ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR JOINS WRAY & POMPEO IN WARNING AMERICANS ABOUT CHINESE THREAT

Barr Joins Wray & Pompeo in Warning Americans About Chinese Threat

BY LUIS MIGUEL

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Attorney General William Barr warned Americans this week of what he said might be the “the most important issue for our nation and the world in the 21st century”: the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) goal of global supremacy.

During an address at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, Barr discussed how China is “engaged in an economic blitzkrieg” with the aim of taking over key areas of the economy, such as the technology, pharmaceutical, and entertainment industries as a way of replacing the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower.

“The CCP has launched an orchestrated campaign, across all of its many tentacles in Chinese government and society, to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them,” Barr said. He contended that the communist nation is using “a wide array of predatory and often unlawful tactics,” including currency manipulation, cyberattacks, espionage, and intellectual property theft.

Barr pointed to the CCP’s “Made in China 2025,” which he said “poses a real threat to U.S. technological leadership” as the foreign power strives to take over several high tech industries. 

The attorney general further warned that America is already “dangerously dependent” in certain key areas, such as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and rare earth materials for technological devices.

As one Defense Health Agency official noted, should China decide to limit or restrict the delivery of APIs to the United States, it could result in severe shortages of pharmaceuticals for both domestic and military uses,” Barr warned.

He added that China “has systematically preyed on American companies” by imposing health market obstacles like price limitations and counterfeiting. The attorney general noted that Chinese nationals employed at American pharmaceutical companies have been caught stealing secrets in both the U.S. and abroad.

“The ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to trade with the United States,” Barr said. “It is to raid the United States.” In his opinion, American companies have too often fallen in line with Chinese demands in their pursuit of short-term profits.

“Sadly, examples of American business bowing to Beijing are legion,” Barr said, giving as an example the way in which Hollywood regularly censors its own movies to appease the Chinese Communist Party.”

In blockbusters such as World War Z and Doctor Strange, for instance, filmmakers changed major aspects of the movies to avoid offending the Chinese government and losing out on a Chinese market made up of more than a billion people. 

Chinese government censors don’t need to say a word, because Hollywood is doing their work for them,” Barr lamented. “This is a massive propaganda coup for the Chinese Communist Party.”

Barr also named large tech companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as being “all too willing to collaborate with the CCP,” citing Apple’s decision to take down the news app Quartz from their website because the Chinese government disliked their coverage of the Hong Kong protests.

Barr warned U.S. businesses considering working with China: “If you are an American business leader, appeasing the PRC may bring short-term rewards. But in the end, the PRC’s goal is to replace you.”

The attorney general’s remarks echo those of FBI Director Christopher Wray, who said earlier this month that the CCP is “engaged in a whole-of-state effort to become the world’s only superpower by any means necessary.”

Wray explained that the FBI opens a new China-related counterintelligence case every 10 hours and that their theft of Americans’ information, intellectual property, and more “represents one of the largest transfers of wealth in human history,” making China “the greatest long-term threat” to the United States.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also warned Americans about China this month, indicating that the Trump administration is strongly considering a ban on Chinese social media apps like TikTok, the popular video sharing platform.

President Trump has made taking on China one of his signature policy positions since he was a candidate in the 2016 election. Current events continue to prove that he’s right to want to limit the influence of the Sleeping Dragon on America. 

From unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States and then creating the drone technology to ensure compliance with lockdowns related to that pandemic to filling our classrooms with pro-CCP propaganda, China’s campaign to assume control of American life is now in high gear.