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The over one billion people who live on the Chinese mainland have suffered under the yoke of Communist oppression for nearly seventy-two years. Mao Zedong’s version of Marxism-Leninism subjected the Chinese people to a heartless slavery that has been characterized by periods of overt bloodletting in various purges, the imprisonment, torture and execution of “thought criminals,” the “reprogramming” of those dissidents who have shown a willingness to “repent” of their “thought crimes” and, ultimately, the rise of a global economic behemoth that was been achieved on the sweat of those who labor in substandard—indeed, neigh well unhealthy and dangerous—conditions.
Multinational conglomerates, whose corporate executives have loyalties to nothing other than the maximization of their profit without regard to the exploitative of human beings who work under intolerable conditions in factories and plants noted not only for unsafe working conditions but also for the cheap, poorly manufactured and, in the case of pharmaceutical products, pills and potions tainted by all manner of poisons and impurities (metal shavings, rodent feces, foreign substances and chemicals that are not meant to be part of the final product) made in Red China and then distributed to be sold throughout the world.
Consider the story of one desperate slave laborer in Red China who died a few years ago:
In 2012, Oregon mother Julie Keith opened a package of Halloween decorations from her local Kmart. Inside, she found something far more unsettling than a bunch of plastic skeletons and gravestones: an SOS letter from the prisoner who made them.
Written neatly with a blue pen, it read:
Please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right[s] Organization. Thousands [of] people here who are under the persecution of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever.
Julie froze.
“Is this a prank?” she thought.
The 42-year-old read on as the note detailed inhumane work conditions and the fact that many workers were imprisoned despite having committed no crimes. She Googled the name of the labor camp mentioned in the note: Masanjia. It was real. She tried contacting various human rights organizations and finally went to The Oregonian newspaper, which published a story about the SOS.
Then she waited.
“Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods” (Algonquin Books), out now, tells the story of the note and its author, religious dissident Sun Yi, who spent 2½ years at Masanjia Labor Camp in China.
“This SOS letter that Sun Yi wrote was not actually the first letter [from a labor camp] that ever arrived in the US,” the book’s author, Amelia Pang, told The Post. “But it was perhaps one of the more eye-catching.”
Sun was a mild-mannered engineer living in Beijing with his wife when he was sent to Masanjia in April 2008. He had been arrested at least 12 times before that — for practicing a meditation-based philosophy called Falun Gong — but had always managed to be released through hunger strikes. This time, he had been caught during a raid on an underground printing press that published critiques of the Communist Party.
At Masanjia, the slight 41-year-old worked 15-hour-plus shifts making holiday decorations for the brand Totally Ghoul. Guards tortured him continually over his last year there — prying his mouth open with a ball gag, force-feeding him with a tube, strapping his wrists to the top of a bunk bed and letting him dangle there for days until he renounced Falun Gong. He never did.
“He was so hardcore,” said Pang, who interviewed Sun several times via Skype after his release. “He cared so much about freedom in China, he sacrificed so much to what many would say was a futile cause.”
That activist streak — mixed with desperation — led to Sun writing his first SOS letter. In late 2008, with more than a year left on his 2½-year sentence, he noticed that some of the shipping boxes had English-language labels and wondered if they were headed to America or the UK. Sun had studied English in school, and though his grammar wasn’t perfect, he remembered a lot of vocabulary. Perhaps if he dropped a message into a box, someone overseas would receive it.
He tore pages out of the “political re-education” workbook he had received from the prison and, when everyone was asleep, began drafting his letter very slowly and quietly. It took him two nights to finish the first letter, but after two weeks he had 20, which he hid between the bars of his bed. One evening, when he was packaging gravestones alone, he inserted his letters among the goods.
The next day, as he watched the boxes being whisked away, he felt a wave of relief. He wanted to do it again; he even enlisted a few of his fellow prisoners to help distribute the notes. They did so for a few months until the prison found a sample in another prisoner’s mattress, rounded up all the Falun Gong practitioners and began the torture.
China, according to Pang’s book, has at least 1,000 “re-education” or “detox” camps providing forced labor to manufacturers churning out cheap products for sale everywhere from Walmart to Saks Fifth Avenue. The independent Australian Strategic Policy Institute found that between 2017 and 2019, more than 83 brands, including Nike, Apple and BMW, were sourced from Chinese factories where workers — mainly Muslim Uyghurs — were held against their will.
Penal labor isn’t unique to China; the US, controversially, allows it under the 13th Amendment, which forbids slavery or involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime whereof party shall have been duly convicted.” Yet China’s gulags include not just convicted criminals, but also political dissidents, ethnic minorities and people who practice forbidden religions (like Sun), often imprisoned without trial or representation.
Prisoners work between 15 and 24 hours a day, and may endure torture if they do not meet quotas. Some camps “brainwash” their charges. Evidence suggests that some may supply organs for China’s $1 billion transplant industry.
It’s often impossible for US companies to know whether slave labor is being used in making their products. Because they hire manufacturers that then subcontract to labor camps to meet demand, “it’s really hard to document,” said Pang. Companies either don’t ask the manufacturers if they subcontract to labor camps, or accept whatever the manufacturer tells them without investigating.
“When I went to China to follow trucks from these labor camps to see what manufacturers they went to, one went to an Apple factory,” Pang said. Still, she added, “you need a lot of hard evidence at one particular camp. Because there are no witnesses who made it to the US who can safely talk about it,” US authorities “can’t do anything.”
After the Totally Ghoul SOS made headlines in 2012, Sears Holding — which owns Kmart — said it found “no evidence that production was subcontracted to a labor camp during a recent audit of the factory that produced the Halloween decoration.”
Yet, Pang said, “no evidence” often just means that the production records no longer exist. “Their Global Compliance Program only requires suppliers to maintain time card and payroll records for ‘at least one year,’ ” she explained. “Julie’s Halloween decorations sat in her shed for two years before she opened them. When I asked Sears Holdings if its auditors were able to access records from the relevant years during its investigation into the note Julie found, the spokesperson told me the company had ‘no further comment.’ ”
At the end of 2009, Sun’s sister Jing — who had tried to visit Sun several times, to no avail — received a call from a man who had recently been released from Masanjia.
“Sun is in trouble,” he told her. “You have to save him. He is about to be tortured to death.”
Jing enlisted the help of a prominent human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, who went with her to the prison in March 2010, saying it was illegal to prohibit visitation. Soon, they were visiting Sun regularly — he would be released from his chains and be given food for a few days beforehand so he wouldn’t look so haggard — and during their visits, Jiang would document the various tortures Sun described. The authorities held Sun 20 days longer than his 2½-year sentence, since he never disavowed his faith, but they feared detaining him any longer would cause legal trouble. He was released that September.
Yet returning to normal life wasn’t easy for a known dissident. Sun could not get work as an engineer, so he crashed at a friend’s house in Beijing before reconnecting with his ex-wife, May, who was still in love with Sun and invited him back into her life, despite the risks.
He continued his dissident activities, distributing Falun Gong literature, attending demonstrations and using his tech background to teach others how to use encrypted software and circumvent China’s Great Firewall to surf the uncensored World Wide Web.
That’s how, one day in December 2012, he came across the headline, “Chinese SOS Letter Discovered in Oregon.”
It was his letter.
“I achieved my purpose. All I wanted was for people to know,” he said later. “But I was afraid to believe it.”
Seeing the article galvanized him. He began doing interviews with various American outlets — using a pseudonym — about his time at the camps. He connected with a Canadian Chinese filmmaker named Leon Lee, offering to film documentary footage of himself for a movie about his experience. (It was released in 2018 under the name “Letter from Masanjia.”)
And he wrote a letter to Julie Keith, thanking her for sharing his letter with the world and giving her his email address.
At the same time, staying in China was becoming increasingly dangerous. In November 2016, Sun was arrested while attending a trial of a fellow Falun Gong practitioner. Shortly after his arrest, his blood pressure spiked, and three days later, the prison released him so he could go to the hospital. Yet the police had confiscated his phones and Sun knew it was only a matter of time before authorities would hack into his encrypted correspondence with Lee. So he said a tearful goodbye to May, who didn’t want to leave her ill father in China, and boarded a flight to Indonesia, the one place that didn’t require passports for visitors from China.
During this time, he struck up an email correspondence with Julie Keith. Once he landed in Jakarta, Indonesia, he invited her to visit him. In March 2017, she flew to the Jakarta airport, where a car brought her and a cameraman (who was shooting the Masanjia documentary) to a decrepit building in the northern part of the city. Outside stood a small, frail man with wire-rim glasses and a kind expression: Sun. “You come here so long distance,” he said in English as he embraced her. He took her inside to his tiny apartment and showed her around.
In the next few days, the pair wandered the city, sharing stories and photos of family members.
“I had some people tell me the people in Masanjia would be punished because I published the letter,” she told him. “They told me that I should not have done that. I was always concerned that I had put you in danger.”
“I thank you forever,” Sun told her.
That October, eight days shy of his 51st birthday, Sun died from a lung infection and acute kidney failure. Since his death was so sudden and he didn’t have kidney problems before, some of his friends speculated that the Chinese government was involved. But since his body was cremated without an autopsy, that was impossible to prove.
His ashes were brought to his hometown of Xi’an, where they rest alongside his mother’s and father’s remains.
“I so badly wanted a happy ending for him,” Keith told the BBC in 2018. “He was the most resilient, strong person I have ever met. For someone to go through what he did and come out and be able to talk about it and share his experiences with the world — it’s just incredible.”
Three years after Sun’s death, China’s mass incarceration of its Uyghur population has sparked enough outrage that last September, the US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which would ban all products from Xinjiang, the region where these camps operate. It has since stalled in the Senate, but Pang said she’s “hopeful that . . . it will be picked up again.”
In the meantime, ordinary US citizens can make a difference, too.
“The next time you go shopping online, anywhere, take a moment to look at either the sustainability page or the Corporate Social Responsibility page,” Pang said.
“And if they don’t have information on what kind of audits they’re performing at their factories, go on Twitter and go on Facebook and ask if they can prove with more transparency that they are doing everything they can to discourage their factories from subcontracting forced laborers. If there’s just enough people tweeting them and tagging them on Facebook and social media, then they will be forced to respond and reckon with that.”
In the end, consumers have a lot more sway over corporate America than they realize.
“We actually hold a lot of power to influence how businesses source from China,” Pang added. “I hope this book helps them do that.” (https://nypost.com/2021/02/13/us-mom-found-sos-in-decorationsand-exposed-chinas-camps/.)
This tragic story provides documented evidence to the horror stories that were known as early as the 1980s as multinational corporations, many of which are based in the United States of America, of course, and are headed by executives who make hefty campaign donations to candidates and officeholders of each of the two major organized crime families of naturalism at every level of government, including candidates for the judiciary in those state and local jurisdictions with elected judges. Stories such as Mr. Sun’s emerged from Chinese dissidents in the 1980s, one of whom, the late Dr. Harry Wu, was among the first to explain how Chinese criminals and political prisoners were vivisected without any anesthesia for the then-burgeoning international black market in vital human bodily organs.
Dr. Harry Wu, who was imprisoned in a Red Chinese slave labor camp for nineteen years, said at a conference in Montvale, New Jersey, in 1987 at which I was also a speaker that it was a common practice in the laogais (Red Chinese slave labor camps) for political prisoners and other prisoners to be dissected without anesthesia while they were alive for their vital body parts. Obviously, this was a form of execution for those prisoners. The Red Chinese finally got around to admitting this when they instituted a Red Cross-sponsored program for "voluntary" organ donation in their so-called "people's republic:"
China launched a national organ donation system yesterday in a bid to gradually shake off its long-time dependence on executed prisoners as a major source of organs for transplants and as part of efforts to crack down on organ trafficking.
The system, operated mainly by the Red Cross Society of China with assistance from the Ministry of Health, will begin as pilot projects in 10 provinces and cities.
"The system is in the public interest and will benefit patients regardless of social status and wealth in terms of fairness in organ allocation and better procurement," said Vice-Minister of Health Huang Jiefu.
Under the system, the Red Cross is responsible for encouraging post-death organ donations among the public, receiving donor registrations, keeping a database, starting a fund to provide financial assistance for needy, surviving families of donors and overseeing the allocation of donated organs according to set principles.
"Transplants should not be a privilege for the rich," Huang said.
The late, famous Chinese actor Fu Biao received two liver transplants within several months in 2005, raising doubts about the fairness of organ allocation, given that the waiting time for the general public can be years - even if one is lucky enough to get a match, let alone have a second surgery.
Currently about one million people in China need organ transplants each year while only 1 percent receive one, official statistics show.
Only about 130 people on the mainland have signed up to donate their organs since 2003, according to research on the promotion of organ donation after death by professor Chen Zhonghua with the Institute of Organ Transplantation of Tongji Hospital.
The system will help find more willing donors who didn't know how to donate, said Jiang Yiman, the society's deputy director at the launch yesterday in Shanghai. "The Chinese have a tradition of helping others in need and the potential of organ donations from the public is yet to be tapped," she said.
Organ donors
Executed prisoners, who experts estimate account for more than 65 percent of total donors, "are definitely not a proper source for organ transplants," said Vice-Minister Huang.
That the rights of death-row prisoners to donate is fully respected and written consent from them is required, he told China Daily.
Qian Jianmin, chief transplant surgeon with the Shanghai Huashan Hospital, said hospitals performing transplants not only treat patients getting organs from executed prisoners, but have to deal with other levels of government, including the justice department.
"Corruption can arise during the process," he said.
Some just ignore legal procedures regarding organ donations from executed prisoners and make a fat profit, Huang said.
All costs are passed on to patients. Sometimes the recipient pays up to 200,000 yuan ($29,000) for a kidney, not including other medical services.
China issued an organ transplant law in 2007 that bans organ trafficking and only allows donations from living people to blood relatives and spouses, plus someone considered "emotionally connected."
However, organ middlemen have been faking documents in order to make a person who is desperately in need of money be considered "emotionally connected" to the recipients, reports said.
Living transplants increased to 40 percent of total transplants from 15 percent in 2006, Chen Zhonghua said.
"That's one of the daunting tasks facing us as we try to end the organ trade by establishing this system," Huang noted.
Other goals include preventing organ tourism, improving transplant quality, better defining donors' rights and satisfying patients' needs for transplants in an ethical manner.
"With more organ donations from the public, the total cost for transplants will decrease," he said.
The exact cost for transplants varies from place to place and largely remains an industry secret. But experts said it's at least 100,000 yuan.
