 document, "The Unnatural Origins of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons." They stated, "Coronaviruses can be artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed in a way never seen before."
Then comes an in-depth history of the Wuhan Lab, which explains why and how Wuhan became a bioweapon lab (yes, it did become a bioweapons lab):
- China did not want, nor could it be successful in, a traditional war, and China wanted and needed international trade.
- Xi knew that Donald Trump had a large army of domestic enemies who hated him.
- A biological attack would be bloodless, be less risky, and give opportunities to Trump's enemies, China's friends.
- Wuhan took so long (15 years) to build because China continually made it so it could be a bioweapons producer when it was supposed to be for civilian research (BSL-4 designation).
- A French firm, RTV (indirectly owned by China), provided the tech for the Wuhan lab, and French intelligence knew and continued to warn about the Wuhan lab having bioweapons capability.
- The nature of the COVID-19 virus is a virulent respiratory virus modified by gain of function genetic manipulation to be lethal and infectious for humans and transmitted human to human.
A Chinese intelligence agency quietly operates “service centers” in seven American cities, all of which have had contact with Beijing’s national police authority, according to state media reports and government records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) — which at least one U.S. government commission has characterized as a “Chinese intelligence service” — operates so-called “Overseas Chinese Service Centers” (OCSCs) that are housed within various U.S.-based nonprofits. OCSCs were ostensibly set up to promote Chinese culture and assist Chinese citizens living abroad, according to Chinese government records.
State media reports, Chinese government records and social media posts show that during a 2018 trip to China, U.S.-based OCSC representatives met with Ministry of Public Security (MPS) officials. During the meeting, state security officials demonstrated how they’re leveraging new technology to conduct “cross-border remote justice services” overseas.
MPS is China’s national police authority and has been referred to as “China’s FBI” by China experts. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says MPS also conducts covert “intelligence and national security operations far beyond China’s borders,” including “illicit, transnational repression schemes” on U.S. soil.
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The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department (UFWD) — which at least one U.S. government commission has characterized as a “Chinese intelligence service” — operates so-called “Overseas Chinese Service Centers” (OCSCs) that are housed within various U.S.-based nonprofits. OCSCs were ostensibly set up to promote Chinese culture and assist Chinese citizens living abroad, according to Chinese government records.
State media reports, Chinese government records and social media posts show that during a 2018 trip to China, U.S.-based OCSC representatives met with Ministry of Public Security (MPS) officials. During the meeting, state security officials demonstrated how they’re leveraging new technology to conduct “cross-border remote justice services” overseas.
MPS is China’s national police authority and has been referred to as “China’s FBI” by China experts. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says MPS also conducts covert “intelligence and national security operations far beyond China’s borders,” including “illicit, transnational repression schemes” on U.S. soil.
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Intel Arm Quietly Operates ‘Service Centers’ In 7 US Cities
A Chinese intelligence agency quietly operates “service centers” in seven American cities, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.
Chinese nationals crossing US border with 'really disturbing' intentions, expert warns
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., claimed last week that "10,000-plus" Chinese nationals have been apprehended in fiscal year 2023, "a massive 300% increase" from the year prior.
May saw some of the busiest days at the border ahead of the end of the Title 42 public health order on May 11. The order had allowed for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the southern border since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and its looming end brought fears of a new migrant wave at the border – even amid an already historic crisis.
Chinese immigrants who are military-age males are more likely tied to "acts of sabotage, assassinations, detonation of bombs," Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang said on "Mornings with Maria" Monday. (Getty Images/Photo illustration / Fox News)
Chang stressed that while some individuals may be escaping China’s "pessimism" and distressed economy, others come with bad intentions.
"I think that we're going to see acts of sabotage, assassinations, detonation of bombs, starting wildfires," Chang argued. "And the Biden administration is paying no attention to this at all."
Chinese state-linked hackers secretly accessed email accounts at around 25 organizations, including government agencies, in a sweeping cyberespionage campaign, Microsoft said Wednesday.
Microsoft did not say which organizations or governments had been affected by the digital intrusion, but the White House said the U.S. had reported it to Microsoft.
National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge said in a statement on Wednesday that an intrusion in Microsoft's cloud security had "affected unclassified systems."
"Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," he added.
"We detected it fairly rapidly and we were able to prevent further breaches. The matter is still being investigated so I have to leave it there," National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
The number of U.S. email accounts believed to be affected so far is limited, and the attack appeared targeted, The Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed source. Pentagon, intelligence community, and military email accounts did not appear to be affected, the Post reported.
