The Peril Of Being Yellow

Chinese diasporic communities must define themselves or the China Threat will

NG WENG HOONG in Vancouver
October 31, 2024, Thursday, 9.59 am. Word count: 4,051. Updated November 1

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13 marked an unlikely moment in the hardening of American attitude towards China. For several hours, the novel idea of the Chinese as a terrorist took form and meaning as it went viral on social media.

In the months since the former president survived the targeted shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania state, the U.S. has noticeably accelerated efforts to contain what it sees is the growing threat from China.

America’s once-dominant China engagers have been swept aside by those in Beijing and Washington DC pushing for war against each other. The doves are not the only ones reeling in defeat. The diverse ethnic Chinese communities in the U.S. and around the world are now in sight, at risk of becoming frontline collateral damage on China-related geopolitics.

On September 3, the China Threat narrative broke new grounds with the FBI’s arrest (1) of a former senior aide to the governor of New York State. It happened in between a widening crackdown on Chinese state operatives in the U.S. that is casting a shadow over 5.5 million Americans of Chinese ethnicity.

On September 9, the House of Representatives heralded its own China Week (2) by approving an unprecedented total of 25 pieces of “crucial legislation” targeting a single country. These bills must still be approved by the Senate and signed off by the President before becoming law. Most are expected to pass as they were authored by the increasingly influential House’s Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which comprises some of America’s most anti-China politicians from both the Democratic and Republican Parties. Established less than two years ago, the bipartisan committee triumphantly declared that the proposed measures will protect Americans “against the military, economic, ideological, and technological threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”

Among them are a bill authorising US$1.6 billion in funding (3) for media and civil society sources around the world to produce news and propaganda specifically to target China’s “malign influence”, the Biosecure Act (4) to make it impossible for Chinese biotech start-ups to obtain U.S. funding or do business with U.S. firms, and a ban on Chinese military drones from operating in the United States.

Joe Biden is signing off as America’s most anti-China president in decades. His stance will play well with voters in the presidential election on November 5, and will be carried forward regardless of whether his Democratic successor, Kamala Harris, or Republican challenger Trump becomes the country’s 47^th president.

At his final QUAD summit (5) on September 21, Biden and the leaders of India, Japan, and Australia announced an expansion of their countries’ maritime security cooperation to protect Asia’s sea lanes from what they regard as China’s increasing aggression. This was preceded days earlier by the U.S. Navy’s release of a landmark war plan targeting China in Asia. The unveiling of Project 33 (6) coincided with the U.S. State Department’s announcement that it had begun work with India with the declaration of the “new frontier” (7) of the Indian Ocean. In support of Project 33, the Pentagon will build a network of military repair hubs (8) in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, and the Philippines. The administration expects to soon deploy the Typhon midrange missile system (9) to Japan that so alarmed and enraged China when it was first used in Asia during a joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise (10) last April.

With the encouragement of American hardliners, Japan’s new prime minister wants the US and its allies in the West and Asia to jointly establish a version of NATO (11) in the Pacific region. Even though the idea met with immediate resistance, it has been seeded into a future scenario.

After a four-year review, the U.S. Trade Representative (12) announced that from September 27, it had begun imposing sweeping new punitive import tariffs (13) on a range of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles, lithium batteries, and critical minerals, that China had been hoping to develop as its new export products to revive its flagging economy.

The Department of Commerce (14) has piled on China’s economic pain by proposing to ban Chinese software and hardware in vehicles operating on American roads on national security concerns. The decision follows a joint announcement by the FBI (15) and its allies in other countries on September 18 that they had disrupted a Chinese government-operated botnet that was allegedly stealing data and conducting surveillance through Internet-connected storage devices, cameras, and video recorders to compromise victims’ systems around the world.

