Bloomberg Pence Calls on Biden to Get Tougher on China, Virus Origins By Mark Niquette 14 July 2021 Former vice president speaks in Heritage Foundation lecture Biden administration ‘rolling over’ for China, Pence says Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Photographer: Micah Green/Bloomberg Former Vice President Mike Pence is calling on President Joe Biden to toughen his stance on China, including delisting Chinese companies that don’t meet U.S. accounting standards, withholding research funds and demanding that China reveal the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. Pence said the Chinese regime is a threat to the U.S. that aspires to be the dominant global power, and he slammed the Biden administration for rejoining the Paris Climate Accord and other moves that he said benefit China. “Weakness arouses evil. China senses weakness in the new administration,” Pence, a potential 2024 Republican presidential candidate, said in the speech billed as his third major Indo-Pacific policy speech since taking office in 2017. The appearance also marks his first comments about the origins of Covid-19 since the end of his term, during which he led the White House Coronavirus Task Force. The former vice president said the U.S. must demand that China “come clean” about the origins of the coronavirus, with some scientists refusing to rule out the possibility of an accidental leak from a Wuhan research facility. The Biden administration also has called for China to share evidence with outside researchers. Pence also called for an end all public and private funding of scientific research in China. The speech comes as Biden’s administration begins to reveal a hard-edge policy on China. The administration plans to warn U.S. companies this week of the increasing risks of operating in Hong Kong. And Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her staff have no plans to resurrect the regular U.S.-China economic dialogue that governed ties between the two nations during the Bush and Obama administrations. The latest developments also occurred as White House officials discuss proposals for a digital trade agreement covering Indo-Pacific economies, including rules on the use of data, trade facilitation and electronic customs arrangements, according to people familiar with the plans. U.S.-China ties were already strained over the pandemic and tariffs imposed by the Trump administration when Pence left office in January. Relations between the world’s two biggest economies have only become more tense since then. In addition to calling for the delisting of some 240 Chinese companies, Pence called for accelerating the decoupling of the U.S. and Chinese economies in key industries. He said the U.S. should ban Chinese investment in critical U.S. infrastructure projects, end federal subsidies for American farmland held by Chinese entities and increase the number of Chinese companies prohibited from American investment “by at least an order of magnitude.” Pence said Biden also should immediately prohibit the issuance of H1-B visas to Chinese nationals employed by U.S. technology companies “to protect American intellectual property and national security” and increase the readiness of the U.S. Navy to protect shipping in the Indo-Pacific region. The former vice president also said Biden must demand that the 2022 Winter Olympics be moved from Beijing unless China comes clean on the origins of Covid-19 and ends its repression of ethnic Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Pence joined the Heritage Foundation as a distinguished visiting fellow and launched the advocacy group Advancing American Freedom after he left office. The former vice president has also given speeches in early presidential primary states looking ahead to a potential 2024 bid and spoke last month on the future of the Republican Party at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
Lol, Pence is thinking of running against his former boss in 2024? He really is a moron. It's a PAC play to get free money. He's too late to be relevant.
Fake Chinese 'embassy' in is home to right-wing media and nonprofits manufacturing bogus conspiracy theories Pardoned Trump adviser Steve Bannon and fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui — who recently made news for bankrolling the Gettr social media app — are operating a fake "embassy" in New York City, using it to house the offices of various right-wing media organizations and nonprofits, according to the Daily Beast. The six-story fortress shrouded in bulletproof-glass on East 64th Street is known as a consulate for the "New Federal State of China," or "The Himalaya Embassy." Bannon and Guo lease the building from Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian, and it was designed by world-famous Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly. Bannon reportedly maintains an office on the third floor. "The installation has bewildered neighbors who spoke with The Daily Beast with the flashy characters and occasional motorcades it attracts," researcher William Bredderman wrote in a story published Thursday. "Meanwhile, public records, court documents, and in-person observations reveal that Bannon and Guo have converted the building's residential floors, against code and zoning, into the offices for their network of right-wing media and nonprofits—which have recently gained attention for publishing bogus COVID-19 studies and promoting conspiracy theories about Hunter Biden." Security at the building recently denied access to both a Daily Beast reporter as well as an inspector from the New York City Department of Buildings.
It sounds like you do since you brought it up. Are you Biden's age and do you have problems putting on your underwear like he does? Biden can't get tough. Trump could because he has balls. Something Biden lost a long time ago. LOL #thosewithoutballsvotedforBiden