Biden‘s National Security Advisor: Respond to Challenges by Sweeping Your Own House First; Experts Speak Out
Photo shows Sullivan speaking after being nominated as national security adviser by Biden at the Queen’s Theatre in Delaware on Nov. 24, 2020.
On Jan. 29, President Joe Biden’s new national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said that in order to deal with challenges such as the Chinese Communist Party, it is necessary to “clean our own house first” and build our strength, showing a clear difference in policy toward China from the Trump administration.
The most important national security challenge facing the United States right now is how to organize our own house, how to reinvigorate it,” Sullivan said at a virtual seminar on “Passing the Baton in 2021” at the Institute for Peace, a U.S. think tank, according to the China Compilation. “
He said the U.S. is currently facing an Epidemic, an economic crisis, threats to the Constitution and the Republic and the resulting domestic divisions, climate change and a variety of other issues.
While acknowledging these challenges, Sullivan quoted Biden as saying that “domestic affairs is diplomacy and diplomacy is domestic affairs” and that the current focus is on “cleaning our own house.
Chinese American scholar He Qinglian commented: “Do you get it? The urgency of dealing with the Chinese Communist Party is far less than the so-called “anti-terrorism” at Home.
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U.S. bombers stationed in Guam to maintain military pressure on Communist China
The United States continues to increase troops in the Western Pacific to maintain pressure on the Chinese Communist Party, the U.S. military announced Friday (29), four B52H strategic bombers recently flew to the strategically important Guam deployment, claiming it is to strengthen the rule-based international order in the Indo-Pacific region.
The U.S. Pacific Air Force said the bombers flew from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to Anderson Air Force Base on Guam on Thursday (28) to begin the deployment of the bomber contingent; this is the second Time Barksdale Air Force Base has sent personnel and bombers to Guam since December 2018, Oriental Daily News said.
The military calls this a strategic deterrence mission, and deploying as a bomber task force employs their ability to provide flexible combat power wherever it is needed.
Aircraft Spots, a social networking account that tracks the movement of military aircraft, said Thursday that the two B52Hs, which were the first to depart Monday (25), were split up on their way to Guam, with one landing directly at its destination and the other entering South China Sea airspace via the Philippine Sea, Celebes Sea and Sulu Sea, and “circling” the area before returning to Anderson Air Force Base.
Vice Admiral: The Chinese Communist Party can’t win with “aircraft carrier killers”
The picture shows a U.S. Air Force B-52 “Stratospheric Fortress” strategic bomber.
In a potential conflict in the South China Sea, China and the U.S. are engaged in a military power race to gain a key advantage, and recently, U.S. Defense Department officials pointed out that the Chinese regime is too confident in the so-called “carrier killer” – DF-26 ballistic missiles.
The Washington Examiner reported on 29 March that the Chinese Communist Party has tailored a series of strategies to enhance new military capabilities to defeat the U.S. military, and perhaps nothing has bothered U.S. strategists more in recent years than the DF-26 ballistic missile that Beijing has been touting.
The Communist Party media have for years touted the so-called “super lethality” of the “carrier killer,” a missile that is said to be located deep within Chinese territory but has the ability to strike U.S. positions thousands of miles away. But U.S. Defense Department officials say the Chinese regime should not be overconfident about this new weapon.
At an event this week for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a nonprofit intelligence organization, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare and director of naval intelligence, said with a laugh, “That’s probably not how we’re going to win the next war. war the way it’s going to be.”
This confident posture by the U.S. military has also caught the attention of the Chinese Communist military establishment.
Gregory B. Poling, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, recently said, “We made a decision after World War II that we would be better off asserting our national security interests through this alliance network and forward-deployed bases so that we never have to face an adversary in the Pacific again. ” Poling said any nation believes in the credibility of the U.S. alliance system.
Chinese Citizen Charged with Conspiracy for Exporting U.S. Power Amplifiers to China
An indictment unsealed this week charges Cheng Bo (also known as Joe Cheng), a 45-year-old mainland citizen, with participating in a criminal conspiracy to violate U.S. export laws by shipping U.S. power amplifiers to China between 2012 and 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Cheng Bo’s former employer, Avnet Asia Pte. Ltd. a Singaporean company and global distributor of electronic components and related software, agreed to pay $1.508 million in financial penalties to the U.S. to resolve criminal liability for the actions of its former employees, including Cheng, the U.S.-China Express compiled.
The indictment revealed that Ching was a sales account manager for Avnet Asia who served as a sales representative to a Hong Kong-based customer with whom Ching had an ownership interest. Ching submitted documents on behalf of the customer for the purchase of U.S. goods subject to export controls, including power amplifiers. Cheng made false representations to the U.S. manufacturer of the power amplifiers that his customer would use the power amplifiers in Hong Kong, when in fact Cheng knew that the goods would be shipped illegally from Hong Kong to China.
