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May 29, 2020 13 tweets 9 min read Read on X
NEW: President Trump takes aim at #China right as he steps to the podium

"China's pattern of misconduct is well known" per @POTUS at White House news conference "For decades they've ripped off the United States like no one has ever done before..." Image
"#China raided our factories, off-shored our jobs, gutted out industries, stole our intellectual properties & violated their commitments" says @POTUS
"I have never solely blamed #China for this. They were able to get away w/the theft...because of past politicians and frankly past presidents" add @POTUS

"My administration negotiated & fought for what was right ... fair and reciprocal treatment"
"#China has also unlawfully claimed territory in the Pacific Ocean, threatening freedom of navigation...and they broke their word to the world on ensuring the autonomy of #HongKong" per @POTUS
"The #UnitedStates wants an open & constructive relatioship w/#China but achieving that relationship requires us to vigorously defend our national interests" per @POTUS
"The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese gvt" per @POTUS "China's coverup of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives..."
"#China has total control over the World Health Organization despite paying only $40 million per year" alleges @POTUS, saying US pays $450 million a year
BREAKING: "Because they have failed to make the requested & greatly needed reforms we will be today terminating our relationship with the World Health Organization" says @POTUS

Says funds will be redirected to other global health groups Image
"The world needs answers from #China on the virus. We must have transparency" demands @POTUS re #COVID19 #coronavirus "...not only for us but for the rest of the world"
NEW: @POTUS says he is issuing proclamation to better secure US university research & to suspect the entry of certain individuals from #China who pose security risks
.@POTUS says US also taking closer look at investment in #China

"Investment firms should not be subjecting their clients to the hidden & undue risks associated w/financing Chinese companies that don't play by the same rules"
#China's actions w/#HongKong security "a plain violation of #Biejing's treaty obligations" w/#UK, per @POTUS

"This is a tragedy for the ppl of Hong Kong, the ppl of China & indeed the ppl of the world"
"#China claims it is protecting national security but the truth is #HongKong was secure & prosperous as a free society" per @POTUS

Calls it incursion of invasive Chinese security state into "what was formerly a bastion of liberty"

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More from @jseldin

Aug 7
US, coalition actions to deter attacks on shipping by the #Iran-backed #Houthis in #Yemen

"We've degraded their capabilities" @US5thFleet VADM George Wikoff tells @CSIS from HQ in #Bahrain

"Have we stopped them? No"
"Our mission remains to disrupt their capabilities" per @US5thFleet's VADM Wikoff

Says it is "very difficult to find the center of gravity" w/which to pressure the #Houthis
"It's the #Houthi's choice" per @US5thFleet's VADM Wikoff "They can stop this any time they want"
Read 7 tweets
Aug 3
BREAKING: @Secdef Lloyd Austin yanks plea deals for 9/11 terror attack mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, 2 others

@DeptofDefense memo released tonight also relieves the official in charge of the military commissions of her oversight in the case Image
The @DeptofDefense first announced the plea deals earlier this week, though details of the deal were not made public
Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash & Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were charged in June 2008 & then again in May 2012 for their alleged roles in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on #NewYork's World Trade Center & the Pentagon
Read 4 tweets
Aug 1
JUST IN: US issues new National Counterintelligence Strategy

Updated strategy, signed by @POTUS Thursday, based on 3 pillars, per @NCSCgov:

-outmaneuver/constrain foreign intelligence entities
-protect US strategic advantages
-invest in the future Image
"Foreign intelligence and security services & their proxies persist in seeking to acquire our most
sensitive information, technology, and intellectual property" per @POTUS in the just-released strategy

"Non-state actors are following suit"
Foreign intelligence entities "also seeking to take advantage of the proliferation of commercially available tools to conduct surveillance; collect vast amounts of previously unavailable personal data;
& position themselves to disrupt our infrastructure..." per @POTUS
Read 7 tweets
Jun 4
Some nuggets from @FBI Dir. Christopher Wray's appearance Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies...
#ArtificialIntelligence & #Election2024-"We are, of course, seeing & I've been warning about this for some time, the role of AI to enhance efforts that our foreign adversaries have already been engaged in" per @FBI's Wray
"It's not that it [#ArtificialIntelligence] changes fundamentally what it is our adversaries want to do...it allows them to amplify to do it, to make it more sophisticated, more deceptive, cheaper, faster" per @FBI's Wray
Read 18 tweets
Mar 11
HAPPENING NOW - US intelligence chiefs testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee:

@ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines
@CIA Dir William Burns
@FBI Dir Christoper Wray
@NSAGov Dir Gen Timothy Haugh
@DefenseIntel Dir LtGen Jeffrey Krause
@StateDept Asst Sec for Intel Brett Holmgren Image
Noting that the current era is as challenging as ever, with a wide variety of threats, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner calls for "redefining what we think of" when it comes to national security Image
@MarkWarner "We are no even seeing the possibility of foreign adversaries weaponizing space" in ways that could be detrimental to US way of life, per @MarkWarner
Read 73 tweets
Feb 29
NEW: @FBI joins White House, Senate intelligence committee chair in sounding alarm about foreign interference in #Election2024

"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace & enabled by new technology
per Dir Christopher Wray at @INSAlliance
#ArtificialIntelligence advances "lowering the barrier to entry-making it easier for both more & less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence" per @FBI's Wray

"Making foreign influence efforts by players old and&new more realistic & difficult to detect"
@FBI Where are US adversaries focused?

“The attack surface for the bad guys is the private sector” per @FBI's Wray "The intelligence that we need is in the hands of the private sector, often”
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