China's Influence Activity in the US Is Unprecedented
by Robert Williams • August 25, 2023 at 5:00 am
[President Joe] Biden's closing the China Initiative played, of course, right into the Chinese Communist Party's hands.
While the Biden administration worries about political correctness, the Chinese Communist Party is successfully using every means at its disposal to weaken the US in all fields.
"[A] significant portion of America's intellectual and political elites share the responsibility for perpetrating key CCP propaganda agendas, including misleading the American public to minimize the degree to which the PRC is still a country ruled by a Marxist-Leninist communist party. The manipulation of language is a prime example of this endeavor." — Miles Maochun Yu, Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, hoover.org, May 5, 2021
The FBI has named China as "a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States" and said that confronting this threat is "FBI's top counterintelligence priority." However, instead of focusing all available resources on countering this "grave threat" from the CCP on all fronts, the Biden administration has been busy institutionalizing woke ideology in the federal bureaucracy -- including in the military....
The Biden administration, under an executive order issued in February 2023, now requires all federal agencies to present annual "equity action plans" in order to "advance an ambitious, whole-of-government approach to racial equity and support for underserved communities." Since Biden became president, the military alone has spent close to 6 million hours on diversity, climate change and "extremism."
The other focal point for the Biden administration has been mitigating "climate change" - all while China, during 2022, has been approving the construction of two new coal plants per week.
The US under Biden is arguably not even close to countering the threat that China poses or perhaps even properly understanding it.
The Biden administration has unfortunately shown itself to be unable to stop, or even limit, China's continued rise. On the contrary, the connections of Biden's son, Hunter Biden, to China could mean that the US president is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party.
Meanwhile, at a recent press conference, when asked whether the administration is concerned that Hunter Biden's ties to China "pose a national security issue," White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan replied, "I don't have any comment on that."
"The system is blinking red right now," an unnamed senior FBI official was quoted as saying in a recent report from the Center for Strategic and International studies (CSIS). "We have not seen this level of Chinese intelligence and influence activity in and around the U.S. homeland ever."
China is using all means short of war "to expand the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and weaken the United States and its partners," the report continued.
"This campaign involves sophisticated Chinese espionage activities, offensive cyber operations, disinformation on social media platforms, economic coercion, and influence operations targeting companies, universities, and other organizations."