Praise for initiative
"We welcome the emphasis put on fair practice in organ procurement, allocation and transplant, echoing the WHO guiding principles on transplantation," said Luc Noel, coordinator of clinical procedures in the essential health technologies department at World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva.
"China is establishing the national network and authority necessary to initiate and maximize organ donations from deceased donors and thus progress towards the global mainstream in organ donation and transplantation," he said.
The system will be operated at both State and provincial levels. Donated organs would be allocated locally first and then nationally.
"My colleagues and I welcome the system, which will facilitate our efforts to save more patients and help medical workers concentrate more on practicing medicine," said transplant surgeon Qian, whose hospital performs about 150 transplants each year.
Wang Yuling, a young white-collar worker in Beijing, said she'd donate if it really helps someone in need instead of making someone rich.
The pilot projects will take place across the country, including Shanghai, Tianjin, Fujian (Xiamen), Jiangsu (Nanjing), Hubei (Wuhan), Liaoning, Shandong and Jiangxi. The system will then be introduced nationwide, Jiang said.
When asked for a specific timetable when the system will cover the whole country, Huang said the process took 20 years in United States.
"I hope it'll be faster in China. We are still searching for the best way," he said.
"Details about the system, like how to clearly define responsibilities for all stakeholders under the system, including the Red Cross and health administrations, are still under discussion," Jiang said. (Public Call for Organs in Red China.)
Human rights activists said Tuesday that a thriving black market in body parts for transplantation has been illuminated by the arrests of two men on charges of trying to illegally sell organs from executed Chinese prisoners.
The two men, Cheng Yong Wang - who told undercover investigators he had been a prosecutor on Hainan Island in China - and Xingqi Fu - a Chinese citizen living in New York - were seized after meeting with an FBI agent posing as a medical executive.
The undercover agent said he was interested in receiving corneas, kidneys, pancreases, livers, lungs, skin and other organs.
According to court papers, Wang, 41, signed two contracts making him responsible for coordinating with relevant Chinese government agencies and hospitals in securing organs for transplants and would receive a commission amounting to 25 percent of the total cost of each transplant case.
Prosecutors charged that Fu, 35, planned to smuggle corneas into the United States for sale to physicians.
Prosecutors said that earlier in February, prior to a Feb. 20 meeting with the government operative, Wang conferred in a New York hotel room with Harry Wu, a well-known human rights activist who then acted as a government informant. Wang allegedly said he was interested in selling kidneys from executed Chinese prisoners.
“Wang went into business a long time ago,” the human rights activist charged. “His position is prosecutor. He supervised executions, controlled execution sites.”
Sidney Jones, executive director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said that if the charges prove true, “it indicates the organ trade has established itself in the United States.
“This is a practice that has been going on for a long time. Most of the patients have been from Hong Kong and Taiwan where they have been willing to pay a large sum of money to go to China to get the organ transplants,” Jones said. “Now, it is clear, the trade is global.”
n announcing the arrests Monday, U.S. Attorney Jo White said the defendants offered to sell two corneas for $5,000 and Fu had promised the FBI agent that lungs would come from nonsmokers.
“Trafficking and profiteering in human organs is ghoulish, criminal conduct that imperils the most vulnerable,” White said.
Chinese authorities claim that transplants occur only sparingly and only after prisoners who face the death sentence voluntarily agree to donate organs.
This is strongly disputed by Human Rights Watch.
A report issued in 1994 by the group charged that “in recent years, it has become increasingly evident that executed prisoners are the principal source of supply of body organs for medical transplantation purposes in China.”
“The consent of prisoners to use their organs after death, although required by law, appears rarely to be sought,” the report said. (Two Accused of Trying to Sell Bodily Organs from Red China.)
Little details such as the simple fact that it is impossible to take a heart or a liver out of the body of a dead person for the sake transplantation are not included in this news story from China Daily last year. The nasty little secret that the body snatchers don't want most people to know is that living human beings must be killed in order to harvest their hearts or livers for purposes of being transplanted into other human beings. This is true in Red China. It is true in the United States of America. It is true everywhere. Although one can, if one chooses, donate a lung or a kidney, no one can remove a heart or a liver without killing the person from whom such organs are extracted. It is that simple. Moral truth always is simple.
As mentioned just a above, the late Dr. Harry Wu documented the system of the Laogai forced-labor prison camp system in Red China as a result of his own nineteen-year (1960-1979) imprisonment in the manner that Dr. Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn documented the existence and the extent of the brutality, including psychiatric abuses of the most monstrous kind as drawn from his own eight years of imprisonment and torture in twelve different Soviet gulags. Dr, Wu confirmed the fact that aborted babies were served in soup in Chinese restaurants when I asked him about various news reports concerning this barbaric practice in 1997 when we were speakers at a Roman Forum conference in Montvale, New Jersey. Dr. Wu also noted that he personally witnessed political prisoners being carved up for their body parts while they were fully conscious without the pretext of “brain death” used by the merchants of death in the supposedly “civilized” United States of America.
Yet it is, of course, that none of this matters to the titans of the multinational corporations that have made hundreds of billions of dollars by shifting American manufacturing plants and jobs to Red China since President Richard Milhous Nixon and Red Chinese Premier Chou Enlai announced the Shanghai Communique on February 27, 1972:
Both sides view bilateral trade as another area from which mutual benefit can be derived, and agreed that economic relations based on equality and mutual benefit are in the interest of the people of the two countries. They agree to facilitate the progressive development of trade between their two countries. (Shanghai Communique, February 27, 1972. Shanghai Communique.)
Yes, the infamous population-controller himself, President Richard Milhous Nixon (see Poster Boy of Modernity), who was playing the “China Card” against the Soviet Union when he visited Red China from February 21, 1972, to February 28, 1972, that resulted in the aforementioned "Shanghai Communique,” was the one who started the process of “normalizing” diplomatic relations, a process completed by the Great Appeaser, James Earl Carter, Jr., on December 15, 1978.
As noted just above, an important part of the Shanghai Communique was the beginning of commercial ties between the United States of America and the “People’s Republic of China.” Those who supported the sellout of the Republic of China on Taiwan and the beginning of commercial ties with the Chicoms said repeatedly that Red China would become “democratized” over the course of time. This is the same delusion that led some "conservatives" to look favorably upon Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro's efforts to normalize relations with the murderous Castro regime of Cuba in 2015, efforts that were brokered by Jorge the Red Himself, the Great Appeaser of all that is false, ugly, and evil in the world today.
What drove the American opening to Red China forty-nine years ago was not a quest for "liberty." It was a quest for dollars, and since that time multinational corporations have partnered with the Chicoms to exploit Chinese workers, most of whom work for amounts from fifty cents to a dollar an hour in substandard working conditions as they manufacture products filled with a veritable panoply of toxins and slipshod materials.
As was the case when the thirteen English colonies up and down the Atlantic Ocean seaboard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, the career politicians, bankers, industrialists and other titans of industry, trade and commerce have engineered a situation that has created a new mercantile system based upon the shipment of this country's grain, meat, produce and other raw materials (e.g. cotton and lumber) to be shipped to Red China in order to be produced in final products that are then imported back to the United States of America as Red Chinese laborers work for low wages in wretched conditions and bankers and titans of commerce and industry make lots and lots of money.
Here is just a bit of evidence documenting the extent to which the United States of America has become a ward of the Chicoms at the expense of the health and safety of ordinary American citizens:
In the United States, most canned mandarin orange products are manufactured in China. That means the mandarin oranges you placed on your salad, from the salad bar, are likely grown and canned in China.
Many of the small apple juice containers packaged for children, that look like small cubes and include tiny straws, and sold throughout the United States, are manufactured in China. You would hope that with the orange groves in Florida and California, that the USA could at least make its own canned oranges. For health and commercial reasons, please insist that your grocery store carry canned orange products made in the USA. Of course, we all prefer oranges grown in Florida.
L-cysteine, an amino acid derived from human hair is harvested in China. Human hair, from all parts of the body, is used to source this protein. This amino acid is used to boost protein levels in bread sold in the United States. Please look at the ingredients. If it lists L-cysteine, you're eating bread laced with an amino acid that comes from human hair--from China. The hair is gathered from the floors of barbershops and hair salons in China, and the morgue. Duck feathers are also used to produce this amino acid.
Go to your local grocery store and check out the list of ingredients.
Do a search of the ingredients of your local fast food restaurant (hot apple pies, buns, cinnamon rolls, etc.)
Years ago, visiting a Chinese food buffet meant that the food was grown or canned in the United States, and then prepared to taste, and served. Now, many of those ingredients such as mushrooms, baby corn, and water chestnuts are actually grown and canned in China, and shipped to the United States. Turn the can and pay attention to where it was manufactured. Although the canned product was distributed from a company in New Jersey or New York, the product likely came from China. Do you know what you're eating? The healthiest sources of Asian products originate from the USA, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and India.
Cuba's cancer rate is increasing dramatically. This is due to the large scale purchasing of inexpensive staple products from China. The Chinese food products shipped to Cuba contain high levels of beryllium, lead, mercury and many industrial substances that may contribute to the onset of cancer. Twenty-five percent of China's farmland is polluted from industrial dumping and runoff. Since the environmental pollution is pervasive in China, and food products are grown in poisonous soil, China is effectively exporting their pollution to other countries. As a result, the human waste excreted also contains these contaminants and end up in the soil and water. Finally, the human body, containing these contaminants, is buried or cremated.
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Armed with targeted reporting within an industry, entrepreneurs are presented with the opportunity to advanced their agricultural and business interests. Industrial intelligence is a key source of opportunity and exposure. A competitor's cost cutting measures in sourcing from polluted supply chains translates to opportunity for organic food production.
The rise of Chinese mercantilism, combined with the realities of modern food production, present real opportunities for American farmers and organic food distributors.
Threats to your personal security sometimes pale in comparison to what you bring into your own home. There are times that our own purchases and consumption cause the problems we seek to avoid. What we purchase and eat may be cancer on an installment plan. Encouraging a consumer's awareness of these issues brings opportunity for distributors of high quality and safe products. (Food products made in Red China.)
Here is another article that shows the same basic information with graphs to illustrate the mercantile relationship that exists between Red China and the United States that career politicians and their Calvinist-Judeo-Masonic masters, who have spent billions to create a government that is of, for, and by their own interests by lobbying both elected officials and non-elected bureaucrats and presidential appointees, as the masses permit themselves to be deluded that they can do anything about this at any time, especially because of the plandemic that was planned by Western elitists in concert with their Chicom masters.
Courtesy Woodrow Wilson Center
Do you know where your vitamin C comes from? How about that glass of apple juice? Or that tilapia you ordered at dinner the other night?
Chances are, all three came from China.
Along with importing plenty of electronic products, clothing and other manufactured goods, the United States imported roughly 3.9 billion pounds of agricultural products from China in 2010 — making it the second largest market for such goods.
The China Environmental Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center put together an infographic highlighting the most popular agricultural imports from China. Politico Pro reports:
China is responsible for 90 percent of the vitamin (C) consumed by Americans, 78 percent of the tilapia, 70 percent of the apple juice, 50 percent of the cod, 43 percent of the processed mushrooms and 23 percent of the garlic. (The U.S. Imports A Lot of Food from China.)
Here is more cheery news:
Plastic rice? Ingesting even small amounts of plastic is horrible for the digestive system and hormones. The BPA (chemical) in plastic mimic’s estrogen and this hormone skyrockets in the body when BPA is ingested. Ingest plastic rice and you’re basically asking to die young of breast cancer.
Every once in a while I would hear something crazy from China like this and was always weary of food from China for this reason. You have to think, not only is the food being shipped from the other side of the world (just think of what could happen during that time and possible exposure or contamination) but beyond that look at what certain Chinese companies are doing to food. Making it fake, and as cheap as humanly possible. China is using their innovative methods that they use to make cheap technology products, toys and other consumer products and applying that mindset to food, which is absolutely dangerous.
1.Tilapia Fish:
Tilapia is commonly fish-farmed in China. These fish are some of the worst, most toxic and unhealthy fish that you can come across. A tilapia fish will eat anything, comparable to a bottom-feeder fish and fish farming is a small pool of waste water that the fish live in. It’s one of the worst fish purchases you could buy and it’s commonly known that in China the sea-food farmers won’t even let their children eat the seafood that they farm, that should tell you something. 80% of the Tilapia in America come’s from China.
2. Cod Fish:
Cod is another type of fish that is fish farmed in China. This fish is not healthy and lives in it’s own waste. Currently just over 50% of American Cod comes from China.
3. Chinese Apple Juice:
Believe it or not approximately 50% of the apple juice sold in the United States comes from China. China is the LARGEST pesticide producing country in the world and they haven’t even begun to address pesticide or chemical residue on foods. I recommend completely avoiding apple juice, for yourself and your children. Fruit juice is too rich in sugar and is better mixed with vegetable juice for your blood sugar levels.
4. Processed Mushrooms:
US inspectors have found tainted mushrooms from China. Some manufacturers in China go so far as to label these processed mushrooms organic to increase their profits. If you do a google search you’ll find that there are many “mystery mushrooms” in China, completely fake. 34% of processed mushrooms are from China. Do your best to know your source, buy local and true organic!
5. Chinese Garlic:
Us inspectors have also found tainted garlic from China. Garlic from China is sprayed with chemicals more than abundantly and this garlic leaves a bad aftertaste, that of a chemical concoction. 31% of Garlic sold in the US is from China.
6. Chicken:
In 2013 the US Department of Agriculture approved the sale of Chinese chicken in America. Many food safety experts are concerned with the quality of this chicken as China is a country where avian influenza and food-borne illness are common. Beyond that, China produces more pesticides than any other country in the world and is polluted by not only that but mass production and industry.
7. Plastic Rice:
As I mentioned previously in this article, fake plastic rice is being produced. It is believed that it is actually made from potatoes and a fake synthetic resin. When boiled the rice stays hard and doesn’t cook like regular rice. It is believed that long-term effects of this food could be cancerous.
8. Mud (Sold As Black Pepper):
A vendor in China collected mud and sold it as black pepper, and also took flour and sold it as white pepper. Call it whatever you want and sell away! The Chinese don’t have a lot of due diligence in their food and safety regulatory systems. Not that these are always great, just look at America! we have standards but very low standards at best.
9. Industrial Salt:
Industrial salt is unfit for human consumption yet Industrial salt was sold as table salt for 13 years! Industrial salt can cause both mental and physical issues, hypothyroid problems as well as reproductive system disorders.
