FW: Historical Elite Capture of US Politicians - The Chinese Way
Segment # 258
If this is acceptable to the Right or the Left, then we are now no better than a third-world country.
I remember as a child playing with tracing paper to learn how to draw. My brother was a natural and could draw cartoon characters with ease. Clearly, I was jealous of my older brother. Unfortunately, my inability to draw an acceptable stick figure led to my dropping Art History at Tulane and being done for good with the art world. But life had other plans for me, as I now approach almost fifty years in the art business. While that may defy logic, the transfer of an image with tracing paper is pretty definitive. If the image on the tracing pattern matches the original image, it is a certainty that the tracing paper is a copy. But, people do believe that they are looking at an original creation.
Deception in politics and the spy world can convince someone that what they are hearing, reading, or seeing is not happening. You don’t want to believe, because you are being incentivized not to believe. It is as if someone could walk up to you, look you in the eye and state very clearly that they were going to steal your wallet. The victim is confused, wondering how someone could be so bold to do this. Yet, the wallet is stolen, and, later in the day, you go to pay for your groceries and wonder what happened to your wallet.
You pay attention to patterns. What has worked once with little risk and great reward might well work again. Our military leaders have been studying warfare for centuries. During the Vietnam war, we studied what was then called ‘asymmetrical warfare’, which is defined as unconventional strategies and tactics adopted by a force when the military capabilities of belligerent powers are not simply unequal, but are so significantly different that they cannot make the same sorts of attacks on each other.
An element of asymmetrical warfare is elite capture, which has been practiced for centuries. I use the example of tracing paper to emphasize there is nothing here that represents original thinking or strategy. It may appear to be original, but it is not, and when we are deceived by the obvious, it is far more egregious and absurd. Whether it is Swalwell sleeping with Fang Fang, Hunter Biden being played for access, or Diane Feinstein being sucked in by the mayor of Shanghai by having a Chinese spy as her chauffeur for almost twenty years, it is inexcusable and, in my mind, punishable.
This is the history of what happened to Feinsterin who was constantly warned along the way. Note: Much like Pelosi, money and corruption was at the core of her decisions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GhdZqMlps Feinstein and China history
You may recall that Jiang was responsible for the slaughter of students in Tiananmen Square. Hardly a trustworthy trading partner
Pretty amazing when you consider that Biden broke protocol and left no ambiguity as to whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan.
Bill Clinton World Trade Organization
When the World Opened the Gates of China
Was it a mistake for the U.S. to allow China to join the World Trade Organization? Assessments of the 2001 deal often determine positions in today’s bitter trade debate.
https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/China_and_the_WTO_The_Politics_Behind_the_Agre.htm
China joined rules-based trading system — then broke the rules https://www.politico.com › china-wto-20-years-524050
Dec 9, 2021 — It's been 20 years since China entered the global trade body, the World Trade Organization, a move that gave it access to the international ...
Mr. Clinton’s idealistic rhetoric played well among most of Washington’s elites, but a trade lawyer often dismissed as a protectionist, Robert Lighthizer, was skeptical. As he had warned in a New York Times op-ed a few years earlier, if admitted to the WTO, mercantilist China would become a “dominant” trading nation. “Virtually no manufacturing job in [the U.S.] will be safe,” he wrote.
Chinese Billionaire Arrested in U.N. Bribery Case Has Clinton Links
RAGS TO RICHES Ng Lap Seng is charged with conspiracy to bribe a United Nations official. In the ’90s he funneled $1 million to the DNC and the Clinton-Gore ticket. Ng being the mega-rich Chinese national who used a proxy to pour more than $1 million into the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton-Gore campaign back in 1996. Scandal was joined by embarrassment when it turned out that Ng had been favored with 10 visits to the White House, including an elevator ride with Hillary Clinton.
CORRUPTION: China business deals were made with families of Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, to buy influence
https://www.clinton.news/2018-03-18-china-business-deals-were-made-with-families-of-joe-biden-mitch-mcconnell-to-buy-influence.html
Wall Street Journal
The WSJ reported further: Lawmakers and government officials are required to disclose information about their financial dealings but not those of their extended families, and Mr. Schweizer argues China has tried to exploit that provision. …
It comes as U.S. counterintelligence officials have expressed concerns about China’s efforts to target President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and his wife, Ivanka Trump, who have business dealings in China.
None of this is new, per se. In the 1990s, then-President Bill Clinton received direct monetary donations from Chinese interests, including the Chinese government. As the Wall Street Journal reported March 3, 2017, typical legacy media reporting at the time downplayed Clinton’s involvement because — well, because he was Clinton, a Democrat. The Washington Post noted:
President Clinton and his senior foreign policy advisers disagree with senators of both parties who have concluded China had a plan to influence U.S. elections illegally.
Clinton is under increasing pressure to confront the Chinese or face criticism he is so determined to pursue warm relations that he will overlook a plan to meddle illegally in U.S. elections.
