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President Barack Obama
                                                                                                                           addresses the nation from the
FEBRUARY 2021 | VOL. 32, NO. 2 | CIRC. 246,497                                                                                Oval Office in August 2010.

                                                                             FEATURES                              DEPARTMENTS
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                                                                             FROM THE EDITOR 1                     WORLDWATCH 26
      Wake Up to the Threat From China 5                                     Barack Obama in
                                                                                                                   SOCIETYWATCH 29
                                                                             Bible Prophecy
      Australia: A Warning to the World 10                                   All Roads Lead to                     PRINCIPLES OF LIVING 33
                                                                             Barack Obama 2                        No Substitute for Victory
      China’s Most Dangerous Maneuver
      Ever Against America 12                                                How to Find God’s Work 24             DISCUSSION BOARD 34

                                                                                                                   COMMENTARY 35
      Chinese Cartels Have Infiltrated Mexico 16
                                                                                                                   Where Will All the Hate End?
      INFOGRAPHIC The Tangled Web of E-Voting 18                                                                   THE KEY OF DAVID TELEVISION LOG 36

      The Biggest Threat to American Democracy 20
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FROM THE EDITOR
GERALD FLURRY

Barack Obama in
Bible Prophecy
The mastermind behind the vast, elaborate network of lies and
lawlessness aimed at destroying America has been exposed.

O
         n Jan. 20, 2017, on his last day in the Oval Office,         unrestrained assault on America’s “democratic institu-
         Barack Obama left a handwritten message for the              tions and traditions,” including the Constitution and the
         incoming president. In it Mr. Obama told Donald              rule of law. Hundreds, even thousands, of people and institu-
 Trump that America’s presidents are “guardians of those              tions were involved in this coup, directly or indirectly. Virtually
 democratic institutions and traditions—like rule of law, sepa-       all of America’s top media organizations and personalities were
 ration of powers, equal protection and civil liberties—that our      complicit, as well as the powerful tech companies and most of
 forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull       the nation’s top politicians.
 of daily politics, it’s up to us to leave those instruments of our      But behind this vast network of lies, corruption and
 democracy at least as strong as we found them.”                      lawlessness, there stood one man: Barack Obama.
   Mr. Obama’s note seems so noble and heartfelt. But it is              There is compelling evidence that Mr. Obama was not only
 one of the most diabolical and hypocritical messages ever            aware of the plot to pervert this election, but was intimately
 written by a United States president. Barack Obama spent his         connected with those pulling the strings. One thing is certain:
 tenure as president doing exactly what he warned Mr. Trump           This epic scandal was the result of Barack Obama’s leadership
 not to do. For eight years, he assaulted America’s “democratic       of the Democratic Party and the radical left.
 institutions and traditions” in pursuit of his supreme goal to          Many have referred to this as a rolling coup, and they are
“fundamentally transform America.”                                    right. This coup was initiated by Barack Obama before he left
   Why talk about this now, four years after Mr. Obama left           office in January 2017. Even as he was writing that “beautiful”
 office? Because this man continues to pursue his ambition to         message instructing Donald Trump to guard democracy and
 fundamentally transform America.                                     the rule of the law, this man was devising plans to over-
   Barack Obama was at the epicenter of the election cri-             throw Mr. Trump and return the radical left to the
 sis and the radical left’s effort to prevent Donald Trump            White House!
 from being reelected!                                                   I want to show how the 2020 election crisis exposes
   The United States entered its greatest political crisis ever on    Mr. Obama and his closest allies. Even more importantly, this
 Nov. 3, 2020, Election Day. To make Joe Biden president, the         crisis reveals the unseen but extremely potent force behind
