Research, editing : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Bolsonaro has yet to concede after coming up short in Sunday’s election against left former president Lula da Silva. The Brazilian president and his allies have claimed the election has been marred by fraud.
Earlier this week, Bolsonaro’s communications minister, Fábio Faria, claimed that more than 154,000 ads for the president had not been broadcast after being submitted to radio companies this month. Faria accused the media of “a grave violation of the electoral system.”
Chief Electoral Justice Alexandre de Moraes rejected the Bolsonaro campaign’s request that the radio stations in question be investigated and “called instead for an investigation into whether the ‘unsubstantiated’ claims were designed to ‘disrupt’ the election,” the Guardian reported.
Bolsonaro is expected to address the matter soon, though it is unclear whether he will concede.
As tensions run high, the president’s supporters have called for massive protests, including trucker blockades similar to those seen in Canada and the Netherlands. Brazil’s Federal Highway Police (PRF) said on Monday that truckers have partially or fully blocked roads in 12 states, up from the six states an independent truckers group had estimated earlier on Monday, Reuters reported.
WATCH: #BNNBrazil Reports.
Councilman
Fernando Holiday @FernandoHoliday joined
the truckers' strike on the Presidente Dutra highway stretch and published a
video in which he says he does not accept the results of the national
elections. #Brazil #Politics pic.twitter.com/BQUhHaJFYY
—
Gurbaksh Singh Chahal (@gchahal) October 31, 2022
Rio de janeiro pic.twitter.com/7GPXDtMX21
— Eni
Aquino (@ENIAQUINO) October 31, 2022
From todays trucker protest in Brazil pic.twitter.com/du2UcGftRL
— Kevin
smith (@KJ00355197) October 31, 2022
Normando
Corral, president of farm group Famato, said roadblocks in the agricultural
state of Mato Grosso could impact agricultural output if they persist. “It’s
too soon to say if it’s going to interfere with the flow of production, because
the blockades started yesterday,” Corral said. “I don’t know how long it will
last.”
Through
his prior terms as President and his continued work with left-wing globalist
elites, Lula is tied to two of Communist China’s most notorious influence
outfits, which National File has covered extensively.
Lula, who was sprung from
prison on corruption charges before his globalist-backed election, has deep
ties to Communist China and its malign influence networks like the CCP-led
Taihe and Epstein-directed Humpty Dumpty Institutes.
Lula, the Brazillian leftist, is “closely attached” to Bulgarian
Communist Irina Bokova who, after the fall of Europe’s Iron Curtain, has set up
shop in Beijing and at the United Nations.
National File can exclusively report on Lula’s direct ties to
prominent communists in continuation of our in-depth series of articles in
conjunction with an investigation completed in party by British Texans working
to uncover the shady world of international influence that traces from Mark
Epstein in New York, to Michael Sonnenfeldt in Israel, all the way to the Taihe
Institute in Beijing.
As Director-General of UNESCO in 2011, Bokova spoke of her close relationship with Lula in an
address to the World Social Forum, saying that she was “doubly honored” to be
back in his presence and boasted that Lula has a “closely attached”
relationship with UNESCO under her leadership.
Based in
Brazil with heavy links to Lula, the UN, and Communist China, the World Social
Forum is outwardly anti-capitalist.
Bokova
hailed her mutual work with Lula on left-wing issues around the globe and in
Brazil at the World Social Forum event, as well as Lula’s 2009 winning of
UNESCO’s Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, an award frequently given to
left-wing political actors.
Lula not
only toed the global left’s talking point line but seemingly called for the end
of national allegiances and patriotism in his own acceptance speech of the
award.
“There cannot be real peace until the roots of conflict have
been destroyed,” Lula said. “So long as there is hunger, inequality,
unemployment, but also so long as there is ethnic, religious cultural and
ideological intolerance.”
Bokova
was educated at an elite Soviet academy in Moscow, training her for the life of
a devout Communist Party apparachik. From 2009-2017, she led UNESCO, the UN
organization that’s been criticized for its collaboration with Communist
regimes for decades.
At
UNESCO, she was lauded by the CCP for her work with their regime. She also
employed a team of Eastern Bloc, Communist Party “security” veterans with a
documented record of brutality.
