Breitbart News reports that Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has warned the Biden administration of its eagerness to “embrace” the Chinese Communist government.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a video Thursday warning that President Joe Biden gave the Chinese Communist Party a “warm hug” in his first few weeks in office when selecting cabinet members, the report said.
Cruz, who has repeatedly hammered Biden about the Communist Party since the start of his presidential cabinet nominee hearings, raised concerns in the video about certain nominees, some of whom have now been confirmed as ministers in their respective departments.
“China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States in the next century,” Cruz began in the video.” One of the really disturbing patterns we’ve seen in candidate after candidate nominated by Biden is a passionate embrace of the Chinese (Communist) state.”
The video flashes images of Cabinet nominees, including U.N. Ambassador nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Commerce Secretary nominee Gina Raimondo and current Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas)
Cruz began the video by highlighting Thomas Greenfield, whom the Foreign Relations Committee approved 18-4 on Thursday and now awaits Senate confirmation. Cruz was the most critical of the U.N. ambassador nominee at the hearing and one of the senators who voted against her Thursday, largely because of her 2019 speech at the Confucius Institute at Georgia State University in Savannah, where she praised China’s (Communist) aggressive investment practices in Africa.
Thomas Greenfield said at the hearing that she regretted the speech and had intended to offer diplomatic advice to young people at Savannah State University, a historically black public university. She acknowledged China’s “self-serving and parasitic goals in Africa” and said she intended to convey that “Africans need to open their eyes to how they deal with the Chinese, and I would like to see the U.S. government do more to compete in Africa.”
However, Cruz argued during the committee vote that “there was not a single word in her speech that was critical of the Chinese [Communist Party],” and noted that her speech at the Confucius Institute, which is a mouthpiece for the Chinese government funded by the Communist Party, was still shocking.
The Texas Republican’s video editor then turned to huawei, describing the Chinese telecommunications giant as a “global spy company masquerading as a telecommunications company.
Cruz asked Raimondo during the hearing if he could commit to keeping Huawei and other Chinese technology companies on the list of entities maintained by the Commerce Department, and Raimondo sidestepped his question, saying only, “I will commit to cooperating with you.”
Cruz cited the exchange as a reason for rejecting her nomination, but despite his objections, Raimondo was approved 21-3 by the Commerce Committee on Wednesday and now awaits a full Senate confirmation vote.
The video he released also features former U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director John Mayorkas, who Cruz noted was accused in a 2015 inspector general report of making political favors for “well-connected Democratic stakeholders” under the EB-5 visa program and allegedly securing such a visa for Huawei’s vice president.
According to Politico, a Biden transition official defended Mayorkas, saying the current secretary “inherited a ‘badly broken’ visa system and ‘took a number of steps to aggressively reform the EB-5 program and strengthen the quality and integrity of the process.”
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