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‘After We Get Rich With Our Hard Work, the CCP Is There to Harvest:’ Former Chinese Millionaire

Feng Zhenguo, former owner of a profitable wood furniture factory in China’s central Heibei province, experienced extortion from the environmental authorities and police, and was forced to sell his factory to Chinese police at a very low price.

“The communist regime’s so-called reform and opening up is just to loosen the shackles around Chinese people’s necks when both its rule and economy are on the verge of collapse,” Feng said.

“It allows you experience a little bit of freedom and lets you work hard until you make some money. Then, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) comes for your money.”

Feng’s solid wood furniture factory is in Qinhuangdao, a port city 190 miles east of Beijing. He invested over 3 million yuan (over $430,000) and had about 40 employees in his factory, customizing high-end solid wood furniture. But he was forced to sell his factory to the police for only 400,000 yuan ($57,000).
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However, the communist regime turned his life’s dream into a nightmare, asking for money from him time and again citing various excuses and guises, Feng told the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on Sept. 14.
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But in reality, the EIA [environmental impact assessment] actually facilitates constant extortion by the environment bureau that oversees the assessment process, according to Feng.

Judge Names Special Master to Review FBI Raid Documents, Rejects DOJ Criminal Probe Request

Florida-based U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday appointed a senior Brooklyn federal judge to serve as special master to independently review documents the FBI seized from former President Donald Trump‘s Florida estate.

U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie will serve as an independent arbiter in the case, tasked with deciding whether any of the seized documents are privileged and should be off limits to federal investigators.

Cannon, who was nominated by Trump in 2020, also rejected the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bid to revive its criminal investigation into classified documents seized during the unprecedented raid at Mar-a-Lago last month. The matter is expected to move quickly to an appeals court, and potentially the U.S. Supreme Court.

The DOJ said in a court filing on Monday that Dearie has “substantial judicial experience” in cases involving national security and privilege concerns to qualify him for the special master role, but that it opposed private attorney Paul Huck, the other candidate proposed by Trump’s lawyers.

Lawyers for Trump opposed Barbara S. Jones and Thomas B. Griffith, two retired federal judges whom the DOJ proposed to be the special master.

Cause of Car Crash That Killed Rep. Jackie Walorski Revealed

The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office in Indiana revealed the cause of the car crash that killed Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and three other people last month.

Zachery Potts, the driver of the Toyota RAV4 SUV, was found to be at fault, according to the sheriff’s office in a statement over the past weekend. The vehicle was driving left of the center median at excessive speeds when it hit a Buick.

The statement notes that Potts was trying to pass another vehicle on a two-lane roadway when the collision occurred.

A witness to the accident was “traveling northbound behind both the Toyota RAV4 and the unidentified truck,” according to the sheriff’s office.
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The office also found that there was no evidence of cellphone usage or texting during the time of the accident by either Potts or the other driver, Edith Schmucker. The office also found no evidence of mechanical failure.

Sen. Cruz Urges DeSantis to Send Illegal Immigrants to 3 New Democrat-Run Areas

On Twitter, the Republican senator urged DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot to send illegal aliens to Nantucket, Massachusetts; Palo Alto, California; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Like Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket is often used as a vacation spot for the wealthy and powerful. Rehoboth Beach is where President Joe Biden has a vacation house, and Palo Alto, a city located in Silicon Valley, is home to several large tech companies.
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“You know, the Democrats did not think it was a humanitarian crisis when we pulled over 50 bodies in body bags out of a truck in Texas of illegal immigrants who died because the smugglers let them die of heat exposure,” Cruz said. “And yet, suddenly 50 illegal immigrants show up in lily-white Martha’s Vineyard, where rich liberals and billionaires sip Chardonnay, and it is, it is World War II.”

Biden Warns Russia Against Using Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

President Joe Biden warned Russia’s leadership that they shouldn’t use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, saying that Moscow would face unspecified consequences.

“Don’t. Don’t. Don’t,” Biden told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an excerpt of a rare one-on-one interview that was to be broadcast on Sept. 18.
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When asked about what the United States might do in response, the president declined to elaborate.
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Putin has said Moscow would respond more forcefully if its troops were put under further pressure, raising concerns among some Western officials that he could at some point use unconventional means like small nuclear or chemical weapons. However, Putin and other top Kremlin officials have repeatedly said Russia isn’t considering using nuclear weapons.
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In an intelligence update on Twitter, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said that Russia had launched several thousand long-range missiles against Ukraine since the start of the invasion. Those strikes, the ministry has said, have struck targets including an electricity grid and a dam.

Pelosi Visits Armenia, Condemns ‘Illegal and Deadly Attacks’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and a delegation of lawmakers visited Armenia in the midst of fresh clashes with neighboring Azerbaijan that have killed more than 200 troops, according to U.S. officials.

While speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, Pelosi condemned the “illegal and deadly attacks by Azerbaijan on Armenian territory” that triggered border fighting.
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While the two countries agreed to a ceasefire last week, the fighting “was initiated by the Azeris, and there has to be recognition of that,” according to Pelosi.
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She’s the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Armenia in several decades and the first to do so since the country became independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Azerbaijan also was a Soviet republic before the bloc’s dissolution.
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She was joined by Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), and Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), according to embassy officials.

Other than visiting with Pashinyan, Pelosi also will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Armenian Genocide Memorial, and she’ll deliver a speech at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, the embassy stated.

‘Naivety Toward China Is Over’: G7 Nations to Take Tougher Stance on China Trade

German Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck told reporters after the meeting that the G7 have agreed to take a tougher and more coordinated stance against Beijing on trade, as that “naivety toward China is over.”

He said that discussions about China were “part of an effort to ensure high international trade standards” in international trade and to prevent Beijing from using its “economic might” to steamroll other nations.
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Harbeck also said that Germany will persuade the EU to formulate “a more robust trade policy toward China and respond as Europeans to the coercive measures that China takes to protect its economy.” He believed “the other partner countries will do exactly the same.”

The G7 members include the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Italy, and Japan. Germany currently holds the presidency, which rotates among G7 members.
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Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel was often accused of taking a “friendly trade policy” toward China and not being tough enough on China’s human rights abuses when she was in power. German statistics show that by the end of 2021, China had been Germany’s largest trading partner for six consecutive years.

Su added that Germany has depended on Russia for energy and depended on China for trade. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the West placed sanctions on Russia while Russia has cut energy supply to Western Europe in retaliation. Germany has learned the lesson [not to trust the regime] the hard way, and has clearly adjusted its strategic direction, Su said.

Habeck also urged that Europe should not support the Chinese regime’s “One Belt, One Road” economic initiatives, which would allow Beijing to acquire more of Europe’s strategic infrastructure and exert influence on European trade policy. He also advocated for stricter scrutiny of investments by China-based companies in Europe, and opposed Chinese state-owned company COSCO Shipping’s acquisition of Hamburg’s container terminal “Blessed Land.”

 If Trump had not tried to convince China of accepting a formal trade deal, one broken by the CCP not long after, nobody would have exposed the CCP for economically invading or subjugating other nations, including not just a couple of European nations here.