Spending the 80th Anniversary of D-Day in Normandy with over one hundred 100-year-old Veterans of the liberation has been one of the ultimate highlights of my life. Here is Clayton Baum from San Diego. Clayton is 101 yrs-old and was a member of the 29thID. 🧵 I met Woody Woodhouse of the famous Tuskegee Airmen yesterday. While he wasn’t a pilot himself, he is an American treasure. Woody wears two watches and you should ask him why.

There are four wars the United States can fight against China:
1. Kinetic/Hot War - where the U.S. has the top war department in the world
2. Cyber War - U.S. again number one
3. Economic War - U.S. doesn’t have an economic war department. We field economic missiles like 🧵 fly balls. Some to Treasury, others to Commerce, few to the U.S. Trade Representative…and even DOD.
4. Propaganda War - U.S. doesn’t have a propaganda war department. Our enemies spend billions annually developing and circulating propaganda. We need a propaganda war dept.

China sent their top ‘retired’ PLA General and their ‘retired’ ambassador Cui Tiankai to threaten U.S. Combatant Commanders this week. They told us that they will ‘take’ the Second Thomas Shoal in the Philippines 🇵🇭 and that the U.S. should stay out of their business.

https://twitter.com/huxijin_gt/status/1774444025442890119

Looking at Hu’s propaganda feed over the past few weeks, he has been diligently setting the stage for a Chinese attack on the Second Thomas Shoal. He desperately has tried to make their belligerence appear to be A US and Filipino instigation. China’s ships and water cannons

Trump is wasting no time compromising US national security with his head-scratching support of China’s TikTok. After listening to his top NSC advisors in 2020, “President Trump announced a decision ordering China's ByteDance to divest ownership 1/12 nypost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/nypost.com… of the application, and threatened to shut down its U.S. operations through executive action as soon as August 1 if the company did not comply.” Trump publicly decried TikTok as an urgent national security threat. Just a few short years later, Trump has flip-flopped into 2/12

Take 2: On the suspicious death of Angela Chao…now a criminal investigation (a quantum leap from ‘an unfortunate accident’). A few critical facts that this journalist didn’t include in this article: 1. Her husband’s VC partnership IDG Capital was classified as a ‘Chinese

https://twitter.com/cnbc/status/1763341515823186316

Operation’ just days before her death.
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After my shocking breakfast, I dropped by McNally Jackson bookstore in NYC’s Rockefeller Center. Just inside to the left, I found the table of ‘New Non-Fiction Books’. The books seem to have a common theme: 1/8 #programming

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I followed a group of ‘special interest aliens’ from the CBP ‘processing center’ to the NGO (funded 100% by taxpayer money from the Biden Administration) called Mission Border Hope. All charities must file a Form 990 with the IRS that’s public. There, they received a ziplock Bag with papers that allow travel anywhere in the USA 🇺🇸 by airplane. They go to a window at Mission Border Hope and receive a plane ticket to wherever they would like to fly. No photo ID…no ID of any kind other than the ‘paperwork’ given to them by CBP’s ‘processing

And her Tesla launching Into the pond. The ranch is allegedly owned by Mitch McConnell and her sister Elaine Chao. The family had it ruled an ‘accidental’ death and had Chao’s car delivered back to the family immediately after the suspicious death. A blood test was taken 2/8 And a toxicology report is forthcoming. How local law enforcement fumbled these events early-on helped complicate this case exponentially. Once true investigators have their way with the car, the toxicology report, and the witnesses, expect some better reporting on the 3/8

‼️ Angela Chao’s death at a private Texas ranch in Blanco, County is suspicious. ‼️ Chao entered her Tesla and backed into a pond on the ranch and passed away. Chao, almost certainly a high-ranking member of the Communist Parry of China (she sat the board of state-owned Bank of China…one of the five largest banks in China. She also sat as a board member of China Ship Building Corporation (which was sanctioned by the U.S. Government in 2020 for building ships and weapons for the Chinese Navy). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Sta…

The WSJ just shut down its coverage of China in the U.S. The announcement contains a non-sensical quote from the Editor: Editor in Chief Emma Tucker said the Journal’s Washington bureau will now focus specifically on “politics, policy, defense, law, intelligence and national Security.” Editor and Chief says they will focus on ‘national security’ and the first they do is sack people like @Kate_OKeeffe ?!? Something more sinister is happening here. Kate is an amazing investigative journalist and will land somewhere better…but watching Washington

With China facing a real estate collapse, a banking crisis, a local government debt crisis ($13 trillion market), and a youth unemployment explosion…the Chinese are at Davos and ready to engage to attract more investment into the middling kingdom. Forget losing (1/7)

https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1748345566118182995

money over the last 15 years (in the face of +500% reported GDP growth), PLEASE invest MORE in China…we promise to ensure a positive return! I stopped attending Davos the year Xi was invited to be the keynote. It’s a perfect place for the hollow platitudes of the Communist (2/7)

