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05 EDITOR'S NOTE At Christian Times Magazine, our mission is to distinguish ourselves from those who are providing the world with fake news.

06 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH OLA HAWATMEH

Conservative Activist & Republican WRITE IN candidate in 19th congressional district New York

09 STRAIGHT OUTA GENEVA: A REAL-LIFE WHODUNNIT By Paul McCabe

EXCLUSIVE!

DEFUNDING THE POLICE: AN UNTENABLE ANSWER TO SYSTEMIC RACISM By Katherine Daigle

CHINA: OUR RELATIONSHIP OF CONVENIENCE IS NOT QUITE SO CONVENIENT ANYMORE By Katherine Schoonover

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exclusive interview Ola Hawatmeh

Conservative Activist & Republican WRITE IN candidate in 19th congressional district New York

ANIL: Thank You so much Ola to giving us opportunity to interview you.

ANIL: Why are you running for Congress?

OLA: I decided to run for Congress because as a first generation middle eastern Christian who grew up prideful of being an American and to see where this country is turning is very disheartening. Changes need to be made to save the greatest country and I feel like I can help make this changes.

ANIL: What do you hope to change by running for Congress?

OLA: Having pre-existing health conditions and a business woman I know what it’s like to work hard but we need to see a return on our investment. Farmers haven’t made money in 20 years... For them less USDA regulations and more tax cuts. A better health plan that serves the needs of those with pew existing health conditions without having high premiums and copay. Affordable, not free. Opioid epidemic working with treatment programs and teens to find a real solution to the problem, as it is a big problem in NY19. Improving the School system, better teachers, and more qualified counselors’ better curriculum.

ANIL: Why do you support the Republicans?

OLA: I support the Republicans because of their principles and my views are one of a Republican where I love my country, believe in protecting the constitution and especially the second amendment, a Christian with conservative views. And putting an end to stopping socialism.

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ANIL: Are there any other Republican presidents you like?

OLA: . President Reagan is my favorite President.

ANIL: How would you rate the way Trump is handling the coronavirus?

OLA: President Trump is handling Covid 19 well insuring PPE products and ventilators distributed timely.

ANIL: What chance do you think Biden has at beating Trump if any?

OLA:. I think Trump will win Biden by a huge PERCENTAGE %.

ANIL: What are your views on the way the Dems have handled the coronavirus?

OLA: I feel the Dems handles covid 19 in a bad way. The fact that they would agree to a three trillion dollar stimulus bill and in that bill are things of their agenda and has nothing to do with covid 19. Also in that bill was money to illegal aliens.

ANIL: Do you think the economy will recover by the time the coronavirus ends?

OLA: I do have faith in the economy recovering and everything resuming as normal but we have to work in

new face and as a middle eastern Christian conservative

a bipartisan fashion.

philanthropist and mother I think that’s the right dose to go after the squad .

ANIL: President Trump has achieved a lot, but what would you like to see him do after 2021?

OLA: I would like President Trump work more in a bipartisan fashion as I would like the democrats to have more respect for him.

ANIL: Do you think you have a good chance of getting elected? OLA: I’m leaving everything in God’s hands with my race but I do feel that the Republican party needs a

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Straight Outa Geneva: A Real-Life WHOdunnit By Paul McCabe

"Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise." â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

Here is a story of leviathan lies and international

One of the chief villains was born in the obscure east

intrigue, death and life, science and panic, disease and

African nation of Eritrea in 1965. In May 2017, with

desperation, policy and pandemic. It has all the

heavy support from China, he became the Director-

elements of a real and terrible shocking drama. This

General (D-G) of the World Health Organization

drama, like all the great ones, has heroes and villains.

(WHO) based in Geneva Switzerland.

The worst news is that it is true.

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At the time of the election there were widespread

On January 14 2020 WHO stated, “Preliminary

allegations of corruption and vote-buying. These were

investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities

centered on the 50 African countries that voted for

have found no clear evidence of human-to-human

him. The Obama administration had backed him too.

transmission of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

Unlike every past D-G, he is not a doctor of medicine

identified in Wuhan, China.” In Beijing two weeks

(MD). To be fair, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has a

later D-G Tedros met with China’s President Xi. After

degree in community health. He graduated from

that meeting Tedros commended China, saying “China

university in Ethiopia in 1986 in biology and went to

is setting new standards for outbreak control.” He

work in the regime of Marxist dictator Mengistu as a

praised the president for the “openness of the Chinese

health official there. The murderous Mengistu

government in sharing information” with WHO and

personally assassinated his predecessor, the

other countries. “China’s speed, China’s scale and

distinguished Emperor Haile Selassie, in 1975 when

China’s efficiency is the advantage”, Tedros pointed

the emperor was 83 years old.

out.