Her work
with the CCP appears to have paid off for her though, as now, Bokova is a
high-ranking member of the CCP and PLA-led Taihe Institute, a “think tank” that
seeks to spread Chinese Communism around the globe and even operates research
centers in the United States.
Among
those groups most closely associated with Communist China’s Taihe Institute is
the Humpty Dumpty Institute, a globalist influence operation linked to the
United Nations, directly partnered with Taihe, and directed by Jeffrey
Epstein’s brother Mark. The influence operation has been linked to multiple
high-level political figures in the United States and abroad, and works closely
with Bokova at Taihe.
During
Bokova’s reign at UNESCO, both her sector and the UN as a whole collaborated
extensively with Epstein’s HDI.
In 2018, Bokova chaired the Taihi Institute’s “Civilizations
Forum,” which was based on “the establishment of a community of a shared future
for humankind,” centering around China’s Belt and Road initiative for economic
dominance.
In
attendance was the Epstein-directed Humpty Dumpty Institute’s Joseph Merante,
who provided updates on how HDI, a close Taihe partner group, was promoting the
forum’s CCP agenda.
On other occasions, Humpty Dumpty’s leadership has attended and
taken part in the Chinese Communist Party’s militaristic rituals, alongside the
Taihe Institute. Globally, they’re connected deeply to United Nations,
including Bokova’s former UNESCO, and high-ranking officials within both parties of
the US government.
Along
with the Taihe Institute, HDI is also connected to various factions of the
Israeli government, including its global intelligence apparatus.
In addition to his ties to international Communist and Taihe
member Irina Bokova, Lula has been lauded by the CCP for his embrace of
Communist China during his prior terms as Brazil’s President.
Among those singing his praises is the CCP-led, Epstein-partnered
Taihe Institute.
“Lula’s administration massively expanded economic ties with China,”
says Taihe, praising the relationship he built with the Communist state for its
pivot away from America and “reconfiguration of the world’s commercial and
diplomatic geography.”
Both
in and out of office, Lula has been openly affectionate for the CCP, even
hailing their COVID “response,” in which China massively expanded its global
influence despite being ground zero for the disease outbreak, as an example for
the rest of the world.
On the geopolitical stage, Brazil is considered a massive prize
for China and the global left. Forecasters say that in his latest term as
President, Lula can be expected to cozy the critical nation up to China and its
authoritarian regime even more.
After
Lula was declared the winner by an extremely narrow margin in an election
wrought with judicial chaos, electronic voting systems, and allegations of
Soviet-level fraud, not unlike America in 2020, China’s Communist Premier Xi
Jinping was among the first on the world stage to congratulate Lula, expressing
his desire to forge a “long-term,” and “strategic” alliance between the two
nations under left-wing rule.
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Arizona Secretary of State is back on Twitter after Musk looks into his banning
Reporter : Cullen Mccue, National File / Image : Web Screenshot
“After
careful review, we determined your account broke the Twitter Rules,” reads the
notification received by Finchem. “Your account is temporarily in read-only
mode, which means you can’t Tweet, Retweet or Like content. Most accounts
regain access within a week, but it could take longer.”
Finchem took to Facebook and
other forms of social media to announce the news. He urged supporters and
opponents of big tech censorship to tag Elon Musk and put an end to the
election interference immediately.
“Twitter
has blocked my account from speaking truth with one week left until the
election. They are trying to put their thumb on the scales of this election,”
Finchem wrote in a Facebook post. “Tag Elon Musk and tell him to unban me right
now. I am the Secretary of State nominee in a swing state running against the
criminal Soros-funded candidate.”
A number of conservative
outlets and activists took to Twitter in an effort to get Musk’s attention and
put a stop to the censorship.
In
a response to former Trump legal analyst Jenna Ellis, Musk said that he would
be “looking into” the matter.
Looking into it
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 31, 2022
A little over an hour after
Musk’s comment, Mark Finchem’s account was fully restored. “We are back! Thank you @elonmusk for
stopping the commie who suspended me from Twitter a week before the election,”
Finchem wrote in a tweet. “Twitter is much better with you at the helm.”
Finchem
went on to thank a number of people who helped to spread the word, including
Ellis, Kari Lake, and the conservative outlet Media Right News.