Trump’s “Chinese Shooter”
While these moves on China were playing out with clarity and rapid precision, the attempted assassination of Trump remains shrouded in mystery. There is still no explanation for the would-be assassin’s motive (16 and 17), and the Secret Service’s failure (18) to undertake the most basic security measures to prevent the July 13 shooting which started at around 6.11 pm (19) local time (3.11 pm Pacific Time).

The influential New York Post was the first major media outlet to publish a full story, never mind the facts. At 7.39 pm, citing “sources”, it reported, wrongly, that the shooter had been “identified as a Chinese man”.

Forty-one minutes later, the veteran uber anti-China hawk, Gordon G. Chang (20), was onto it with a tweet to his 312,000 followers that included a montage of dramatic photos.

Out of the myriad of details, unknown variables, and implications of the attempted assassination, Chang honed in on the shooter’s alleged ethnicity. The 73-year-old religious crusader (21), born to a Chinese immigrant father and a Scottish woman, has been preaching a decades-long sermon that communist China is out to destroy the West.

Any attempt on Trump’s life is guaranteed major headline news. In the hands of a Rupert Murdoch tabloid paper, Chinese man is geopolitical dynamite for many of its 3.1 million anti-China followers on Twitter.

Chang is in good company.

Charles Burton (22), a Canadian version of Chang, added to the hysteria with this tweet:

Solomon Yue, a high-profile Shanghai-born member of the Republican Party, pretended to ask his 200,000 followers while affirming the racial aspect of the story: “Wow! Who is this Chinese shooter?” (23)

Bo Snerdley, a “Speak Truth” radio talk host, tweeted the false story to his nearly 600,000 followers as did Marina Medvin, a right-wing influencer who normally targets Muslims, to her 284,000 followers.

“NY Post is reporting the assailant as a Chinese man, a sniper, who was located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium. Not Antifa,” Medvin wrote.

None of them considered that “Chinese” is a loaded term that does not distinguish between the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and ethnic Chinese folks who have nothing to do with Beijing. In the event of a witchhunt to weed out “Chinese traitors” in the U.S., Chang and Yue will likely find themselves just as targeted as the CCP apologists.

The conspiracy mongers (24) regard all Chinese as coming from the same barrel of rotten apples.

Seventy-two minutes after the story’s release, the Murdoch paper tacitly admitted that it had erred. At 8.51 pm, it scrubbed off Chinese man from the story to be replaced with “white male”. There was no explanation, no immediate apology, and no mention of “the sources” who had fed its reporters the false information.

Chang beat a retreat but offered neither explanation nor apology.

Blaming it all on the New York Post, the Cornell-trained lawyer said nothing about himself distributing false information. His tweet has since been viewed more than 413,000 times, reposted 391 times, and achieved 468 likes.

Neither Yue, a born-again enemy of the CCP, nor Snerdley tweeted out a correction. Having circulated a false allegation, Snerdley lectured (25): “This is NOT the time to inflame people with unproven allegations. We need to find a way to bring our political discourse to a healthy and respectful discourse - not a hateful discourse.”

Burton and Medvin quietly deleted their tweets in the (mistaken) belief that no one caught their promotion of fake news. Burton’s tweet has been screenshot while Medvin’s comment is still visible on Archive.org (26).


The “Chinese” Terrorist
Why was this group of influencers and their followers so quick to jump on that small detail in the New York Post article?

“Those who tell stories rule society,” Plato apparently said. Societies and power are built on stories rooted in narratives that suit the political mood, especially when it is under the spell of a persuasive leader. The mood in the U.S. today is not just anti-China, but increasingly anti-Chinese as well.

It was Trump himself who had planted the paradigm-shifting idea of the Chinese terrorist into the American consciousness.

In an interview with another Murdoch outlet eight months earlier, he predicted:

“We are going to have a terrorist attack” that would likely be caused by Chinese immigrants.

Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo amplified Trump’s point that “military-aged men” from China were each paying up to US$50,000 to drug cartels to be smuggled into the U.S.

It played into the popular tale of Chinese spies and terrorists sneaking into the U.S. (27) circulating among the Republican faithful for several months (28). None of these claims have been verified or challenged.

