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Intel Removes Mention of Xinjiang After Pressure From China

U.S. semiconductor chip company Intel has scrubbed all references to Xinjiang from an open letter on its website that created a backlash from China late last year.

Last month, Intel sent an open letter to its suppliers urging them to avoid sourcing materials from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where the Communist Chinese government forces religious minorities into labor camps.

The Wall Street Journal at the time reported that Intel sent the letter to its global suppliers calling on them to avoid the region, stating that “multiple governments have imposed restrictions on products sourced from the Xinjiang region. Therefore, Intel is required to ensure our supply chain does not use any labor or source goods or services from the Xinjiang region.”

China took offense to the letter, financial news website Benzinga reported.

“Chinese state-run media and the nation’s social media channels — which consist almost entirely of pro-government messaging — took aim at Intel. The Global Times newspaper ran an editorial accusing Intel of being subservient to U.S. government demands while insisting that China’s leadership should make it ‘increasingly expensive for companies to offend China,’” the outlet noted. (Read more from “Intel Removes Mention of Xinjiang After Pressure From China” HERE)

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TikTok Is a Chinese Weapon Pointed at American Kids to Distract Them

Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow and World Editor Frances Martel both described TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as a “foreign weapon” targeting American children and youth on Monday’s edition of the Breitbart News Daily podcast.

TikTok’s displacement of Google as the world’s most popular website, Marlow held, is illustrative of a broader displacement of America’s global position by China. He warned of TikTok and other digital apps’ capacities to obstruct personal development with time-wasting endeavors.

He remarked, “I was floored by the data that TikTok is now even more popular than Google around the world as the most popular domain. Not only is TikTok run by the Beijing Communist Party, but it’s also something that is wildly distracting, and it seems to be custom-built to distract young Americans from doing anything productive, and just to get sucked into this black hole of staring at your screen all day doing stupid stuff.” . . .

Martel replied, “TikTok is terrifying, because it’s a weapon targeted at the youngest Americans, and a lot of Americans are too busy trying to juggle two or three jobs to really stare at every single thing that their kid is watching on their computer, and that’s not their fault. That’s the fault of the non-Big Tech globalists that are making it impossible for you to sustain yourself on one salary, so you have to hustle with Uber or whatever and you’re not paying attention to your kids, and that’s where TikTok comes in.” (Read more from “TikTok Is a Chinese Weapon Pointed at American Kids to Distract Them” HERE)

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Don’t Mention God: Nation Outlaws Online Talk of Religion

China long has tried to control its citizens’ religious thoughts. Mandatory registration for churches, pastors who must deliver government talking points, the suppression of any dissent, and more has been standard procedure for years. . .

Bitter Winter, an online magazine that focuses on religious faith in China, explains the repressive Chinese Communist Party running the nation has now adopted new Administrative Measures for Internet Religious Information Services.

The new procedures were adopted by the state Administration of Religious Affairs, the National Internet Information Office, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and others, including two ministries that address “security.”

“The measures require an ‘Internet Religious Information Service License,’ which can only be granted to organizations part of the five authorized religions (since they should be ‘legally established,’ which is only possible within the five government-controlled organization), to disseminate religious content via the internet. Any other reference to religion on the web is declared illegal,” the publication explained.

“Even the organizations within the five authorized religions are subject to surveillance and limitations. They can broadcast sermons and lessons, but these would be checked by the authorities for their ‘Sinicized’ content, making sure they promote socialist values and support the party, and are not intended as proselytization tools. (Read more from “Don’t Mention God: Nation Outlaws Online Talk of Religion” HERE)

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Chinese Army Replacing Soldiers With Robots

The terrain being difficult, the Han Chinese soldiers unused to the cold and high altitude, the People’s Liberation Army has begun using robot vehicles for transportation and even reconnaissance.

Keeping in mind the difficult terrain of the Tibetan plateau and the difficulties the Han Chinese soldiers have faced because of the cold and the high altitude, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has moved in a large number of unmanned ground vehicles to carry troops, weaponry and supplies. More than half the vehicles are in areas close to the Ladakh area where the Chinese buildup is still in evidence.

The PLA has moved 88 Sharp Claw unmanned ground vehicles or UGVs into Tibet, and 38 of them in the western part of the province, close to where the Indian and Chinese armies are still face to face. The Sharp Claw UGV, manufactured by NORINCO, a Chinese arms manufacturer, can be used for reconnaissance, patrolling and transportation of weapons and logistical work in difficult terrain. it can also be fitted with weapons. (Read more from “Chinese Army Replacing Soldiers With Robots” HERE)

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Top Harvard Scientist Who Hid Millions in Secret Payments From China Convicted on All Charges

Charles Lieber, a Harvard professor and one of America’s top research chemists, was found guilty on Tuesday of hiding his ties to a Chinese government recruitment program and accepting millions in payments.