After the take-over the country was ruled by the

Despite growing evidence of China’s mishandling of

Marxist Derg military junta. According to the BBC,

the outbreak and rising domestic Chinese outrage over

Tedros then joined the hard-left Tigray People's

the government’s censorship, Tedros remains

Liberation Front (TPLF) - which started life as a

unmoved. On February 20 at the Munich Security

Communist party and played a major role in

Conference, he doubled down on his praise for China

overthrowing Mariam in 1991. Tedros’ family comes

stating that “China has bought the world time.”

from the Tigrayan tribe in northern Ethiopia. The

Moreover he called upon nations not to limit travel

TPLF was founded on principles of Marxism-

with China and warned against the “recrimination or

Leninism, revolutionary democracy, and Tigray

politicization” of the outbreak. These very big lies and

nationalism. It became part of the coalition of left-

others constitute a clear, unmistakable, serious

wing parties that ruled Ethiopia until last year.

dereliction of duty.

With a background like this, it is no wonder that the

Tedros’ inaction this year stands in stark contrast to

PRC government gave full backing to him and up to

WHO’s actions during the 2003 SARS outbreak in

$44 million in aid to his very poor country. At the

China. At that time, WHO D-G Dr. Gro Harlem

same time, China’s funding of WHO skyrocketed. UN

Brundtland made history by declaring the WHO’s first

records show that, during Tedros’ tenure in Geneva,

travel advisory in 55 years which recommended

contributions to the WHO by China rose from roughly

against travel to and from the disease epicenter in

$23 million in 2016 to $38 million in 2019. China has

southern China. Dr. Brundtland, a Norwegian MD,

also committed to a further $57 million in funding in

also criticized China for endangering global health by

2020, according to the UK’s Daily Mail.

attempting to cover up the outbreak through its usual playbook of arresting whistleblowers and censoring

The biennial WHO budget for 2020-2021 has been set

media.

at $4.84 billion, of which about 80% consists of voluntary contributions. These large amounts come

At the White House press conference April 14,

primarily from the US, Korea, Japan, Australia, UK,

President Trump announced that the US would stop

and the European Union. The largest single donor

funding WHO pending a review of its performance in

always has been the US, which contributed $419

the present COVID-19 pandemic. This involves

million in 2019, and played a key role in WHO’s

freezing $115.8 million for the 2020 budget and an

founding and financing in 1948. Its assessed funding

additional $80 million that remains outstanding

is the maximum amount under the rules at 22% of the

(unpaid) from previous years. The US review would

regular budget.

take place during a period of 60 to 90 days. The

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president said the WHO had promoted China's

Other nations are joining US efforts to find out what

"disinformation" about the coronavirus and had been

really happened in Wuhan and Geneva and in

too lenient with Beijing. The next day Tedros attacked

between. Australian Prime Minister S. Morrison called

the president, accusing the U.S. leader of politicizing

for an investigation into the emergence of the

the pandemic. “If you don’t want many more body

pandemic and the WHO’s response to the crisis.

bags, you refrain from politicizing it – please

Chinese officials tried to thwart any probe with

quarantine politicizing COVID,” Tedros told reporters

economic threats, but Australian officials refused to

at a news conference. This was another colossal

back down. Swedish Health Minister L. Hallengren on

distortion, one worthy of Goebbels.

April 29 called for a probe. Germany, British Foreign Secretary D. Raab, and the European Commission in

It is worth noting that the US quit UNESCO in

Brussels agreed.