To Bartiromo’s question as to whether those men were being directed by the CCP, Trump affirmed: “I believe so.”

The Trump/Bartiromo spin ignores the reality that most Chinese migrants are fleeing the country’s economic hardship and political repression imposed on them by supreme leader Xi Jinping. Over a recent 18-month period, more than 55,000 Chinese nationals (29), many of them children, have gambled with their lives to illegally pour through Mexico and Panama in search of a better life in the U.S. In the event of a U.S.-China war, these recent Chinese entrants will be targeted, both by the U.S. government and American vigilantes.

For the millions of Trump followers, his answer “confirmed” the conspiracy that these Chinese migrants are part of a CCP plot to invade America. Trump had created a ready-made explanation for a future terrorist event. It was in this context that the New York Post published its “scoop”.

For Chang, Yue, and Burton, the New York Post story was a moment of “vindication” of their warnings about China. Burton, a former Canadian diplomat who served in China, is a media favourite for his templated China comments. Of late, he has been surpassed by the journalist Sam Cooper who sees the CCP’s hand in every crisis to hit Canada.

Their collective voices represent the ascendant populist view of China in black-and-white, good-versus-evil terms, and a shared fear about the CCP’s alleged grip on the politics of the U.S. and Canada.

Like Chang, Burton was swept up by the New York Post’s sensationalism. Chang has become an object of ridicule for his continuing pumping of “The Coming Collapse of China” (30). Since the publication of his 2001 best-selling book by that title, his prediction for the coming collapse has continued for 23 years and counting. At some point, he will claim vindication given China’s record for regular political convulsions and socio-economic collapse over its 5,000-year history.

Cooper, a more recent addition to the fraternity, is a Canadian version of Joe McCarthy, the U.S. senator who led the fearmongering about an alleged pervasive communist infiltration of America in the 1950s. Cooper has picked up at least three costly defamation lawsuits from his time at Global News (31). Famed for his anonymously-sourced hyperbolic stories, he reported last year (32) that certain Canadian politicians of Chinese descent had allegedly acted against Canada in their dealings with Chinese government officials.

While a final judgment awaits, the multi-million-dollar lawsuits filed by Han Dong, Vincent Ke, and Michael Chan (33, 34, 35) and a preliminary ruling against Global News have raised doubts about the credibility (36) and the editorial judgments (37) of Cooper and his senior editors. Global News has since removed Cooper’s byline and photo from his stories that it once proudly boasted as exclusive bombshells about Chinese crimes and infiltration in Canada.

Cooper continues to indulge his peculiar brand of “investigative journalism” at TheBureau.News which he started last year. Thanks to another of his anonymous source(s), he wrote a false story (38) based on a supposedly incriminating photo of a former Canadian police officer meeting with a purported Chinese crime boss in a Macau casino.

NOTE: A screenshot of The Bureau’s story on September 4, 2024 before it was deleted

Cooper proudly stamped “The Bureau” on the photo of his “scoop” accompanied by this caption:

“Casino security footage from a Macau hotel exclusively obtained by The Bureau appears to show William Majcher greeting one of the world’s top narcos, Tse Chi Lop.”

Cooper then tweeted his “exclusive” to his then over 65,000 followers.

The replies that came in soon after were not just congratulations from his adoring fans. Canada’s most famous “investigative journalist” was roundly mocked (39) after he was called out by a security expert and Chinese film buffs who recognized the photo was a piece of fiction. It was a scene from a 2015 movie about organized crime in Asia that featured RCMP officer Majcher in a minor role.

Two days later, Cooper deleted the story along with the link to his September 4 story.

Despite their credibility problems, Gordon Chang and Sam Cooper have built up a flock of unquestioning believers. Chang (40) remains a regular on Fox News and other U.S. media outlets. Cooper was recently endorsed by John Walters (41), the CEO and President of the Hudson Institute, a U.S. think tank renowned for its hawkish stance on China, and praised by retired judge Austin Cullen at an event organized by the University of British Columbia’s Allard Law School (42).

