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Aug 11, 2020, 24 tweets

23 Questions for @JoeBiden on China free for the asking if we had a real media. As @realDonaldTrump told @hughhewitt, if Biden wins China will own the United States thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #1 for @JoeBiden on China: Do you still believe, as you remarked during a 2011 speech, that “a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large”? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #2 for @JoeBiden on China: Do you regret support for granting permanent normal trade relations to China, setting it up for accession to the World Trade Organization that would supercharge its drive toward superpower status? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #3 for @JoeBiden on China: Do you believe O admin responses, or lack thereof, to China’s rampant IP theft, militarization of S China Sea, catastrophic OPM hack, liquidation of CIA assets were sufficient, and successfully checked China’s ambitions? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #4 for @JoeBiden on China: Do you disavow Obama admin signing of '13 MOU—following intense lobbying of you by CCP—granting Chinese companies continued access to US capital markets, in spite of total regulatory noncompliance, resulting in numerous frauds? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #5 for @JoeBiden on China: Do you think it appropriate for former Obama admin NatSec officials to lobby on behalf of Huawei, the CCP-tied, NatSec-threatening, alleged U.S.-lawbreaking linchpin of China’s plan for control over global communications? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #6 for @JoeBiden on China: Will you disclose any and all funding directly or indirectly emanating from Chinese sources for the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #7 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President-Elect Biden take a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s president, and express ambiguity regarding the “One China” policy prior to dealing with the CCP? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #8 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a Biden administration explicitly recognize the ruling CCP as a “Marxist-Leninist Party,” “hostile to the United States,” that harbors hegemonic ambitions? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #9 for @JoeBiden on China: More fundamentally, would a Biden administration recognize that China poses the greatest threat of all to America? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #10 for @JoeBiden on China: Would every member of a Biden Cabinet adopt policies geared toward countering China, or ceasing cooperation with it? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #11 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden continue the Trump administration’s military buildup aimed at countering China’s aggression? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #12 for @JoeBiden on China: Specifically, would a President Biden prioritize significant funding of missile defense and the Space Force in his budgets? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #13 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden continue to vacate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #14 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden continue accelerating naval activities throughout the Indo-Pacific? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #15 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden explicitly encourage U.S. companies to move their supply chains out of China? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #16 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden impose tariffs as a means of creating leverage over China in a bid to achieve free, fair, and reciprocal trade? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #17 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden use every possible measure to counter China’s efforts to monopolize strategically significant fields, such as 5G telecommunications? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #18 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden maintain substantially increased powers of exec branch over conducting Committee on Foreign Investment in the US reviews of transactions that might pose NatSec threats, and use it to scuttle such deals? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #19 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a Biden administration sanction Chinese entities doing business with sanctioned Iranian entities? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #20 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a Biden Department of Justice maintain the Trump administration’s China Initiative, aimed at preventing and prosecuting Chinese espionage and hacking efforts? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #21 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a Biden admin engage in a comprehensive strategic comms effort aimed at CCP, including resolutely challenging its propaganda, delivering Mandarin pro-democracy/anti-CCP messages, and highlighting tyrannical CCP actions? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #22 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a Biden admin maintain restrictions on visas for Chinese students & scholars in strategically significant disciplines, and investigate and expose potentially corrupting Chinese funding of American higher ed institutions? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

Q #23 for @JoeBiden on China: Would a President Biden order that the savings of U.S. government employees not be invested in funds with weightings toward Chinese companies antithetical to America’s interests? thefederalist.com/2020/05/29/her…

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