Category: Threat from Communist China

Former Fox VP Blasts China Metaverse: CCP ‘Is Not Our Friend’

September 29, 2022
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A former Fox News executive has condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to steal American technologies and warned that the regime seeks to use the metaverse to further its authoritarian control of society. Former Fox News Executive Vice President John Moody said that the United States and the CCP are in a bitter race…

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PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

September 29, 2022
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This episode will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial…

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China Could Use ‘Usurious’ Loans to Hurt America and Its Partners: Former Energy Department Official

September 28, 2022
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China could use its unconventional debt practices as an exercise of power against America and its partners, according to Bart Marcois, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary for policy and international affairs in the Department of Energy. “Let’s imagine that China increases its threats to Taiwan, for example. Let’s imagine that it actually attacks Taiwan. Any…

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DOJ Finds Former Army Reservist Guilty of Spying for China

September 28, 2022
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A federal jury in Chicago convicted a Chinese national and former army reservist acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese regime. Ji Chaoqun, 31, was found guilty on three counts of spy-related charges, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and making a material false statement to the…

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Former Army Reservist Convicted of Charges Related to Spying for China

September 28, 2022
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A federal jury in Chicago convicted a Chinese national and former army reservist acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the Chinese regime. Ji Chaoqun, 31, was found guilty on three counts, including acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and making a material false statement to the U.S. Army, according…

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GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm Over Chinese Purchase of US Farmland Near Air Force Base

September 27, 2022
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Fifty-one House Republicans have written three of the Biden administration’s top cabinet officials in alarm over efforts by a Chinese entity to acquire farmland near a North Dakota air force base. The transaction in question concerns Fufeng Group, the large producer of food additives in China with links to the Chinese Communist Party. Fufeng recently…

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Meta Dismantles China-Based Covert Influence Operation Ahead of Midterm Elections

September 27, 2022
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The parent company of Facebook and Instagram said on Sept. 27 that it disrupted a Chinese influence operation seeking to interfere in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. Meta Platforms said that it had dismantled the China-based campaign, which targeted users in the United States with political content in an apparent effort to polarize voters. The…

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Reagan-Era Official Reveals US Opened Door for China’s Exploitation

September 27, 2022
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The shift in American technology development strategy paved the way for the rise of China in this area, according to Michael Sekora, founding director of the Socrates Project in the Reagan White House. “China has risen to a superpower faster than any country in the history of mankind. And it wasn’t that the U.S. conscientiously…

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Harris and Kishida Affirm ‘Ironclad Commitment’ to Counter CCP Aggression in Taiwan Strait

September 26, 2022
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris met with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Tokyo on Sept. 26. The two leaders affirmed their nations’ support for one another and condemned Chinese communist aggression in the Taiwan Strait. “The Vice President underscored that the U.S.-Japan Alliance is the cornerstone of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific, and…

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Professor Pleads Guilty of Concealing Ties in China While Receiving Funds From NASA

September 25, 2022
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Zhengdong Cheng, a Texas A&M professor and NASA researcher, pleaded guilty to charges related to lying about his connections to China. Cheng was arrested and charged with conspiracy, making false statements, and wire fraud in 2020. According to an FBI’s Twitter post on Sept. 23, Cheng pleaded guilty to lying to Texas A&M University (TAMU)…

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