We are back! Thank you @elonmusk for stopping the commie who suspended me
from Twitter a week before the election. Twitter is much better with you at the
helm. Thank you @MediaRightNews1@JennaEllisEsq @KariLake @Brick_Suit & others for spreading the word! #AZSOS https://t.co/TfdJNnnuIm
— Mark
Finchem #JustFollowTheLaw VoteFinchem.com (@RealMarkFinchem) October 31, 2022
A recent CNN poll had Mark Finchem leading over Democrat challenger Adrian Fontes with 49 percent of the vote to his 45.
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The Penn State Paper speaks out in support of Oz in the last minute of the U.S. Senate race
Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/31/n13856690.htm / Image : The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced its support for Republican Senator Oz. Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Mohammad Oz leads a discussion on safer street communities in Philadelphia on 13 October 2022. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of Pennsylvania's largest newspapers, announced it supports Republican Mehmet Oz's Senate seat The campaign was undoubtedly another blow to Democrat John Fetterman, who lost a televised debate last week.
The editorial board of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette issued a statement Sunday (30 October 2022), announcing its support for Republican Senate candidate, celebrity doctor Oz, and explaining its rationale: The paper considers Oz to serve The state is "better prepared" for Feltman's lack of transparency about his health, and the paper is concerned about his lack of practical experience.
"We believe Mr. Oz is a better candidate for Pennsylvania," the editorial board wrote, noting that the health problems Feltman suffered from a stroke earlier this year were not a problem for them.
"However, his refusal to disclose his medical records, and the lack of transparency is disturbing. It shows his urge to cover up and his distrust of the people." The editorial board added, "All candidates running for important public office have their medical records should be made public, as Mr Oz did. If you want privacy, don't run for office."
The editorial board also wrote that Feltman's "life experience and level of maturity" was also of concern because he "lived on family money for most of his life" and "had little to do with actual work or face labor" experience of people's problems".
The paper also cited Feltman's failure to apologize for his detention of an unarmed black man at gunpoint, as well as his sudden policy change in favor of fracking.
At the same time, the editorial board praised Oz for his performance in his past career and said he was more moderate on some issues than he described, and the editorial board believes that he will not be a more conservative Republican or a puppet of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“We are encouraged that Mr. Oz portrays himself as a uniter who will work with Democrats to do things for Pennsylvania. Whether he can pull this off remains to be seen, but he has the potential to be an influential , thoughtful and independent senator," the editorial board wrote.
"Muhammad Oz has shown that he is more capable of leading and contributing to Pennsylvania," the editorial board added.
In 2020, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette supported former President Trump (Trump) for re-election, the first time since 1972 that the paper has endorsed a Republican in a presidential election.
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Republicans dig deep into Biden's heartland to invest campaign funds in Deep Blue districts
Reporter : Li Xin / Editor : Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/31/n13856636.htm / Image : With just eight days until midterm election day, Republicans are pouring money into some hotly contested dark blue districts. The picture shows a polling station in Brooklyn, New York, on 3 November 2020. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)
With only eight days until midterm election day, Republicans are pouring campaign funds into some hotly contested dark blue districts to win more House seats, some of which supported U.S. President Joe Biden by double-digit margins in the general election two years ago.
According to U.S. news site Axios, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is making six-figure investments in each of the three districts where Biden has a 20-point lead in 2020.
The actions, driven by some GOP super PACs, come at a time when election forecasts generally see Democrats taking a hit on Nov. 8. Those districts are even bluer than Washington state, which Biden won by 19 percentage points in 2020.
In California's 26th Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Julia Brownley is in a tight race with Republican candidate Matt Jacobs, who has also won in other blue states on the West Coast. progress.
In New York's 25th Congressional District, Democratic Rep. Joe Morelle is facing a strong challenge from former Rochester Police Chief La'Ron Singletary. In 2020, Singletree made headlines when he was forced out of office over the death of a black man in police custody; now, crime has become one of the top issues New York voters consider when they cast their ballots.
Radical Democrat Summer Lee is running in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District in Pittsburgh to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Mike Doyle. Coincidentally, his Republican opponent, also named Mike Doyle, is a local councillor.
In the 2020 presidential election, Biden won the three House districts by 58.9%, 58.6% and 59.4%, respectively.
