The China crisis is bigger than Biden's blunders

Contrary to what Joe Biden says, Russia is not the biggest threat facing the United States. The biggest national threat that we’re not talking about is the Chinese Communist Party.

The corporate media and our political leaders are too often stuck on Russia and alleged Russian disinformation. Not that Russia isn’t a problem or a threat. It certainly is both. But Russia’s efforts are almost amateur compared to the sophistication of the Chinese Communist Party in its escalating war against the United States. Our leaders and our media are obsessed with the wrong enemy.

The Chinese Communist Party must be in awe of how easy we’re making it for them.

Sure, individual incidents involving China get reported and discussed, but there is nowhere near the urgent, sustained focus that this threat requires. Every day now, China is probing and exploiting American vulnerabilities — vulnerabilities that are frequently the direct result of left-wing policies and leadership. And that’s absolutely what we’re engaged with. This is what Sun Tzu meant when he said that “the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” They are rotting us from the inside.

Probing weaknesses

Consider how China exploits our open borders. The Chinese are in business with the drug cartels. They are actually the “big dog” in the illicit drug industry, and the Mexican drug cartels are the second in line. Most of the drugs that are coming over our border, particularly fentanyl, have been manufactured through ingredients and supplies that come from China.

The Chinese sell the equipment to press fentanyl into pills under the guise of Adderall or any other prescription drug so people will be fooled by it. Then the drug cartels are using this equipment to press pills of death that they send over our borders at the expense of our children’s lives. Why is nobody talking about that?

The same reason we must talk about that spy balloon. Remember the Chinese spy balloon last year? It was spotted by a reporter in Montana on February 1, then it was allowed to drift across the United States for three more days, soaring over major cities and military bases, before it was finally shot down by the U.S. Air Force off the coast of South Carolina. In December, U.S. intelligence officials revealed that the balloon used a U.S.-based internet service provider to navigate and send high-bandwidth collections of data back to China while it made its way across American airspace.

Last month, a Freedom of Information Act request by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project found 14 instances since 2018 of Chinese nationals attempting to enter the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor while also conducting surveillance, including flying drones over the base. In September, a Chinese man and woman were found taking photos and video near a Pearl Harbor security entrance before fleeing in a car with unidentified plates. There have been 100 similar incidents in recent years of Chinese nationals, often posing as tourists, who have tried to access military bases across the country.

Thanks to the Biden administration’s wide-open border policy, China has a much easier way to get these potential spies inside the United States. During Biden’s three years in office, more than 133,000 Chinese nationals have been encountered at the border, almost 30,000 of those just since last October. There are now more Chinese nationals crossing the border in San Diego than Mexican nationals.

Just last week, three Chinese nationals were arrested trying to cross the border into Maine from Canada in the middle of the night. A fourth, who was driving a car, was arrested on suspicion of attempting to assist the others. Last year, a Border Patrol memo identified 270 suspected properties in rural Maine that are used for illegal marijuana growing and operated by Chinese nationals. The massive profits are funneled back to China or used to finance other illegal activities, including drug and human trafficking.

Self-inflicted wounds

In San Francisco, U.S. sovereignty is being undermined in absurd ways, like a law passed in 2020 that eliminates the requirement to be a U.S. citizen to hold seats on city boards. San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors last month unanimously appointed Kelly Wong to the city’s Elections Commission. Wong is not an American citizen. She’s been in the United States since 2019 and is an immigrant rights activist from Hong Kong.

Wong may have absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese Communist Party. But what if someone in that position did? San Francisco now has someone who is not a U.S. citizen, and cannot legally vote, in charge of supervising its elections.

Regardless where Wong’s national loyalties lie, her political loyalty is apparently left-wing because she works for a group called Chinese for Affirmative Action. According to its most recently published annual report, it is funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Google, and the Tides Foundation, among many other far-left groups.

And then there is one of the most immediately pressing threats to Americans – the Chinese government’s hacking operation.

Last year, the Chinese military hacked into around two dozen U.S. power and water utilities and communications and transportation systems. They breached a water utility in Hawaii, a major port on the West Coast, an oil and gas pipeline, and attempted to hack into the Texas power grid operator.

Despite these urgent threats, in 2022 the Biden administration shut down the “China Initiative” at the Department of Justice. It was a program started in 2018 to prosecute economic espionage and stop the stealing of intellectual property by Chinese government agents. Why did they shut it down? Because left-wing activists said the program allowed the FBI to target Asian Americans unfairly.

A bipartisan affliction

The CCP must be in awe of how easy we’re making it for them. China is flooding the U.S. with such a wide spectrum of attacks that they tend to blend into the background noise of our national chaos. Too few of these attacks get the sustained attention they deserve from our media and leaders.

Why is our administration not doing anything about the border? Why is California Governor Gavin Newsom visiting China and not talking about fentanyl? I believe these people have surrounded themselves with Chinese operatives and Chinese money. I don’t think these people want to answer any questions because their own corruption would be exposed.

So, what does all this mean? At the very minimum, it means that impeachment is probably not enough for this crime. But it’s not just the Democrats, and it’s not just the Bidens. It's the Republicans, too. No one is pointing the finger at China because it would land on their own complicity. Don’t be convinced that China is a lesser threat to America due to the media and political leaders’ inaction and lack of coverage. China is the greatest threat facing our country, and our leaders’ inaction speaks for itself.

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