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Trump spy chief John Ratcliffe stirs dispute over China s meddling in US election
Mr John Ratcliffe and other Trump appointees suggested that China posed a bigger election threat than Russia.PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedDec 17, 2020, 9:06 am SGT
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US Department of State Issues More Warnings: ‘Chinese Communist Party Poses a Real Threat’
The U.S. Department of State issued several warnings on Twitter calling the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) a “real threat.”
In the tweet of Dec. 17, the agency noted that President Donald Trump believes “America is a sovereign nation and our first priority is always the safety and security of our citizens.”
About 90 minutes later, at 2:30 a.m. ET, it posted a message from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that it has taken a “long time” for the United States and the rest of the “free world” to understand the CCP’s threat and the regime’s endgame: “To dominate the free world.”
December 17, 2020
In recent days, Americans have seen clearly the staggering extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s influence efforts. Americans now know that Chinese agents cultivated relationships with not just former Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., but current House Intelligence Committee member Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., whom the CCP strategically approached from the start of his political ascent as a city councilmember.
Americans also now know that the story the corporate and social media did everything possible to kill in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election was no Russian information operation: Hunter Biden is under federal criminal investigation. Part of that investigation reportedly concerns his allegedly illicit business dealings with CCP-linked people and entities. Said dealings might well implicate the “big guy,” his father, Joe Biden.