Democrats have turned their attention to economic and crime issues in the final days leading up to the midterm elections, but that shift may be too late for the ruling party to avoid election damage from those issues.
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The Democratic election campaign is not good, using health care and social security benefits to launch an offensive
Reporter : Takasugi / Editor: Ye Ziwei / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/11/1/n13856735.htm
With less than two weeks to go before the U.S. midterm elections, the Democratic Party, already underdog in multiple opinion polls, is actively using the "Republican Party" People will cut Social Security benefits and Medicare" propaganda tactics to attack the Republican Party in an attempt to salvage the slump.
The White House and Democrats are making the two benefits of Social Security and Medicare at the center of their voter advocacy, and are sounding alarm bells that a Republican majority in the House will seek to cut millions of Americans. Dependent relief programs with a view to reducing spending.
While some Republican lawmakers do not shy away from discussing the issue of "spending too much and wanting to reform these welfare programs," many in the Republican Party see the Democrats' attack as a campaign tactic aimed at drawing public attention. Move away from persistent inflation and broader concerns about the economy.
In recent days, Democrats have focused their attention on a particularly bleak scenario: The Republican-led House of Representatives will hold the debt ceiling "hostage," and if a Biden administration does not agree to cuts to entitlement spending, a government default and debt crisis could occur .
"[They will] put us in default unless we succumb to their demands to cut Social Security and Medicare," Biden told supporters in Syracuse, N.Y., on Thursday. They're so determined to cut Social Security and Medicare that they're willing to screw up the economy for it. Nothing and nothing would cause more disruption or damage to the U.S. economy than this happening, if it really did happens."
Strategists and Democratic officials see linking Republicans to cuts to Medicare and Social Security as an effective propaganda offensive. Because these Medicare and Social Security programs are benefiting many older voters. Even in midterm or non-annual elections, they can be a reliable "vote box." These Medicare and Social Security benefits also enjoy overwhelming popularity with the public, making any plans to change them face enormous political risk.
A June poll by left-wing Data for Progress found that an overwhelming majority of Americans want to strengthen Social Security benefits, including 73 percent of independents and 73 percent of Republicans.
So any suggestion by Republicans about wanting to reform Social Security or the Medicare system is turned into an ad attacking Republicans. And the White House is also happy to amplify the prospect of a claim that the Republicans will cut entitlement programs.
Biden vowed in a speech to the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday (Oct. 25) that he will firmly reject any efforts to cut benefits in the next Congress. In addition, in a speech in Syracuse last Thursday, he reemphasized earlier comments by some Republicans about the programs. On Friday (October 28), Biden tweeted that Republicans "are so determined to cut these programs that they are even willing to bring down the U.S. economy for it."
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ran an ad in Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District, specifically highlighting Rep. Don Bacon's proposal to raise the Social Security eligibility age; One congressional district stepped up its promotion of Republican candidate Karoline Leavitt's stance on the privatization of Social Security; Michigan's Eighth Congressional District called attention to Republican Paul Junge's Reforms to social security are needed, including comments on measures such as raising the eligibility age.
Republicans have long advocated reducing government spending. Some in the party argue that welfare programs such as Social Security and Medicare have grown too large and should be restructured or privatized to ensure they remain solvent.
One of the focal points for Democrats to draw attention to this election cycle is a proposal released in February by Senate Republican campaign chief Rick Scott, a Florida Republican. The 11-point plan, called "Save America," includes a recommendation to end government benefit programs every five years. That means lawmakers need to re-vote every five years on whether to change and extend Medicare and Social Security benefits.
Biden on Thursday also highlighted comments made by Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, earlier this year. At the time, Johnson suggested that funding for Social Security and Medicare should be approved annually through a budgeting process.
But with House and Senate majorities within reach, Republican officials have been cautious about Scott and others' proposals, refraining from making any promises to revise the entitlement program.
Previously, a number of lawmakers, including candidates for the House Budget Committee and House Ways and Means Committee chairman, have said that welfare reforms may be used to rein in spending.
But House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said last week that he would not "predetermine" any potential plans around cutting subsidies or tying them to the debt ceiling. A day later, he tried to quell concerns, saying he meant he wouldn't raise the debt ceiling without discussing spending cuts.