October 2017 in the President’s first year in office. Israel quit too. Before that, the US had paid 22% of

A few days later Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported

UNESCO’s budget. President Reagan too in 1984

that “China deliberately suppressed or destroyed

ordered the US to leave UNESCO, citing

evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on

mismanagement, corruption, and pro-Soviet bias. In

international transparency’’ that cost tens of thousands

2003 President Bush allowed the US to rejoin. In a

of lives, according to a 15-page report prepared by

separate example, President Trump in August 2018

Western governments.” The report goes on to say that

directed the US State Department to stop funding the

to the “endangerment of other countries” the Chinese

UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Again, as

government covered-up news of the virus by silencing

in the cases of the WHO and UNESCO, the US was a

or “disappearing” doctors who spoke out, destroyed

founding member country and its major donor. US

evidence of it in laboratories, and refused to provide

contributions were about 30% of the whole UNWRA

live samples to international scientists who were

budget, providing $364 million in 2017.

working on a vaccine. The PRC lied and misled the world by a “deadly denial of human-to-human transmission.” For this nefarious purpose it used the WHO.

The new report summarized a sharply-focused investigation by the “Five Eyes” -- the intelligence agencies of the United States, Australia, NZ, Canada and the UK. “Despite evidence of human-human transmission from early December, Chinese On April 30, President Trump said he had seen evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in the Chinese city of Wuhan. White House reporters asked him whether he’s seen proof that the virus originated in the lab. “Yes, I have,” he said. When pressed on what gave him that confidence, he said: “I can’t tell you that. I am not allowed to tell you that.” But a statement from the Director of National Intelligence confirmed that it was looking into “whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”

authorities denied it until January 20,” it stated. “The World Health Organization did the same. Yet officials in Taiwan raised concerns as early as December 31, as did experts in Hong Kong on January 4.”

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In April 2020 the Council on Foreign Relations

McCaul (R-Texas). McCaul’s letter, signed by 17

published an article called Why Does the WHO

members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,

Exclude Taiwan? It conclusion was: “The WHO’s

supported the President’s withholding funding for the

exclusion of Taiwan from the global fight against the

WHO. The letter went on to say that the resumption

pandemic is reckless. WHO D-G Tedros, whose

of US contributions should be conditional on the

election was due in large part to China’s support, has

resignation of D-G Tedros. These members of the

been widely criticized for actions that appeared to help

Committee have lost faith in Tedros, and blamed the

China downplay the outbreak, delaying the

WHO and Chinese Communist Party for the extent of

international response as a result. Taiwan’s exclusion

the current global health crisis. Wikipedia notes that

is an example of how the world’s health body puts

“A whodunit or whodunnit (a colloquial elision of

politics before public health. Governments and

"Who [has] done it?") is a complex, plot-driven

concerned citizens must demand that the WHO fulfill

variety of the detective story in which the puzzle

its obligation—to represent the world’s health

regarding who committed the crime is the main

interests, not China’s—and hold the WHO

focus.” In this unusual and bizarre case in 2020, the

accountable when it fails.” From a human rights

international criminal guilty party is clear to all. Will

perspective, “authoritarianism is bad for your health,”

the WHO get rid of the corrupt and dishonest Tedros?

said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human

Will the major donors force him out? Maybe he could

Rights Watch. “We may never have a clear picture

just retire for reasons of health?

how the virus spread out and who died and why and who is denied access to treatments.” The world is now living with the consequences of the Chinese government’s censorship, Richardson said. “Not only do we have this problem now, we might have it again in the future.”

Close observers charge that Tedros is a puppet of the China government which installed him in office in 2017 and which still props him up with high levels of financing and effusive praise. Their view is that Tedros has led the WHO into betraying the people of the world by hiding critical information about the coronavirus and spreading false information during the early stages in order to protect China. WHO’s weak response to China’s mishandling of the COVID19 outbreak has laundered China’s image at the expense of the WHO’s credibility. The time is ripe for clear leadership from the WHO based on science not

“He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.” – Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

politics. “There’s a global recognition that China is responsible for this crisis, wasn’t transparent, and that not getting to the bottom of this could lead to future pandemics,” wrote the Atlantic Council’s Matthew Kroenig in April. A petition calling on Tedros to resign had more than one million signatures by the end of April 2020. Members of Congress and the Senate joined the fray, including M. Rubio (R-Florida) and seven other Senators as well as M.

