Beware of China

The former top U.S. intelligence official, John Ratcliffe, has warned that China is the greatest threat to democracy and freedom since the Second World War.

Similar warnings have come from Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, and Christopher Wray, the current chief of the FBI. Therefore, we can be under no illusions about the threat to our personal lives, to our economic security and our personal liberty coming from communist China.

Remember, the Korean War was not so much a war against North Korea, as a war against the Communist Chinese government.

In light of these warnings, we need to ask pointed questions to our federal and state governments on why certain facts are occurring.

Why do we permit 290,086 Chinese students in America, many of whom are graduate students, working in high technology areas, when we know for sure that many of China’s technological advances have been due to the stealing of both military and commercial new technologies by Chinese nationals in America and the corrupting of professors in American universities? Did You Know? has just discovered that Chinese companies are now buying up American, private K-12 schools across the country. It appears that these buyers are using, what might be a loophole in F1 US visas, to enable Chinese students to go through all grades prior to applying to U.S. universities.” resolved at the next hearing. Not until policymakers realize that perpetually high gas prices in California are not the product of a nefarious industry preying on its customers but due to a misguided tax regime and regulatory agenda. Gov. Newsom got the wreck rolling when last fall he assured Californians that “oil companies are ripping you off” and claimed “their record profits are coming at your expense at the pump.”

Why have we permitted Chinese companies and investors to buy 384,000 acres of land in America, some of which is adjacent to American military bases?

He wants lawmakers to pass a bill that punishes oil companies if they don’t comply with a government price structure that will be based on the politics of the moment.

“If they won’t lower their prices,” he threatened, “we will do it for them.”

A little more than a week before the first hearing, the governor’s press office bragged that “lots of progress is being made on @ CAgovernor’s price gouging penalty proposal to hold Big Oil accountable.”

“No other subnational government in the world has proposed such an aggressive measure to hold Big Oil accountable so the governor and Legislature are committed to getting the details of this right.”

But lawmakers aren’t yet buying it. Progressive Sen. Dave Min, D-Irvine, told the committee that “we don’t really have a smoking gun as far as I can see that shows intentional collusion.”

Fuel prices are determined by markets, which set the price of everything bought and sold, and when those markets are skewed by public policy, prices are either artificially inflated or artificially lowered. When the information that market prices convey is distorted by government intervention, it tends “to make us poorer,” says Hoover Institution policy fellow Daniel Heil.

”When prices don’t reflect” changes in consumer preferences or “when inputs become more or less scarce” – in other words, when policies cause prices to rise or fall, or they interfere somewhere along the process of moving goods to retail markets – the “result will be

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President Biden’s dangerous new cold war

“The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It’s been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.”

— Wynton

Marsalis

Millennials and Generation X have enjoyed the fruits of cheap technology, near zero interest rates, the internet doing their homework and not worrying about being drafted. They live in a society that shows little concern for national security. They are coddled by a government rich with entitlements if they need help.

Most importantly, they have never lived under the constant fear of being nuked.

Boomers grew up during the Cold War under a cloud of worry and fear, in a world rebuilding from World War II. As off-springs of returning love-hungry heroes, we wore hand-me-downs, walked to school with a brown-bag lunch and a nickel for a carton of milk. If we had a TV, it got four channels off of tin foil and rabbit ears. Our lives depended on the intimidating sounds of nuclear air raid siren tests.

Life during the Cold War behind the Eastern Bloc was living hell.

Life in the free world was waiting for “all hell to break loose” when those sirens told us it really was a Red attack. Where would we go? What would we do?

Where would we be safe?

Will God protect us from the bomb if we are nuked?

“The Cold War is thawing, but it will always burn under the heat of communism.”

Richard Nixon

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The Cold War defined the lives of boomers. It embellished disdain for communism in our DNA. Our parents, priests and teachers taught us communism isn’t a government but a godless religion. We learned it thrives on a dogma of deliverance, but it delivers despair. We learned communism is selfserving to propagate communism. The Cold War made us patriots eager to defend our democracy!

When President Ronald Reagan and Pope St. John Paul helped end communism in the Eastern Bloc, it marked the end of the Cold War. While Russia imbibed in “Cominocracy,” communism flourished in Asia and autocratic regimes took hold in the East. The day the Cold War ended, the war on terrorism began.

During the Cold War, America had one visible enemy: the U.S.S.R. But since the end of the Cold War, America’s enemies are both visible and invisible. Instead of one common foe, America is fighting to protect freedom on many fronts around the globe; against autocratic nations and terrorists.

“People today don’t know about the Cold War or fear of a nuclear holocaust from the U.S.S.R.”

— Hideo Osaka

On Election Eve 2016, Donald Trump received more congratulatory phone calls from rogue nations than any U.S. president in history. The world listened when Mr. Trump pledged he was “going to make America great again.” They knew he was a patriot, not a politician, and he would work for the people and not the party. And that terrified them. And that fear lasted his entire term in office.

President Joe Biden inherited a foreign policy that had significantly lowered bilateral tensions between major nuclear states. President Trump “quelled the storms of aggression” with North Korea, Russia and Iran. He brought China to its knees with his “phase-one” trade agreement and protected the theft of U.S. intellectual property. Since President Biden took office, that fear has been replaced with disrespect.

For a guy who was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair during the Cold War, Joe Biden is showing his critics they are right. His mind is locked in the “Cold War past.” After he took office, in a “60 Minutes” interview he said, “The biggest threat to American security is not China but Russia.”

A few weeks into the Russian

Ukraine War, President Biden convinced NATO to escalate its support for Ukraine. This was an effort to humiliate and destabilize Russia, undermining support for Russian President Vladimir Putin within his own country. President Biden’s goal is to reduce the power and influence Russia has in Europe.

“Our goal is to not only help Ukraine defend itself, but to discredit Putin with Europe.”

— Joe Biden

After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. objective now is to limit Russia’s power over the long term. “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done by invading Ukraine.”

While President Biden is hellbent on inflicting a humiliating defeat on Russia, European nations don’t agree. They feel if

China owns or controls 96 seaports in 53 countries across the world. Five of these ports are in Miami, Long Beach, Houston, Los Angeles and Seattle. This provides China with a strategic advantage in the potential control over the shipment and flow of goods and information on the passage of U.S. commercial and military cargo and ships.

Ever since Jimmy Carter gave the Panama Canal to Panama, American influence in Panama declined and Chinese influence and investments there grew rapidly. America is still the greatest user of the Panama Canal. Many U.S. naval ships pass through it every year. Much of the goods flowing through the canal are of Chinese origin.

The key strategic issue is that Chinese companies control the ports at both ends of the canal. In addition, a Chinese company controls a deep-water port on Grand Bahama Island. This port is used mainly to ship goods to American East Coast ports.

In September 2022, a Chinese company, Shandong Bao Shuan Group, paid $8.55 billion for 79.5% control of America’s largest chicken producer, Tyson Foods. Another Chinese company owns Smithfield’s, the largest pork producer in America. Chinese companies own or control other U.S. companies, but the ownership is often murky.