CORONA Senator Cotton: China Unleashed This Plague On The World

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Senator Cotton: China Unleashed This Plague On The World

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

GOP Senator Tom Cotton touted legislation Wednesday that would end US dependency on China for pharmaceuticals, stating that it poses a national security risk, as he asserted that China ‘unleashed’ the coronavirus on the rest of the planet and needs to pay for it.



“Things like antibiotics and ibuprofen and Advil are made in China for the most part. It’s time to bring that manufacturing capacity back to the United States, time to bring a lot more back to the United States from China.” Cotton said during a Fox News interview.





“China unleashed this plague on the world, and there will be a reckoning when we’re on the back side of it.” he urged.





Along with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Cotton has introduced the “Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From China Act,” which promises to “cut off purchases of drugs with Chinese ingredients no later than 2025.”

Cotton has warned that the “low quality” of such drugs produced in the communist state is a danger to all Americans.

The bill would also “require drug companies to label the origins of ingredients in their drugs, so U.S. consumers are better informed of where their medicine comes from and whether it’s likely to be safe.”

The legislation will also encourage the medical industry to “manufacture in our country again by offering full and immediate expensing of factories, warehouses and capital goods related to the manufacture of drugs and medical devices on American soil.”


Cotton writes that “Emergencies like pandemics and wars break down previously dependable supply chains and relationships as nations start to fend for themselves. It’s sadly clear America gave up the ability to fend for ourselves in basic medicine long ago.”

The Senator has been vocal in blaming China for the outbreak of the coronavirus, previously demanding that the communist state prove that the virus did not originate in its own secretive bioweapons lab in Wuhan:

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Cotton highlighted how China continuously lied about the severity of the outbreak:


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"I'm afraid that the #coronavirus could actually be the single biggest threat to both global and U.S. growth this year," says @SenTomCotton. "What really spreads fear is China lying about the origins of this disease and about the number of people who have it."
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Back in January, Cotton called for flights from China into the US to be stopped, warning that Beijing was lying about the full extent of the outbreak.

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Good morning. There was a 28% increase in coronavirus cases overnight in China. Make no mistake, though: these aren’t “new” cases. Just what China is willing to admit. It’s much worse.
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Meanwhile, China again claimed Tuesday that the outbreak did not start in Wuhan, and that the US is engaging in “bald-faced racism and xenophobia” by claiming it did.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang even bragged that the World Health Organisation and the UN agrees with the communist state, and demanded that the US government stop saying the virus originated in China.

Last week, Chinese state media again claimed that the virus could have originated at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and may have been intentionally released by the US military in China to kill people.

The claim is patently false, with numerous virologists asserting that the origin of the virus is clearly traceable to Wuhan. Scientists have said that they are even able to pinpoint the timeframe of when the virus jumped to humans to within a few days. they believe it emerged in late October or early November.
 

Hawkgirl_70

Veteran Member
It's time for a war with China.
They should be taxed/tariffed to the hilt to pay for all this crap in our country!


Also, I thought it was mentioned around here several times this weekend and this week that the Chinese leader was in deep trouble and about to be overthrown/removed????
What's the hold up or I guess those stories weren't really true?
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfuV7K3A08g

[CCP Virus] Gen. Spalding: How China’s Communist Party Uses the Pandemic to Expand Global Influence
RT 40:55
KEY POINTS OF INTEREST 02:29 What’s “unrestricted warfare”? And how is the Chinese regime’s threats to withhold face masks and medical supplies part of its broader strategy of unrestricted warfare on the US? 07:29 Gen. Spalding explains why he believes the Chinese Communist Party “created the global pandemic.” 09:09 Hidden origins of the name Covid-19 15:51 How the Chinese Communist Party is using the pandemic to expand its global influence 18:09 Gen. Spalding explains why he calls coronavirus the CCP Virus 26:50 How can democracies help the Chinese people and counter Chinese communist disinformation? 32:13 Predictions for how the CCP Virus situation will play out in America 38:43 Is there perhaps a silver lining in all this? Amidst the CCP virus pandemic, how is the Chinese Communist Party using the doctrine of “unrestricted warfare” to attack America? How is it leveraging medical supplies to do so? How should the US respond to the Chinese regime’s information warfare campaign against the US and other free nations, and its attempts to make the West more economically reliant on China? What are some important considerations for dealing with coronavirus in the US?