On home turf, Cooper’s faithful includes the Conservative (43) movement, which is probably preparing him for a bigger public role, and leaders in the Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) such as former chief Erin O’Toole (44) and senior member Michael Chong. Cooper is often cited in the Globe and Mail (45) and the National Post (46) which parrot his theme that 1.7 million Chinese Canadians somehow overcame the country’s other 38 million citizens to swing the last two Federal elections against the Conservatives.

The Declining Stigma Of McCarthyism
Whereas past anti-Chinese episodes were local or regional in nature (e.g. Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 70s), the current surge is global and shared by a more diverse range of people. Xi Jinping’s wolf-warrior foreign policy has triggered increased international negativity towards China, particularly in the West and Asian countries. He has emerged as an updated version of China’s founder, Mao Zedong, who terrified the world with his communist revolution from the 1950s to the 70s.

China’s fallout with its neighbours and the global liberal order has become the subject of intense study by scholars in international relations, politics, military affairs, economics, science, and education.

But one topic has been overlooked. The fate of the Chinese diaspora has yet to attract serious attention from scholars and policymakers. Strangely, most “overseas Chinese” themselves seem oblivious to the consequences of becoming pawns and sacrificial lambs in the intensifying clash between the two superpowers.

The lack of in-depth information and thoughtful research about the diverse Chinese communities outside China has opened the way for tabloid journalism and fearmongering politics.

The Chinese diaspora is under threat from three sources.

First, Sinofascism. In his quest for global hegemony, Xi Jinping has expanded on and elevated Beijing’s position on the “overseas Chinese”.

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While the diaspora has always been valued by China’s various governments since the late 19^th century, Xi’s CCP has taken it to another level with an aggressive campaign to turn the world’s diverse Chinese communities into party assets. He thinks ethnic Chinese people everywhere are obligated to help the CCP rejuvenate the “motherland”. Xi has an obsession with blood ties (47) to build the new mythical China (48) founded on the primacy of the country’s dominant Han culture.

His ideology puts China on a collision course with the rest of the world and the reality of multiculturalism. The country’s ethnic minorities along with the people of Hong Kong and Taiwan are resisting Beijing’s attempt to frame them as being part of a Han Chinese-based state. The world’s estimated 60 to 80 million overseas Chinese population has also been put at risk of being seen by other countries as Beijing’s accessory to interfere in their politics and subvert their societies.

The reality is that most of them have neither direct links with China nor dealings with the party, especially those of several generations living outside the country who do not even speak Chinese languages. Indeed, many overseas Chinese are bitter opponents of the regime, especially those who have fled China or are from Hong Kong or Taiwan.

Second, Sinophobia. Anti-Chinese racism has evolved in response to the rise of China, and more recently to Xi’s Sinofascism. Sinophobia has deep historical roots in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (49, 50, 51, 52, 53) going back to the 19^th century. It was crystallised in the era of social Darwinism that legitimized white supremacy.

The “yellow peril” narrative was largely conceived in Europe by intellectuals like Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, Christian von Ehrenfels, and Yakov Aleksandrovich Novikov (54, 55, 56) to justify the entrenchment of European settler colonialism in Asia in the 19^th  and the early part of the 20^th century. The German leader, Kaiser Wilhelm II (57), adopted yellow peril as his foreign policy towards China and Japan which he viewed in racial terms as a threat to white Christian Europe. Europe’s racial framing of colonialism helped seed Chinese nationalism during China’s collapse in the late Qing period. The fight against Sinophobia featured in the nationalists’ struggle to expel the European and Japanese invaders from their homeland.

Some nationalists like Mao Zedong turned to communism. They framed their anti-colonial fight as part of Karl Marx’s class struggle rather than an outright race war. Inspired by the newly established Soviet Union, Mao and his comrades founded the CCP in 1921.

