Category: Finance & Business Ties

Elon Musk Is ‘Very Vulnerable to the Blackmail of the Chinese Communist Party’: Former Trump Trade Adviser Peter Navarro

To Peter Navarro, former White House trade adviser under the Trump administration—what someone did is more important than what they said they will do. While some feel that tech mogul Elon Musk’s recent 9.2 percent Twitter stock purchase and his offer to buy Twitter outright is a sign that the restoration of free speech could return to the platform,…


Apple CEO Tim Cook Should Register as Chinese Agent: Experts

Apple CEO Tim Cook and other corporate leaders should be required to register as foreign agents due to their ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to expert testimony received by an influential Congressional advisory body. “When Tim Cook comes to testify before Congress, he testifies as the head of an American multinational, said…


World May Turn From China Economically If Beijing Doesn’t Take Firm Stand Against Russia Amid War: Yellen

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) shouldn’t expect future claims to sovereignty to carry any weight with the international community if the Beijing regime continues to undermine the sovereignty of Ukraine, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. “Whatever China’s geopolitical aims and strategies, we see no benign interpretation of Russia’s invasion nor of its consequences…


World May Turn Away From China Economically If Beijing Doesn’t Take Firm Against Russia Amid War: Yellen

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) should not expect future claims to sovereignty to carry any weight with the international community if it continues to undermine the sovereignty of Ukraine, according to U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. “Whatever China’s geopolitical aims and strategies, we see no benign interpretation of Russia’s invasion nor of its…


International Shipbuilding Contracts Fuel Modernization of Chinese Navy: Report

International demand for commercial ships is fueling the growth of the Chinese navy, according to a new report, which found that billions of dollars in foreign shipbuilding contracts could be being used by Beijing to fund new combat vessels. The new report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a security-focused think tank, found…


US Business and Political Elites Are Putting America Second to China: Author

“Should the U.S. government try to overthrow the [Chinese Communist] Party?” asks Isaac Stone Fish in his new book, “America Second: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger.” Stone Fish, CEO of China-focused consulting firm Strategy Risks, as well as a former Beijing correspondent for Newsweek magazine, writes, “The Party poses an existential threat to…


Decoupling from China’s Economy ‘Is The Future’: Analyst

U.S. political leadership must work with the private sector to decouple critical technology development from mainland China, according to one expert. “One of the key vulnerabilities that we’re becoming more and more aware of is the degree to which Wall Street firms and American banks and investment companies continue to see China as this great…


GOP Senators Demand Biden’s Federal Pension Board Nominees Pledge Not to Invest in Chinese Firms

President Joe Biden’s nominees to serve on the Federal Thrift Retirement Investment Board (FTRIB)—the main pension fund for federal government employees— should pledge not to invest funds into China-based companies that undermine U.S. national security, three Republican senators said on April 6 in a letter to the nominees. “We are deeply concerned by the Federal…


Hunter Biden Asked Father to Write College Recommendation Letter for Chinese Business Associate’s Son: Leaked Emails

President Joe Biden, at Hunter Bidens’ request in 2017, wrote a college recommendation letter for the son of a Chinese executive whom Hunter did business with, leaked emails suggest. The emails purportedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop, obtained by Fox News, show exchanges in early 2017 between Hunter Biden, his business partners at Rosemont Seneca, and…


US Would Sanction China If It Invades Taiwan: Yellen

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on April 6 that the United States would levy sanctions on China should the communist regime invade Taiwan or provide material support to Russia’s war effort in Ukraine. When asked by Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee about whether Washington is open…