10. Green Peas:
Yet another crazy out of this world scenario… I need a t-shirt that say’s “Only in China” at this point. Green peas in China were found in 2005, and may be still produced today. These fake peas were created with snow peas, soy beans, along with green dye and sodium metabisulfite (a chemical that is used as bleach and as a preservative). This dye is banned to use on produce because it may cause cancer, as well as inhibit the body’s natural ability to absorb calcium. These green peas also didn’t soften when boiled and the water turned an unnatural green color. So, avoid green peas from China.
In my humble opinion food from China is some of the worst food you can get on the planet. As I have mentioned, China produces more pesticides than any other country in the world, meaning your food is most likely to be laced with pesticides. It is one of the most polluted regions in the entire world. 70% of rivers are polluted, the air is toxic and the sheer volume production of products there leaves a lot of toxic chemicals and by-products as waste that leak into the environment.
Take this one fact, the air in Beijing China is so polluted that breathing it actually does as much damage to the lungs as smoking 40 cigarettes a day, says a new study as of 2015. From China? just avoid it.
How can you tell if your apple juice, garlic or mushrooms are from China? it’s difficult to tell. This is why I recommend shopping locally at your farmers market and getting to know your farmer or supplier. Ask questions at your health food or grocery store, ask questions and do your research. Use your cell phone to google it in the store!
Here’s even more foods to avoid from China: AltHealthWorks.com (10 Foods Made in China That Are Filled With Plastic.)
An interactive graph that can be found here shows the extent of Red Chinese acquisitions of American businesses since 1996, and the appendices below contain additional documentation on how American dollars and jobs are being shipped overseas to the Butchers of Beijing (as well as to other countries in the world that are the beneficiaries of supposedly "free trade" agreements that have gutted American manufacturing and cost skilled laborers countless thousands upon thousands of jobs).
Additionally, the Red Chinese banks and holding-companies, which are government-owned and directed, own a little over ten percent of the public debt of the United States of America, and they are busy gobbling up American businsses, including the Chicago Stock Exchange itself:
The Chicago Stock Exchange said a Chinese investor group agreed to acquire it, giving the buyer entry into the intensely competitive U.S. equity market.
Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the company, according to a statement Friday. The deal values the Chicago Stock Exchange at less than $100 million, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked to not be identified because the terms weren’t disclosed publicly. The exchange expects the deal to close in the second half of the year, though that will require regulatory approval.
“We’re a good fit. Our strategy is something they like and is consistent with theirs,” Chicago Stock Exchange Chief Executive Officer John Kerin said in a phone interview. “We provide technology and we’re a standalone, full-service exchange that they can grow in a manner that suits their needs.”
The acquisition would be the first of a U.S. exchange by a Chinese company. The 134-year-old bourse only handles about 0.5 percent of U.S. stock trading, but a deal gives a buyer a beachhead in the $22 trillion American equity market. There’s also the potential for growth given that regulations require trades to be routed to whichever exchange has the best price for a stock at a given moment.
Political Objections
Sales of stocks exchanges, which tend to be national symbols, have faced political objections in the past. When Germany’s Deutsche Boerse AG wanted to buy the owner of the New York Stock Exchange in 2011, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, raised obstacles. Singapore’s stock exchange tried to buy Australia’s in 2010, but the Australian government barred that from happening.
That said, the Chicago Stock Exchange is a far less vital part of global finance. The New York Stock Exchange, for instance, handled 31 times more trading volume on Thursday.
Casin Group said it was attracted to the market because of the potential to “bring exciting Chinese growth companies to U.S. investors,” according to a quote in the statement from Shengju Lu, Casin’s founder and chairman.
Founded in the 1990s through a privatization of state-owned assets, Casin Group initially focused on developing real estate projects in Chongqing before expanding into the environmental and financial industries. While the firm owns stakes in banks and insurers, it has never owned an exchange. Calls to the company’s Chongqing headquarters went unanswered on Friday.
“We have reviewed CHX’s plans to improve market share through new growth initiatives and fully support them,” said Casin’s Lu, a torch bearer during the Beijing Olympic games in 2008, according to the statement.
Casin Group’s offer comes amid an unprecedented overseas shopping spree by Chinese companies. Businesses from Asia’s largest economy have announced $70 billion of cross-border acquisitions and investments this year, on track to break last year’s record of $123 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Chicago Stock Exchange -- a subsidiary of CHX Holdings Inc. -- is minority-owned by a group including E*Trade Financial Corp., Bank of America Corp., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to the company. The minority shareholders are also selling their stake, Kerin said.
The Chicago Stock Exchange was advised by GCA Savvian Advisors LLC and Sidley Austin LLP on the transaction, according to the statement. Broadhaven Capital Partners and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP worked with Casin. Mark O’Connor, a spokesman for the exchange, declined to comment on the size of the transaction. (Chicago Exchange Being Sold to Chinese.)
Talk about selling the rope to fund the military adventures, cyberwarfare, and the totalitarianism of the Red Chinese oligarchs. Treasonous sales of American businesses to Red Chinese banks and holding companies are, no matter Red China's current economic problems, are making it possible for the Chicoms to "hang us" one day in the not-too-distant future. The bills are going to have to come due someday, and there will be a very high price to pay. In fact, some of us here in Texas have had to pay very high electric bills because of State of Texas’s reliance upon wind turbines that were funded with Red Chinese investments:
Given its hold on many American Democrat politicians (Joe Biden among them) and its aggressive global stance, it is not surprising that during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray emphasized: “there is no country that poses a more severe counterintelligence threat right now than China.” Now in 2020, China has purchased over 100,000 acres in West Texas for what they say is an economic project. U.S. intelligence is casting a suspicious eye at their claim.
Retired CIA station chief Daniel Hoffman told the media, “The specific location in Xi’s crosshairs is the iconic frontier landscape, framed by the pristine Devils River and legendary Pecos River, in the West Texas borderlands of Val Verde County. Beginning in 2015, GH America Investment Group purchased over 130,000 acres of property in Val Verde County. GH America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Xinjiang-based Guanghui Industry Investment Group. Xinjiang is notorious for its so-called ‘re-education’ camps, where China detains Uighur Muslims and other ethnic minorities against their will and violates their human rights.”
He sees the potential for Chinese espionage against the U.S. from within our own country. Says Hoffman, “I will loudly ring alarm bells about the threats to our national security from GH America and its Chinese Communist Party overlords. Sun Guangxin, the founder and director of Xinjiang Guanghui Industry Investment Group, served in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army and was the vice chairman of the Xinjiang Provincial Youth Federation. Having long maintained a close relationship with China’s Communist Party leadership, Sun is one of the 200 wealthiest businessmen in China. Sun reportedly overpaid for the land in Val Verde County and the Blue Hills Wind project appears to be his only renewable energy project in the U.S.”
The site could gather sensitive intel from nearby U.S. military facilities like Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, and Lackland Air Force Base. Lackland and nearby Laughlin AFB graduates hundreds of pilots a year. It could also attempt to compromise personnel from those bases as well. The Chinese could monitor U.S. border operations and defenses and plug into critical Texas infrastructure including its electrical grid.
In the event of armed conflict with China or a Chinese proxy, that location could serve to interdict U.S. forces and supplies. Selling it to the Chinese was a grave breach of national security. Would we have sold part of Pennsylvania to Third Reich Limited Industries in 1939?
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Ironic for a self-defined Marxist power, the Chinese use their economic might all around the world. They have virtually bought half the nations in Africa and with them their strategic mineral reserves. They have made inroads across the Americas and their Silk Road project will bring them to and past the gates of Europe. If the U.S. is to compete with and beat them on the geopolitical chessboard this Texas project must be stopped in its tracks by U.S. government action. If not, the Chinese, in essence, will develop a potential military and very real intel base deep in the heart of Texas. (Chinese Strategic Land Buy in the United States of America.)
The Trump administration will not block a Chinese-owned company from building a wind farm in Texas near the Air Force’s largest pilot training base, a person familiar with the decision told Foreign Policy, allowing a project to move forward that lawmakers fear could be used to spy on American troops, disrupt flight routes, and give Beijing a foothold in the U.S. electrical grid.
The decision comes after an analysis from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a panel of different federal agencies that examines the impact of foreign investments in the United States, found that the wind farm does not currently pose a national security concern. But GH America Energy, the U.S. unit of a Chinese firm, must still mitigate the impact of wind turbines that could interfere with low-level flight training routes at Laughlin Air Force Base. Those plans are currently under review in a separate process led by the Air Force and the Defense Department’s Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse.
For years the Trump administration has been on a collision course with China over trade, geopolitics, and, now, the coronavirus pandemic. Amid a groundswell of anti-China sentiment in Washington, top administration officials have begun hammering other countries, including close allies, for allowing Chinese investment in their critical infrastructure and other industries relevant to national security.
Now, the prospect of turbines cropping up at the Blue Hills Wind development, just a few dozen miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and the limestone bedrock of the Edwards Plateau, has brought the U.S. competition with China to an unlikely place: the small town of Del Rio, Texas, home to Laughlin and a dryland paradise for nature lovers and hunters that boasts ancient rock art dating back before the days of the Egyptian pharaohs.
The developer, GH America Energy, a subsidiary of Guanghui Energy Company, a firm owned by a former Chinese army officer and the richest person in China’s embattled Xinjiang province, declined requests to comment for this story. A Treasury Department spokeswoman declined to comment, citing policy preventing the agency from talking publicly about individual CFIUS cases.
Under CFIUS law, the United States can put the project under review at any time if there are new developments at the site, or if the Chinese-owned company does not notify it of changes. In the meantime, members of Congress and local officials fear the foreign company could interfere with the air base, sully the pristine wilderness, burrow into the electrical grid, or even use the project as a platform for Chinese government-directed espionage.
“Why this location and why this project?” Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican who represents a district that stretches westward across Texas from San Antonio toward El Paso and includes the project, told Foreign Policy. “Why are we allowing a Chinese company to do that in the U.S.? A former U.S. general would not be able to do this kind of project in China.”
That is a question that’s bedeviled military officials, local leaders, activists, and lawmakers who have tracked this case for two years. The problem of wind farms popping up near military flight routes isn’t new: Then-Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast had been dealing with the issue for more than a decade when in November 2017 he took over the Air Force’s San Antonio-based Education and Training Command, which oversees Laughlin. But while Kwast believed the military’s improving technology could prevent wind-powered turbines from messing with radar signals, when he learned that a Chinese company was buying up acreage near Laughlin Air Force Base just a year into his tenure, it alerted him to a potential national security risk.
“It triggered alarms the first time that we got evidence of Chinese money,” said Kwast, who is now retired. “If the electricity stops or the water stops flowing, those bases stop operating.”
Even more puzzling, the business case for the new venture didn’t make much sense to Kwast and local officials. How would the property—which lawmakers and county advocates say is in the middle of nowhere and did not have significant road access at the time—be able to turn a profit?
The Del Rio community also began to get worried. Local leaders were intent on salvaging Air Force training routes that could be jeopardized by the construction of large wind turbines. Laughlin graduates more than 350 student pilots each year, according to a 2018 release, and its flight routes are critical to the area’s economy. The base contributed $2 billion to the state’s economy last year, and it indirectly or directly provides more than 10,000 jobs, estimates from the Texas comptroller’s office show.
But the forces that let Guanghui buy up the acreage near Laughlin and Del Rio have been brewing for more than two decades. Project developers love the lack of red tape; foreign buyers have come to love the Texas’s deregulatory swagger and loose rules on property purchases. (The state’s land is about 95 percent privately owned.) The federal government has some legal authorities in place to review and block foreign investments over national security concerns, such as the CFIUS process.
In Texas, however, there’s a high bar for authorities to step in and stop development on wind farms. Ever since the Texas legislature put in place a 1999 mandate calling on the state’s utilities to get more power from renewable sources, it’s been hard to stop these ventures from going forward.
“On the state and federal level there are no regulations regarding the development of these wind farms,” said Jack Hession, a senior vice president at Madison Government Affairs, a Washington lobbying shop that is representing the Del Rio community, told Foreign Policy. “There’s no way to deny it as it was purchased. The proposal to do a wind farm was a viable option for the owner.”
The issue first came to the attention of local officials in early 2018, after Guanghui purchased properties including nine ranches under the name of Brazos Highland Properties LP, environmentalists say, a holding company controlled by the firm. The company proposed building 50 to 130 wind turbines that could reach up to 700 feet above ground level, according to estimates that local officials provided to the Trump administration.
Beyond the geopolitics and national security concerns, the project has also riled up local environmentalists who worry that the wind farm could despoil prime clear waters cherished by boaters, nature lovers, and hunters from across the state.
“Hunters from Houston, Dallas, they don’t want to be looking at tall turbines and watching red lights blinking on the horizon all night,” said Randy Nunns, a landowner and the president of the board of the Devils River Conservancy, a local environmental advocacy group that has opposed the wind farm.
For now, Guanghui appears to have assuaged—just barely—concerns that were its biggest potential hurdle other than CFIUS, the Air Force’s requirement to clear turbines from the proposed low-level training route, Hession said, though he cautioned there is no deal or agreement in place. An Air Force spokesperson told Foreign Policy that an agreement has not been finalized but is currently under review by both the service and the Pentagon’s Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Siting Clearinghouse.
That hasn’t fully satisfied local officials or Congress, though, who fear that the worst is yet to come as Guanghui eyes further development of wind and solar projects in the area that could encroach upon flight routes.
Letters obtained by Foreign Policy show that by February, a Val Verde County judge and Del Rio’s mayor had told Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett that the project posed long-term challenges to flight training operations at Laughlin.
“Our greatest concern is the long-term implications this will have on the Air Force’s mission of pilot training not with a single application, but rather a cumulative strategy that cannot be evaluated in the first filing,” County Judge Lewis G. Owens Jr. and Del Rio Mayor Bruno Lozano wrote to Mnuchin in February. “We believe that this project and all future projects of a similar nature will result in unacceptable risk to national security of the United States.”
Lawmakers who might normally welcome foreign investment with open arms are also looking askance at the project. Leading the charge has been Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, who traveled to Laughlin Air Force Base in February and raised concerns that the project poses a potential threat of Chinese espionage.
“Sen. Cruz is particularly concerned by the threat of a Chinese-owned company erecting wind farms near Laughlin. China has demonstrated a willingness to invest billions of dollars in specific, targeted economic initiatives through private companies to expand the global reach of their security and espionage capabilities,” a spokesperson for Cruz told Foreign Policy. “Not only will these wind farms near Laughlin affect training routes, they could also risk our national security.”