Third, the new demagogues. While Donald Trump is often seen as the leading demagogue and populist of our times, Xi Jinping is far more worthy of those titles. Xi controls a party of over 90 million members and has a tight grip over a country of 1.4 billion people. He is the world’s most accomplished totalitarian, thanks to China’s formidable financial, military, and technological powers that Mao could only dream of possessing. He even has a new religion, Xi Jinping Thought, to guide believers to create a socialist utopia. Trump is second rate by comparison. A convicted criminal, he was defeated in the 2020 presidential election and will continue to face enormous domestic opposition even if he wins the vote on November 5.

The Chinese diaspora is caught in the crosshairs of the populist forces unleashed by these two leaders.

The Committee of 100
The Chinese in the U.S. and Canada may finally be waking up to their predicament. Charges of McCarthyism, Sinophobia, and racism are falling on deaf ears as the governments in both countries, backed by public opinion, are cracking down hard on agents of influence, real and imagined, working for the Chinese government.

A survey released last month (58) by the New York-based Committee of 100, the most influential Chinese American group, makes for grim reading for the diaspora. Given America’s global influence, the experience of the 504 surveyed Chinese Americans could soon be felt by their counterparts in other countries:

·      65% say the negative state of U.S.-China bilateral relations is affecting how other Americans treat them;

·      About a quarter say their relationship with acquaintances and coworkers has been negatively impacted by U.S.-China ties;

·      89% view the current U.S.-China relationship as negative.

·      61% say that the rhetoric used by U.S. news media reporting on China and U.S.-China relations negatively affects how strangers treat them;

·      68% said they face at least one form of discrimination in an average month;

·      43% are depressed, with 39% reporting they felt worthless,

These findings were released shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice announced (59) that two influential Chinese Americans had been arrested and charged with national security and financial offences tied to their alleged role as foreign agents for the CCP. Until her dismissal in March 2023 for unspecified misconduct, Linda Sun was a high-ranking aide to New York state governor, Kathy Hochul, and her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo. Sun and her co-defendant husband, Christopher Hu, are alleged to have also illegally enriched themselves while advancing the interest of the PRC through their connections inside the Democratic Party and New York state’s Chinese communities. Sun, 41, served for more than a decade before rising to her last position as deputy chief of staff in the governor’s office while Hu, 40, is a businessman.

The Committee of 100 has issued a statement cautioning against fearmongering based on race. In reply to my question on the significance of Sun’s arrest and allegations of CCP activities in the U.S., spokesperson Charles Zinkowski wrote:

“Committee of 100 does not have any comment about the recent case brought by the U.S. Attorney as we do not have personal knowledge or details about the situation. We trust that the legal process will run its course and after a careful examination of the facts, the case will result in a fair outcome.

“In the meantime, we hope that this incident does not fuel more stereotyping of Chinese Americans, increase use of racist tropes or violence, or incite policies to ban those of Chinese heritage from obtaining jobs, purchasing land, or being trusted members of American society. Covering Chinese Americans with a blanket statement of fearmongering sets our country back, not move it forward.”

While the Committee of 100 has done well to push back against anti-Asian racism, particularly Sinophobia, it is now at risk of losing its influence and credibility for not calling out the CCP. Chinese American groups and Asian news media outlets who were quick – and correct -- to criticise the New York Post on the attempted Trump assassination story are in a similar position.

Their focus on racism and McCarthyism risks blinding them to the reality of the CCP’s operations on U.S. soil.

Shortly after Trump’s attempted assassination, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that it had arrested and charged three China-born U.S. residents for acting as agents of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Florida-based Ping Li (60), was charged with spying on Chinese dissidents and pro-democracy advocates for the PRC’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Li, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had been serving the MSS since early 2012, said the DoJ.

