{"id":18589,"date":"2024-05-01T12:46:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/are-the-chinese-about-to-deal-a-devastating-blow-to-america\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:46:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:46:27","slug":"are-the-chinese-about-to-deal-a-devastating-blow-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/are-the-chinese-about-to-deal-a-devastating-blow-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Chinese about to \u2018deal a devastating blow\u2019 to America?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This might sound like a plot for a thriller \u2013 and I am the author of \u2018The Year of the Dragon\u2019\u00a0\u2013 but the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University\u2019s \u2018Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats,\u2019 that Chinese-government-linked hackers have \u2018burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure\u2019 and are waiting for \u2018just the right moment to deal a devastating blow\u2019 to America.<\/p>\n

Could such a moment come if China attacks Taiwan? Just imagine the mayhem in the U.S. if the national power grid was taken down for days.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S., along with Taiwan, run war games scenarios on worries like these annually. But why is the director of the FBI worrying about them publicly?<\/p>\n

Also, why in the same political moment did U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u00a0publish talking points saying there are now \u2018290,000 Chinese students in the United States\u2019 but just 900 American students in China?\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the release, Blinken did not mention the massive rise in Chinese nationals entering through the porous southern border of the U.S. \u2013 that fact just isn\u2019t something the Biden administration finds politically convenient enough to talk about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Blinken did say the Biden administration is \u2018very clear-eyed about the challenges posed by the PRC [People\u2019s Republic of China] and about our competing visions for the future,\u2019 before talking about how China is\u00a0supplying Russia with military parts that are \u2018powering Russia\u2019s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also mentioned Chinese involvement in selling chemicals to Mexican cartels that are sending massive amounts of the fentanyl into the U.S. \u2013 chemicals that are killing more Americans every year than died in the entire Vietnam War \u2013 though he didn\u2019t take a stance tough enough to make the\u00a0Chinese flinch on this critical topic.<\/p>\n

So then, why are Biden administration officials suddenly sounding so tough on China?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden recently signed legislation to force the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok and legislation to fund Taiwan\u2019s defense. In response, Chinese officials are now\u00a0threatening to take\u00a0\u2018resolute and forceful steps\u2019 against the U.S. and Taiwan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Saber-rattling can be an important part of diplomacy, but typically, rhetoric like this would be said through diplomatic channels while solutions are floated publicly.<\/p>\n

As that is not happening here, this appears to be all about U.S. domestic politics.<\/p>\n

To put this in perspective, it is important to remember that Joe Biden accused former President Trump of xenophobia when he called COVID the \u2018China virus.\u2019 Later, the Biden administration worked with American social-media companies to censor political speech about China\u2019s involvement in the virus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Even when Trump used tariffs to try to force China to play fair, Biden and much of the Left mocked and attacked him for it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, when China sent a spy balloon over the U.S., Biden hesitated and let it cross the entire continent before ordering it to be shot down. In fact, much of the Left, from The Atlantic to The New York Times, have long told us that the Chinese model of a state-run economy is far superior to America\u2019s freer iteration of a market economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet, with a presidential election looming and the polls not looking so good for Biden, his administration is suddenly saying some very tough things about China.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A central reason for this is that the Biden administration clearly wants to distract American voters with a foreign threat \u2013 and they are willing to risk a horrifying war to do so.<\/p>\n

Next, this threat would empower the Biden administration\u2019s ambitions on the domestic front; after all, if private and state-run companies all agree that the Chinese hacking threat is real, then they will feel obligated to give the FBI access to their computer systems and data now \u2013 at the same time, for security reasons, they\u2019ll need to keep any details about this from the public. This then, would further empower the FBI by giving them more access to Americans\u2019 data and more control of corporations at a time when the FBI has too often behaved as a partisan political player for Democrats.<\/p>\n

We know, after all, where the U.S. intelligence agencies stand on Fourth Amendment-protected due process rights of U.S. citizens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that China isn\u2019t a real threat. Many \u2018red states\u2019 have passed legislation barring Chinese interests from purchasing land near military bases for this very reason. I am spelling this all out because the American public needs to be aware of all the nuance within this critical topic so they can at least try to vote this November for what is in their best interest \u2013 the Biden administration and various members of U.S. intelligence agencies, after all, have not always done what is in the best interest of the American public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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