From Backward China, to Friend, to Trading Partner, to goal of Communist Chinese Global Control and crushing of America…
BYU Lamanite Generation performing group during national tour of CHINA in 1982 at Temple of Heaven – Ken Cromar (blond) 4th from right on front row.
In 1982, while a student at BYU in film production, a roommate in a cultural performing group was in need of Tech Crew members who could travel to China. I volunteered to help.
Back in 1982, we were only the third BYU performing group to visit China, and back then, with little TV (two channels I think), our Lamanite Generation (Native American, Latino, and Polynesian) cultural performances aired each night, making us “national celebrities” of a sort.
BYU Lamanite Generation performing group walking streets in CHINA 1982 – Ken Cromar (blond) second from right in background
China was a VERY backward country in 1982. The billboards at the city center round-abouts sold not Coke or Pepsi, — but rather tractor parts!!
I guess we played a part in helping to open up China to a “modern world”. Utah’s roll was new in ’82, but now it appears to have evolved in an “interesting” manner.
The two articles highlighted here are a contrast; the first reminds of China’s CCP leadership’s diabolical objective to subject America to them!, and the second highlights UTAH’s unique connection to China.
For example, our former Utah Governor John Huntsman had served a Chinese speaking mission, and then went on to serve as Ambassador to China under Obama. Now China seems intent on killing off our military aged youth with fentanyl poison Biden allows to cross the border and kill tens of thousands of young American — of course AFTER getting his golden YUAN parachute!
You decide who China was, is now, and if they’re buying up and controlling our politicians — and even influencing the 2020 election (reported by DNI John Ratcliff) — and which has resulted in the last two years of the systematic destruction of America by our own government — with out ever firing a shot.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/dni-john-ratcliffe-bombshell-report-china-interfered-2020-federal-elections
But don’t be fooled. Those Chinese gunshots are very likely coming to America — and may be even prophesied in Isaiah.
So, China went from backward “brother” who had just sacrificed 45 million of its own people to the cause of Communism — to friend — to partner — to now killing our youth with fentanyl poison — as they seemingly prepare to eventually come in and take over our country.
BTW, Communism has NEVER worked. It has always made great promises, but has ALWAYS resulted in the heartless suffering, starvation, and death in the name of “equality” — for it’s elite few on the backs and blood of the people.
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Wake Up America: Communist China Is our Enemy
Befriending the World’s Greatest Mass Murderer
In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited mainland China, opening the door for diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was a dramatic visit, as Nixon became the first United States President to visit the communist nation.
Nixon met with Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, who is considered the world’s greatest mass murderer. During the “Great Leap Forward,” between 1958 and 1962, over 45 million Chinese were killed of starvation, torture and other barbaric methods.
After Nixon opened the door to better relations, President Jimmy Carter formalized diplomatic relations in 1979 and adopted the “One China” policy, ending normalized ties with the independent and free country of Taiwan.
Real Freedom has Never Developed in China
In 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre showed the world what the communist Chinese really thought of freedom. An unknown number of student demonstrators were brutally killed. While the United States and other countries froze relations and ended military sales to China, no concrete actions were taken to stop their oppressive policies.
During the Bill Clinton administration, Chinese efforts to steal our military technology were finally recognized, but the country was not penalized for their actions. In fact, they were rewarded by the United States normalizing trade relations and allowing China to join the World Trade Organization in 2001.
Since that time, trade has flourished between the two countries, but the Chinese have been the major beneficiary. Our trade deficit with China ballooned to a record high of $418 billion in 2018. The country has used our massive trade deficit to bolster not only their economy, but also their military.
After aggressive trade policies, including tariffs, were implemented by President Donald Trump, the deficit dropped to $310 billion in 2020, the lowest in a decade. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden did not adopt those tough policies. His administration has a much more conciliatory tone toward the communist dictatorship.
Biden embarked on this approach despite the harsh reality of what China did to the world over the past two years. In late 2019, evidence is overwhelming that China unleashed the COVID-19 virus, either purposely or by accident, from a biological laboratory in Wuhan.
China is preventing conclusive proof from being established about the origins of the disease by refusing to work with investigators from the World Health Organization. This investigation is necessary to determine conclusively how COVID-19 started and what can be done to prevent future pandemics.
China’s refusal to participate speaks volumes about their involvement in this disaster. The pandemic has caused the deaths of 5.3 million people across the world, including almost 800,000 people in this country. It has also led to trillions of dollars in economic damages worldwide.