Taiwan’s president has been chosen in a free and fair democratic election. William Lai and his DPP have won over Beijing’s preferred candidate. With its ethnically Chinese population, Taiwan’s people have voted against Xi Jinping. Today is a victory for democracy. #Taiwan #China Despite Beijing’s militaristic and psychological intimidation leading up to this election, the people have spoken. In the prior month, Taiwan had experienced an unprecedented 23+ Chinese military balloons (with some flown directly over Taiwan’s defense bases) as China studied

🛑 China is experiencing a USD funding crisis 🛑 (similar to the rest of the emerging world). Xi was forced to visit the PBOC and SAFE for the FIRST TIME EVER yesterday. China’s banking system is in free fall and Xi 1/9 ft.com/content/4c2a39… has been forced to sell US Treasury bonds and US stocks to stem the decline in Chinese USD balances globally and to defend the Chinese RMB. China’s SAFE has been lending USD balances to Chinese banks instructed 2/9

I took two Green Berets, an Army Ranger, and a Blue Team Six member to the ranch last night. The conversation reminded me of why we are the greatest fighting country in the world. It was a glorious night…devoid of wind…crisp, cool, and full of freedom and courage. They all shared stories about countries we’ve been operating against: from terrorist-sponsored nations full of tomfuckery to modern-day Marxist-Leninist dictatorships. Some of the countries would surprise you…and the stories surely would. One special forces team leader shared

What’s troubling is the fact that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) lists China as the number one threat to U.S. national security…and Texas DPS has apprehended 2,000 Chinese military-aged-males (MAMs) per month in 2023 alone. Why aren’t they shown here? 1/4

https://twitter.com/billmelugin_/status/1711730672279122039

Have a second look at my posting in March of this year. Remember, Iran has been planning with Hamas for 2 1/2 years. Why don’t they land at a U.S. airport given that they are already paying tens of thousands of $$$ to land in Central America and hiring mules to get them to US?2/4

https://twitter.com/jkylebass/status/1638296853761474561

Senior Chinese military leader who purchased over 100 sq miles of Texas land and currently has 13 windmills connected directly into the #Texas grid CAN’T PAY $10MM of bills related to fracking. Another supposed Chinese ‘billionaire’ whose money dried up…in what’s actually

https://twitter.com/john__hyatt/status/1710284493683089453

A Chinese government operation on U.S. soil. Sun Guangxin purchased huge swaths of land near our busiest @usairforce training base and next to one of our largest commercial airports (What could possibly go wrong???!). In a very Chinese situation in the US, Sun had

China’s government is so stupid that it didn’t know what the Russian customs paperwork says regarding the drones it has been importing for its war against Ukraine. Nikkei's reporting shows that Russian companies have been filling out @globaltimesnews 1/17 asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Ukrai…

https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1706490863260676115

customs paperwork for the import of drones, including machines manufactured by U.S.-sanctioned DJI, China's largest drone maker, marking them for use in the war. 2/17

Does anyone remember how Huawei began? Chinese Communist Party operatives STOLE Cisco’s most advanced router at the time (in 1987). They stole the design for the chassis, the IOS, and all the way to implementing the intentional spelling errors in the source code. 1/8 Huawei began exactly as Avanti Inc began when ‘Gerry’ Hsu downloaded the entire place and route code for Cadence Design’s place and route software. The Cadence engineers placed intentional spelling errors in the source code to indemnify thieves. After several years 2/8

The attached article is only partially correct.The lack of synchronization between the economies of China, Hong Kong, and the United States drives the kinetics of the peg. It has taken time,but the rigid peg sitting between moving tectonic economic plates will explode. 1/7

https://twitter.com/urbankaoboy/status/1686736937854414849

Xi’s complete abrogation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1982 is running the majority of wealthy and productive Hong Kongers out(and continues to do so at an accelerating pace).Core HK real estate barely trades but when it does,it’s been happening at -30%+ discounts 2/7

“Jinchao Wei sent photographs and videos of the Essex, disclosed the locations of various Navy ships and described defensive weapons of the Essex.” 1/6 https://t.co/gWf32SSR9Yjustice.gov/opa/pr/two-us-…
“Wei sent 30 technical and mechanical manuals. Manuals contained export control warnings and detailed the operations of multiple systems aboard the Essex and similar ships, including power, steering, aircraft and deck elevators, as well as damage and casualty controls.”2/6

🚨 Two Chinese-born spies employed by U.S. Navy with ‘Secret’ security clearances passed extremely sensitive military information to a Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) officer “employed by a hostile foreign state (China)”. Jinchao Wei and Wenheng Zhao were arrested. 1/3 Both face 20 years to life in prison. What would China do if they discovered treason in the PLA Navy? Our penalties for treason aren’t harsh enough. The data these two traitors passed to China could cost thousands of sailors their lives. I think 2/3 justice.gov/opa/pr/two-us-…