When the genocidal autocrat xi jinping follows through on the pledges he’s made in speeches from 2017-onward, severe sanctions will be our greatest weapon. Xi has said several times that it’s his ‘life mission’ to annex/invade Taiwan 🇹🇼. China is the aggressor and always 1/4

https://twitter.com/NiMingda_GG/status/1629954694616432640

Tries to turn the narrative around and make themselves the oppressed victim. It’s the belligerence of the CPC that has brought about discussions of crippling sanctions. From the joint statement of love between xi and putin on Feb 4th, 2022 to contract discussions for Chinese 2/4

How was @mikepillsbury able to maintain visas to China after writing the 100Year Marathon (long after other China hawks lost their access)? Why did he write a deeply apologetic letter in Chinese about the 100 Year Marathon? And why did he attempt to discredit the NSC 1/4

https://twitter.com/huxijin_gt/status/1617916956681863168

Document released in Spring 2020 written by Tobin and Kanapathy about CCP intentions? Why didn’t Pillsbury receive the security clearances he applied for multiple times in an effort to secure the HK Consul General position vacated by Kurt Tong? How can Pillsbury walk 2/4

China disclosed the first population decline (-850k) since Mao starved 50 million of his own people 60 years ago. What’s misunderstood is why this happened. Xi allowed reckless speculation in Chinese real estate for the last decade. Median home prices in Tier 1 cities 1/4 Reached dizzying heights of 30+ median incomes. In the US, we reached 6.5x heading into the financial crisis of 2008. Upon graduation, Chinese men can’t afford to buy or rent at these levels. They live at home with their parents..they don’t ‘date’..and they aren’t having sex 2/4

China has executed a diabolical plan to gather, study, and manipulate the DNA of U.S. citizens for years. It’s PLA military genomics company BGI Genomics has provided the lowest cost genetic sequencing itself and to Dante Labs who has been the backbone for companies like 1/4 Ancestry and 23 and Me for genetic sequencing. The $24 million dollar question is Why does China want the DNA of millions of Americans? Why would their scientists want to understand the particular vulnerabilities of our population? Bio safety Level IV labs are inherently 2/4

U.S. sanctions on Russia 🇷🇺 aren’t even half measures. I believe we have now sanctioned 23 of 220 oligarchs. Their ‘trustees’ in the U.K. remain unscathed (50+ of them). We still haven’t touched Putin’s energy companies or the banks that process payments for them. Effective 1/5

https://twitter.com/lhsummers/status/1604677991208026114

Leadership means pushing the ‘hard’ button when it needs to be pushed.Just think, if we sanction Putin’s energy business and their banks, we would cause permanent geologic damage to the wells due to the fact that Russia has limited storage capacity. Biden is too afraid of the 2/5

The momentous, landmark, celebrated agreement between the U.S. Securities and Exchange and the Chinese CSRC was signed by both parties in August of this year. INCREDIBLY, this agreement is NOT AVAILABLE to the public! There are 200+ listed Chinese companies on U.S. exchanges 1/4 and the document setting forth the governance of audits and the relationships between Chinese auditing firms and U.S. regulators is ‘off-limits’ to investors?! As a friend just texted me, ‘Transparency for thee, but not for me?’ @SECGov @GaryGensler Make this document public. 2/4

🛑 Alert - Investors Beware of the headline 🛑 The @SECGov and @GaryGensler just issued this statement on the compliance of Chinese companies to PCAOB demands for reviews of audits. The DEVIL is in the details. 1/7 sec.gov/news/statement… The SEC ‘randomly’ chose 4 (yes…only 4) Chinese companies to request unredacted audits from. After 10 years of NON-Compliance, the SEC got to review 4 audits. They didn’t get to interview company executives, they were not allowed to question the banks or counterparties

The U.S. ENERGY Department is touting a $200 million GRANT to a company operated by China. This kind of idiocy must stop NOW. @ENERGY …you either chose to ignore the publicly available information or were grossly negligent. ⁦⁦@WHCOS⁩ #China freebeacon.com/?p=1664358 @JohnKerry @SecGranholm @ClimateEnvoy What on Earth is actually happening?

Beautifully written by the next Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. ‘China today poses a set of growing challenges to our national security. It is deploying its military in ways that undermine the security of 1/4 commerce.gov/news/speeches/… our allies and partners and the free flow of global trade. China dominates the manufacturing of many critical materials and goods and has exploited other economies’ dependence on its market for political coercion. It also seeks to dominate certain advanced technology 2/4

Germany 🇩🇪 sold Europe to Russia with their reliance on Russia for gas and NOW they have decided to run their 5G infrastructure on China’s Huawei. Germany’s leadership continues to make the worst possible decisions for their own national security. #Germany #China #Russia 1/2

https://twitter.com/thorstenbenner/status/1598621581793792000

Germany should have proper discussions with US intelligence. reuters.com/business/media…

