Then a month later, europe, italy, first hardest hit a mortality rate of 10 . The u. K. Among the hardest hit and sickest. The new coronavirus spreading through parts of china has hit the United States. Then the first case in america, washington state, President Trump orders all flights from china stopped. Borders closing. New york quickly becoming the epicenter of the outbreak. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients. Maria with Little Information known about the virus, the invisible enemy continues to inflict pain upon our nation and the entire world. A Global Pandemic seizing the world economy. Attempting to contain this virus, entire regions and economic sectors are shutting down. Maria then a Disinformation Campaign begins. Chinese websites controlled by the communist party publish made up stories about where the virus originated since january Chinese Media have been under tighter than usual government controls. Journalists have been arrested. Social media platforms have been scrubbed. The Chinese Communist party poses a threat to our health, our way of life, as the wuhan Virus Outbreak clearly has demonstrated. China is a very serious threat to the United States, geopolitically, economically, militarily and a threat to the integrity of our institutions. Maria how will the president deal with the chinese dictator . It is playing out in realtime. This is america versus china. The threat of china is not revolutionary. To understand the depth of it, you have to go back nearly 80 years when china moved towards marksism, which allows no room for dissent, you speak against the regime, you die. In the 60s, nearly 20 Million People were killed or starved so he could keep power. Nearly 30 years later, in 1989, hundreds of students led protesters calling for democracy and free speech were gunned down by Chinese Military in Tiananmen Square because they were considered a threat to the communist control. Today this is still a regime that will stop at nothing to control its people. It has nearly 2 million in detention camps without trial, solely for following their religion, something the government will not allow. To explain uighurs, basically the chinese have rounded up muslims, tibetans put them in reeducation camps and being guarded by machine guns. Thats right. They are not allowing them to move freely, indoctrinating them with chinese thoughts, chinese thinking, the ways the west wouldnt do. It is different, historic and it is important. Maria this is a longterm plan to not just control china but the world. China has been economically and militarily positioning itself for global domination and the progress they have made will shock you. The bottom line is chinas trying to surpass us economically. They believe they will be the dominant superpower, and we still have to win that contest. Maria leading up to the coronavirus crisis, the leader of china was facing the toughest road of his tenure, his plan for World Domination hit a road block as chinas Economic Outlook began to crumble. Contributing to the downfall was the 2016 election of president donald trump. We have nobody talking to china. They are ripping us left and right. They are taking our jobs. They manipulate their currency better than any country. I want to get u. S. Trade balanced. I want to see what do we make with china . What do we lose with china . Maria a candidate who ran on the platform of Holding China accountable was now turning his Campaign Rhetoric into white house policy. There is some question about the china deal that, you know, you are not going to be able to get china to stop dealing intellectual property. We have a policing aspect to this deal thats the strongest anybody has ever had. If that happens, i will turn in the deal. We are taking billions of dollars First Time Ever against china in tariffs. Im very happy with that. Maria never before has a dictator for life experienced the pushing and poking as he did with President Trump, americas tariffs proved consequential as the chinese economy slid into the slowest growth mode in 29 years. On top of rising pressure from america, protesters on the ground in hong kong, further increased strains on the struggling dictator. Their plea for freedom from china was seen and heard around the world, after china tried to institute a new law that forced anyone charged to be tried in mainland china. A hong kong business tycoon fighting on the front lines of the protest frequently joined me from Hong Kong Live to discuss. The dictatorship, we have to keep hong kong free. China made a promise. They said one country, two systems, and they are asking the chinese leadership to respect that commitment that they made. The situation is very serious. I think what it shows is an example of how china uses its power against its own people. We are fighting the first battle of this new cold war. We are fighting your battle here. Please help us. He was arrested at least twice after that interview. The cries heard loud and clear from citizens in hong kong. A wakeup call to the world about life under the communist rule, something the Chinese Government prefers to keep out of the public eye. In light of chinas turbulent year and its setback on its goal of supremacy, it is not crazy to wonder if this Global Pandemic was part of xi jinpings road map to getting china back on top. This would not be the first time the country has taken drastic measures as part of its greater goal, looking deeper into the operations of the chinese economy since xi jinping has been in power. Every move and decision has been calculated for global conquest. For the past decades the chinese have been using economic subversion to infiltrate countries around the world and collect information from them without most countries even recognizing it until recently. This is done through a number of different techniques but one of the most dangerous has to do with chinas policy of Civil Military fusion. The way it works is it says that any innovation that happens in chinas industrial economy must be brought ultimately to the peoples revolution army. What the chinese are doing is they have the companies that are essentially owned by the communist party and essentially this is a dictatorship, very few people that own these companies. They weaponize them. Maria through this policy all Companies Based in china are virtually operated by the Chinese Government and have to share any technology they create or information they gather with the communist party and the military of china, one of the greatest examples of the Civil Military fusion threat is the Chinese Telecom company huawei. Huawei is an instrument of the Chinese Government. Theyre deeply connected. Its something that hard for americans to understand. Companies cooperate with the United States government, that is they comply with our laws but no president directs an American Private company, thats very different in china. They just simply operate under a different set of rules. Maria the National Security threat of huawei coming from the vast amount of data china collects from countries across the globe which acts as a pivotal for chinese information gathering and spying. Huawei is in effect a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese Communist party. And to have huawei operating as a 5g network in our country or in our allies countries we believe represents a fundamental compromise of our National Security and the privacy of millions of citizens. Maria aware