 radical left flagrantly manipulated the nation’s voting system.      Mr. Obama and the radical Left. This crisis puts the spotlight
 Then for weeks, the mainstream media, at least half the public,      on a crucial biblical prophecy, one I have been explaining since
 most of the nation’s politicians (Democrats and Republicans),        2012 and that you must understand!
 and much of the rest of the world believed Mr. Biden had been
 legitimately elected president.                                      The Architect of Lawlessness
   But it was a giant lie. Mountains of evidence proved that          Since Election Day, the corruption and lawlessness in Ameri-
 this election was manipulated. At court hearings in multiple         ca’s politics and election system have been dramatically uncov-
 states, hundreds of witnesses gave firsthand accounts of all         ered. This has exposed a massive lurch toward lawlessness in
 sorts of nefarious behavior. Thousands of witnesses signed           this nation. This has a cause we must understand.
 affidavits alleging fraud. Prominent scientists and data ana-          The most lawless being in the universe is a spirit being, Satan
 lysts investigated the numbers and testified of the statistical      the devil. 2 Corinthians 4:4 calls him “the god of this world.”
 impossibility of some vote counts. Electronic voting machines        This means people in this world worship him, even if unwit-
 and software were audited and revealed dishonest activity.           tingly. This evil spirit being has frightening power—power we
 There was even video footage exposing obvious illicit behavior.      can hardly imagine! This might sound like an extreme state-
   America’s entire electoral system is now in shambles. The          ment, but in these extreme and confusing times, doesn’t it at
 nation will never have another secure, uncontested elec-             least warrant consideration? There is a lot at stake for America,
 tion. And it’s all because the radical left engaged in an            and for you personally!
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One remarkable chapter that helps us understand the extent               Satan was cast down to Earth. In my free booklet America
of the devil’s influence over man is Revelation 12. This passage           Under Attack, I explain why we can know that this critical event
prophesies of a war in heaven where great angelic beings fought            occurred on Jan. 16, 1986. It all revolves around events in God’s
against the devil and his demons, of which there are millions.             Church. Verse 13 shows that when the devil was cast down, he
Here is the outcome of that spiritual war: “[T]he dragon fought            attacked the Church of God!
and his angels [fallen angels—demons], And prevailed not; nei-                Perhaps you, like most of our readers, have no history with
ther was their place found any more in heaven. And the great               that Church. But this history is still extremely relevant to
dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and               you. The Bible describes the Church as spiritual “Israel” (e.g.
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into               Galatians 6:16; Ephesians 2:12). When Satan was cast down, he
the earth, and his angels were cast out with him” (verses 7-9).            immediately attacked spiritual Israel. That was his first target.
  Notice: Verse 9 says Satan deceives the whole world—every-               But he didn’t stop there. After that, he directed his hatred
body! His deception affects this world’s education, its religion, its      against physical Israel. Who is that? Specifically, it is three of
politics, its science—everything! So says your Bible. Ephesians            the modern nations that descended from the biblical nation of
2:2 calls Satan “the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that       Israel—chiefly the United States, Britain and the Jewish state.
now worketh in the children of disobedience.” He is stirring up            (Proof of these nations’ identity can be found in Herbert W.
people’s emotions, moods and attitudes. That is amazing, but it is         Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.)
biblical and you can prove it to yourself, and you certainly should.          This is a driving goal of the devil and his demons: They seek
  Revelation 12:9 is an end-time prophecy. It tells us that                to bring Israel down, whether spiritual or physical Israel. What
                                                                           happened in that Church shows a pattern for what Satan
                                                                           is doing to America and Britain. That is why that Church
                                                                           history is so relevant and important for you to grasp. (You can
                                                   President Obama
                                             welcomes David Plouffe
                                               to the stage at a 2012
                                                  fundraising event.