As part of the non-prosecution agreement, Avnet Asia admitted that from 2012 through 2015, Cheng facilitated at least 18 separate shipments of export-controlled goods from the United States to Hong Kong, knowing that the goods would subsequently be shipped to China, and that the value of these illegally exported goods was at least $814,000. Avnet Asia also admitted that between 2007 and 2009, another sales account manager, who was based in Singapore, conspired to violate U.S. export control laws and economic sanctions. The Singapore-based sales account manager helped two Singaporean commercial establishments ship U.S. goods to Iran and China, including helping to create documents falsely stating that the goods were destined only for Singapore. The Singapore-based sales account manager allowed at least 29 separate shipments of Avnet Asia goods to be exported from the United States, knowing that the goods would subsequently be shipped to Iran or China. The value of these shipments was at least $347,000. Neither Avnet Asia nor anyone else applied for an export license from U.S. government authorities.
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) also announced that Avnet Asia has agreed to pay an additional $1.721 million as part of a $3.229 million administrative penalty to resolve violations of the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
Anti-Spy! British government to restrict Chinese from working in 44 sensitive areas, cancel visas
The UK has always been one of the top countries for Chinese students to study in, and many Chinese students have switched to the UK after the US-China trade war. However, now Chinese students who travel to the UK may encounter great difficulties. The Times reports that the British government will announce on Feb. 15 that it will restrict Chinese from studying or working in 44 sensitive areas and will revoke visas, affecting thousands of people.
According to the report, the British Foreign Office has informed universities that it will conduct security checks on overseas academics and researchers studying or working in fields related to national security.
The UK Government Communications Headquarters has warned universities that ‘actors from hostile countries’ are targeting UK academic institutions in an attempt to steal personal data, research data and intellectual property for their military, commercial and dictatorial interests.
Thousands of Chinese will be restricted in 44 sensitive areas such as artificial intelligence, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science and a range of engineering fields, as well as corporate research and development. Those who have already obtained visas to work in these fields will also have their visas cancelled.
French government says it won’t change decision to phase out equipment as huawei sets up 5G factory in its territory
A French government spokesman has said that Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei’s plans to build a factory in northeastern France will not change France’s decision to phase out its 5G network equipment.
In an email, a spokesman for the Economy Ministry said the investment decision had nothing to do with the deployment of 5G in the French sector, and that France continues to monitor investments in telecommunications infrastructure to meet high national security guidelines, according to the Oriental Daily News.
Asked whether the company’s plans would require more security checks, the spokesman said the Huawei plant would not affect the capital or economic activities of existing French companies with sensitive businesses and therefore would not be included in the foreign investment control system.
Canada‘s visa service outsourcing to Chinese-invested companies raises questions about personal information security
Canadian federal opposition lawmakers have urged the Canadian government to stop outsourcing visa application processing to Chinese-backed companies because of concerns about the security of personal information contained in application materials.
VFS Global’s Canadian website lists 83 countries whose citizens can use its services to apply for Canadian visas, and another company owned by VFS, TT Services, has a contract to provide visa application services that include collecting fingerprints, photos, biographical information and other personal data from applicants.
The Epoch Times reports that VFS Global is majority owned by EQT VII (No. 1) Limited Partnership and is registered in Edinburgh, according to the Globe and Mail. Chengdong Investments, a subsidiary of the Communist Party’s state-owned China Investment Corp. is one of the investors in EQT VII, and another investor is Hong Kong sovereign wealth fund Eight Finance Investment Co. Ltd.
Conservative Immigration Review MP Raquel Dancho called on the federal government to cancel the contract with VFS. She said, “The possibility that private and confidential information on pro-democracy activists in mainland China and Hong Kong could be obtained by the Chinese Communist Party poses a threat to Canada’s national interests.”
Lithuania Bans Tongfang Nuctech Security Screening Equipment, Ukraine Sanctions Beijing Tianjiao
Tongfang Nuctech, which originated from Tsinghua University, has been actively pursuing contracts for security screening systems at Lithuanian airports, and last year won bids to set up baggage screening at three Lithuanian international airports for the record, but has yet to sign a contract. Lithuania’s intelligence agency warned in its annual report that “active penetration of Chinese investments” poses the risk of “losing control over resources and infrastructure, market manipulation and political influence.
Lithuania, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has banned airport security surveillance equipment made by China’s Tongfang Nuctech Technology Co. due to security concerns, officials said on 29. On the same day, Ukrainian authorities announced sanctions against China’s Beijing Skyrizon Aviation, including freezing the company’s assets in Ukraine, restricting business transactions and banning the transfer of assets out of Ukraine for three years.
A spokesman for Lithuania’s new prime minister, Ingrida Simonyte, said a government-appointed commission ruled that Tongfang Nuctech’s equipment was incompatible with Lithuania’s “national security interests,” according to AFP. The spokesman declined to give details, saying the information was confidential.
Western countries are increasingly suspicious of China’s investments in critical infrastructure, including 5th generation mobile telecommunications networks, the report said.
Laurynas Kasciunas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliament’s national security and defense committee, said investments and purchases in strategic infrastructure must comply with transatlantic security guidelines. He said the decision shows that Lithuania will not join the technological circle created and controlled by China.
U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania Robert Gilchrist welcomed the decision as “a step forward in safeguarding Lithuania’s national security and core infrastructure.
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