In this episode, we sit down with General (Ret.) Robert Spalding, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and author of “Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept.” Spalding retired from the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general after more than 25 years of service. He is a former China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, as well as a senior defense official and defense attache to China.
 

fish hook

Deceased
By allowing American company's to sell out the American workers for a greater profit has made this nation weaker while enriching our enemy.Greed,the enemy of mankind.Great nations don't fall because of the strength of their enemies,they fall because of the greed and evil of their own "citizens".The great wall of China did not fail to protect the country because it was weak,but because the gate keepers were greedy and sold their nation.They put their interest above that of their nation.Sound familiar?We simply can not continue to put The interest's of our enemies ahead of the interest of our nation,enriching them while impoverishing us.Giving them the riches of this country so they can build their military to the point where they are beginning to think we are weak enough,and they are strong enough to enslave us.
 

et2

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Senator Cotton: China Unleashed This Plague On The World

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

GOP Senator Tom Cotton touted legislation Wednesday that would end US dependency on China for pharmaceuticals, stating that it poses a national security risk, as he asserted that China ‘unleashed’ the coronavirus on the rest of the planet and needs to pay for it.



“Things like antibiotics and ibuprofen and Advil are made in China for the most part. It’s time to bring that manufacturing capacity back to the United States, time to bring a lot more back to the United States from China.” Cotton said during a Fox News interview.











Along with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Cotton has introduced the “Protecting Our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From China Act,” which promises to “cut off purchases of drugs with Chinese ingredients no later than 2025.”

Cotton has warned that the “low quality” of such drugs produced in the communist state is a danger to all Americans.

The bill would also “require drug companies to label the origins of ingredients in their drugs, so U.S. consumers are better informed of where their medicine comes from and whether it’s likely to be safe.”

The legislation will also encourage the medical industry to “manufacture in our country again by offering full and immediate expensing of factories, warehouses and capital goods related to the manufacture of drugs and medical devices on American soil.”


Cotton writes that “Emergencies like pandemics and wars break down previously dependable supply chains and relationships as nations start to fend for themselves. It’s sadly clear America gave up the ability to fend for ourselves in basic medicine long ago.”

The Senator has been vocal in blaming China for the outbreak of the coronavirus, previously demanding that the communist state prove that the virus did not originate in its own secretive bioweapons lab in Wuhan:


1,747 people are talking about this







Cotton highlighted how China continuously lied about the severity of the outbreak:


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Back in January, Cotton called for flights from China into the US to be stopped, warning that Beijing was lying about the full extent of the outbreak.


982 people are talking about this




417 people are talking about this



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Meanwhile, China again claimed Tuesday that the outbreak did not start in Wuhan, and that the US is engaging in “bald-faced racism and xenophobia” by claiming it did.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang even bragged that the World Health Organisation and the UN agrees with the communist state, and demanded that the US government stop saying the virus originated in China.

Last week, Chinese state media again claimed that the virus could have originated at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and may have been intentionally released by the US military in China to kill people.

The claim is patently false, with numerous virologists asserting that the origin of the virus is clearly traceable to Wuhan. Scientists have said that they are even able to pinpoint the timeframe of when the virus jumped to humans to within a few days. they believe it emerged in late October or early November.

He’s 100% right. We should stop getting any drugs and PPE from China
 

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
It's time for a war with China.
They should be taxed/tariffed to the hilt to pay for all this crap in our country!


Also, I thought it was mentioned around here several times this weekend and this week that the Chinese leader was in deep trouble and about to be overthrown/removed????
What's the hold up or I guess those stories weren't really true?

My problem with Xi getting the boot is that someone more militant may replace him. Given the statements blaming the US Military for this pandemic as an attack on China, it's not a good time to be changing leaders over there...
 

et2

TB Fanatic
It's time for a war with China.
They should be taxed/tariffed to the hilt to pay for all this crap in our country!


Also, I thought it was mentioned around here several times this weekend and this week that the Chinese leader was in deep trouble and about to be overthrown/removed????
What's the hold up or I guess those stories weren't really true?

