Saturday, January 16, 2021
On January 13, 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a withhold release order (WRO), effective immediately, to detain cotton and tomato products from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) at all U.S. ports of entry. The WRO applies to direct shipments from China, as well as goods shipped from other countries that contain cotton and tomatoes originating from the XUAR. CBP cited various forced labor indicators against ethnic minorities in the XUAR in making its decision to issue the WRO, invoking its authority to prohibit goods produced by forced labor under 19 U.S.C. § 1307. The United States estimates that the Chinese government has detained more than 1 million Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities to work in labor and reeducation camps. The Chinese government has denied these allegations and strongly opposed the new WRO.
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press, other people in the party, the sort of activists thought that the base of the party was much further to the left than it was. and he s arguing for a biden space and we ve seen some validity to that in the falling of elizabeth s poll numbers. as joe and mika just walk on to the set. there s a show going on here guys, just fyi. sorry, mike. so we see him there saying, the press was wrong and i was very interested, very surprised by his anger at the media, his frustrations with the media. you sa me say you sound like trump because again and again we heard him frustrated by the coverage, the focuses, and he s saying that on substantive where the party s at, as he said there, you giet guys got it wro speaking about nancy pelosi
ignore. wro you d have to ignore those text messages between taylor and sondland. when taylor asked pointblank whether aid and a white house meeting for ukraine within directly dependent on the investigations the president wanted. i sent ambassador sondland a text message asking if we are now saying that the security assistance and a white house meeting are conditioned on investigations. ambassador sondland responded asking me to call him, which i did. during that phone call, ambassador sondland told me that president trump had told him that he wants president zelensky to state publicly that ukraine will investigate burisma and alleged ukrainian interference in the 2016 election. hmm. want to keep ignoring stuff? and if that s not clear enough, he goes on to say ambassador sondland also told me that he now recognized that he had made a mistake by earlier telling ukrainian officials that
republicans and democrats were battling it out on the sunday talk shows. i doubt if the china comment was serious to tell you the truth. you don t take the president at his word? no, the president loves to go out on the white house driveway i haven t talked to him about this, but i don t know what the president was thinking but i know that he loves to bait the press. that interview was a giant green light to the president of the united states to continue to solicit foreign interference in u.s. elections. he telegraphed that he will ask china to do the same thing that he asked the ukranians to do this week because republicans are allowing him to do it. the president betrayed his oath of office. he is engaged in serious wro wrongdoi wrongdoing. the administration without justification withheld $391 million in military aid from a vulnerable ukraine. the president then pressured a foreign look he header to inter