The FBI uncovered evidence about the alleged plan, in part, through electronic intercepts… The plan, first discussed in early 1995, called for Chinese
The corruption surrounding the Clinton Foundation has been documented. Not to be relegated to the trash heap of political has beens, Hillary and Chelsea are attempting to re-invigorate the old machine to open the coffers once again to all who want to buy access.
Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-corruption-and-abc-news-11602794575
Biden, Corruption and ABC News : Will Stephanopoulos invite the Democrat to opine on the New York Post - or demand that he come clean about his family’s influence business?
Oct. 15, 2020 4:42 pm ET
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden walks toward a podium at the Southwest Focal Point Community Center in Pembroke Pines, Florida on Tuesday.
The Biden influence-peddling racket appears to be much more lucrative than previously reported. The Joe Biden presidential campaign may be changing its story on a Wednesday New York Post report about the family’s Ukrainian enrichment project. And now the Post reports on a new trove of documents suggesting that the Biden family was able to collect big money in China just for arranging meetings.
The Post’s Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge report: Hunter Biden pursued lucrative deals involving China’s largest private energy company — including one that he said would be “interesting for me and my family,” emails obtained by The Post show. One email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017, with the subject line “Expectations,” included details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture. According to the Post, the email suggests that participants were considering reserving 10% of the equity in the deal for “the big guy.”
Now who might that be? Don’t expect an aggressive pursuit of the answer from most of the press corps, but voters might be curious to know how valuable the Biden name is among some Chinese investors. According to the Post:
Another email — sent by Biden as part of an Aug. 2, 2017, chain — involved a deal he struck with the since-vanished chairman of CEFC, Ye Jianming, for half-ownership of a holding company that was expected to provide Biden with more than $10 million a year. Ye, who had ties to the Chinese military and intelligence service, hasn’t been seen since being taken into custody by Chinese authorities in early 2018, and CEFC went bankrupt earlier this year, according to reports.
Biden wrote that Ye had sweetened the terms of an earlier, three-year consulting contract with CEFC that was to pay him $10 million annually “for introductions alone.”
On Wednesday this column wondered what a company controlled by a Ukrainian oligarch got in return for large checks to a Biden family member. Some readers correctly pointed out that selling influence is wrong even if the seller never delivers any big policy changes in return. It appears that this column also may have underrated how much revenue Bidens can collect simply by opening doors.
If accurate, the latest Post report also suggests that (spoiler alert!) Hunter Biden wasn’t being paid for his financial acumen. According to the Thursday story:
The documents obtained by The Post also include an “Attorney Engagement Letter” executed in September 2017 in which one of Ye’s top lieutenants, former Hong Kong government official Chi Ping Patrick Ho, agreed to pay Biden a $1 million retainer for “Counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer.”
As for Wednesday’s Post report on Biden family business in Ukraine, many media outlets are working hard to debunk it, but so far they don’t seem to be having much luck.
“Biden campaign lashes out at New York Post” is the headline on a Politico story from Kyle Cheney and Natasha Bertrand published on Wednesday night. The authors write that Team Biden is “punching back” at the Post story and that advisers to Mr. Biden during his time as vice president “rejected the Post’s suggestion that Biden met with a representative of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in 2015.”
Biden loyalists are rhetorically free to lash out, punch back and reject suggestions. But readers who stick with the Politico story all the way to paragraphs 14 and 15 learn that the Biden campaign wasn’t exactly denying the facts asserted by the Post:
Biden’s campaign would not rule out the possibility that the former VP had some kind of informal interaction with Pozharskyi, which wouldn’t appear on Biden’s official schedule. But they said any encounter would have been cursory. Pozharskyi did not respond to a request for comment.
And senior Biden advisers who spoke to POLITICO on Wednesday — including Michael Carpenter and Amos Hochstein, who staffed the vice president at the time — similarly said that while there was never an official meeting, it’s technically conceivable that Pozharskyi would have approached Biden on the sidelines of some broader U.S.-Ukraine event.
Now Ebony Bowden at the New York Post reports that the Biden campaign’s press secretary is calling the Post reporting false, but doing so by appealing to the authority of Twitter—as if the social-media company blocking the Post account knows which Ukrainians met with which Bidens.
Will Joe Biden finally have to acknowledge the family business? Some media folk are presenting the Post reporting as a smear for which only Mr. Biden’s opponent is accountable, perhaps at an NBC News town hall in Miami this evening.
“Enormous pressure on NBC now to make this thing a nightmare for Trump,” tweets Steele dossier superspreader Ben Smith, who for some reason has not been blocked by Twitter.
And now we have scrutiny shifting to the Chinese funded Penn Biden Center which paid BIden after he left the White House $1 million dollars as a professor that did not teach. If anyone can give the Clintons a run for their money.. sorry our money.. it is the Biden family. If you fail to see a pattern here of elite capture with Feinstein, Pelosi, McConnell, Clintons, Bidens and the Chinese government you are a lost soul.