Microsoft did not say which organizations or governments had been affected by the digital intrusion, but the White House said the U.S. had reported it to Microsoft.
National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge said in a statement on Wednesday that an intrusion in Microsoft's cloud security had "affected unclassified systems."
"Officials immediately contacted Microsoft to find the source and vulnerability in their cloud service," he added.
"We detected it fairly rapidly and we were able to prevent further breaches. The matter is still being investigated so I have to leave it there," National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
The number of U.S. email accounts believed to be affected so far is limited, and the attack appeared targeted, The Washington Post reported, citing an unnamed source. Pentagon, intelligence community, and military email accounts did not appear to be affected, the Post reported.
Chinese Hackers Spied on the State and Commerce Departments
The hacks were probably affiliated with China’s military and spy services, the New York Times reported, and they began after months of increasing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Republicans have called on the administration to halt its pursuit of a thaw, given the spy-balloon incident, China’s ongoing cooperation with Cuba, and the country’s treatment of the Uyghurs and Taiwan.
The State Department learned that a number of employees had their accounts compromised on June 16. Blinken’s trip nonetheless went ahead later that day and for the next several days. Other administration officials either have made or will make visits to China, including Treasury secretary Janet Yellen and climate envoy John Kerry.
News of the hacks was first disclosed by Microsoft. The company said in a Tuesday report that approximately 25 organizations had been targeted since May by a China-based adversary called Storm-0558. When the State Department learned of the hacks, it contacted the company because the hack penetrated Microsoft infrastructure.
'The deadliest threat America's ever faced': Mass-produced in China, trafficked from Puerto Rico and available online for just $1 a KILO — why the flesh-rotting zombie drug 'tranq' has the DEA terrified
- Xylazine, also known as 'tranq,' is a sedative often mixed with fentanyl
- Manufactured from China and popular in Puerto Rico, it's now sweeping the US
- READ MORE: Minute by minute, what happens to the body when you take 'tranq'
Another bizarre story corporate media is busy ignoring appeared in the California Globe yesterday headlined, “Mysterious Chinese COVID Lab Uncovered in City of Reedley CA.”
It sounds just like a made-for-TV script. A female Reedly code enforcement officer was sent out to an abandoned warehouse to check on a suspicious garden hose suggesting someone might be illegally using water on the wrong day of the week. By the time it was all over, that garden-hose call wound up involving a dozen federal agencies and exposing what looks just like a secret, low-budget Chinese bioweapons lab right.
“I’ve never seen this in my 26-year career with the County of Fresno,” said Assistant Director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health Joe Prado.
When local officials entered, they found a Chinese staff allegedly making Covid-19 test kits, plus: 900 genetically-engineered humanized mice, over 30 freezers and refrigeration units, incubators, blood, 800 different chemicals, tissue and other bodily fluid samples, thousands of vials containing unlabeled fluids, and over 20 potentially infectious bacterial, viral, and parasitic agents like: coronavirus, HIV, chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, and malaria.
From what I can tell, the warehouse didn’t even rate a biosafety level at all. Based on what they found, it should have been biosafety level 4, but instead it sounds more like it was biosafety level zero, unless there’s something lower than that. This one made the other Chinese bioweapons lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, look like something so clean and germ-free you could eat a steak dinner off of it.
And, needless to say, the kinds of dangerous, infectious biological agents they found in the warehouse require special federal permits. But the biolab operation had no permits of any kind, not even a local business license. It was figuratively and literally invisible; you couldn’t even tell it was open from the outside, apart from the hose, of course.
Code inspectors returning with a warrant found workers inside the lab who identified the owner as Nevada-based Prestige Biotech, Inc., and lamely claimed the lab was being used to make covid and pregnancy test kits. Covid and pregnancy seem like an odd combination. And despite repeated attempts by state and federal officials, as far as I can tell, nobody has managed to get a straight answer or figure out who or what owns Prestige Biotech or even where its headquarters are.
"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," an NBC report on the story explained.
NBC’s article suggested federal investigations continue, but didn’t identify which agency was investigating what. It’s not even clear that NBC knows whether or not there’s an investigation at all.
You’d think this kind of thing would be big news these days, what with corporate media’s fascination with pandemics and infectious diseases. But, while it appears to be obsessed with “manmade” climate change, corporate media ignores manmade fires that are causing climate change. In the same way, corporate media is disinterested in manmade pandemics caused by rogue Chinese agents or even crappy biosafety conditions in secret California labs, no matter how dramatic the facts.
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