Separately, U.S. residents John Chen, 71, and Lin Feng, 44 (61) pleaded guilty to charges of “acting as unregistered agents of the PRC and bribing an IRS agent in connection with a plot to target U.S.-based practitioners of Falun Gong,” said the DoJ. The Falun Gong religious movement is banned in the PRC. The two PRC nationals each face a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.

In August, a high-profile Chinese American, Wang Shujun (62), was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn on all four counts of an indictment on charges that he had acted and conspired to act as an agent of the Chinese government. The case against Wang was unique and particularly troubling because of his standing as a veteran pro-democracy activist. He had abused his position of trust within the dissident community by helping Chinese intelligence officers spy, harass, and silence anti-China critics in New York.

These cases are no longer rare.

In one of the biggest recent crackdowns (63) on Beijing’s clandestine operations in the U.S., the DoJ last year arrested and charged 40 members of the PRC police force for engaging in transnational repression of the regime’s critics.

This growing trend of arrest and prosecution of Chinese state agents is starting to weigh on the Chinese communities in the U.S. as revealed by the Committee of 100 survey. The FBI cannot be accused of racism when it is protecting Chinese Americans and Americans in general from being harmed by other Chinese Americans who are working for Beijing.

Where does the Committee of 100 and other ethnic Chinese groups in the West stand on these and various security issues involving the CCP?

For Chinese communities outside China, the time has come for them to examine the gray areas of their identity. They will have to start debating, questioning, and defining themselves and their politics.

Or, they could continue letting others do it for them.

Or, to them.

FOOTNOTES
1. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/linda-sun-former-aide-to-gov-kathy-hochul-arrested
CBS News, September 3, 2024. Linda Sun, former aide to two New York governors, charged with being undisclosed agent of China

2. https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/china-week-recap-congress-passes-25-bills-combat-chinese-communist-party
Select Committee on the CCP, September 12, 2024. China Week Recap: Congress passes 25 bills to combat Chinese Communist Party threats

3. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202
Marcus Stanley, Responsible Statecraft, September 11, 2024. House passes US$1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas

4. https://natlawreview.com/article/us-house-representatives-passes-biosecure-act-during-china-week
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, September 16, 2024. U.S. House Of Representatives passes the Biosecure Act during “China Week”

5. https://www.reuters.com/world/quad-expand-maritime-security-cooperation-bidens-farewell-summit-2024-09-21
Reuters, September 22, 2024. Quad group expands maritime security cooperation at Biden's farewell summit

6. https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Chief-of-Naval-Operations/CNO-NAVPLAN-2024
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations, September 18, 2024. Navigation plan for America’s warfighting navy

7. https://www.reuters.com/world/us-says-challenges-posed-by-china-exceed-those-cold-war-2024-09-18
Reuters, September 18, 2024. US says challenges posed by China exceed those of Cold War. "This is the new frontier, working more closely with a partner like India in the Indian Ocean.”

8. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Indo-Pacific/Pentagon-to-set-up-military-repair-hubs-in-5-Indo-Pacific-countries
Ken Moriyasu, Nikkei Asia, September 4, 2024. Pentagon to set up military repair hubs in five Indo-Pacific countries

9. https://www.eurasiantimes.com/sm-6-missiles-china-warns-us-military
Sakshi Tiwari, Eurasian Times, April 25, 2024. China warns US of consequences over deployment of ‘Typhon’ system in its backyard

10. https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/04/u-s-army-deploys-new-missile-launcher-to-the-philippines
Aaron-Matthew Lariosa, Naval News, April 15, 2024. U.S. Army deploys new missile launcher to the Philippines

11. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/incoming-japan-pm-ishibas-asian-nato-idea-test-us-diplomacy-4642741
Reuters, September 27, 2024. Incoming Japan PM Ishiba’s ‘Asian NATO’ idea test for US diplomacy

12. https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2024/september/ustr-finalizes-action-china-tariffs-following-statutory-four-year-review
United States Trade Representative (USTR), September 13, 2024. USTR finalizes action on China tariffs following statutory four-year review