Comments will be welcome at mccabepaul@hotmail.com

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Defunding the Police: An Untenable Answer to Systemic Racism By Katherine Daigle

Nearly every #BlackLivesMatter “BLM” protest that emerged in the wake of George Floyd’s death had a common demand to “defund” the police and today months later these anarchists are rioting and destroying America city by city. As easy as it may sound when reduced to slogans and words, this action, if allowed to materialize, would have consequences that spell nothing short of the collapse of society for the entire nation, one community at a time. The most zealotic of these demands even call for the dissolution of the entire police force.

Public discontent is rising and while their attention turns, politics and politicians are moving on pushing a narrative and using public resources to change the social framework and police reform efforts weaken. As an industry, law enforcement is supposed to prevent and address abuses of power with transparency and integrity. Law enforcement knowledge and experience is just not enough in today’s capitalist society as a revolution is being waged by those in power willing to promote and change the social order with the new culture of marxism.

The entire American policing needs transformation, not just individual local city and state, if implemented and carried out in the right way, benefits each one of us – ‘right way’ being the key term here in a new shift in a culture war similar

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to the “silent majority” that helped President Trump to

politics, walks on the faint line that lies in proximity to

win

the propagandization of our youth. We need to pay

the

White

House.

However,

anarchists

and

politicians have hijacked the movement and not in a

attention

the

agenda

that

underlies

the

good way. When encountered with problematic bad

clamoring for a structural breakdown of the entire

behavior you don’t discard it all together when there is

system.

the hope of a change; when there is hope that a few reforms

can

damages

from

long

taking

way

shape.

preventing

It’d

further

erroneous

if,

What

needs

done?

Anything

but

defunding

serves the purpose of bettering the system of policing

despite a less painful alternative, we decide to go the

for

hard way and drag ourselves into a deep abyss of

method of hiring. An increase in pay will also attract

anarchy.

the

This

why

police

reforms,

and

not

good.

One

deserving

can

candidates

dissolution, is important. In advocating for a complete

academies

scale-down in terms of funding, the discourse is being

centers

taken away from the original point of concern. Let us

feasible solutions.

for

perhaps

can

devise

into

transformed

development

the

well-suited

service.

into

Police

well-rounded

#defendpolice.

These

are

not overlook the good in policing. Moving beyond the larger appeal that calls for ‘defunding’ the force may

Giving in to the narratives popularized by extreme

hold what we need to address the real elephant in this

left-leaning entities in favor of a total metamorphosis

room.

of the American system of law and order is pretty much like amputating the limb that could have been

If the funds are cut down from the police force, it

treated

would be no surprise if the personnel and equipment

undoubtedly have to change, but a fanatic turn to this

are

transition cannot be justified or legitimized at any

retained,

dormant.

and

The

the

cadet

community

programs

‘Explorer’

turn

which

with

antiseptic

instead.

Things

cost.

seeks to enable collaboration between the youth and the police for facilitating community service would suffer from a reduced influx of funds. These programs which

aim

extending

elevating

support

the

standards

youth,

living,

contributing

personal development, will be most affected. They are crucial to constructive interactions between the force and

the

community.

anything,

defunding

also

means a larger bridge between the state and its people.

The service offered by the police is much needed to check on violence and crimes in our neighborhoods, and

our

nation’s

communities–

integrity.

simply

You

needed

cannot

secure

the

dismiss

the

necessity of policing. For those aiming to destabilize the nation and drive it down the road of anarchy and chaos, streets without a force to protect may be the ideal

world

claiming

their

Marxists

‘utopia’. by

The

all

BLM

right,

are

activists, feeding

further into the aesthetic rhetoric that an unpoliced world promises. The new age of protests, rooted in anti-establishment sentiments propagated by shrewd

Katherine Daigle

will

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China: Our Relationship of Convenience is Not Quite So Convenient Anymore By Katherine Schoonover

Washington D.C. – The United States (US) has had a

China. They complained when Trump demanded that

complex relationship with China over the years. They

China start operating on an even playing field with the

have offered us cheap labor and cheap products and

US, and scoffed at warnings that we needed to bring

we have gladly taken it all in exchange for quietly

some of our critical manufacturing back to the United

turning a blind eye to their spying, stealing, strategic

States. Then the pandemic hit and the reality of just

investments, trade deficits, slave wages, human rights

how much we had come to rely on China became

violations, and what it would all mean for the US and

clear. Not only did we realize how dangerously

the world in the long-term. Some opportunists got

overly reliant we had become on China, but we also

rich by making business deals with the Chinese but

discovered just how unreliable and untrustworthy a

most simply enjoyed being able to purchase

trading partner China really was.

inexpensive products. While many failed to recognize, or chose to disregard, the broader implications of China’s activities, others have been watching their maneuvering like hawks with deep concern.