Democrats pointed to a broad vow to "save and strengthen Social Security and Medicare" in Republicans' midterm election slogan and policy platform, dubbed "The Commitment to America."
In the final sprint stage of the mid-term elections, because of the unsatisfactory performance of the Biden administration in a series of aspects such as border security, immigration policy, inflation, and the national economy, the Democrats, who are about to lose their dominance in the Senate and House of Representatives, are playing In addition to the abortion card, it is also "threatening" voters with the argument that "Republicans will cut benefits" in an attempt to salvage their own decline, which has been proven by a series of polls.
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Ahead of midterm elections, polls reveal three issues Americans care most about
Reporter : Li Xin / Editor : Lin Yan / https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/22/10/31/n13856555.htm / Image : The economy, abortion and crime will be the main factors influencing voter turnout, a new poll shows. People shop at a grocery store in Rosemead, California, on 21 April 2022. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
A new poll shows that the main considerations when Americans are voting in the forthcoming mid-term elections are about the economy, abortion and crime issues.
A Gallup poll released on Monday (31 October 2022) found that American voters are currently most concerned about the economy, abortion, crime, gun policy, immigration, relations with Russia, and climate change. The primary factor influencing the majority of voters to vote.
Among voters surveyed, 49% said the economy was "extremely important" to their vote, while 42% and 40% said abortion and crime were "extremely important," respectively.
Gun policy and immigration were also important factors, with 38% and 37% of voters saying it was "extremely important," respectively.
The issue of relations with Russia was again, 31% said it was "extremely important" to their vote; climate change came last of the seven issues above, with only 26% saying it was extremely important.
The share of voters citing abortion as "extremely important" fell by 1 percentage point compared with the June Gallup poll, while the share of voters citing the economy as a major concern also fell from 54% in June.
The focus on gun policy has fallen sharply since June. After the May 24 shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 55 percent said gun policy was extremely important.
The poll also found that the economy is more important in 2022 than in most previous midterm election years.
Voter attention to abortion increased significantly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling in late June, with 42% saying it was extremely important, up from 27% in 2006 and 17% in 2002.
Looking at the partisanship of respondents, Republicans were more likely to rank the economy as their primary concern at 64 percent; immigration and crime tied for second place at 55 percent each.
Democrats put more emphasis on abortion and climate change, with 51 percent saying the former is extremely important and 49 percent saying the latter.
The poll, which was conducted between 3 and 23 October 2022, surveyed 1,009 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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If the US Republicans take the House of Representatives, what will they do to the CCP?
Reporter : Song Tang / Getting tough on the CCP is one of the few bipartisan consensus in Washington, but the two parties have different concerns and approaches. Specifically, the Republican Party has been tougher on the CCP on issues such as countering communist ideology, ensuring supply chain security, investigating the origin of the COVID-19 virus, arms sales to Taiwan, and strengthening the military presence in the Indo-Pacific. House Minority Leader and Republican Congressman McCarthy speaks during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on 28 May 2020. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
美共和党若掌众议院 将对中共有何动作
The Epoch Times reporter Song Tang comprehensive report) The US mid-term elections will be held on November 8. Although the election period mainly focuses on domestic issues such as the economy, abortion, and guns, the mid-term elections The results, however, have major ramifications at home in the United States and around the world.
Some analysts predict that if Republicans control the House of Representatives, the following things will happen in the United States: the committee on January 6 will be dissolved; Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, will be investigated; Biden may face impeachment procedures; there will be an investigation into the FBI and DOJ, etc.
Corresponding changes have also taken place in international affairs, but the Republican-led Congress will be tougher on the issue of the CCP.
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Bipartisan anti-communist consensus reached, Republicans tougher
Getting tough on the CCP is one of the few bipartisan consensus in Washington, but the two parties have different concerns and approaches. Specifically, the Republican Party has been tougher on the CCP on issues such as countering communist ideology, ensuring supply chain security, investigating the origin of SARS-CoV-2, arms sales to Taiwan, and strengthening the military presence in the Indo-Pacific.