Apple’s disgraceful Tim Cook. Hillary Vaughn: ‘Hi Mr Cook. Do you support the Chinese people’s right to protest?’ @tim_cook : Silence - Vaughn: ‘Do you have any reaction to the factory workers that were beaten and detained for protesting lockdowns?’ Tim Cook: Silence 1/4

https://twitter.com/hillary__vaughn/status/1598439834703613962

Vaughn: ‘Do you regret restricting airdrop access that protestors used to evade surveillance from the Chinese Communist government?’ Tim Cook:Silence - Vaughn: ‘Do you think it’s problematic to do business with the Communist Party of China as they trample basic human rights?’ 2/4

US inventories of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel are at dangerously low levels. Wind farms and solar panels aren’t going to help us out of this mess. Biden just green-lighted importing additional production from Venezuela (Amnesty International comments below). #OOTT #NoPlan ‘For years, Amnesty International has documented and denounced the policy of repression implemented by Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela, which aims to silence critics and dissent. Crimes under international law and human rights violations, including politically…

Why has #Tether had 6 DIFFERENT accountants/auditors in the past 5 years? Why doesn't a $66 billion institution hire a Big Four accountant? This is some serious AUDITOR INSTABILITY for a supposed 'StableCoin'. How is Tether linked to SBF's fraud? 1/4 #WTF #SBF_FTX #Tether Deltec Bank Bahamas doesn't look like a $66 billion dollar institution to me. #B-SIFI

Why would any 'Stablecoin' management team ever invest their reserve assets in anything other than US Govt bonds, repos, and money markets? #Tether 's recent (September 2022) BDO Italy (Italy?!) attestation shows approx $12B of their $68B in assets invested in risk assets: 1/6 Even if there is no fraud at Tether (given the Tether General Counsel and FTX Chief Compliance Officer were present together at the Ultimate Bet fraud), the asset/liability mismatch doesn't appear to allow for all redemption requests to be honored given the fact that 2/6

The Virus from the Wuhan Virology Institute solved two of China’s existential crises simultaneously. 1. The precipitous fall in their current account that was caused by sending Chinese students to the U.S. and Europe to be educated (440,000 students in the U.S. alone), 1/4 traveling abroad (spending dollars as the world doesn’t accept RMB), and limited investing abroad caused $450 billion to be drained from their reserve coffers annually. COVID and Zero COVID have temporarily ‘fixed’ the draining of the current account. 2. Protests in HK 2/4

Xi’s wartime cabinet is in place. His 20th Party Congress purge not only installed loyalists, but two spy chiefs, and military leaders responsible for China’s ‘reunification’ with Taiwan. He sacked the only three men with markets experience (the heads of the PBOC, the CSRC, And finance minister). Xi also added the Ministry of State Security head to the Politburo and the Central Committee (Chen Wenqing). These moves send a clear message to the world that conflict and ‘Great Struggle’ are coming soon. Not since Mao has a Chinese leader stacked his

The Xi-Putin ‘face-to-face” meeting is the first time Xi has left China in almost 3 years. Putin’s forces are losing ground and running out of munitions. China’s worst nightmare is a NATO-led defeat of Putin in Ukraine (as it relates to the CPC’s future invasion of Taiwan). 1/6 The failure of communism in the former USSR was a seminal event in the halls of Beijing and one in which China was loath to accept. Xi will further China’s ‘limitless partnership’ with a failing Russia and will emerge from this summit of miscreants as the primal power in 2/6

The troublesome slippery slope of forgiving debts without understanding the dire consequences of doing so is upon us. Sadly, we are headed down the road to South American populism. Venezuela 🇻🇪, Bolivia 🇧🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, and Argentina 🇦🇷 have caught this disease in the past.. and it’s ruined them all. Designed to generate additional votes from jobless or economically challenged voters, it has proven, time and time again, to be the road to perdition. How will this message change the behavior of student loan borrowers in the future? How do the

China can’t afford to have a renminbi meltdown. Contrary to popular belief, the Communist Party needs a strong RMB to purchase the oil, gas, food, and basic materials that it desperately needs EACH AND EVERY DAY. They use USD but the artificial RMB/USD rate that’s carefully 1/5

https://twitter.com/chinadaily/status/1562248327575441408

Manipulated by the PBOC each day is very important to China Inc. The fact that they have charged a key propaganda outlet @ChinaDaily with delivering this message to the market evidences China’s fear of a meltdown.They must be very worried given the fact that despite rare cuts 2/5

Chinese Ambassador to the United States INTENTIONALLY LIED to several US press outlets on August 16th. #QinGang should be punished for pushing false Chinese propaganda to US media. In this well-written piece, Professor Pete Pedrozo (US Naval War College) sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2022/0… explains how China’s response to Pelosi’s visit is disproportionate and belligerent. He makes a cogent argument for a change in US policy towards China. “On August 16, 2022, China’s ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, met with a small group of journalists in Washington,

Gerard Schroeder sold Europe to Russia for a few million dollars. His government guaranteed $1 billion in Nordstream One just weeks before he was voted out and days before he joined NS1 as their CEO. He then became Chair of the Board of Russia’s largest oil producer Rosneft 1/3

https://twitter.com/cnbcwex/status/1562022254422233088

And joined Gazprom’s board 20 days before Putin invaded Ukraine. When he joined Rosneft’s board, Rosneft was under sanctions by the U.S. for Putin’s actions in Crimea. Schroeder is a political prostitute that compromised all of Europe’s energy security. 2/3