The Department of Justice announced Lieber was convicted by a jury on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, two counts of making a false income tax return and two counts of failing to report foreign bank and financial accounts with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). All six charges stemmed from Lieber’s efforts to conceal his ties with China’s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT).

Lieber served as Principal Investigator of the Lieber Research Group at Harvard University, which received more than $15 million in federal research grants from 2008 to 2019. During the same time Lieber led his research group at Harvard, and unbeknownst to the Ivy League university, Lieber also acted as a “Strategic Scientist” at China’s WUT and then as a contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan.

The Thousand Talents Program is a Chinese government-backed effort to recruit primarily Chinese citizens who have been educated in elite programs overseas. The program aims to find these highly educated Chinese citizens and recruit them to bring their talents back and serve Chinese government interests. (Read more from “Top Harvard Scientist Who Hid Millions in Secret Payments From China Convicted on All Charges” HERE)

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Amazon Deleted Reviews of Chinese President’s Book on Government’s Orders: Report

Didn’t like Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book? Keep your mouth shut.

That’s what China told Amazon, according to a new report, when the country pushed the bookseller to delete all comments and reviews related to “The Governance of China,” a compendium of Xi’s speeches and writings.

Amazon complied. It’s another example of a US company bending to Chinese pressure in order to keep doing business in the huge and growing economy.

The government edict was delivered two years ago, according to the Reuters report citing two people familiar with the matter, but had never before been disclosed.

Now, on Amazon sites accessed within China, there are no reviews or star ratings for the book. (Read more from “Amazon Deleted Reviews of Chinese President’s Book on Government’s Orders: Report” HERE)

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Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Admits to Taking Tens of Thousands of Dollars From China

The former chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department accused of hiding Chinese ties had admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars from China, a video presented to the federal court on Dec. 17 shows.

The video, shot during federal investigators’ interrogation of nanoscientist Charles Lieber, was played for jurors during the Friday court hearing, the fourth day of the trial on Lieber’s alleged false statements about China funding.

The 62-year-old Harvard professor had maintained that he didn’t take payments from a Chinese university except for compensation of his travel costs to China. But he shifted account quickly after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents Robert Plumb and Kara Spice accosted him with copies of evidence, including a bilingual contract he signed with the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in 2011.

“That’s pretty damning,” Lieber, dressed in a blue jacket, told the agents at the campus police station during a three-hour interrogation, which took place on the day of Lieber’s arrest nearly two years ago. “Now that you bring it up, yes, I do remember,” he said in the recording, local media reported.

The five-year agreement described Lieber as a “strategic scientist” at the Chinese school that entitled him to $50,000 per month with approximately $158,000 in living expenses. It also alluded to his future involvement with China’s Thousand Talents Plan, a state-run program to solicit top scientific and specialized experts from around the world. (Read more from “Former Harvard Chemistry Chair Admits to Taking Tens of Thousands of Dollars From China” HERE)

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Previously Missing Chinese Tennis Star Now Denies Making Sexual Assault Charges Against Chinese Vice Premier (VIDEO)

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has finally come out on camera only to deny her earlier accusations that a Chinese official raped her.

Early in November, Shuai posted a message to her Chinese social media account saying that she has been sexually abused in 2019 by Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli. But her Weibo account was quickly shut down and the post was deleted. Shuai then spent nearly a month in isolation, not being seen on her own in public for more than three weeks.

Shuai did appear in several government-sponsored posts with Chinese officials claiming that the athlete was not being re-educated out of her sexual assault claims and that she was still as free as any other Chinese subject.

But now, Shuai was seen on camera denouncing anyone who may have “misunderstood” her original, now-deleted post.

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More Evidence China’s Military May Have Initiated COVID-19 in an Open-Air Test

The Gateway Pundit (TGP) has published a series of articles describing the structure of China’s biowarfare program and how that structure facilitated the laboratory creation of the COVID-19 virus, known scientifically as SARS-CoV-2.

China’s biowarfare program operates at three levels (July 26, 2021 TGP and August 11, 2021 TGP).

There is a core secret military level composed of military research centers and hospitals.

The second level includes all Chinese universities and “civilian” research centers, like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, because in China there is no difference between military and civilian research.

The fusion of civilian and military research was mandated by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Thirteenth Five Year Plan in 2016.

