Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Is China about to ‘deal a devastating blow’ to America?
This might sound like a plot for a thriller – and I am the author of “The Year of the Dragon” – but the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University’s “Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats,” that Chinese-government-linked hackers have “burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure” and are waiting for “just the right moment to deal a devastating blow” to America.
Could such a moment come if China attacks Taiwan? Just imagine the mayhem in the U.S. if the national power grid was taken down for days.
The U.S., along with Taiwan, run war games scenarios on worries like these annually. But why is the director of the FBI worrying about them publicly?
Also, why in the same political moment did U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken publish talking points saying there are now “290,000 Chinese students in the United States” but just 900 American students in China?
In the release, Blinken did not mention the massive rise in Chinese nationals entering through the porous southern border of the U.S. – that fact just isn’t something the Biden administration finds politically convenient enough to talk about.
But Blinken did say the Biden administration is “very clear-eyed about the challenges posed by the PRC [People’s Republic of China] and about our competing visions for the future,” before talking about how China is supplying Russia with military parts that are “powering Russia’s brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.”
He also mentioned Chinese involvement in selling chemicals to Mexican cartels that are sending massive amounts of the fentanyl into the U.S. – chemicals that are killing more Americans every year than died in the entire Vietnam War – though he didn’t take a stance tough enough to make the Chinese flinch on this critical topic.
So then, why are Biden administration officials suddenly sounding so tough on China? Biden recently signed legislation to force the sale of Chinese-owned TikTok and legislation to fund Taiwan’s defense. In response, Chinese officials are now threatening to take “resolute and forceful steps” against the U.S. and Taiwan.
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