They should be cut off from America. It’s obvious they won’t accept responsibility for this crap. Then blame us. Mark up the food they buy from us ridiculously and pull all our manufacturing from their shores. It won’t take long before the current Chinese government falls.

They can be defeated.
 

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
They should be cut off from America. It’s obvious they won’t accept responsibility for this crap. Then blame us. Mark up the food they buy from us ridiculously and pull all our manufacturing from their shores. It won’t take long before the current Chinese government falls.

They can be defeated.

I'd even endorse a "James Bond" sort of effort that reduced the stolen technologies they have to rubble.
 

L.A.B.

Goodness before greatness.
Cut off purchases of drugs by 2025?

There’s your Deagle report. 90% Sheeple already flocked as a customer base.
 

FaithfulSkeptic

Carrying the mantle of doubt
I have nothing against any Chinese individuals. I know and work with several, and they're just like you and me. What the Senator states, however, about "bioweapons" I'm not necessarily buying ... unless you consider cultural problems incubating new threats every year a bioweapon. Pressuring them to clean that up, IMO, is what we and the rest of the world should be focusing on or, as I alluded to in another thread, it's only a matter of time before they unwittingly unleash a Captain Trip onto the world. It's going to happen folks, unless they clean their act up.
 

Rabbit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Then heads need to roll.
They need to but they haven't so far. Democrats are looking on the bright side of Chinese flu for them. Most of them have made millions with their insider trading and the flu has shut down Trump rallies. It wouldn't surprise me to find Democrats behind this pandemic after all the Chinese need Biden much more than they need Trump.
 

Hawkgirl_70

Veteran Member
Rabbit - and... not only could the Dems have played a part in it or knew it was coming, I THINK they are working quickly behind the scenes to get the swap out ready.
Biden will be pulled, and someone like Coumo will be inserted in.
 

vector7

Dot Collector
They need to but they haven't so far. Democrats are looking on the bright side of Chinese flu for them. Most of them have made millions with their insider trading and the flu has shut down Trump rallies. It wouldn't surprise me to find Democrats behind this pandemic after all the Chinese need Biden much more than they need Trump.

They have more invested in Biden...

Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden Helped China Buy Our 'National Security' Assets | Breitbart
Robert Kraychik
11-14 minutes

Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s second son, helped facilitate China’s acquisition of Henniges Automotive explained Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior contributor at Breitbart News, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

He called the Senate Finance Committee’s decision to probe the Obama administration’s 2015 approval of the sale of Henniges Automotive as a “wonderful development.”

Schweizer examined China’s acquisition of Henniges Automotive — a formerly America-based company developing “dual-use” technologies with military applications — by Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), a Chinese state-run military contractor. AVIC acquired Henniges in 2015 with a 51 percent stake purchase. The remaining 49 percent was purchased by Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), a private equity firm founded by Hunter Biden and funded with $1.5 billion from the Chinese government via the Bank of China.

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“The Chinese government works to gain political allies in the United States by striking commercial deals with the family members of powerful politicians,” explained Schweizer, “and exhibit A in that — it’s not even close when you look at the amount of money and the volume of deals that took place — is with Hunter Biden, with Joe Biden’s son, while he was vice president.”

Schweizer added, “Clearly this was a Chinese effort to curry favor with the Bidens by helping make Joe Biden’s son rich.”

“[BHR] was buying companies that were involved in America’s high-tech sector, and companies that had dual-use technologies [with both] civilian applications and military applications,” Schweizer noted. “Henniges produces precision-tuned anti-vibration technologies.”

The Chinese government’s acquisition of Henniges “required the approval of the Obama administration” and “Hunter Biden’s help,” added Schweizer, “and lo and behold, the Obama administration gave them exactly that approval.”

Schweizer addressed the Obama administration’s approval of China’s acquisition of Henniges Automotive via the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which he described as an opaque governmental body broadly exempted from public transparency measures.

“CFIUS … is a very secretive body,” said Schweizer.”They don’t release any documents, generally. You can’t even obtain [documents pertaining to] everything they do through the Freedom of Information Act, and the rationale is, ‘Well, we’re talking about company secrets and technologies, so we do’t want to give away any of those trade secrets.’ That may apply in some cases, but generally, I think that’s just a ridiculous excuse that allows them to not be accountable for the decisions that they make. The problem is this deal is that there’s no question that this purchase of Henniges had military application.”

