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US Should Send Message to CCP
By Selling More Weapons to Taiwan: McConnell

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on May 24 that the United States should send a message to the Chinese Communist Party by selling more weapons to Taiwan and helping the Ukrainians win their war with Russia.

By helping the Ukrainians defeat Russia, he said, the United States could demonstrate to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping that asymmetrical warfare was possible, and that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would end in grave harm to the Chinese people.

Likewise, he said, by selling more and better weapons to Taiwan, the United States could better ensure that it could defend itself from CCP aggression.
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To that end, China’s Xi has vowed to unite Taiwan with the mainland and has not ruled out the use of force to do so. Indeed, U.S. intelligence leaders believe that the CCP will launch an invasion of Taiwan by 2030 if it fails to otherwise coerce it into unification.

Others, however, have criticized the administration for having no real military strategy in place to contend with China in the event it actually does invade.

 Well, some people say China would have to invade Taiwan before 2049 because that's the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the PRC.

Russia Will Strengthen Economic Ties With China,
Cooperate With Beijing on Technology

“Now that the West has taken the position of a ‘dictator,’ our economic ties with China will grow even faster,” Lavrov said, according to a transcript published by Russia’s Foreign Ministry on May 23.

According to Russia’s state-run media RT, Lavrov made the remarks while speaking to students at a high school in Moscow.
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“This is an opportunity for us to realize our potential in the field of high technology, including nuclear energy, but also in a number of other areas,” Lavrov added.
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“If they [the West] want to offer something in terms of resuming relations, then we will seriously consider whether we will need it or not,” he said. “We must stop being dependent in any way on the supply of anything from the West.”
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The Russian space agency Roscosmos signed a memorandum of understanding with China’s National Space Administration in March 2021, agreeing to work together on an international lunar research station. Roscosmos’s chief, Dmitry Rogozin, told Russian state-run media Tass in April that he planned to talk to Chinese partners about cooperation on the moon before the end of May.
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The moon could potentially turn out to be an important source of rare-earth metals, which are scarce on Earth but are needed to manufacture everyday electronics such as computers and lithium batteries, in addition to defense products used by the U.S. military, such as night-vision goggles and armored vehicles.

 Good job, Brandon!

GOP Lawmaker Seeks to Hold DOJ
Accountable for Its Efforts Countering Chinese Espionage

In the aftermath of the Biden administration’s cancelation of the Trump-era anti-espionage program, the China Initiative, one lawmaker is demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) be held accountable for countering and reporting on threats from the Chinese regime.

Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) introduced the Countering Chinese Espionage Reporting Act (H.R. 7325) on March 31. The bill would “direct the Attorney General to prepare a report on the Department of Justice activities related to countering Chinese national security threats, and for other purposes.”
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By his estimation, a DOJ annual report to describe activities and operations related to countering the Chinese regime’s national security threats and espionage in the United States would become “quite valuable at this juncture,” considering how much the regime has infiltrated and taken advantage of American resources for years.
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These include trade secret theft, economic espionage, threats to critical infrastructure and supply chains, and more.

Gaffney said, “the threats are not only coming from a Chinese regime across the Pacific but can also be placed at the hands of agents of influence or ‘useful idiots’ in our own country that are aiding and abetting them.”

Don't ever think even for a brief moment that he's talking about people like Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and the likes.