“One of the state controlled newspapers in China explicitly threatened...to cut off pharmaceuticals to the American market”

The situation has now become one that we can no

Beyond merely withholding critical information

longer afford to ignore. The reality of the precarious

regarding the dangerous new coronavirus "China has

position that we have placed ourselves in became

systematically targeted the U.S. supply chain...going

apparent to us all as the repercussions were thrust in

after critical infrastructure,” according to Senator Ted

our faces by shocking shortages and misinformation

Cruz (R-TX). “Just a few months ago, one of the state

relating to the pandemic. We discovered that we had

controlled newspapers in China explicitly threatened

incrementally outsourced so much of our critical

during this pandemic to cut off pharmaceuticals to the

manufacturing over the years that we did not realize

American market as a tool of economic

just how vulnerable we had made ourselves to a

warfare...That's not economic warfare, merely, that is

trading partner who is more of an adversary than an

actual warfare. That is literally threatening the lives

ally.

and safety of millions of Americans who rely on medication to just stay alive and healthy.”

Not long ago there were numerous skeptics who thought that President Trump and others who voiced

In addition to China’s perfidy, we were shocked to

concerns over China were merely alarmists, and that

discover that individuals and organizations that we

these alarmists were the ones causing the trouble with

believed that we could rely on, at least when it came

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to a worldwide health crisis at least, had been lying to

For far too long the US has based the vast majority of

us. The World Health Organization (WHO), which we

its strategic planning relating to China on a

help fund, was apparently in China’s back pocket the

dangerously shortsighted view of our trading partner.

whole time and had been lying to the world in order to

We have allowed China to walk all over us when

protect the Chinese government. The coverup by

making trade deals that routinely left the US with a

China and its allies prevented us from taking critical

trade deficit, in addition to not using the opportunity

steps to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading

to address their routine espionage and theft of

throughout the globe, which may be why it ended up

intellectual property. Whether our actions were based

becoming a pandemic in the first place, and one that

on naivete, incompetence, self-interest, or any variety

we are still struggling with today.

of lack of long-term strategic planning, we have foolishly left ourselves exposed to a dangerous enemy.

Short-Term vs. LongTerm Strategic Thinking

China’s Methods

While China’s actions have been unacceptable, so is

Although the US remained oblivious to the war that

our failure to adequately monitor and interpret the

China

actions of a key trading partner, as well as developing

simultaneously trading with us, China has been busy

proper long and short-term strategies to deal with our

and effective.

was

waging

our

country,

while

“frenemy” (friend-enemy) China. Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI, outlined We did not merely allow ourselves to become overly

the depth and breadth of China’s efforts in July.

reliant on a single hostile trading partner. We seriously

explained that what “the American people need to

underestimated and misjudged a dangerous opponent.

understand

We have not taken China and its long-term goals

sophisticated

seriously and are paying the price for our arrogance

intrusions to corrupting trusted insiders. They’ve even

and

engaged

neglect

speak.

China

has

been

economic war with us for years and apparently, we

pioneered

were too blind to realize it.

that

China

uses

diverse

techniques—everything

outright an

physical

expansive

theft.

approach

range

from

cyber

And

they’ve

stealing

Our dealings with China

innovation through a wide range of actors—including

have been shortsighted, to say the least, and almost

not just Chinese intelligence services but state-owned

entirely

enterprises,

focused

short-term

goals

while

China

has

been playing the long game from the beginning.

kinds

ostensibly

graduate

private

students

and

companies, researchers,

certain and

whole variety of other actors working on their behalf.” Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) described China’s long-term strategic goals well.

"In my judgement, China poses

Director Wray went on to elaborate on the techniques

the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United

used

States

engage in what China believes is “a generational fight

short

to surpass our country in economic and technological

over

understand

the that

century.