Schweizer summarized, “The Obama administration approved a deal where the son of the then-sitting vice president, in partnership with a Chinese government investment firm and a Chinese military contractor, purchased an American technology machine tool parts company that had military application.”

He added, “What’s truly shocking about the Hunter Biden deal with the Chinese is not just that the Chinese were helping the son of the sitting vice president get rich, it’s the fact that the vice president’s son was involved in this Henniges deal which ended up helping the Chinese military. He was involved in another deal called CGN — Chinese General Nuclear — which is a Chinese nuclear company that was implicated in spying — stealing nuclear secrets from the United States — by the FBI. Executives from that company have been arrested. These are firms that Hunter Biden’s investment firm is involved in, and Hunter Biden sits on the board of directors of this Chinese government-funded investment company. It’s truly shocking. It’s not just your run-of-the-mill cronyism and a guy getting rich because of who his dad is. These are very serious national security issues and the Bidens just, frankly looked the other way and were glad to take the money.”

“One of the basic questions we need [answered] is, was there pressure brought to bear?” asked Schweizer of CFIUS’s 2015 approval of China’s acquisition of Henniges Automotive. “Were there people connected to Biden that were involved in making that decision?'”

“All we know is that there apparently were no objections [at CFIUS],” said Schweizer. “If the deal would have been stopped temporarily because of a concern and had gone to the president, we would actually have public knowledge of that. That has happened a few times in the past, and I think since CFIUS was opened in 1975, I think I am correct in saying there has not been a single case of a president in effect saying, ‘Well, you object, but we’re going through with it,’ so usually if a government agency objects on some grounds, a deal is dead. There is no evidence that there were any objections in this case because there was no reporting as such.”

Schweizer went on, “It appears as if all the government agencies said, ‘We have no problem with this.’ What I think Senator Grassley wants to know is, was this just a case of nobody paying attention? In other words, people were either incompetent or just not engaged? Or was there something more nefarious? Was there public or political pressure brought to bear? Again, this is the son of the vice president. Vice President Biden was the point man on U.S. policy towards China, and his son was involved with this deal, so was there pressure brought to bear? Did the vice president [or] did people at White House reach out to people in CFIUS? That’s what I think Senator Grassley wants to know. Government agencies are all supposed to do internal reviews and issue reports [asking], ‘What are the national security implications if this deal goes through? What are the possible negative repercussions for the United States? Does that warrant stopping this deal?'”

Mansour recalled, “Hunter Biden had zero background in private equity [and] zero background in China. There was absolutely no reason to give this little boutique firm that nobody had ever heard of this kind of lucrative deal if it weren’t for the fact that his last name is Biden.”

“Hunter Biden and the Biden family have lied about this deal from the beginning. When Secret Empires came out last year, it was a number one New York Times bestseller. They poo-pooed it and said, ‘No, it’s not true.’ We finally got some of the mainstream media to ask them questions about this, and ABC news did exactly that, and the Bidens did was lie about it. They said it wasn’t really that big of a deal. … They continue to lie and deceive about the nature of this relationship, and frankly, if you have to lie about it that much, it indicates to me that you’re trying to cover things up, that you’re embarrassed about it, [and] you know that this is a problem.”

Mansour highlighted China’s use of private equity firms for the purpose of foreign acquisitions, reading from a 2017 U.S. Chamber of Commerce report titled, “Made in China 2025: Global Ambitions Built on Local Protections”:

In Several MIC 2025 sectors, the technological gap between domestic and foreign competitors is significant, and closing that gap would require extended timelines and high levels of financial commitment that could stress budgets. To accelerate the learning process, the state appears to be supporting acquisition strategies of Chinese state-owned and state-supported companies tied to MIC 2025 priority sectors.



China is also injecting state funds into private equity to fund foreign acquisitions. … Elements of China’s outbound investment strategy that are tied to industrial policy are contributing to growing global concern about Chinese acquisitions of foreign technology.

“One of the reasons why our manufacturing sector has been cannibalized is because of what our financial sector has been doing,” added Mansour. She shared the following excerpt from an article entitled, “Why Private Equity Should Not Exist”: “When I reported on the problem of financialization destroying our national security capacity, one of the manufacturers I talked to told me about how the ‘LBO boys’ – or Leveraged Buy Out Boys – took apart factories in the midwest and shipped them to China.”

