'What was China buying?'
Biden's 'America Last' agenda detailed at America First Policy Institute symposium
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), House Oversight Chair, investigating the Biden China money trail, is hot on the scent.
“Someone should tell @POTUS that @GOPoversight has Biden family bank records,” he tweeted after talking to Fox’s Kayleigh McEnany. “What we know is the Biden family received about $𝟏,𝟎𝟔𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 in payments from a Chinese energy company.”
“What were they buying?”
Earlier that day, President Biden denied the money went into three Biden family bank accounts, the evidence notwithstanding.
One thing, though, is undeniable. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could not have written a better script when it comes to putting China first and America last.
It was all laid out at today’s America First Policy Institute national security symposium held at the Army Navy Club a stone’s throw from the White House.
Not presented as Biden following the script, mind you. In fact, frustratingly, policy choices that favor China were often couched as Biden messing up or Biden not understanding.
Make no mistake, Biden knows which side his bread is buttered on, and is following the script to a tee.
As a result, America is in the most perilous position of its nearly 250-year history.
Let’s see.
‘What was China buying?’
Climate change, several speakers noted, is the number one priority of the Biden Administration. Never mind that the Polar Ice Cap is repairing itself.
Meanwhile, with such skewed priorities, existential crises are metastasizing.
Crises that are self-inflicted by virtue of Biden immediately reversing all of President Donald J. Trump’s policies that made America strong, prosperous, safe and secure.
Notably, Biden decimated America’s energy advantage, and strengthenened China’s Belt and Road Initiative by gifting Bagram Air Base to the CCP when, on July 2, 2021, in the middle of the night, the U.S. military turned off the lights and abandoned this strategically important base while cutting and running from Afghanistan. Then, too, he gifted the Taliban with $85 billion in sophisticated new military equipment.
Meanwhile, our own military is being dangerously weakened, Gen. Keith Kellogg and Robert Willke noted, with spending now less than 3% of GDP, down from the more traditional 5-6%—our naval fleet now the smallest since 1937.
But, spending elsewhere is robust—exacerbating inflationary pressures, initially caused by ceding energy dominance to malign states—the debt now $32 trillion and on track to hit $50 trillion by the end of the decade, Senator Ron Johnson said.
As if that’s not enough, as former Governor Phil Bryant (R-MS) noted, China is buying up our land and agricultural infrastructure, and building factories in America, including a factory in rural Michigan that, while making batteries, will spy on Americans.
Then, too, China is actively shaping our “information space,” which Gordon Chang, author, journalist and China expert, carefully delineated, along with their Biden-enabled policy triumphs.
“I think Xi Jinping and Putin know that they are not strong societies,” he said. “But they do know that they’ve got will” and are “shaping societies and events around the world.”
“We saw that, for instance, in the Middle East with that dramatic triumph for China with the Iran-Saudi deal,” he said. That’s because President Trump’s Abraham Accords “brought peace to the region. He should have won the Nobel Prize for that, by the way. And, I think that Trump had the most successful Middle East policy of any American president since FDR.
“And, under Biden,” he said, “we’ve had the worst. Because what Biden did immediately was to reverse the Abraham Accords (and) he opened the door to China…”
The CCP, he said, has “gone into overdrive,” telling nations that the United States “as a force in the world is finished” and that they have got to “obey China.”
Regarding TikTok, he said, while it has “dancing bears,” it’s also about “glorifying drug use, pushing critical race theory.” And, it is deployed militarily.
“In 2020,” he said, “Radio Free Asia reported that an intelligence unit of the People’s Liberation Army” working from the Houston consulate Trump closed, “used artificial intelligence and big data to identify Americans likely to participate in Black Lives Matter and Antifa protests and then the PLA, the Chinese military, sent those Americans videos via TikTok on how to riot.”
More than “subversion,” said Chang, “that’s an act of war.”
Add to all that, the border invasion—the worst in the history of the world, said Stephen Miller, of America First Legal, with many Chinese nationals making the long trek to the Southern border with, no doubt, malign intent—coupled with the CCP’s flooding our border with deadly Fentanyl our kids ingest when buying cheap Adderral or Xanax on the street to pep them up or put them to sleep and, when laced with Fentanyl, it snuffs out their young lives. Twice as many as died in the Vietnan War, said Congressman Wesley Hunt (R-TX).
And, the list goes on—the one common denominator being, these are policy choices, including the failure to respond to acts of war, that make no sense unless viewed through the prism of putting China First and America Last.
Which suggests that million plus bought a great deal for China, giving them an historic ROA.
And, begs the question, what will it take for America’s leaders to show some spine?
And, what will it take for someone to declare boldly that the continued obsession with ‘getting Donald Trump,’ who brought peace to the Middle East, must end?
Mary Claire Kendall is author of Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends, published in adrid under the title También Dios pasa por Hollywood. She is currently writing a book about Hemingway’s faith journey..