The outcome of the midterm elections could also have major implications for the Asia-Pacific region. A survey by the University of Sydney's Centre for American Studies (USSC) has found that three-quarters of Japanese and Australians surveyed believe the US midterm elections are important to their own countries and could even lose in the Senate if Democrats lose the House of Representatives. , their administrations might be surprised to learn that the U.S. Congress would gain a new momentum in the Indo-Pacific region when it comes to competing with China, and a Biden administration should seize these opportunities to fill the gaps in its Republican Indo-Pacific strategy.
A recent Foreign Policy article said that if Republican congressman Mike Rogers takes over the House Armed Services Committee, he can be expected to push the Department of Defense to break down bureaucratic barriers to cooperation with allies, such as Australia-UK - U.S. agreement on the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and cooperation in advanced military capabilities (known as AUKUS). Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee are also likely to talk about a defense budget of more than $1 trillion, which likely means more military capabilities in the Indo-Pacific.
The latest report from FiveThirtyEight, a polling website in the United States, shows that there is about a 70% chance that the Republicans will return to the House of Representatives.
Ashton of the political risk firm Eurasia Group told VOA that if the Republicans succeed in retaking the House of Representatives, they will focus more on their support for Taiwan, take an iron fist to ensure that American technology does not flow into China, and cut off the United States' access to the Chinese government. Investments of Chinese companies linked.
"Overall, the House Republicans' proposals are more aggressive than the Democrats' proposals right now," she said. "I think once the Republicans take control of Congress, these proposals will be pushed further and take a tougher stance on White House pressure."
The Foreign Policy article said Rep. Adrian Smith, the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, hails from the farming state of Nebraska and will surely push the administration to overcome its trade barriers. Laziness, strike new deals and open markets in Asia.
Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has extensive national security experience as the former head of the Justice Department's counterterrorism task force and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. , he has been a clear advocate of building a stronger alliance to counter the CCP’s coercion.
A September survey by the Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of U.S. respondents expressed "no favorable impression" of China, a new high from 79 percent in 2020.
With the U.S. bipartisan unanimously tough on the CCP, the U.S. tech industry has mostly given up hope of a turnaround in U.S.-China relations under the circumstances, but is now seeking government support that could help ease the price they pay for decoupling .
“I think one of the things that the bipartisan is somewhat consistent with is taking a stricter stance on China on advanced technology,” said Brent Friedberg, investment director at Brandes Investment Partners. Fredberg, told Nikkei Asia, "Taking a tough stance on China resonated well with the public."
“Right now, frankly, almost all of our tech clients have a strategy of trying to find a A positive approach to decoupling from China.”
For Chinese tech companies, winning or losing the election makes little difference.
"I didn't pay too much attention to the midterm elections in the US because the results were hardly important to us," a Chinese AI company executive told Nikkei Asia. "There will be more, tougher China policies no matter what," the executive said.
In Pennsylvania, Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz made "get tough on China" one of his key campaign slogans and wrote it on his campaign website.
Missouri's Republican Senate candidate and the state's attorney general, Eric Schmitt, used campaign ads to disclose his opponent's investment ties with China. Angie Craig, a Democrat from Minnesota's 2nd District, expects to take on her challenger with a tough stance on the Chinese Communist Party. In Arizona, Republican challenger Blake Masters sees Chinese students in the U.S. as a threat to U.S. national security.
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If Republicans flip the House of Representatives, they will take action against the CCP in all aspects
Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News recently that if Republicans win control in the Nov. 8 congressional elections, House Republicans will create a committee to investigate how COVID-19 has spread from China, investigate China’s theft of intellectual property from U.S. companies and China’s efforts to dominate key industries, focusing on military and economic threats posed by Beijing, and more.
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin), a member of the House Intelligence and Armed Services Committee, warned at the Heritage Foundation last week that U.S. leaders need to take steps to prevent Communist China from launching an attack campaign against Taiwan in the next few years. Mr Gallagher told the audience that the matter must be on Washington's agenda after the midterm elections.
Congressman Gallagher warned that our country is entering "one of the most dangerous windows" and that what can and should be done must be addressed if we have any real desire to thwart Beijing's desire to take Taiwan.
On 6 October 2022, the "China Watcher" column of "Politico" interviewed several top Republican members of the House committee and asked what measures the Republican Party would take against the CCP if the House of Representatives was overturned.
Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, responded that he would conduct a 90-day review of the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which approves export licenses, but found some Chinese military agency obtained the license directly.
McCall said there would also be a joint investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop problem involving China. The arms sales to Taiwan that he signed as chairman of my House Foreign Affairs Committee three years ago have not yet been delivered to Taiwan.
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the Biden administration and the Democratic majority are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to promote wind, solar and electric vehicles, but these supply chains ae controlled to a large extent by China (the CCP), he is very concerned about this dangerous dependence on the CCP.
"These groups are asking Biden to be soft on China, and we need to investigate these radical environmental groups to better understand why they're pushing this dependency agenda that makes us dangerous," Rogers said.
"We've been doing some investigation into how China is stealing our data and collecting data on a lot of Americans," Rogers said. TikTok will be the most important one on the (survey) list.
John Katko, the top Republican on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the Democratic majority did not emphasize the long-term threat posed by China at all. The Confucius Institute is still operating in the United States, and we have not taken a hard line on the Beijing Winter Olympics. Knowing the CCP’s state-sponsored cyberattack against the United States, if there is a counterattack, it will not be enough.
"We're going to focus on supply chain security, because supply chain security is homeland security," Catco said. The Chip Act is a very important first step, but it is far from enough. We need a more detailed and rigorous analysis of nearshoring and resourcing, and bringing production back from China to the Western Hemisphere.
There's a lot we can do with Customs and Border Protection on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, Carter said. There are a few things we can do about the Chinese Communist Party's shipment of fentanyl to the United States through Mexico and the destruction it is doing to young Americans.
Frank Lucas, the top Republican on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, said don't assume the Chinese aren't active in "outer space."
The U.S.-China battle for space is a race of science and engineering, of skill and capability, but also of ideology. Do we want the world to be dominated by an open society and an open scientific community? Or do we want a space program run by the People's Liberation Army, essentially led by the senior leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, to dominate this outer space? This will be a tragedy for generations, if not forever.
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Schotz's visit to China attracts much attention, Xie Zhiwei shares public opinion in Germany
Image : German Chancellor Schotz is expected to visit China on 4 November 2022, and how he will show his attitude to the Chinese leadership has attracted much attention. (AFP)
German Chancellor Schotz is expected to visit China on November 4th, and how he will show his attitude to the Chinese leadership will attract much attention; my representative in Germany, Xie Zhiwei, made an analysis on the matter and shared German public opinion.
Xie Zhiwei said that Schotz's visit to China has attracted much attention. "There are many critics here, including the two friendly parties in the coalition government; of course, there are also supporters, especially the industry." After taking office as Prime Minister, the first country he visited was Japan (April 28), not China, "a move that was different from his two previous terms". After that, Schotz received Indian President Modi's visit to Berlin on 2 May.
Xie Zhiwei shared the views of German domestic public opinion. Lars Klingbeil, one of the co-chairmen of the Social Democratic Party, pointed out on 30 October 2022, "In the issue of the European security structure, it is best for China to interfere less, and he has no part here." These remarks undoubtedly refer to Schotz's forcible investment in the “Tollerort” terminal, one of the four container terminals in Hamburg, through the Chinese state-owned “COSCO SHIPPING Holdings”, “although in the end, the shareholding fell from 35% to 24.9%.”
In addition, German President Frank Steinmeier, also a member of the Social Democratic Party, pointed out in a recent interview that the German economy should not rely too much on China's warning. Xie Zhiwei believes that these messages reveal that Germany is in the throes of turning its "China policy" into a "strategic toward China." The Russia-Ukraine war has forced Germany to readjust its attitude toward Russia, and it will be vigilant against repeating the same mistakes when dealing with China." However, because it is so deep, it is possible to try to pull out, but it is difficult to get out, so it is worth watching.”
Xie Zhiwei said that at this time, Taiwan has received "unprecedented" attention, and there are three major weapons -- freedom and democracy, the semiconductor industry, and a key geographical location in the strategic deployment of the Indo-Pacific -- as a sacred mountain for protecting the country. , Chinese people should not belittle themselves or be deceived, "Taiwan is very important."
He also emphasized that, based on the current situation, the results of the November 26 election will of course also affect the judgment of the world, especially the free world, on the future direction of Taiwan.
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