[China’s]

It's

objectives

important are

not

the

term. They are fighting a thousand year war and their

leadership.”

objectives

espionage,

are

nothing

short

complete,

global

Chinese

They

Communist

have

clandestine

Party

engaged

operations,

(CCP)

economic

infiltration

domination [...] I think the most lasting foreign policy

academia, “malign foreign influence,” violations of

consequence

the law, and have been “exploiting our openness” for

fundamental

reevaluation

relationship

with

the

coronavirus

China

relationship with China.”

of and

the

pandemic United

indeed,

the

States world's

their benefit. espionage

China has been engaging in economic stealing

intellectual

property

and

“violating our export controls and conflict-of-interest

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rules.” They are using hackers to “steal our corporate

Huawei and ZTE are both examples of Chinese tech

and personal data” and are “using both military and

companies that have just recently been designated as

non-state hackers to do it.”

national

security

threats

the

Communications Commission (FCC). They

are

infiltrating

academia

through

“recruiting

programs like the Thousand Talents Program” where they

pay

“scientists

American

universities

secretly bring our knowledge and innovation back to China—including valuable, federally funded research. To put it bluntly, this means American taxpayers are effectively

footing

the

bill

for

China’s

own

Federal

Until mid-July,

the UK was considering allowing Huawei equipment access to its 5G network but has since banned it. Senator Rubio (R-FL) and other top US officials were concerned that this would “endanger” the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance, as we share information between us.

No doubt we are all breathing a sigh of

relief now that the deal is dead.

technological development. China then leverages its ill-gotten gains to undercut U.S. research institutions and companies, blunting our nation’s advancement and costing American jobs."

China has had spy cells everywhere, including the US. Just

recently

described “central

China is using malign foreign influence, a term to describe the use of “subversive, undeclared, criminal, or

coercive

attempts

sway

our

government’s

policies, distort our country’s public discourse, and undermine

confidence

our

democratic

processes

and values.” This is done through “bribery, blackmail, and covert deals. Chinese diplomats also use both open,

naked

economic

pressure

and

seemingly

spying

by node

Chinese

Senator in

operations

the

Marco

and

Chinese

government

Rubio

Chinese

that

security

consulate

sought

democracy,” was

was

Houston,

(R-FL)

Communist to

undermine

shut

engaged

Party’s

down.

our The

“commercial

espionage, defense espionage, also influence agents to try

influence

“businessmen

Congress.” fronts

They

many

were

cases

using try

influence Members of Congress and other political leaders at the state and local level.”

independent middlemen to push China’s preferences.”

They

are

using

variety

pressures

force

academics, journalists, diplomats, and elected officials to “self-censor” and this includes public remarks about

We Need to Get in the Game

China and COVID-19. Unlike the US, the Chinese have not been letting the China is also targeting Chinese nationals around the world

through

“a

program

known

‘Fox

Hunt’”

which pressures and threatens those who may discuss “political

rivals,

dissidents,

and

critics

seeking

As China is a Communist nation, unlike the US which a

free

country,

China

requires

that

there

“Communist Party ‘cells’” placed within all Chinese companies. business

government risks.”

Any individual or company engaging in

with

Chinese

opens

itself

company up

us everywhere, planting spies, stealing our intellectual property, selling our own ideas back to us for half the price, and most importantly, making plans for the future.

expose China’s extensive human rights violations.”

grass grow under their feet. They have been watching

the

Chinese

significant

security

We cannot afford to ignore what is now crystal clear. China has been at war with the United States, whether we knew it or not. They were not interested in working as our slave labor force, cheerfully making a thousand plastic cups for 10 cents. We allowed our monumental egos to cloud our judgement and to convince us that their willingness to do our dirty work was nothing more than a few simple business deals, or them wanting to be our permanent underclass overseas.

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“China has been at war with the United States, whether we knew it or not” We cannot continue to trade our future for temporary convenience or a little amusement. We have to draw lines in the sand and say no to Trojan horses like TikTok and Huawei’s 5G. It is not going to be easy because we have become a little spoiled, but we either deal with this now or we wait until the problem is even harder to solve.

I suggest that we tighten our belts a bit, eat a little humble pie, learn to do our own dirty work, and stop jeopardizing our future for the present.

By Katherine Schoonover

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