In recent years, Chinese companies have jumped headlong into the Texas energy market, despite worsening political relations between Washington and Beijing. Chinese turbine-makers sparked a political row a decade ago when they sought to use Obama-era recovery funds to build a wind farm there. Another Chinese company began constructing Rattlesnake Wind Farm in Brady, Texas, in 2017, and one Chinese firm snapped up shale assets in the oil-rich Permian Basin, a trend experts figure could continue with plunging oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic.
But it’s not just any company buying up land at the Carma, Palmer, and Morningstar ranches, among the nine ranches Guanghui has purchased in Val Verde County. When Rep. Hurd’s staff began looking into Sun Guangxin, the founder of the Guanghui Energy Company, they quickly learned he was a former People’s Liberation Army officer and one of the largest landowners in China’s Xinjiang province, the current site of a sweeping campaign by Beijing to intern around 1 million ethnic Uighur minorities under the guise of a counterterrorism operation.
Sun first made his mark buying up swaths of formerly state-owned real estate in Xinjiang after leaving the Chinese military, through which he participated in the 1979 invasion of Vietnam, according to the South China Morning Post. The firm outwardly advertises its connections to the Chinese Communist Party on its website.
President Donald Trump told Axios this week that he had held out on enacting Treasury sanctions against Chinese officials involved in the internment camps in order to secure a trade deal with Beijing, but under a law signed this month, the White House could impose penalties on Chinese Communist Party members involved in the camps. Daniel Hoffman, a former high-ranking CIA official, urged Congress in an op-ed for Fox News to determine whether Sun or his associates should face sanctions for possible abuses of Uighurs.
The Trump administration had already raised questions about Guanghui’s investors engaging in a pattern of double-dealing in American business. In 2018, the U.S. Trade Representative published a report that accused Evergrande Group, the largest minority shareholder in Guanghui and run by one of the richest people in China, of attempting to steal intellectual property from a California-based startup. (Texas-Chinese Wind Farm Part of National Securithy Espionage on the Electric Grid.)
We are witnessing the complete surrender of the control over American banking, real estate, the electric grid, food processing, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, “entertainment,” commerce and educational facilities, including the indoctrination of children in pre-school programs, to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Corporate America, including sports leagues, have surrendered to the Chinese Communist Party in the name of making a profit and because there is a shared desire for the sort of social control and state-sponsored repression that has long been the characteristic of Communist dictatorships.
In the Western case, of course, this social control and repression is beginning in the private sector in “woke” corporate boardrooms and in one university and college after another. This will lead in time to state-sponsored measures after enough people have been cowed into submission by indoctrination and intimidation to do what they are told to do lest they lose their jobs, access to their bank accounts, entries in college/university/graduate/professional schools, admittance into hospitals, the granting of health, life, property, and automobile insurance policies, and the ability to shop for food in person and/or to participate in the farce known as elections, to say nothing of losing the ability to enjoy the “bread and circuses” that are meant to satisfy their desire for “escape” from their social credit monitors.
In this regard, of course, it must be remembered that, as will be reviewed again in about five days in part twelve of “Sin: More Deadly Than the Coronavirus,” the Event 201, which was held at the Hotel Saint Pierre in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, on Friday, October 18, 2019, the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, “gamed out” the whole scenario for the plandemic and its subsequent imposition of supposed “public health guidelines” (masks, “social distancing, vaccinations as the “passport” to “normalcy,” etc.) that was all about accustoming Westerners to the sort of restrictions on their liberties that have been the bane of the monstrous, murderous, totalitarian Red Chinese rule over the suffering multitudes of China, a country that has always been near and dear to the hearts of Catholic missionaries, including those who desired to go there (Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini) but never were unable to do so.
It is no wonder, therefore, that the Red Chinese government of Xi Jinping has called upon the World Health Organization to permit it to develop its own “vaccine passport” along the lines of its own repressive model of social control that would be adopted globally. That is, the country in which a Biosafety Lab 4 was located that conducted germ warfare experimentation with funding provided in part by none other than the infallibly mercurial Anthony Fauci and then lied about the origins of the Wuhan/China/Chinese/Covid-19/Coronavirus its wholly controlled subsidiary, the World Health Organize, to develop a global vaccine passport in its own diabolical image, thus giving Beijing effective control over the movement of almost everyone on the planet:
BEIJING, China, March 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The communist state of China has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to allow the country to lead the way in developing a global vaccine passport, which would control freedom of movement for the world’s population, in much the same manner as China’s current system of social credit.
Chinese state-sponsored news network Global Times wrote on March 9 that China would “support [the] WHO on setting up [a] vaccination mutual recognition platform.”
The Global Times reported that Chinese “experts” would be happy to share their “experience” and “technical support” with the WHO, “as China is the most experienced country in using a health code system in the world,” the WHO being “the most proper organizer for the matter to ensure independence, fairness and data security.”
However, the full text of the article revealed reticence, at least publicly, from the WHO about the project. It referred to a press conference given by Dr. Michael Ryan, director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, in which he mentioned the “real practical and ethical considerations” about using vaccine passports.
Notwithstanding Ryan’s public concern about the use of such passports, the Times advertised China’s capability in the area, saying it could be brought into use internationally “within 2-3 months and, optimistically, can be used for the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled between July 23 and August 8.” China itself could build an “international platform in just one week,” added Xiang Ligang, the director-general of Beijing-based Information Consumption Alliance.
But Xiang noted how it would be “better that the WHO, rather than any country or regional organization, be the organizer to ensure the independence, fairness and data security of the platform.”
While the WHO could “draft the rules, procedures and data format,” China was well equipped and ready to effectively build the platform, roll it out and enforce it, Xiang continued. “China is very willing to provide support in sharing experience and techniques in setting up such a platform as the country has rich experience in this and has realized data sharing between the health code platforms of different Chinese provinces and regions.”
He declared that a Chinese partnership with the WHO would marry global promotion with “mature technology,” believing that it would also secure the public trust.
The comments were made as China launched its own vaccine passport via the social media platform WeChat. In addition to recording the user’s health information, vaccination status and COVID test results, the passport app also tracks the user’s location.
Yet, despite China launch of its own vaccine passport, and calling for global passports, the country’s “health experts” have ridiculed the European Union’s (EU) plan for vaccine passports. They argued that the plan would fail due to new variants of COVID arising, the vaccines would not be effective enough, and thus vaccine passports would be meaningless.
The attack on the EU scheme seems entirely political and reveals China’s desire for ever-increasing global influence, as it seeks to be the orchestrator and designer of vaccine passports for the entire planet.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been calling for a Chinese-run vaccine passport for some time. Back in November 2020, he spoke to a virtual G20 summit, calling on the countries there represented to follow China’s lead in producing and using vaccine passports. Xi declared that COVID-19 had “exposed the deficiencies of global governance,” urging global leaders to submit to China’s plan for global tracking and surveillance.
Responding to Xi in November, the director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, tweeted: “Beware of the Chinese government’s proposal for a global QR code system. An initial focus on health could easily become a Trojan Horse for broader political monitoring and exclusion, akin to the dangers associated with China’s social-credit system.” (Red China Lobbies World “Health” Organization to Develop Vaccine Passports for All Nations.)
As noted just above, the global vaccine passport that Xi Jinping wants his Chicoms to develop and then see adopted globally is part of the larger effort to assure that Western nations, which are dependent upon Communist Chinese slave labor for the preponderance of what is sold online or in stores, adopt the same sort of “social credit scoring” that they have develop to monitor and, when necessary, to restrict the movement of “miscreants” who deviate from the party line:
March 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – In a blog post on its website, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposed a system of social credit scoring similar to the kind already in use in Communist China that would determine people’s credit eligibility based on internet history, leading to concerns that such a system could be turned against anyone who opposes the will of financial and globalist leaders.
The concepts that the IMF proposes are already being quietly promoted and practiced, notably in China, but also in the U.K., where trials are underway involving widespread covert internet surveillance and data recording.
The blog post in question, entitled “What is really new in Fintech,” appeared on the IMF website in December 2020 and was drawn up by four men: Arnoud Boot, a professor of finance at the University of Amsterdam; Peter Hoffmann and Luc Laeven, both economists with the European Central Bank; and Lev Ratnovski, an economist with the IMF but currently with the European Central Bank.
It addressed the questions of how new innovations would change the face of finance, as well as the “challenges” that these developments would bring, particularly with regard to the growing challenge to traditional banking, which is posed by the rise of Big Tech.
In response to this issue, the paper proposed a system of social credit born out of one’s online activities. It pointed to “information,” which the authors described as having “new tools to collect and analyze data on customers, for example for determining creditworthiness.”
Credit scoring the future of finance
In a section entitled “New types of information,” the authors casually revealed how online activities could, and seemingly already are, being used to determine a social credit score. “The most transformative information innovation is the increase in use of new types of data coming from the digital footprint of customers’ various online activities — mainly for credit-worthiness analysis.”
The article continued, “Credit scoring using so-called hard information (income, employment time, assets and debts) is nothing new.” But the authors next noted two problems: first, that accurate data was hard to come by, and second, that some people may not have enough “hard data available.”
In order to cope with these issues, the IMF blog proposed “tapping various non-financial data.” This would include “the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases.” Such digital tracking could render more reliable results in determining credit, the article argued.
In the paper that the four researchers wrote, they stated that “combining credit scores and digital footprint further improves loan default predictions.” Their proposal was based on previous “credit scoring and securitization,” the authors argued, adding that “(t)he key new development is the abundance of non-financial data, including from digital footprints, which can be used in financial services provision.”
Reporting on the paper, Gizmodo wrote that its authors “believe that this approach could result in greater lending to borrowers who would potentially be denied by traditional financial institutions.”
While the actual paper and subsequent blog post are relatively short, the message promoted under the banner of the IMF is by no means inconsequential. By using the “digital footprint,” i.e. an individual’s online history, as a means for “credit-worthiness analysis,” the IMF is essentially proposing a scheme that is set to be manipulated at the whim of whoever is in control. The blog post argued that internet history could be used to improve the accurate assessment of credit “worthiness,” but left unsaid was what would happen to anyone who was deemed not worthy enough to qualify.
Totalitarian origins
The IMF’s plan seems to be drawn straight from the policies of China’s Communist Party (CCP). Over the past number of years, China has been developing and implementing a social credit system, whereby Chinese citizens are given certain permissions (or not) in society depending on their social credit score. All elements of life are drawn from when tabulating the score, be it official or government records, documentation about illegal behavior, or even reports filed by neighbors.
Steven Mosher, founder of the Population Research Institute and regular LifeSiteNews columnist, described the system in 2019. Mosher painted the picture in which normal and essential aspects of daily life depended upon the one’s score in the system: “A low social credit score will exclude you from well-paid jobs, make it impossible for you to get a house or a car loan or even book a hotel room. The government will slow down your internet connection, ban your children from attending private schools and even post your profile on a public blacklist for all to see.”
Mosher described the “laolai,” a phenomena unimagined in Western countries. Laolai are people who fall foul of the system, land on the bottom of the de facto caste system, and even are subjected to a specific, mobile ringtone that will clearly denote them as laolai when in public. In fact, social media app WeChat hosts a government-produced map that locates every laolai in the vicinity.
Chinese citizens can earn points by reporting on anyone who they observe to be breaking the law, or fostering a culture of distrust and fear. Mosher mentioned how some people are even arrested as a result of a low credit score, “(n)ot because they have actually committed a crime, but because they are likely to.”
The Chinese social credit system is evocative of the fictional Black Mirror episode “Nosedive,” in which a young woman obsessively tries to raise her social credit score in order to be able to access elite housing options and be more popular.
What weight does the IMF’s proposal have?
On face value, the IMF’s post and research paper might appear far less insidious than China’s system. However, the import of the proposal must not be ignored, precisely because of who is making it. The IMF has 190 member countries and its aim is to ensure the “stability of the international monetary system,” as well as all “macroeconomic and financial sector issues” related to global stability.
Its partner organization, the World Bank, is similarly composed of 189 member countries. Together, the two groups oversee and structure large swathes of the global economy.
Additionally, two of the blog post’s authors, Laeven and Ratnovski, are listed as “Agenda Contributors” on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) site. The WEF, founded by globalist Klaus Schwab, has as its “agenda” a “Great Reset” of capitalism, finance, and global affairs, which is to be brought about in the light of COVID-19.
Schwab’s anti-freedom and anti-Christian Great Reset initiative calls for “new foundations for our economic and social systems,” as well as “a new social contract that honors the dignity of every human being.” One vision of the future after the Great Reset is the much-publicized article positing a world in which private ownership is nonexistent and all products have become services offered at the whim of the government.
What might be classified as being credit worthy?
What the IMF blog left notably unsaid was what might serve as a basis in determining the possibility of one’s “creditworthiness.” However, an examination of the IMF’s own goals sheds light on the issue. Among its key priorities are “climate change” and the United Nations’ pro-abortion Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)..
The same is true of the World Bank and the WEF, both of whom heavily promote agendas that are underpinned by commitment to sustainable financial growth and radical green policies.
LifeSiteNews has previously revealed how commitment to the green agenda and the SDGs are a key part of the Great Reset and could well determine whether one has access to finance or not in the future. In fact, Schwab himself proposed an example of how a coal-fired power plant could be crippled by investors freezing its capital in retaliation for non-compliance with green policies.
In the past few years, the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) has also been established, with the aim of fundamentally changing global finance in line with green policies. Like the IMF and the World Bank, the financial purview of the NGFS is vast – its members supervise “all of the global systemically important banks and two-thirds of global systemically important insurers.” The IMF and the World Bank are official observers in the NGFS.
Vaccine adherence as a criteria for creditworthiness?
Another important aspect is to be considered in relation to what might qualify an individual for “creditworthiness;” namely, adherence to the global COVID-19 vaccination agenda. \
The IMF has made very clear its own commitment to the vaccine rollout. So too has the Word Bank. Schwab has also recently stated how “nobody will be safe” until “everybody” is vaccinated against the virus. He was in turn echoing billionaire vaccine promoter Bill Gates, who uttered a similar statement in April 2020, just weeks into the “pandemic.”
In short, the major financial global governing bodies, along with the key orchestrators of the globalist agenda, Schwab and Gates, are heavily pushing widespread or even mandatory vaccination for COVID-19 as a prerequisite for any access to what was until recently considered normal life.
With such executive promotion of the vaccination program, a correlation between vaccination and “creditworthiness” is very easy to foresee, especially when Israel is already enforcing a “medical Apartheid,” banning citizens from everyday life if they have not been vaccinated.