China politically sanitizes its foreign acquisitions by involving family members of American politicians in its deals, explained Schweizer.

“If you’re somebody working in the bowels of the Chinese government [and] you want to buy high-technology military-sensitive companies in the United States, one of the first things you’re going to do is, you’re going to wrap those deals in a package that includes the family members of American politicians, and the reason for that is, it puts a friendly gloss on it,” he remarked. “So when this deal comes up before CIFIUS review in Washington, D.C, does anybody doubt that it is at least going to be whispered that the son of the vice president is involved in some of these companies? Does anybody doubt that that is put there to make it more friendly and more benign? Does anybody doubt that you’re going to involve the family members of politicians because you want them to buy in and to gain from this strategy that you’re carrying out? That’s precisely the reason you get it.”

Schweizer continued, “Hunter Biden got this deal with the Chinese government to set up this investment fund. They didn’t give it to Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan or anyone else that had far more experience. it’s because they didn’t need experience. What they needed was political cover, and Hunter Biden was apparently prepared to give them that cover. … This is a bipartisan problem, and you’re going to have political figures and their family members who are going to be all too glad to essentially sell out the national security interests to the United States if they can make a killing with an investment.”

“There are very powerful commercial interests in Washington, D.C. that want things kind of moving along the way that they always have, and they don’t want the boat rocked, because there’s a lot of money to be made in these deals, and there’s certainly going to be pressure from those individuals for this information not to be turned over to Senator Grassley and his committee,” he warned.

Schweizer concluded, “A guy like Joe Biden who’s been in public life for more than 30 years in government office … has to disclose a $500 campaign contribution. He has to disclose a $200 campaign contribution. He has to disclose that he owns like a $1000 in GE stock, and we have these rules because we need to know what entanglements or what relationships or connections there are between a politician like Joe Biden and his donors, so he needs to disclose that. And isn’t this good that we have this transparency? But a billion-dollar-plus deal that his adult son does with a foreign government — the Chinese government, that is our chief rival — there’s no disclosure requirement for that. None. Zip. Nada. That shows you how crazy the situation has become.”

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Peter Schweizer: Hunter Biden Helped China Buy Our 'National Security' Assets

Schweizer: China Buying Off Joe Biden Through His Son | Breitbart
Trent Baker
2-3 minutes

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Peter Schweizer, author of “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,” discussed questionable dealings involving Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, and foreign money.

Schweizer told host Laura Ingraham it is “crystal clear” that China was “buying off” Joe Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, through his son.

“In December of 2013, Hunter Biden flies on Air Force 2 to Beijing, China, with his father. His father meets with Chinese officials, he’s very soft on Beijing. The most important thing that happens happens 10 days after they return. And that’s when Hunter Biden’s small, private equity firm called Rosemont Seneca Partners gets a $1 billion private equity deal with the Chinese government, not with the Chinese corporation, with the government. And what people need to realize is Hunter Biden has no background in China, he has no background in private equity, the deal he got in the Shanghai free-trade zone, nobody else had. Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Blackstone, nobody had this deal.”

He continued, “t’s very, very clear and that’s the first of a series of deals that Hunter Biden strikes with the Chinese government, so there’s no question, when you chart what Joe Biden is doing with China, the meetings he’s having, and the deals that his sign is procuring at the same time, that they are buying off Biden through his son. I think it’s crystal clear.”

Schweizer added that “this is the tip of the iceberg” of what was “going on while Joe Biden is vice president steering foreign policy.”

(h/t Newsbusters)

Follow Trent Baker on Twitter @MagnifiTrent

Schweizer: China Buying Off Joe Biden Through His Son

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Orion Commander

Veteran Member
Way past time to get along without them. No reason we can't. Did it in the past and it would make the future look so much brighter.
I've always thought one of the reasons we let China make so much of our stuff is because we want a false idea we can have a clean environment. If our clean environment laws were applied to China there products imported to here would cost more.

Not defending them. More a criticism of our policy makers bending to environmental wackos. Or it's a not in my neighborhood attitude.

We can make it here and control the waste pollution but still not be wacko about it.
 
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