Along with the responsibility for the COVID-19 carnage, China is the major manufacturer of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic prescription opioid that is illegally sold in the United States. In the twelve-month period ending in April 2021, over 100,000 Americans died from drug overdose deaths. This was an increase of 28.5% from the previous year. Sadly, many of these deaths were from fentanyl overdose.
The CCP Cares NOT for it’s own People – let alone Americans
China supplied both the pandemic and the drugs which have killed almost one million Americans in the last two years. In addition, an untold number of people in China are being killed by their brutal communist government.
China has continued to oppress the Tibetans and the Muslim Uyghurs. The government also crushed the recent freedom movement in Hong Kong, imprisoning the leaders of the human rights campaign.
China is also regularly invading the territorial airspace of Taiwan by flying their military planes over the country. This is sending an unmistakable message that China intends to invade the island nation. When that happens, the worldwide response will be weak, exactly what China has experienced for decades.
Selling our American soul Cheaply to the Chinese
As China engages in these reprehensible behaviors, Americans continue to buy goods manufactured by slave labor in China. Any inspection at a typical Walmart store will find countless items manufactured in China.
Instead of benefiting communist dictators, Americans should buy products made in this nation. We must start to show allegiance to our workers and our companies and economically punish those corporations like Nike and Apple which have moved so much of their manufacturing to China. These corporations are not alone; for decades, American factories have been closing and Chinese companies have been manufacturing a, increasing number of our consumer goods.
We must buy American, because in communist China workers are not free. There is not only slave labor, but a continuation of child labor. In China, citizens enjoy no religious or political freedom. There is no opportunity to assemble or protest. There is only one political option, the communist party. Citizens have no choice in elections. A free press does not exist in China. In fact, there is no free flow of information on the Internet, which is heavily censored by the Chinese government.
Unfortunately, major institutions in the United States have sold their souls to the communist dictators….
READ the remainder of the article here… https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2021/12/13/wake-up-america-communist-china-is-our-enemy-n2600484
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China’s global influence campaign finds an unlikely friend in Utah, and it may serve as a blueprint for ‘New York and elsewhere’
China’s global campaign to win friends and influence policy has blossomed in a surprising place: Utah, a deeply religious and conservative state with few obvious ties to the world’s most powerful communist country.
An investigation by The Associated Press has found that China and its U.S.-based advocates spent years building relationships with the state’s officials and lawmakers. Those efforts have paid dividends at home and abroad, the AP found: Lawmakers delayed legislation Beijing didn’t like, nixed resolutions that conveyed displeasure with its actions and expressed support in ways that enhanced the Chinese government’s image.
Its work in Utah is emblematic of a broader effort by Beijing to secure allies at the local level as its relations with the U.S. and its Western allies have turned acrimonious. U.S. officials say local leaders are at risk of being manipulated by China and have deemed the influence campaign a threat to national security.
Beijing’s success in Utah shows “how pervasive and persistent China has been in trying to influence America,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI counterintelligence agent who lives in Utah.
“Utah is an important foothold,” he said. “If the Chinese can succeed in Salt Lake City, they can also make it in New York and elsewhere.”
Security experts say that China’s campaign is widespread and tailored to local communities. In Utah, the AP found, Beijing and pro-China advocates appealed to lawmakers’ affiliations with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, better known as the Mormon church, which is the state’s dominant religion and one that has long dreamed of expanding in China.
Beijing’s campaign in Utah has raised concerns among state and federal lawmakers and drawn the attention of the Justice Department.
A state legislator told the AP he was interviewed by the FBI after introducing a resolution in 2020 expressing solidarity with China early in the coronavirus pandemic. A Utah professor who has advocated for closer ties between Washington and Beijing told the AP he’s been questioned by the FBI twice. The FBI declined to comment.
‘DECEPTIVE AND COERCIVE’
Beijing’s interest in locally focused influence campaigns is not a secret. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, said during a trip to the U.S. in 2015 that “without successful cooperation at the sub-national level it would be very difficult to achieve practical results for cooperation at the national level.”
A spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington told the AP that China “values its relationship with Utah” and any “words and deeds that stigmatize and smear these sub-national exchanges are driven by ulterior political purposes.”
It is not unusual for countries, including the U.S., to engage in local diplomacy. U.S. officials and security experts have stressed that many Chinese language and cultural exchanges have no hidden agendas. However, they said, few nations have so aggressively courted local leaders in ways that raise national security concerns.
READ the remainder of the FORTUNE article here… https://fortune.com/2023/03/27/china-global-influence-campaign-utah-lawmakers/
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Editor’s Note: The Biden Crime Family says that they cannot be bought. We don’t disagree. Of course the Bidens cannot be bought — China bought and paid for the Bidens long ago….
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