The names and personal information of those who have refused the vaccine are also being collected in order to be handed over to officials through the country, who will take measures to “encourage” vaccination. Such a situation is not too dissimilar from descriptions of the laolai in China.
Secret internet tracking and credit score systems already being implemented
In fact, while the IMF is advocating the policy of establishing “creditworthiness,” the practice is already in existence, albeit in various forms, with banks moving to prevent access to funds for those it deems not worthy to access them.
HSBC Bank recently announced plans to cancel the account of any customer who entered the bank without a face mask.
Numerous other financial cancellations have occurred, directed at those opposing COVID lockdowns, supporters of former President Donald Trump, and even Trump himself.
Bank of America dug through its customers records in order to help federal prosecutors identify people who took part in the January 6 rally for President Trump and Capitol protests. Once again, the similarity to the treatment of the Chinese laolai is not hard to discern.
And in case the IMF’s concept of widespread internet tracking seems too much like a far-fetched conspiracy, for the last two years the U.K. has already been experimenting with surveillance technology that could record the internet history of everyone in the country.
Wired recently reported that tests are secretly being performed by two unnamed internet providers in conjunction with the Home Office and the National Crime Agency, which record the “who, what, where, why and when of your digital life,” and can save this information for up to 12 months. The trial is permitted due to the controversial Investigatory Powers Act 2016, an act that was dubbed by former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden, as “the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy.”
Should the tests prove acceptable to the Home Office, then the system could be rolled out to the whole country, meaning that the entire nation would be subject to complete scrutiny any time they used a phone or computer.
Nor is this the only way in which the U.K. is quietly putting in place the IMF’s plan. The government is currently proposing a digital ID network, which would prove one’s identity in any situation, such as setting up a bank, buying a house, or taking out a loan. The ID would also be able to provide history and evidence of a person’s vaccination status.
Should an individual be deemed to have acted illegally or somehow violate the terms of use, then the as yet unidentified government body overseeing the project could simply terminate the ID account, rendering the person unable to access normal life without such ID. Once again, the comparisons to the Chinese laolai are not hard to discern, with English journalist James Delingpole warning that the scheme would “lead, inevitably, to CCP-style social credit.”
Clearly then, the current financial censorship and the IMF’s call for a system of creditworthiness based on one’s internet activities must be viewed in tandem with the huge push by the IMF, the World Bank, the WEF, and influential globalists such as Schwab and Gates, for adherence to the green and vaccination agendas.
Could it be that one’s credit score will soon be based on any opposition to COVID vaccines or the green agenda, creating a global system of “laolai” who are rejected by vaccine-promoting globalists? (World Financial Leaders Want to Adopt Red China’s Nefarious System to Determine Credit Using a Person’s Internet History.)
Xi Jinping may be a Communist dictator, but he is Chinese, which means he is a patient man. He is confident that Red China can lead the world and then control the world’s economy as well as the thoughts and legitimate liberties of all men everywhere as Westerners become more and more accustomed to restrictive measures by adapting themselves to become but mere creatures of the civil state
Xi Jinping’s patience is paying off as his state-controlled economy is growing rapidly:
China GDP seen growing at record 19% pace in Q1, vs Q4's 6.5%
* Brisk recovery driven by stronger demand, low base effect
* Q1 GDP, March activity data due Friday at 0200 GMT
BEIJING, April 16 (Reuters) - China's economic rebound likely quickened sharply in the first quarter from a coronavirus-induced slump earlier last year, propelled by stronger demand at home and abroad and continued government support for smaller firms.
Data released on Friday is expected to show gross domestic product (GDP) jumping a record 19% in the first quarter from a year earlier, after a 6.5% expansion in the last quarter of 2020, a Reuters poll showed.
While the reading will be heavily skewed by the plunge in activity a year earlier, the expected jump would be the strongest since at least 1992, when official quarterly records started.
Aided by strict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses, the economy has recovered steadily from a steep 6.8% slump in the first three months of 2020, when an outbreak of COVID-19 in the central city of Wuhan turned into a full blown epidemic.
The recovery has been led by export strength as factories raced to fill overseas orders, as consumption steadily picks up despite sporadic COVID-19 cases in some cities.
On a quarterly basis, growth likely slowed to 1.5% in January-March from 2.6% in the previous quarter, the poll showed.
China releases first-quarter GDP data on Friday (0200 GMT), along with March factory output, retail sales and fixed-asset investment.
March industrial output is expected to rise 17.2% from a year earlier, slowing from a 35.1% rise in the first two months. March retail sales growth is expected to cool to 28% from 33.8% in January-February.
Analysts polled by Reuters expected the world's second-largest economy to grow 8.6% in 2021, quickening from the previous year's 2.3% pace to the strongest performance in a decade.
That would easily beat the government's annual growth target of above 6% this year.
With the economy back on a more solid footing, China's central bank is turning its focus to cooling credit growth to help contain debt and financial risks, but it is treading cautiously to avoid derailing the recovery, analysts said. Policymakers, meanwhile, have vowed not to make any sudden policy shifts.
Authorities are especially concerned about financial risks involving the country's overheated property market and have asked banks to trim their loan books this year to guard against asset bubbles. (Red China’s Fist Quarter Gross Domestic Product Hit Record 230,000,785.)
Red China’s repressive system of slave labor, mentioned earlier in this commentary, and the willing complicity of American-based multinational corporations in this system of slavery and repression has equipped the so-called “People’s Republic of China” to make “business investments” with the family members of many Western leaders and their family members that results in these leaders’ having personal financial stakes in Red China that give Xi Jinping and his minions great sway over public policy decision-making in the misnamed “free” West.
Consider the case of a man named Hunter Biden. Perhaps you have heard of him:
March 8, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Growing evidence from a laptop that reportedly belonged to Hunter Biden indicates that he may have aided Chinese espionage through his business dealings and other activity linked to his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Emails found on the laptop hard drive detail exceptionally close contact between the younger Biden and his Chinese associates. They also point to significant security breaches implicating top U.S. officials that Hunter Biden appears to have facilitated.
LifeSiteNews obtained the laptop files from Jack Maxey, former co-host of Steve Bannon’s War Room, and one of the first people to go through the hard drive. Maxey had published emails from the laptop on his Twitter page, which was recently suspended.
The contents of the infamous, abandoned laptop, first discovered in 2019 at a repair shop near the Bidens’ Delaware home, have been corroborated by Tony Bobulinski, a former Biden family business partner. At least one key email was validated by cybersecurity experts, according to the Daily Caller. Federal authorities also have signaled that the laptop is authentic.
Among the emails on the hard drive is one sent by Hunter Biden to Chinese colleagues in February 2015, during his father’s vice presidency, to discuss a “proposed BHR employee to be housed here in Washington D.C.”
BHR refers to Bohai Harvest Reserve Partners, an investment fund that Hunter Biden co-founded with Chinese state-backed companies in 2013. He had had little success in finance before forming BHR, which has had remarkable support from China’s central bank.
“I think we all feel it is critical to have someone at this level engaged on a full time basis to assist in coordinating the U.S. Teams input and communications to and from Beijing,” the message reads. “This would include monitoring all deals and advising where the U.S. Team could add value, and keeping the Beijing Team informed as to our fund raising and other efforts.”
The Chinese employee would have access to Hunter Biden and his American partners’ expense reports, and responsibility for “any other necessary ‘reporting’ requirements” or “important” duties, the email continues. It adds that the new employee’s office would be connected to offices of the firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, a BHR partner led by Biden and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
“We would like to have this individual hired and in office beginning March 1st. Once they are acclimated here (10 days or so) he or she will travel to China to spend 30 days or so with the Beijing BHR team,” the email notes.
Hunter Biden’s Chinese associates warmly embraced his suggestions. “We totally agree with your thoughts,” BHR’s Jason Zhu replied.
“We think this arrangement will be very helpful for our deal sourcing and fund raising in US. The budget is ok for us, but the person we wants [sic] to hire should be proficiency [sic] in both English and Chinese, so it will be efficient for our communication,” he continued.
“They force him to hire a chosen American of Chinese extraction clearly trusted by Beijing. She gets an office next to his office with a separate outdoor entrance,” Jack Maxey said in a recent interview with Eric Metaxas.
“She is defined as the new communications director for Beijing, and what do they do with her after they get her? Immediately she’s sent to Beijing for a several-week training course on communications,” he added. “And what does she need to do? Learn how to use Zoom? Learn how to use email? No, she’s learning how to covertly communicate espionage for the benefit of the Chinese.”
Close access to Biden and Heinz naturally would have been a major boon for China’s extensive, wide-ranging espionage efforts. According to emails obtained by LifeSite, Hunter Biden and his Rosemont Seneca colleagues were in regular communication with top Obama administration officials, foreign diplomats, corporate and civic leaders, and, of course, the sitting vice president and his family.
A “treasure trove” of intel
Hunter Biden also appears to have had phone numbers of dozens of U.S. congressional leaders and Cabinet secretaries, thanks to some of his father’s White House aides.
An email from Joe Biden’s assistant Kathy Chung to Hunter Biden in May 2015 inexplicably contains phone numbers of former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and several high-ranking congressmen.
In another message to Biden and Chung, deputy counsel of the vice president, Alexander Mackler, sent phone numbers of 17 Obama administration Cabinet members, including Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. “Any foreign power would love to have this information,” General Michael Flynn has said about the emails, calling the contents “a ‘treasure trove’ of intelligence.”
“Thanks for calling and thinking of me. After the initial shock of taking in what you said … how could I pass up an opportunity to for the Vice President of the United State [sic],” a message sent by Chung to Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca email account reads. “But what would be my top 3-5 responsibilities be [sic] in the office?” she asked.
Chung remains with the Biden team, having joined the White House in January after working as a senior aide during the Biden-Harris transition, according to POLITICO. Mackler, an occasional business advisor to the Bidens, also held a post with the Biden Justice Department transition team.
A front for Beijing
Links to Chinese espionage detailed in the laptop files would hardly be Hunter Biden’s only known connections to Beijing-backed spy activity. Within months of his proposal for a D.C.-based BHR employee, the firm closed a deal with a government-controlled Chinese entity involved in the theft of U.S. military secrets.
Partnering with Aviation Industry Corp. of China (AVIC), BHR bought Michigan-based Henniges Automative, a leader in antivibration technology for military vehicles, in September 2014. The unprecedented transaction was valued at around $600 million.
AVIC, a state-owned company that makes stealth fighter jets for China’s air force, had been repeatedly blacklisted by the U.S. government and has been implicated in a successful multi-year scheme to steal strategic American assets.
The Obama administration nevertheless authorized the BHR/AVIC deal, which required special clearance from the executive branch, allowing AVIC to take a controlling stake in Henniges.
“This Bohai Harvest company that [Hunter Biden and his associates] were involved in … in my opinion, was completely a front operation to purchase strategic assets inside the United States,” Jack Maxey said on the Eric Metaxas Radio Show. “Why would [the Chinese government] be interested in giving $1.5 billion to two jokers, three jokers who have no business in the sphere unless there was some other motive?”
BHR Managing Partner Xin Wang practically admitted as much, referring to BHR as a “conduit” that helps “facilitate the transaction.”
“Just by virtue of being [a state-owned entity] there is the perception — rightly or wrongly — that there will be some cross-cultural issues,” he said. “Having us and our global resources there as a financial investor, and serving as a conduit, can facilitate the transaction.”
Hunter Biden’s cut of the Henniges deal, as well as BHR’s other questionable investments, appear to have paid well, despite public statements claiming the contrary. “BHR was valued at RMB 60m in November 2016. In today’s dollars that equates to $8.94m,” Biden’s broker dealer Eric Schwerin wrote in a 2018 email found on the laptop. Shares owned by one of Biden’s shell companies “would therefore be valued at $894,000,” Schwerin added.
“This is not even taking in consideration future distributions from exits of Henniges” and deals with state-backed companies, Schwerin said, describing the investments as “likely to be profitable for BHR.”
Hunter Biden’s ties to Chinese espionage don’t even end with BHR. In 2017, Biden agreed to represent now-disgraced energy executive Patrick Ho as his personal lawyer, according to a contract worth $1 million. Biden described Ho, the former Secretary for Home Affairs of Hong Kong, as the “spy chief of China” in expletive-laden audio released by the National Pulse.
Prior to Ho’s arrest for his role in a multi-million dollar African bribery plot, the Biden family had worked closely with his company, CEFC China Energy. A key email tying Joe Biden to his son and brother’s Chinese business dealings involves top CEFC executives, with whom the Bidens devised a joint venture called SinoHawk Holdings. Tony Bobulinski, former CEO of SinoHawk, has confirmed the authenticity of that correspondence. (Did the Biden Family Help Chinese Spiese Infiltrate the Government of the United States of America.)
There are plenty of “friends of Red China” planted all through the United States of America and elsewhere throughout the Western world, more than enough to assure almost complete silence as Chicom officials continue to crack down on dissident movements in Hong Kong, which is being used as a pattern for the time when the Red Chinese invade and conquer Taiwan and thus exterminate the Republic of China without a single word of protest from the administration of President in Name Only Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and De Facto President Kamala Harris:
On Thursday, a kangaroo Hong Kong court convicted seven pro-democracy activists for their roles in an “unauthorized” 2019 protest. It’s just the latest proof that the mainland government is committed to tyranny — and that the West was mistaken in thinking that welcoming China into the world economy would mellow the regime.
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, “Hong Kong’s father of democracy” Martin Lee, and former lawmakers Margaret Ng, Cyd Ho Sau-lan, Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-yan and Leung Kwok-hung, known as “Long Hair,” face up to five years for organizing and joining the peaceful protest against police orders. Several are old enough that this may mean prison for the rest of their lives.
Lai’s lawyer noted in court that any police power to ban peaceful protests violates Hong Kongers’ right to freedom of assembly. But the puppet judges echoed Beijing’s contempt for the rights China’s rulers once pledged to respect.
Oh, Beijing this week also rewrote the rules for Hong Kong’s legislature, turning it into a rubber stamp.
Then-President Bill Clinton insisted in the late ’90s that letting China into the World Trade Organization would “have a profound impact on human rights and liberty.” With Beijing breaking its word on Hong Kong and engaged in genocide of its Uighur minority, that optimism stands exposed as utter foolishness. (Convicions of Hong Kong Dissidents Prove Red China is Only Getting Worse.)
