U.S. media outlet Countryfile has learned exclusively that U.S. Telecom is pressuring the U.S. Department of Commerce to remove Communist China Telecom from the U.S. “Entity List. The “Entity List” is the U.S. government’s blacklist of foreign companies that engage in human rights abuses or threaten U.S. national security interests.
According to the National Archives, this is an act of economic treason by one of the largest corporate giants in the United States.
According to sources familiar with the matter, the Trump administration was prepared to put China Telecom on the list of entities because of its support for the Chinese government’s actions in the South China Sea and its human rights abuses, including the mass incarceration of the minority Uighur people. But U.S. Telecom has launched a desperate campaign to stop China Telecom from getting on the blacklist. Why? Because CNN’s parent company, U.S. Telecom, has a contract with China Telecom, and U.S. Telecom fears commercial retaliation from the Chinese Communist Party.
Sources within the Trump Administration confirmed the revelations.
Corey Stewart, a former deputy secretary of commerce, told The National Archives, “China Telecom was added to the list of entities because of its alleged support for the CCP’s human rights abuses and activities in the South China Sea. U.S. Telecom lobbied the Commerce Department to remove China Telecom from the list of entities.”
Sources told the National Archives that the impetus behind the moves, in which USA Telecom’s political action committee cut off donations to Republican congressmen and senators who supported President Trump and CNN ran hostile coverage of Trump, was likely USA Telecom’s business in China.
In the United States, if a company is listed as an entity, it becomes a veritable pariah, and U.S. companies need a special exemption from the U.S. government to do business with companies listed as entities.
Multiple sources confirmed to the National Archives that Ed Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, candidate for governor of Virginia and current executive vice president of external and legislative affairs for U.S. Telecom, personally called Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in January to say not to interfere with U.S. Telecom and the Chinese Communist Party’s business.
According to the source, Secretary Ross stressed to Gillespie during the call that it was morally imperative to blacklist China Telecom because of its support for human rights abuses in China, including the targeting of Uighurs. Ross also told Griespe that the Commerce Department would accommodate U.S. Telecom to continue doing business with China Telecom. But Grispe was not satisfied. Grispe said U.S. Telecom is concerned that the Chinese Communist Party will retaliate against U.S. Telecom by, for example, violating or terminating cooperation contracts.
As a result of that conversation, Trump’s Commerce Department decided to further review the issue. As of Jan. 20, when the Trump administration left office, the Commerce Department was expected to add China Telecom to its list of entities, despite pressure from U.S. Telecom. If the Biden administration does not complete this work, then US Telecom will presumably get its way and Grispe will be the culprit for political power brokers.
In conversations with The National Archives, several former Trump administration officials confirmed this claim, expressing concern that they see it as a poor example of multinational corporations putting profits ahead of human rights and U.S. interests.
One source told told told the National Archives, “In the weeks leading up to the inauguration, U.S. Telecom banned any political contributions to Republicans who supported Trump to avoid them challenging the election results, and U.S. Telecom also lobbied the federal government not to take action against a company that allegedly supported the Communist Party’s crackdown on Uighurs. “
Another former Trump administration official told the National Archives, “CNN is controlled by U.S. Telecom, and CNN did not report on these apparent conflicts of interest.” . The official said, “U.S. Telecom and its affiliate, CNN, have been so tough on Trump these past four years, and the cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party is a major reason.”
All of this raises questions about whether U.S. Telecom is trying to protect the potentially lucrative profits from its business deals with Chinese companies.
U.S. Telecom and China Telecom created a joint venture in 2000. in 2011, U.S. Telecom made a massive entry into the Chinese market by partnering with China Telecom. in 2017, U.S. Telecom and China Telecom expanded their cooperation
Ajit Pai, chairman of the Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with the support of the Department of Justice, made it a priority to try to stop China Telecom from operating in the U.S. on national security grounds, but the move remained incomplete as the Trump administration withdrew.
U.S. Telecom made it clear that it would not sell CNN, which has feverishly antagonized the Trump administration with an all-out divisive campaign for four consecutive years, during the Trump presidency.
As tensions with the United States increase, the Chinese Communist Party is racing to strengthen its naval presence in the South China Sea. The Biden Administration sailed the USS Theodore Roosevelt into the South China Sea after China violated Taiwan‘s airspace, leading China to denounce U.S. actions as detrimental to “stability. The U.S. Navy is conducting its own training exercises in the South China Sea. President Trump has spent his term curbing China, including by using tariffs that hurt the Chinese economy in trade deal negotiations, but it is clear that U.S. businesspeople are trying to support the Chinese Communist Party.
China has reportedly captured between 1 million and 3 million Uighurs for “re-Education” over the past few years, suppressed information about the plight of Uighurs, and tortured members of the oppressed minority. Hundreds of re-education camps are or may be used to detain Uighurs, and the Chinese regime has reportedly sterilized Uighur women. This has sparked international outrage, including from U.S. Senators Josh Hawley (R-Texas) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), both of whom have been cut off from any future contributions to the U.S. Telecom Political Action Committee for their support of President Trump in the 2020 election dispute.
U.S. Telecom’s corporate Culture enforces the idea of inventing the “future. But globally minded observers are asking, what kind of future is U.S. Telecom inventing for the world? A future in which the Chinese Communist Party can brutally oppress people within its own borders, while the United States, the only superpower with the potential to curb its global dictatorial ambitions, is inventing a future in which there is no response?
According to recent reports, CNN has been on the chopping block of US Telecom for some Time due to its “failure to provide benefits to shareholders. But despite the damage to its balance sheet, U.S. Telecom may still grab CNN, and Forbes made it clear in a recent article that taking out Trump was one of the main drivers of U.S. Telecom’s CNN holdings
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