Caught Red-Handed

I want to recommend Peter Schweizer's book Red-Handed again.  It is well worth reading. 

In addition to the ways in which the Biden family has been compromised by communist China, Schweizer describes how former members of Congress have lobbied for communist Chinese companies deeply involved with Chinese military and intelligence agencies. 

I am sorry, but not surprised, to tell you that a majority of the offenders are Republicans.  This is the same phenomenon that we have seen with Neil Bush, George W. Bush's brother. 

The list includes former Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, and former Senators Barbara Boxer (D) and David Vitter (R).  Boxer and Vitter lobbied for Hikvision, a Chinese company that specializes in surveillance technology.  

Communist China is the biggest surveillance state in the world.  Half of all the world's surveillance cameras are in communist China.  Yet, Boxer and Vitter weren't troubled by lobbying on behalf of the main company making the cameras.  Vitter's firm was paid $70,000 a month for his work on behalf of Hikvision.

I once debated Trent Lott on whether we should give "most favored nation" trading status to communist China.  As you know, we eventually did because the elites in both parties, as well as Wall Street, thought it was a great idea that would bring liberty to the Chinese people. 

It was the biggest foreign policy blunder in American political history, and we are still paying the price.  Not only did trade with communist China gut the manufacturing base of the American heartland, it dramatically fueled the rise of communist China as a global military power.

And while former members of Congress are lobbying for communist Chinese companies, China is aggressively stealing technology from American companies.  According to FBI Director Christopher Wray, the Bureau now has 2,000 active investigations into Chinese espionage efforts, with a new investigation opening every 12 hours. 

Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library yesterday, Wray warned that the threat posed by communist China has "reached a new level – more brazen, more damaging than ever before, and it's vital – vital – that all of us focus on that threat together." 

He added, "There is just no country that presents a broader threat to our ideas, our innovation, and our economic security than China."

When will communist China's apologists on Wall Street, in our major sports leagues and in the halls of Congress apologize to the American people?  Their wrong-headed decision to send our factory jobs to Beijing increased communist China's power in exchange for slave-made goods being sent here.