There has been a steady progression of American presidential administrations selling the rope with which the Red Chinese are hanging the West from the time of Richard Milhous Nixon’s 1972 Shanghai Agreement, mentioned above, to James Earl Carter, Jr.’s, 1978 transferring diplomatic recognition of the legitimate government of China from Taipei, Republic of China, to Beijing, “People’s Republic” of China, to William Jefferson Blythe Clinton’s support for Red China’s admission to the World Trade Organization to the appeasing policies of George Walker Bush, Barack Hussein Obama/Barry Soetoro and Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., who has erased what little that President Donald John Trump tried to do to blunt Red China’s stranglehold on the American economy and reverse some of this country’s trade deficit with it.
The Conciliar Surrender to the Reds From the Iron Curtin to the Bamboo Curtain
This steady progression of selling more and more to the Chicom monsters is exactly what the lords of conciliarism have been doing since the days of Karol Josef Wojtyla in 1988, which was an application to the Bamboo Curtain of the same policies pioneered before him by Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini/Paul VI to sell out Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty in Budapest, Hungary, thus giving the Communist government a de facto veto power over “episcopal” appointments.
Unlike Montini/Paul VI’s 1971 sellout of Cardinal Mindszenty and the current sellout of the suffering underground Catholics in Red China that began with Wojtyla, was accelerated by Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI before being completed by Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 2018, our last true pope thus afar, Pope Pius XII condemned the brutally repressive actions taken against Cardinal Mindszenty by the Joseph Stalin’s stooges in Budapest in very clear terms.
Pope Pius XII wrote a letter to the Hungarian episcopate on January 2, 1949, to denounce the actions taken against Cardinal Mindszenty, something that is in stark contrast to Bergoglio’s silence about the arrest and torture of underground Catholics that continues even after the 2020 renewal of his 2018 agreement with Xi Jinping’s minions:
Venerable Brothers, Health and the Apostolic Blessing.
The news that the beloved Son Our Cardinal Giuseppe Mindszenty, Archbishop of Strigonia, with reckless daring was arrested and removed from his See, has caused us deep sorrow, since we see in this bishop, so well-deserving, gravely offended is the sacred respect due to religion, both human dignity itself.
Therefore conscience and duty require Us to publicly express Our regret and Our indignation at what has been perpetrated against the rights of the Church; what happened not only against you, but against the Catholics of Hungary and the whole world, with great sadness we solemnly deplore as an insult inflicted on the whole Church.
We well know the merits of this excellent Shepherd; we know the tenacity and the innocence of his faith; we know his apostolic strength in protecting the integrity of Christian doctrine and in vindicating the sacred rights of religion. That if with fearless and strong chest he felt the duty to oppose when he saw that the freedom of the Church was increasingly limited and in many ways coerced, and especially when he saw the magisterium and ecclesiastical ministry impeded to the grave detriment of the faithful - which must only in churches, but also outdoors in public manifestations of faith, in lower and higher schools, with the press, with pious pilgrimages to shrines and with Catholic associations - this certainly is not for him a reason for accusation or dishonor, but rather of high praise,
We wish, therefore, Venerable Brothers, to take part with a fatherly spirit in your pain and grief; and we also wish to address our exhortation to you in the name of the Lord because, as you always usually do, so in a very particular way in this serious situation you wish to continue to carry out your pastoral ministry with assiduous diligence and with unity of mind, heart and work, always mindful that for the freedom of the Church and for her sacrosanct rights one must endure not only hardships and pains, but also the deprivation of life, if this is necessary. We have full confidence that you will respond to our paternal appeal with spontaneous and willing industriousness; and that all Catholic Hungary, so dear to Us, whose history shines with glory in the annals of the Church,
We know well what a dangerous storm has befallen you and the flock entrusted to your care; but in the same way your apostolic zeal is known to us, in the same way your pastoral prudence and the solid unity of intentions, advice and works are certain and experienced; and so too is your indomitable steadfastness known and experienced, which, relying solely on God's help, can overcome everything, everything can overcome. Therefore uniting your directives and merging your strengths together, go forward, Venerable Brothers, armed with that fortress, which comes from Heaven and which is nourished by divine grace. Do not allow yourselves to be misled by those false appearances of truth, with which it is customary to lure souls by means of deceptions and enticements.
Walk confidently behind their examples; May everything that Christian doctrine requires in regard to faith and action be a fruitful field of apostolate for you, of that apostolate which spares no fatigue and which is not shaken or disturbed by any fear. You will find a comfort, of which it is not possible to find a greater one: the comfort that is to work and fight for the pacifying and salutary Kingdom of Christ, a Kingdom that is not of this world [ 1 ], because it has the task of reforming customs, and to direct everyone, through this earthly exile, to the celestial homeland and eternal happiness.
We especially wish, Venerable Brothers, that, raising your prayers, even for those who persecute you, to the Divine Redeemer and to his Most Holy Mother, Patroness of Hungary, together and insistently implore celestial light to minds darkened by error, harmony and cooperation for those who are broken up by hatred and grudges, so that finally, with the help of divine grace, better and more peaceful times arise for your beloved homeland.
Validate and implement these Our wishes and wishes the Apostolic Blessing, which We impart with great affection to you, Venerable Brothers, to the flocks entrusted to you and especially to those " who suffer persecution for justice " [ 2 ].
Given in Rome, at St. Peter's, on January 2, 1949, the feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, the tenth year of Our Pontificate. (Pope Pius XII, Acerrimo Moerore, January 2, 1949. Computerized translation from the Italian.)
His Holiness was even more blunt when addressing pilgrims in Saint Peter’s Square as follows on February 20, 1949:
Do you want a Church that remains silent when She should speak; that diminishes the law of God where she is called to proclaim it loudly, wanting to accommodate it to the will of man? Do you want a Church that departs from the unshakable foundations upon which Christ founded Her, taking the easy way of adapting Herself to the opinion of the day; a Church that is a prey to current trends; a Church that does not condemn the suppression of conscience and does not stand up for the just liberty of the people; a Church that locks Herself up within the four walls of Her temple in unseemly sycophancy, forgetting the divine mission received from Christ: 'Go out the crossroads and preach the people'? Beloved sons and daughters! Spiritual heirs of numberless confessors and martyrs! Is this the Church you venerate and love? Would you recognize in such a Church the features of your Mother? Would you be able to imagine a Successor of St. Peter submitting to such demands?" (As quoted in Sister M. Pascalina Lehnert, His Humble Servant: Sister M. Paschalina Lehnert’s Memoirs of Her Years of Service to Eugenio Pacelli. Translated by Susan Johnson, Saint Augustine Press, South Bend, Indiana, 2014, p. 150.)
The conciliar “popes” have wanted a “church” that submits to Communist authorities in the name of seeking a false “peace” that actually is an appeasement of evil, which makes sense since they themselves have made their “peace” with evil propositions condemned by one true pope after another prior to the “election” of Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII on October 28, 1958, the Feast of Saints Simon and Jude. Cardinal Mindszenty was sold out fifty years ago this year just as the longsuffering Catholics of the underground church in Red China have been sold out by Bergoglio after a thirty-year process of one act of appeasement after another.
In this regard, therefore, it is good to recall a summarized version of how Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Montini/Paul VI sold out the man whose dry martyrdom had been extolled by Pope Pius XII only twenty-two years before:
By the early 1960s both the Western governments and the popes decided that peace accords with the communists were not only preferable but also necessary in light of a rapidly changing geopolitical scene. John XXIII and Paul VI other Vatican accommodationists welcomed an open windows’ policy with the Soviet Union. The Cardinal’s visible presence created a dilemma for the new Ostpolitik, managed by Pope Paul's Secretary of State, Agostino Casaroli.
Mindszenty’s reputation as a Christian warrior was a constant reminder of the communists’ grim past. This created an intractable obstacle to the pope’s larger vision of peaceful accords with the communists. As the Cold War thawed, Pope Paul persuaded Mindszenty to leave. So in 1971 the Cardinal reluctantly left the embassy sanctuary and traveled into exile, first to Rome where he stayed for two months in 1971 before finally settling in Vienna.
Final Betrayal
Even in his Vienna exile, Mindszenty had become an albatross around the neck of the Vatican. In the fall of 1973, as he prepared to publish his Memoirs, the Cardinal suffered the final betrayal. Fearful that the truth would upset the detente with the Marxists, the Pope asked Mindszenty to resign his office. When he refused, the Pope declared his See vacant, to the delight of the communist regime.
Obedient to the end, the Cardinal felt deceived by the Vatican policy of rapprochement with communism. He spent the rest of his life caring for the spiritual welfare of his scattered Hungarian flock around the world. The Cardinal continued to make it clear that he had not abdicated, but had been deposed. (Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation .)
With the exception of Karol Josef Wojtyla/John Paul II’s defense of his native Poland against Communist attacks on the Solidarity movement in the 1980s, the conciliar track record of accommodationism with Communist officials is very clear, and it includes Wojtyla/John Paul II’s own part in preparing thee way for the sellout of the Catholics in Red China who had suffered at that point for nearly forty years when he took the first “incremental” steps that have led to the Bergoglio’s finalizing the sellout once and for all.
I first learned of the conciliar Vatican intentions with respect to selling out the faithful, suffering Catholics of Red China when attending what I thought was Holy Mass at the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in the Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, New York, in the 1990s when a highly effeminate Franciscan presbyter announced before the beginning of the Protestant and Judeo-Masonic Novus Ordo liturgical weekday service that his "concelebrant" was a "priest" from China who was studying at Saint Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York. "Ah," I said to myself, "China? Red China? The underground church? The 'Patriotic Association'?"
Well, I began to get a clearer idea of what "Saint John Paul II" and his chief lieutenants, Joseph "Cardinal" Ratzinger, the prefect of the misnamed Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Angelo "Cardinal" Sodano, the Vatican's Secretary of State, were planning with respect to Red China when I stopped by one occasion in 1999, I believe, to spend some time in prayer before what I believed to be the Real Presence of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament at Holy Trinity Retreat House in Larchmont, New York. It was as I was leaving that I encountered Father Benedict Groeschel as he was taking a stroll on the grounds. Father Benedict told me that the Vatican was supporting the training of seminarians for the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) in American seminaries, including Saint Joseph's Seminary.
Father Benedict told me that this was all "hush, hush," as he termed it, and that the situation in Red China was very complex, full of double and triple agents. Father Groeschel said that the training of the CPCA priests at Saint Joseph's had the approval, at some level or another, of the Vatican. The hope was to "integrate" CPCA priests, who had to support the government's anti-life policies, into the life of the underground Church when a "reconciliation" could occur at some point in the future. We can see how well that worked out over the course of time. Indeed, Wojtyla/John Paul II laid the groundwork for "Pope Benedict's" betrayal of the faithful Catholics in Red China, which helped to prepare what can be called the "shining path" for an admirer of the late Chicom murderer known as Zhou Enlai, who was the Premier of the so-called People's Republic of China from May 1, 1949, to the time of death on January 8, 1976, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to finish off the suffering Catholics of Red China once and all.
By 1999, however, the conciliar Vatican had already issued a set of "directives" that would lead to the sorry fate that the faithful Catholics have been dealt by their supposed spiritual father. Here are the terms of those guidelines, which were issued by Josef "Cardinal" Tomko, then the Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Propagation of the Faith, issued on September 3, 1988, a series of "eight guidelines" for "contact" between faithful Catholics and the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association:
As the contacts among members of the Episcopate, priests and faithful, with exponents of the Catholic Church in China are becoming ever more frequent, this Dicastery, in accord with the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church, considers it opportune to give the Episcopal Conferences the following indications:
1. The contacts in question could be a good occasion to reaffirm with clarity the Catholic Doctrine on the communion which must unite the Bishops with the Successor of Peter and, through him, among themselves (L. G. 14 & 18). In this regard, one could have recourse to the doctrinal principles of the Vatican Councils I and II.
2. In the light of the Vatican Council II one could also explain to them how the Church realizes in her own life self-government, self-propagation and self-financing: it is normal today that Bishops be chosen from among the local clergy; evangelization is, in the first place, to be realized by the local churches, even if in many cases the collaboration of the missionaries still remains necessary, but in a subordinate position; that it is evident that the Church be financially supported by the offerings of the faithful in the locality.
3. Mention could also be made to them of the various forms of collegiality which are being developed in the Church, particularly since Vatican Council II, both on the national and regional levels through the Episcopal Conferences, and on the universal level through the presence and collaboration of the Episcopates of the various countries in the central government of the Church, as, for example, their presence in the Roman Dicasteries, and their collaboration in the Synod of Bishops.
4. In the course of various encounters, care must be taken to avoid attitudes which could wound the sensibility of the ‘silent’ majority of those Catholics who have suffered and are suffering for their fidelity to the Holy Father.
There is also need of avoiding that the visits in question do not become instrumental in obtaining recognition and the legitimization of a position which cannot in any way be acceptable either on the doctrinal level or disciplinary and canonical levels.
5 Another rather delicate point is the question of the liturgical celebrations. In fact all 'communicatio in sacris' is to be avoided. The ‘patriotic’ bishops and priests are not to be invited or even allowed to celebrate religious functions in public, either in the churches or in the oratories of the various religious institutes.
6. The necessary clarity regarding the ecclesial aspects of the visits and the attitude to be adopted, which must be respected by all, do not imply that there is to be a lack of fraternal charity, which should be expressed in the cordiality of the welcome given to the guests and in the manner in which they are treated.
It is hoped that all this will assist them in understanding, in the light of the Spirit, the incoherence of their position and induce them to a change of attitude.
7. Care must also be taken that those who are responsible for the organization of the visits of the above-mentioned delegations be persons of sound doctrine, faithful to the Magisterium of the Church and capable of acting with great prudence.
8. It is to be foreseen that such events will not fail to arouse reactions in the local and international press. It will be necessary, therefore, to foresee how to assist the means of social communication, utilizing the orientations mentioned above, which clarify the position of the Church and may foster the comprehension of the diverse and complex problems closely connected with this position. (As found at Cardinal Kung Foundation.)
Joseph Kung, a nephew of Bishop Ignatius Kung, the Bishop of Shanghai from August 15, 1950, to the time of his death on March 12, 2000, wrote a series of updates about the situation of underground Catholics in Red China. Indeed, he did so just seventeen days after his uncle's death on March 12, 2000, because the situation facing Catholics had become so confusing. Moreover, Mr. Kung was alarmed by the fact that seminarians from the rump church in Red China were being permitted to study in American seminaries, which was what I been told by Father Benedict Groeschel the year before. Appendix A below contains a few excerpts of that open letter, which asked one plaintive question after another. The saddest part of all is that Mr. Kung's questions have been answered loud and clear, and the first set of answers were given by the supposed "restorer of tradition," Joseph Alois Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, on June 30, 2007, and the rest were provided by Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 2018 and again just a few months ago.