13.https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Section%20301%20Modifications%20Determination%20FRN%20(Sept%2012%202024)%20(FINAL).pdf
United States Trade Representative (USTR), Notice of Modification: China’s Acts, Policies and Practices Related to Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Innovation, page 6

14. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/23/fact-sheet-protecting-america-from-connected-vehicle-technology-from-countries-of-concern
White House, September 23, 2024. Protecting America from connected vehicle technology from Countries of Concern

15. https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-director-announces-chinese-botnet-disruption-exposes-flax-typhoon-hacker-group-s-true-identity-at-aspen-cyber-summit
FBI, September 18, 2024. FBI director announces Chinese botnet disruption: Joint operation with partners released botnet’s grip on thousands of devices

16. https://www.newsweek.com/who-thomas-matthew-crooks-donald-trump-shooting-suspect-fbi-pennsylvania-rally-1924890

17. https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-update-trump-assassination-attempt/story?id=113218466
ABC News, August 28, 2024. Motive still a mystery in Trump assassination attempt

18. https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/us-house-task-force-releases-scathing-report-on-1st-trump-assassination-attempt-5744940
Jack Phillips, Epoch Times, October 21, 2024. US House task force finds 1st Trump assassination attempt was ‘preventable’

19. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/politics/timeline-trump-rally-shooting-dg/index.html
By CNN Staff, July 15, 2024. Visual timeline of the Trump assassination attempt

20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_G._Chang

21. https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnLzbva_PPE&ab_channel=CBNNews
Christian Broadcasting Network, March 9, 2023. China expert Gordon Chang issues dire warning, says momentum points to war with China

22.https://twitter.com/cburton001/status/1812284204849475744
Charles Burton @cburton001, July 13, 2024. “Chinese” assassin is very very bad news

23.https://twitter.com/SolomonYue/status/1812282791536787799
Solomon Yue @SolomonYue 5:27 PM · Jul 13, 2024 Wow! Who is this Chinese shooter?

24.https://twitter.com/dom_lucre/status/1766288971162685733
The Chinese are very cunning. They owned the US Federal Reserve
Dom Lucre, 6:24 PM · March 8, 2024

25.https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1812284578616516645

26.https://web.archive.org/web/20240713234541/https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1812272218354905301
"NY Post is reporting the assailant as a Chinese man, a sniper, who was located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium. Not Antifa."

27. https://www.wbfo.org/2024-08-09/what-drove-last-years-surge-in-chinese-migrants-at-the-southern-border
Huo Jingnan, NPR, August 9, 2024. What drove last year's surge in Chinese migrants at the southern border?

28. https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/us-news/china-is-exploiting-bidens-lax-border-policies-imperiling-us-security
Todd Bensman, New York Post, February 25, 2024. China is exploiting Biden’s lax border policies — imperiling US security

29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2024/china-migrants-us-border-san-diego-new-york
Cate Cadell, Nick Miroff and Li Qiang, July 29, 2024. Chinese migrants are entering the United States in record numbers, part of a historic global surge across the Mexico border

30. https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/12/29/the-coming-collapse-of-china-2012-edition
Gordon G. Chang, December 29, 2011. The Coming Collapse of China, 2012 Edition
“I admit it: My prediction that the Communist Party would fall by 2011 was wrong. Still, I'm only off by a year.”

31. https://www.readthemaple.com/a-farewell-to-sam-scooper-cooper-the-spy-agency-microphone
Davide Mastracci, June 7, 2023. A farewell to Sam Cooper, The Spy Agency Microphone. The reporter behind many of the shoddy ‘Chinese interference’ stories is leaving Global News as the lawsuits pile up.

32. https://globalnews.ca/news/9570437/liberal-mp-han-dong-secretly-advised-chinese-diplomat-in-2021-to-delay-freeing-two-michaels-sources
Liberal MP Han Dong secretly advised Chinese diplomat in 2021 to delay freeing Two Michaels: sources

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