of the immense threat of huawei, the u. S. Under President Trump banned the companys products, while some European Countries continue to work with the company, america intensified pressure by announcing it will share less information with countries that have huawei infrastructure employed. This pressure has had some success. In january of 2020, the European Union announced that they will limit their use of huawei products. I think they now have become aware of the risk to their own people, not only directly from the technology, but the risk that america wont be able to work as closely with them, something they often count on and depend upon. Maria i have spoken with huaweis chief Security Officer on multiple occasions, where he has admitted to stealing trade secrets among other bizarre things. Look, i understand that you are on this pr trip today, and you have this whole page ad in the journal and i agree that huawei needs to convince the world that we can actually trust the products of the company, but to say there have been no issues with huawei is just 100 inaccurate. I just listed the number of companies that have sued you for stealing trade secrets and the settlements that youve done. Maria, i did not disagree with the facts of those cases. I did not disagree with them. Maria okay. The other question i wanted to ask you do you support the concept of Civil Military fusion . I do not support it is not our understanding that the technology to the Chinese Government. Is the chairman of your company a communist member . I believe he is, yes. Tell me about huaweis role in chinas surveillance of its citizens, the surveillance state, what are you doing in terms of working on surveillance . Is that all huawei equipment the way that the citizenry is tracked . I dont have information as we talked about maria you are the chief Security Officer at huawei. You dont have information on that . Huawei isnt the only method that china uses to engage in economic subversion. The communist party also infiltrates and exploits developing countries. [ engines revving ] its amazing to see them in the wild like th shhh. For those who were born to ride, theres progressive. Look into my eyes you will see what you mean to me dont tell me its not worth trying for you know its true everything i do i do it for you so youre a small bor a big one. You were thriving, but then. Oh. Ah. Okay. Plan, pivot. How do you bounce back . You dont, you bounce forward, with serious and reliable internet. Powered by the largest gig Speed Network in america. 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They are also commercially engaged in predatory economic practices expanding Power Building influence through using cheap money, low cost loans, and hooking countries on deals that will ultimately be bad for the people of those countries, and then we see this politically too. Maria these too good to be true loans are often just that and leave them struggling countries in debt so they cannot afford that debt, therefore becoming further beholden to chinese demands and control of the communist party. They are moving in first with leverage like loaning money, building infrastructure, i think most concerning is when they get ahold of the electrical grid. They get ahold of the banking system, and then they go in with Companies Like huawei or zte and they offer basically free infrastructure, so Free Communications infrastructure, and my warning to a lot of our allies in the countries that i meet with is theres nothing for free. What the chinese are doing with that is that they are ensuring that they control the communications of the infrastructure so they can monitor for economic purposes those businesses and others that they may want to get involved in so they have total control and manipulation capability, over those countries and governments. Makes these countries not just dependent on china, but also dependent on the chinese world view, that you need to surveil your citizens, control them, thats something that we dont believe in in america, our allies dont believe in, and so we need to make sure that were able to stop this threat. Maria it is not just weaker countries finding themselves tangled in chinas economic subversion. Subversion, american investors have fallen victim as well. Chinese companies some are listed on exchanges that are stateowned are not going through america Compliance Standards so consider some of their own audits to be state secrets and not sharing them. Many of them are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and they have a waiver from the sec that goes back many years. This waiver allows Chinese Companies, 150 or more, 1. 1 trillion dollars on our three main markets in new york, allows them to suppress any accounting problem, not make it public to their investors or the sec. Maria Chinese Companies being listed on the United States stock exchanges with reduced adherence to regulations present a host of issues, not only do investors have no idea how these companies are doing financially, but they also do not realize what theyre even investing in. The chinese take the financing we provide and put it into Stateowned Enterprises and military construction, so we are essentially funding not only Chinese Military, but even the South China Sea, the company that did all the dredging, thats a stateowned company. It gets capital from the u. S. Maria individual investors are not the only ones making these risky bets. Some of our Largest Pension Funds, such as the thrift fund, which is a military and other federal employee money, 401k money as well as the Largest Pension Fund in america, they are investing their money in Chinese Companies that are Building Military equipment. What we know is that calpers, the largest state pension fund in america, invests in almost 300 Chinese Companies, a couple of billion dollars in companies, like a company that is a Surveillance Company in china that they use to spy on the uighur muslim population. Also invest in Chinese Companies that are involved in building up their military and specifically their navy. These are not transparent companies, at some point in the future in a conflict they decide they are going to undervalue the shares for purposes of striking back at american retirees 20 years from now, 10 years from now particularly those that once served in government it would create tremendous pressure, harm our economy and becomes a systemic risk. Maria another piece of the chinas master plan is their buildup of intellectual property. For decades the Chinese Communist party has been infiltrating American Government companies and universities and stealing the u. S. s Cutting Edge Technology and innovation. The chinese steal, you know, very very sensitive u. S. Secrets and u. S. Information from the government and the private sector alike. We have to get better on this stuff. Or they are going to know all our secrets and know where our people are and what were doing. I believe that they are still in Silicon Valley blind and in just a few years the American People are going to possibly be looking to china for new coding and new programs because of everything that the chinese are stealing from here in america. Maria the issue of intellectual property theft is becoming widespread knowledge. But still, the temptation for American Business to operate in the Chinese Market is an enticement Many Companies have not been able to resist. 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