Ratzinger Provided the Framework for Bergoglio's 2018 Surrender to the Chicoms That Was Renewed in 2020
True to his subjectivist self, the chief apostle of the "new ecclesiology", who said several years ago that he had resigned from the hard duties of promoting heresy as the universal public face of apostasy because he could not take the jet lag if he had to go to World Youth Day in Rio di Janeiro in 2013 (nothing is ever stable in the mind of this Hegelian, including the rationales for his resignation), used the situation in Red China as a grand "workshop" to "perfect" a "communion" among the "particular churches" in China without requiring members of the rump church to renounce their errors publicly and while he strongly "encouraged" those who have suffered in the underground Church to cooperate with the Communist officials there so that the "suffering" of the past can be overcome by means of a supposed “spiritual reconciliation," which must necessarily precede the "difficulties" of differences of Faith. This is how he phrased things in his Letter to Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of Red China, which was released on June 30, 2007, the Commemoration of Saint Paul
Addressing the whole Church in his Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, my venerable predecessor Pope John Paul II, stated that an "important area in which there has to be commitment and planning on the part of the universal Church and the particular Churches [is] the domain of communion (koinonia), which embodies and reveals the very essence of the mystery of the Church. Communion is the fruit and demonstration of that love which springs from the heart of the Eternal Father and is poured out upon us through the Spirit whom Jesus gives us (cf. Rom 5:5), to make us all 'one heart and one soul' (Acts 4:32). It is in building this communion of love that the Church appears as 'sacrament', as the 'sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the human race.' The Lord's words on this point are too precise for us to diminish their import. Many things are necessary for the Church's journey through history, not least in this new century; but without charity (agape) all will be in vain. It is again the Apostle Paul who in his hymn to love reminds us: even if we speak the tongues of men and of angels, and if we have faith 'to move mountains', but are without love, all will come to 'nothing' (cf. 1 Cor 13:2). Love is truly the 'heart' of the Church"
These matters, which concern the very nature of the universal Church, have a particular significance for the Church which is in China. Indeed you are aware of the problems that she is seeking to overcome – within herself and in her relations with Chinese civil society – tensions, divisions and recriminations.
In this regard, last year, while speaking of the nascent Church, I had occasion to recall that "from the start the community of the disciples has known not only the joy of the Holy Spirit, the grace of truth and love, but also trials that are constituted above all by disagreements about the truths of faith, with the consequent wounds to communion. Just as the fellowship of love has existed since the outset and will continue to the end (cf. 1 Jn 1:1ff.), so also, from the start, division unfortunately arose. We should not be surprised that it still exists today ... Thus, in the events of the world but also in the weaknesses of the Church, there is always a risk of losing faith, hence, also love and brotherhood. Consequently it is a specific duty of those who believe in the Church of love and want to live in her to recognize this danger too"
The history of the Church teaches us, then, that authentic communion is not expressed without arduous efforts at reconciliation . Indeed, the purification of memory, the pardoning of wrong-doers, the forgetting of injustices suffered and the loving restoration to serenity of troubled hearts, all to be accomplished in the name of Jesus crucified and risen, can require moving beyond personal positions or viewpoints, born of painful or difficult experiences. These are urgent steps that must be taken if the bonds of communion between the faithful and the Pastors of the Church in China are to grow and be made visible. (Letter to Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of Red China)
In other words, Ratzinger/Benedict told the members of the underground Church in Red China nine years ago that it was up to them to make "visible" a "communion" with the "pastors" of the rump church that supports the Communist regime's "population control" policies. "Communion" depended upon them being willing to forgive past—and present!—injustices as well as to forget the inconvenient truth that the most of the leaders of the rump church defect from several of the Church's defined teachings on Faith and Morals, placing them totally outside of the pale of the Catholic Church, as Pope Leo XIII noted in Satis Cognitum, June 29, 1896.
Ratzinger/Benedict was telling the long-suffering Catholics in the underground Church in Red China that their suffering was appreciated and noted. It was time, however, to "move on" and purify "memories" so that a "reconciliation" based on a deliberate and calculated overlooking of defections from Faith and Morals on the part of the rump church in China could take place, leaving to a later date—perhaps—“discussions" on the more "delicate" matters that might seem to the Communist authorities to be an "interference" in their "internal affairs." Just be quiet, therefore, don't complain about the government's "population control policies," be good citizens and be content that you have the sacraments and are in "communion" with your fellow Chinese Catholics.
An unfair reading of Ratzinger/Benedict's June 30, 2007 letter? Read this footnote from the Compendium that was released by the conciliar Vatican on May 24, 2009, to “clarify” his original letter, which caused great confusion among the "bishops," priests/presbyters and members of the laity in Red China, and then decide for yourselves:
We can see that the Holy Father is talking about a spiritual reconciliation, which can and must take place now, even before a structural merger of official and unofficial Catholic communities takes place. As a matter of fact, the Holy Father seems to make a distinction between “a spiritual reconciliation” and “a structural merger”. He recognizes that the reconciliation is like a journey that “cannot be accomplished overnight” (6.6): however, he emphasizes that the steps to be taken on the way are necessary and urgent, and cannot therefore be postponed because - or on the pretext that - they are difficult since they require the overcoming of personal positions or views. Times and ways may vary according to local situations, but the commitment to reconciliation cannot be abandoned. This path of reconciliation, furthermore, cannot be limited to the spiritual realm of prayer alone but must also be expressed through practical steps of effective ecclesial communion (exchange of experiences, sharing of pastoral projects, common initiatives, etc.). Finally, it should not be forgotten that all without exception are invited to engage in these steps: Bishops, priests, religious and lay faithful. It is by means of practical steps that spiritual reconciliation, including visible reconciliation, will gradually occur, which will culminate one day in the complete structural unity of every diocesan community around its one Bishop and of every diocesan community with each other and with the universal Church. In this context, it is licit and fitting to encourage clergy and lay faithful to make gestures of forgiveness and reconciliation in this direction. (Footnote 2, Compendium, pp. 8-9.)
This footnote reflects entirely Joseph Ratzinger's abject rejection of the "ecumenism of the return." Ratzinger/Benedict believes that people are gradually "absorbed" into the Church by means of "perfecting" their "communion" with other Christians. This is heretical. This is condemned by the authority of the Catholic Church. Yet it is of the essence of Ratzinger/Benedict's theology, which is reflected so completely in his June 30, 2007, Letter to Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of Red China and in the Compendium released on May 24, 2009.
After all, it is "reconciliation" and "love" that matters the most, although Catholics understand that true love of God can never sanction anything that is offensive to Him, making, therefore, Ratzinger's appeal for a "reconciliation" with authorities of a rump church who support (or are silent about) government polices contrary to Faith and Morals nothing other than an exercise in pure subjectivism.
Ratzinger/Benedict's subjectivism was further displayed when he vitiated his earlier affirmation of Papal Primacy by excusing Catholics who seek out the sacraments from "pastors" who are not in "communion" with the Roman Pontiff, who he believed himself to be at the time.
In not a few situations, then, you have faced the problem of concelebration of the Eucharist. In this regard, I remind you that this presupposes, as conditions, profession of the same faith and hierarchical communion with the Pope and with the universal Church. Therefore it is licit to concelebrate with Bishops and with priests who are in communion with the Pope, even if they are recognized by the civil authorities and maintain a relationship with entities desired by the State and extraneous to the structure of the Church, provided – as was said earlier (cf. section 7 above, paragraph 8) – that this recognition and this relationship do not entail the denial of unrenounceable principles of the faith and of ecclesiastical communion.
The lay faithful too, who are animated by a sincere love for Christ and for the Church, must not hesitate to participate in the Eucharist celebrated by Bishops and by priests who are in full communion with the Successor of Peter and are recognized by the civil authorities. The same applies for all the other sacraments.
Concerning Bishops whose consecrations took place without the pontifical mandate yet respecting the Catholic rite of episcopal ordination, the resulting problems must always be resolved in the light of the principles of Catholic doctrine. Their ordination – as I have already said (cf. section 8 above, paragraph 12) – is illegitimate but valid, just as priestly ordinations conferred by them are valid, and sacraments administered by such Bishops and priests are likewise valid. Therefore the faithful, taking this into account, where the eucharistic celebration and the other sacraments are concerned, must, within the limits of the possible, seek Bishops and priests who are in communion with the Pope: nevertheless, where this cannot be achieved without grave inconvenience, they may, for the sake of their spiritual good, turn also to those who are not in communion with the Pope. (Letter to Bishops, Priests, Consecrated Persons and Lay Faithful of Red China.)
Never mind the fact that the rump church in Red China is a tool of the government. Never mind that there might be some "differences" between the teachings of the rump church in Red China and the Catholic Church. These differences did not matter to Ratzinger/Benedict unless they involved a "denial of unrenounceable principles of the faith and of ecclesiastical communion," although there is not one article of the Faith that is "renounceable." For if it is permissible to participate in the liturgical services of heretics who defect from the Catholic Faith, then Pope Saint Pius V was himself wrong when he told English Catholics, many of whom did not look forward to heavy fines or the confiscation of their properties or imprisonment or martyrdom—or all of those things, not to assist at the liturgies of the heretical and schismatic Anglican Church.
Or, my friends, was that what Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI was saying thirteen and one-half years ago?
Was he saying, as he made reference to in his Explanatory Letter on "Summorum Pontificum, which was issued on June 7, 2007, just a week after his letter to Chinese Catholics, that he was doing then what others did not do in the past, that is, being willing to "bend" a little bit on some points in order to effect a "reconciliation" which comes at the price of truth itself?
What an affront to the witness of the martyrs over the history of the Church, including the martyrs of the underground Church in Red China in the past sixty-seven years, who refused to make one compromise with error or heresy or any interference at all on the part of the civil state with the life and mission of the Catholic Church.
There is, you see, quite a bit of logic involved in requesting the Catholics of the underground church in Red China to join up with the rump church that promotes some of the very evils that are support by "Catholics" in the counterfeit church of conciliarism without forfeiting their place in the One World Church of Ecumenism born of the new ecclesiology. All that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is doing at this time is follow through on what Ratzinger/Benedict helped to make more possible nearly fourteen years ago.
That is, Senor Jorge’s still-secret 2018 agreement with Red Chinese authorities that was negotiated by Pietro “The Red” Parolin, a man who has never met a murderous Communist dictator he did not want to appease, has mystified many “conservative” and quasi-traditional Catholics within the structures of the counterfeit church of conciliarism. However, there is nothing about which to be “mystified” as Jorge Mario Bergoglio wants those who have suffered in the underground church in Red China in the very sincere belief that they are being loyal to a true and legitimate Successor of Saint Peter to show forth their loyalties to the Chinese Communist governmental officials even if this means the replacement of images of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ with those of the tyrant named Xi Jinping and the monstrously murderous Mao Zedong and the use of government approved “Bibles” whose purpose is to indoctrinate Catholics in the ways of Chinese Communist ideology. In other words, Bergoglio wants Catholics to subordinate their religious faith to the exigencies of Red Chinese Communist government. Bergoglio’s subservience to the Red Chinese authorities is the antithesis of Pope Pius XII’s condemnation of the Communist effort to subvert the Holy Faith:
5. But, alas, after a few years the sky was overcast by storm clouds. On your Christian communities, many of which had been flourishing from times long past, there fell sad and sorrowful times. Missionaries, among whom were many archbishops and bishops noted for their apostolic zeal, and Our own Internuncio were driven from China, while bishops, priests, and religious men and women, together with many of the faithful, were cast into prison or incurred every kind of restraint and suffering.
6. On that occasion We raised Our voice in sorrow, and, in Our Encyclical of January 18, 1952, Cupimus imprimis,[3] rebuked the unjust attack. In that letter, for the sake of truth and conscious of Our duty, We declared that the Catholic Church is a stranger to no people on earth, much less hostile to any. With a mother's anxiety, she embraces all peoples in impartial charity. She seeks no earthly advantage but employs what powers she possesses to attract the souls of all men to seek what is eternal. We also stated that missionaries promote the interest of no particular nation; they come from every quarter of the earth and are united by a single love, God, and thus they seek and hope for nothing else save the spread of God's kingdom. Thus, it is clear that their work is neither without purpose nor harmful, but beneficent and necessary since it aids Chinese priests in their Christian apostolate.
7. And some two years later, October 7, 1954, another Encyclical Letter was addressed to you, beginning Ad Sinarum gentem,[4] in which We refuted accusations made against Catholics in China. We openly declared that Catholics yielded to none (nor could they do so) in their true loyalty and love of their native country. Seeing also that there was being spread among you the doctrine of the so-called "three autonomies," We warned - by virtue of that universal teaching authority which We exercise by divine command - that this same doctrine as understood by its authors, whether in theory or in its consequences, cannot receive the approval of a Catholic, since it turns minds away from the essential unity of the Church.
8. In these days, however, We have to draw attention to the fact that the Church in your lands in recent years has been brought to still worse straits. In the midst of so many great sorrows it brings Us great comfort to note that in the daily attacks which you have met neither unflinching faith nor the most ardent love of the Divine Redeemer and of His Church has been wanting. You have borne witness to this faith and love in innumerable ways, of which only a small part is known to men, but for all of which you will someday receive an eternal reward from God.
9. Nevertheless We regard it as Our duty to declare openly, with a heart filled to its depths with sorrow and anxiety, that affairs in China are, by deceit and cunning endeavor, changing so much for the worse that the false doctrine already condemned by Us seems to be approaching its final stages and to be causing its most serious damage.
10. For by particularly subtle activity an association has been created among you to which has been attached the title of "patriotic," and Catholics are being forced by every means to take part in it. This association - as has often been proclaimed - was formed ostensibly to join the clergy and the faithful in love of their religion and their country, with these objectives in view: that they might foster patriotic sentiments; that they might advance the cause of international peace; that they might accept that species of socialism which has been introduced among you and, having accepted it, support and spread it; that, finally, they might actively cooperate with civil authorities in defending what they describe as political and religious freedom. And yet - despite these sweeping generalizations about defense of peace and the fatherland, which can certainly deceive the unsuspecting - it is perfectly clear that this association is simply an attempt to execute certain well defined and ruinous policies.
11. For under an appearance of patriotism, which in reality is just a fraud, this association aims primarily at making Catholics gradually embrace the tenets of atheistic materialism, by which God Himself is denied and religious principles are rejected.