That second level allows the core secret military level to access knowledge, skills, technology and research funding from the third level of China’s biowarfare program, international universities and research centers, particularly those in the United States.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists also affiliate themselves with second level Chinese universities, often agricultural, and “civilian” research centers, which allows them to collaborate with and sometimes work in U.S. research laboratories, while deliberately hiding their true positions as members of China’s military.

The three-level structure of China’s biowarfare program has created a massive support network of scientists and research centers both inside China and connected to Chinese scientists based in the United States.

A May 18, 2021 TGP article identified two research centers of the PLA’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences that conducted experiments leading to the laboratory origin of COVID-19 – the Military Veterinary Research Institute under Major General Ningyi Jin and the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology under Major General Chen Wei, the presumed leader of China’s biowarfare program.

We now provide evidence that those two, core secret military level PLA research centers were working together with second level Chinese universities and “civilian” research centers and third level U.S.-based scientists, combining the results from influenza and coronavirus respiratory disease studies, leading to the creation and release of the COVID-19 virus.
Those studies involved, not only “gain of function” experiments, that is, making viruses potentially more infectious and lethal to humans, but extensive analyses of the aerosol transmission of deadly viruses, including the aerosol transmission of Ebola, a virus with a 90% fatality rate.

There has been a long-term research collaboration between Wuchun Cao of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences and Gregory C. Gray of Duke University concerning the epidemiological spread of influenza virus.

Wuchun Cao is a senior advisor on bioterrorism to the CCP and a scientific advisor for Wuhan Institute of Virology. He was second-in-command of the military team sent into the Wuhan under Major General Chen Wei, the country’s top biodefence expert.

Gregory C. Gray also collaborated with Shuo Su of the Nanjing Agricultural University, who, according to a July 26, 2021 TGP article, is funded by Major General Ningyi Jin’s Military Veterinary Research Institute.

Shuo Su was an early adaptor of “gain of function” research in 2014, using influenza viruses and also published about genetic recombination of coronaviruses in 2016. His 2020 work on the COVID-19 virus links directly back to the Military Veterinary Research Institute.

A key link between Major General Ningyi Jin’s Military Veterinary Research Institute in Changchun and Major General Chen Wei’s Beijing Institute of Biotechnology at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences is Zhendong Guo.

Zhendong Guo frequently hides his core secret military level connection by claiming affiliation with the second level Labortatory of Jilin Province for Zoonosis Prevention and Control, Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agriculture Sciences, which, although presented as an independent “civilian” research center, it is officially part of Major General Ningyi Jin’s Military Veterinary Research Institute.

Zhendong Guo’s colleague at the Military Veterinary Research Institute in Changchun, Yuwei Gao, was a frequent collaborator of Hualan Chen from the Laboratory of Veterinary Biotechnology, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the location of China’s second high containment biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) laboratory, the first for large animals, like monkeys.

The Harbin Veterinary Research Institute was the site of a major 2013 scientific scandal, when Hualan Chen and Yuwei Gao conducted “gain of function” experiments, deliberately mixing the H5N1 bird-flu virus, which is highly lethal, but not easily transmitted between people, with a 2009 strain of H1N1 flu virus, which is very infectious to humans.

A November 16, 2021 TGP article described the extensive connections between the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In fact, Hualan Chen was trained at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, also in Atlanta.

Zhendong Guo and Yuwei Gao are co-inventors on a 2021 Chinese patent (CN 112945822) for aerosol sampling of microorganisms.

Zhendong Guo and Yuwei Gao are co-authors on articles describing airborne transmission of influenza and the COVID-19 virus.

Both Zhendong Guo and Yuwei Gao were part of a small team of experts brought to Wuhan by Major General Chen Wei on February 2, 2020, where they conducted aerosol testing for the COVID-19 virus.

As reported in a July 23, 2021 TGP article, a source inside China during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and familiar with the operations of the PLA, claimed that a test release of the virus was conducted during the 2019 Military World Games, which was held in Wuhan from October 18–27, 2019.

It remains to be determined if the same groups of PLA scientists created the pandemic that they were later sent to Wuhan to help resolve.

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Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He had a civilian career in international business and medical research. His email address is [email protected]. Anna Chen can be followed on Twitter @2020Gladiator

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Canada Joins US In Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday that his nation is joining the U.S. in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing following concerns of human rights abuses in the Communist nation.

Trudeau made the remarks after a similar move by President Joe Biden on Monday that was soon followed by leaders in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Canada’s athletes will continue plans to compete in the Olympic Games.

(Read more from “Canada Joins US In Diplomatic Boycott of 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing” HERE)

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