12. Under the guise of defending peace the same association receives and spreads false rumors and accusations by which many of the clergy, including venerable bishops and even the Holy See itself, are claimed to admit to and promote schemes for earthly domination or to give ready and willing consent to exploitation of the people, as if they, with preconceived opinions, are acting with hostile intent against the Chinese nation.
13. While they declare that it is essential that every kind of freedom exist in religious matters and that this makes mutual relations between the ecclesiastical and civil powers easier, this association in reality aims at setting aside and neglecting the rights of the Church and effecting its complete subjection to civil authorities.
14. Hence all its members are forced to approve those unjust prescriptions by which missionaries are cast into exile, and by which bishops, priests, religious men, nuns, and the faithful in considerable numbers are thrust into prison; to consent to those measures by which the jurisdiction of many legitimate pastors is persistently obstructed; to defend wicked principles totally opposed to the unity, universality, and hierarchical constitution of the Church; to admit those first steps by which the clergy and faithful are undermined in the obedience due to legitimate bishops; and to separate Catholic communities from the Apostolic See.
15. In order to spread these wicked principles more efficiently and to fix them in everyone's mind, this association - which, as We have said, boasts of its patriotism - uses a variety of means including violence and oppression, numerous lengthy publications, and group meetings and congresses.
16. In these meetings, the unwilling are forced to take part by incitement, threats, and deceit. If any bold spirit strives to defend truth, his voice is easily smothered and overcome and he is branded with a mark of infamy as an enemy of his native land and of the new society.
17. There should also be noted those courses of instruction by which pupils are forced to imbibe and embrace this false doctrine. Priests, religious men and women, ecclesiastical students, and faithful of all ages are forced to attend these courses. An almost endless series of lectures and discussions, lasting for weeks and months, so weaken and benumb the strength of mind and will that by a kind of psychic coercion an assent is extracted which contains almost no human element, an assent which is not freely asked for as should be the case.
18. In addition to these there are the methods by which minds are upset - by every device, in private and in public, by traps, deceits, grave fear, by so-called forced confessions, by custody in a place where citizens are forcibly "reeducated," and those "Peoples' Courts" to which even venerable bishops are ignominiously dragged for trial.
19. Against methods of acting such as these, which violate the principal rights of the human person and trample on the sacred liberty of the sons of God, all Christians from every part of the world, indeed all men of good sense cannot refrain from raising their voices with Us in real horror and from uttering a protest deploring the deranged conscience of their fellow men. (Pope Pius XII, Ad Apostolorum Principis, June 29, 1958.)
There can be no clearer proof of the contrast between the words of a true pope, who was unafraid to condemn the brutal persecution of faithful Catholics in Red China and to term the so-called Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association to be what it is, a fraud, and the words of and actions of false “popes,” men who are always willing to find nuance whenever it can advance the cause of doctrinal, liturgical, moral, and political evils.
Although temporal rulers challenged the temporal powers of the Successor of Saint Peter on a fairly regular basis in the Middle Ages, resulting in period triumphs of various popes, including that of Pope Saint Gregory VII, who asserted control of the Holy Roman Empire in 1077 after the Investiture Controversy (concerning the control of bishops by civil potentates) that had been wrought by Emperor Henry IV, the first Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne, had earlier enunciated principles of right and just civil governance according to the Mind of the Divine Redeemer, Christ the King, and it was those right principles that animated the thoroughly Catholic mind and heart of such great exemplars of the Social Reign of Christ the King as Saints Ferdinand III of Leon and Castile, Henry II, Stephen of Hungary and, among so many others, Saint Louis IX, King of France.
Charlemagne had been born in 742 A.D., the son of Pepin the Short, who was anointed King of the Franks by Pope Stephen III in the year 754 A.D. Charlemagne was anointed as his father’s successor at the same time, distinguishing himself in his young adulthood as a tactical military genius and a very good administrator who based his decisions on that which was just and pleasing to God and thus for all parties involved. He became king in 768 A.D., serving as a firm defender of the temporal rights of the Holy See. Charlemagne’s military campaigns to defend the papacy won him the esteem of one pope after another, resulting ultimately in his crowning by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor on October 25, 800 A.D., after he had defended the honor of His Holiness against unjust accusers. Thus it was that the Vicar of Christ, the Successor of Saint Peter, chose an emperor for Christendom, firmly establishing the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ as the unifying principle of Christendom.
Mind you, Charlemagne was not bashful about inserting himself into ecclesiastical matters, doing so not for personal gain or to seek the approval of bishops for nefarious schemes, something that would characterize some of the English and German kings during the High Middle Ages and in France following the weakening of the Church following the Protestant Revolt, but to seek to insure that corrupt, self-seeking bishops were reprimanded in order that they served their flock with greater zeal and as they performed penance for their misdeeds. He provided a summary of the entire doctrine of the Social Reign of Christ the King that has been rejected by the lords of conciliarism when he gave the following speech to his nobles in March of 802:
“Hear me, my beloved brothers! We were sent here for your salvation, to exhort you to faithfully follow the Law of God and to convert you, in justice and mercy, to obey the laws of this world.
“First, I exhort you to believe in the One Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit: the only true God, perfect Trinity, true Unity, Creator of all things visible and invisible, Who is our salvation and the Author of all good things. Believe in the Son of God made man for the salvation of the world, born of the Virgin Mary by the work of the Holy Ghost. Believe that for our salvation He suffered death; and that on the third day He rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven where He is seated at the right hand of God. Believe that He will return to judge the living and dead, and that He will give to each one according to his works.
"Believe in one single Church, the society of the blessed through the entire universe, and know that only they can be saved, and that the Reign of God belongs only to those who persevere to the end in this [Catholic] Faith. Those who are excluded from the Church because of their sins and do not return to her through penance, can never make any action accepted by God. Be convinced that with Baptism you received absolution of your sins. Trust in the mercy of God, Who daily forgives our sins through confession and penance. Believe in the resurrection of the dead, in eternal life and in the never-ending torment of the impious.
“This is the Faith that will save you if you keep it faithfully, and add to it the practice of good works, because Faith without works is a dead faith; and works without Faith, even when they are good, cannot please God. Therefore, love Almighty God above all things with all your heart and strength. With the help with His grace, do everything, always and as much as possible, that you believe will please Him. But avoid everything that displeases Him, for the man who pretends to love God and does not observe His Commandments lies.
“Love your neighbor as yourself, and give as many alms to the poor as you can, according to your means. Receive travelers in your houses, visit the poor, and show charity to the prisoners as much as you can. Do evil to no one, and make no compromise with those who do bad things, because it is bad to not only harm your neighbor, but also to be familiar with those who harm him. “Mutually forgive offenses if you want God to forgive your sins. Rescue captives, help those who are unjustly oppressed, defend widows and orphans. Make judgments fairly; never favor any injustice, do not harbor long hatreds; avoid drunkenness and taking part in frivolous feasts.
“Be humble and good to one another; be faithful to your lords. Commit no robberies or perjuries, and avoid any acquaintance with those who commit them. Hatred, jealousy and violence separate us from the Kingdom of God. Reconcile with one another as soon as possible, for while it is human for men to sin, it is angelic to repent and diabolic to persevere in sin.
“Defend the Church of God and help her so that the priests of God can pray for us. Remember your promise in Baptism to renounce the Devil and his works. Do not return to him in anything; nor should you return to the works you have renounced, but rather follow the will of God as you have promised, and love the One who created you and gave you all the gifts and goods you possess.
“Each one should serve God faithfully in the place he finds himself. Wives should submit to their husbands in all goodness and modesty. They should avoid any dishonest action, and not poison others or be jealous, because those who do such actions are in revolt against God. They should raise their children in the fear of God, and give alms with a glad and joyous heart according to their means.
“Husbands should love their wives and speak no rude word to them; they should direct their homes with goodness and frequently gather in church. They should return to others what they owe them without murmuring, and with good will return to God what belongs to Him.
“Children should love and honor their parents; obey them in everything, and remain far from stealing, murdering and debaucheries.
“Clerics and canons should diligently obey the commands of their Bishops; they should live in their residences and not wander here and there among the people. Nor should they enter into secular questions. They should preserve their chastity: the reading of Holy Scriptures should remind them of their service to God and the Church.
“Monks should be faithful to the promises they made to God. They should not do anything against the will of their Abbots or seek any shameful personal benefit. They should know their rule by heart and follow it regularly, reminding themselves that it would be better not to have made any vow than to have made them and not be faithful to them.
“Dukes, counts and judges should be just with the people and merciful to the poor. They should never sell justice for money, and never allow a personal hatred to lead them to condemn an innocent man. They should always have these words of the Apostle in their hearts: ‘For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that which he has done, whether it be good or bad.’ (2 Cor. 5:10) The Lord expressed this by the following words: ‘For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged’ (Matt 7:2); 'For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hidden, that shall not be known.' (Luke 12:2) ‘That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment’ (Matt 12:36).
"We must make an effort, therefore, with the help of God, to please Him in all our actions so that after this present life, we will merit eternal happiness in the company of the Saints of the Lord. This life is short, and the hour of death is uncertain. What matters except to be ready? Let us not forget how terrible it is to fall into the hands of the Lord. By means of confession, penance and alms, we make the Lord become merciful and clement. If He sees us turn to Him with a sincere heart, He will show us pity and will have mercy on us.
“May God grant us prosperity in this life and an eternity with His Saints in the future life.
“God keep you, my beloved brothers!” (As translated by Hugh O’Reilly for the Tradition in Action website. Text found in Charles d’Hericault, Histoire Anecdotique de la France, Paris: Bloud & Barral, vol. 1, pp 301-304.)
Here one finds a view of civil leadership that has been rejected as “triumphalistic” by “Second” Vatican Council and the magisteria of the postconciliar antipopes and against which the forces of hell have been working overtime since the Renaissance and Protestant Revolution to overturn and to replace with the anti-Incarnational civil state of Modernity in Western nations and, ultimately with the godless civil state of the Chicoms that will only let citizens practice the true Faith on its terms and without any public display of the Cross of the Divine Redeemer. Charlemagne reigned at the beginnings of the glories of Christendom. The conciliar revolutionaries are in league with the diabolical forces that bring down upon men and their nations the wrath of the good God as Christendom’s perverted “replacement,” the Judeo-Masonic New World Order, seeks to cement its ties with all false religions to prepare the way for the coming of Antichrist.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio has no loyalty to anything other than his false ideological predilections. He is united entirely with every force of Judeo-Masonic evil in the world, including with everything that Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., and Kamala Harris are seeking to accomplish in the transforming the United States of America into a mirror image client state of Red China. Indeed, it is Bergoglio’s goal to make the conciliar Vatican itself into an appendage of Beijing as part of the “great reset” and thus of the establishment of a One World Government to Xi Jinping’s liking.
Father Charles Arminjon wrote the following prophetic words in 1888 in The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, the book that helped inspire Therese Martin to apply for entrance into the Carmel of Lisieux:
Already, the distant peoples are adopting our inventions, casting rifled guns, and beginning to build armored ships and arsenals. China--that vast empire swarming with people, where, each day, the seas and rivers engulf a huge excess of human beings whom the rich, fertile soil can no longer feed--she has her mechanics, her engineers, and is learning our strategy and industrial progress. Now, have our latest wars not shown that, at the present time, the issue of battles lies above all in numbers, and that, in armies, as in the realm of politics, what determines success and wins the victory is the brutal, inexorable law of superior numbers?
Thus, the hour bids to be not far off when these millions . . . who populate the east and north of Asia will have at their disposal more soldiers, more ammunition, and more military leaders than all other peoples; and the day can be foreseen when, having become fully conscious of their number and strength, they will hurl themselves in countless hordes upon our Europe, enfeebled and forsaken by God. There will then be invasions more terrible than those of the Vandals and the Huns . . . Provinces will be pillaged, rights violated, and small nations destroyed and ground down like dust. Then, a vast agglomeration of all the inhabitants of the earth will be observed, under the scepter of a single leader, who will be either the Antichrist, or one of his immediate predecessors. That day will see the death of human freedom.
The unity of all peoples will be built, for the last time, upon the ruins of all the suppressed nationalities. The empire of evil will be accomplished. Divine Providence will scourge the world, by subject it, body and soul, to one master . . . who will be moved solely by hatred of men and contempt of God.
Accordingly, any careful observer of the events of the present time cannot escape the conviction that everything is being done to bring about a social environment where the man of sin, by combining in his person all the depravity and very false doctrine of his age, will be produced spontaneously and effortlessly, like the parasitical tapeworm that breeds naturally in the gangrenous flesh and organs.
Yet the apparently incomprehensible thing that, at first sight, no sign seems to presage, is that the seat of his empire will be Jerusalem.
Well, it is easy to see that, if the materialistic, atheistic civilization, whose impending coming the free-thinkers and the irreligious press are always predicting, ever dawns on the world, its center of action and seat of public will be Jerusalem.
In fact, when the Christian Faith has finally died out in the hearts of men--when pleasure and well-being have become the gods of the day--human activity will then have one single goal: the power of the state; one single lever and stimulus: public opinion, one inspiration and driving force: and this stimulus, this sinew, this driving force, will be gold. Gold will take precedence over religion and morality, becoming the basis of politics and the keystone of all institutions. The pontiffs and kings will be the financiers; and the people who possesses the most gold will be the ones who will soon exercise the greatest control over us. (Father Charles Arminjon, The End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, translated by Susan Conroy and Peter McEnerny. Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2008, pp. 59-61.)
Quite prophetic, wouldn't you say? Quite applicable to our current circumstances today.
What more needs to be said?
We need to pray and to work for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ King as we plant seeds by offering all that we have and to Him through the Immaculate Heart of Mary according to the formula of Saint Louis de Montfort, making sure to pray as many Rosaries each day as our state-in-life permits.
May we pray to Our Lady and to her Most Chaste Spouse, Good Saint Joseph, the Patron of the Universal Church and the Protector of the Faithful, so that their Divine Son will indeed conquer all of his enemies in the ranks of the worldly wise, both those in the world and those in the counterfeit church of conciliarism, and so that we, who have been His enemies all too frequently by means of our sins, will be conquered once and for all by His ineffable grace to eschew the honors and riches of this world to be faithful to Him as He has revealed Himself to us through His true Church.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, triumph soon!
Viva Cristo Rey! Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John the Baptist, pray for us.
Saint John the Evangelist, pray for us.
Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Gabriel the Archangel, pray for us.
Saint Raphael the Archangel, pray for us.
Saints Joachim and Anne, pray for us.
Saints Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar, pray for us.
Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, pray for us.