                                                                          he never left              so it’s reasonable to conclude that all
                                                                          O ba m a’s o rb i t;       three know each other well. These men
                                                                          he remained an             have worked together for years. Most
                                                                          o ut s i d e s e n i o r   significantly, they are political and
                                                                          adviser to the             ideological brothers.
                                                                          Obama adminis-               Now, skip ahead to this past Sep-

All Roads Lead to
                                                                          tration. In 2011,          tember and October. This is when
                                                                          Plouffe returned           the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative gave

Barack Obama
                                                                          to the White               $350 million to the Center for Tech and
                                                                          H ou s e a n d d i d       Civil Life (ctcl). Established in 2012 and
                                                                          a two-year stint           headquartered in Chicago, the ctcl is
                                                                          as an assistant            a nonprofit organization that works
                                                                          to the president           with citizens, community groups and

W
           hat role is Barack Obama             and senior adviser. Reading Obama’s                  local governments to promote greater
           playing in America’s election        book, it’s obvious that he and Plouffe are           participation in federal, state and local
           crisis? This is arguably the         kindred spirits and are very close.                  elections. Among its activities, the ctcl
most underreported aspect of the                   In January 2017, at the same time                 helps local governments and community
extraordinary effort to take down               President Obama left the White House,                groups implement election legislation,
Donald Trump and demolish America.              Plouffe was hired by Facebook ceo Mark               educate voters, equip voting locations
The more you research this question,            Zuckerberg to be the head of policy                  with new technology, train poll workers,
the more you realize: All roads lead to         and advocacy at the Chan Zuckerberg                  collect and analyze election data, and
Barack Obama. Here we’ll look at just           Initiative (Zuckerberg’s philanthropic               tackle cybersecurity concerns. In some
one of these roads.                             organization). In this role, Plouffe was             states, election workers are paid directly
  In his new book, A Promised Land,             responsible for leading czi’s effort to              by ctcl grants. ctcl claims to be non-
Obama heaps praise on David Plouffe, his        support political and policy reform                  partisan, but a little digging shows it
former campaign manager. Obama has              across America. Plouffe retired from his             leans heavily to the left.
publicly lauded Plouffe as the unsung           full-time position at czi in October 2019              B e f o r e Z u c k e r b e r g ’s g i g a n t i c
hero and supreme architect of his pres-         but remained with the organization in                donation, ctcl received an average of
idential campaigns. Plouffe was the stra-       the part-time role of resident “strategist.”         around $1 million per year. How did
tegic mastermind behind Team Obama’s               So, Barack Obama and David Plouffe                Zuckerberg learn about this relatively
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extraordinary 2008 grassroots campaign          a re c l o s e, a n d D av id P l ou f fe a n d      small nonprofit in Chicago? Surely
and its pioneering digital program.             Mark Zuckerberg are close. Plenty of                 David Plouffe, former head of policy and
  When Obama took office in January             evidence also shows that Obama and                   advocacy and the resident “strategist” at
2009, Plouffe took a sabbatical. But            Zuckerberg have a strong relationship,               Zuckerberg’s organization, was involved
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read about this attack on the Church in Malachi’s Message and              End-Time Antiochus
in my son’s book, Raising the Ruins. All of our literature is free.)       This prophecy in Revelation 12 connects to a stunning end-time
  The whole story in biblical prophecy shows that Satan has a              prophecy delivered by the Prophet Daniel. The book of Daniel is
three-pronged attack after he is cast down. First, he attacks              only for this end time (Daniel 12:4, 9). He shows that Satan pur-
God’s Church, spiritual Israel. Second, he attacks the nations             sues his ambition to destroy Israel through human instruments.
of Israel, especially the United States, the lead nation. Third,             The last part of Daniel 8:17 reads, “Understand, O son of man,
he works through the Holy Roman Empire and destroys these                  that the vision is for the time of the end” (Revised Standard
nations in the Great Tribulation.                                         Version). In verse 26, God told Daniel to seal up the vision,
  This passage in Revelation is far from the only biblical pas-           “for it relates to the far future” (Moffatt). Many of the events
sage describing the devil’s destructive passion. Really, Satan’s           described in this chapter were fulfilled in type in the centuries
hatred of Israel is a prominent theme of the entire Bible. I have          after Daniel recorded them in 550 b.c. However, even those
explained the prophecy in 2 Kings 14:23-29, for example, which             events point to this prophecy’s primary fulfillment in the end
describes a Satan-led movement in the end time to “blot out                time, just before Christ returns.
the name of Israel from under heaven.” (You can study this                   Beginning in verse 9 is a prophecy of a “little horn” that arose
prophecy further in my free booklet Great Again.)                          from one of the four divisions of the Grecian Empire. Virtually
  This is Satan’s master plan: He wants to destroy God’s Church            all commentaries agree this refers to Antiochus Epiphanes,
and the nations of America and the British Commonwealth. To                a dictator who obtained rule in Palestine in 176 b.c. through
understand events in America and Britain, we must consider                 deceit and flattery. What they overlook, though, is that this also
them in this prophetic context.                                            has an end-time fulfillment.
  All of these prophecies will be fulfilled if our people fail to            When we set this prophecy alongside others, as well as actual
heed God’s warning message!                                                end-time events, it is clear there are actually three end-time

 in the decision to donate $350 million to      fraud and corruption occurred: Philadel-             and distribute absentee and mail-in
 ctcl. After all, this was exactly the type     phia, Detroit, Minneapolis and Milwau-               ballots, and to add extra drop boxes in
 of work he was brought on to do.               kee; Delaware and Allegheny counties                 Democratic areas. It said the money
    It’s even plausible that Barack Obama       in Pennsylvania; and Fulton, Cobb and                was intended to increase ballots cast “in
 himself put ctcl on Zuckerberg’s radar.        DeKalb counties in Georgia—all over-                 only certain urban and predominantly
 ctcl and some of its principal staff have      whelmingly Democratic counties or                    Democratic precincts” and to “selec-
 multiple connections to the former             cities in four key swing states.                     tively influence the outcome of the 2020
 president, even going as far back as             In September, not long after the                   general election.”
 his 2008 presidential campaign. Tiana          ctcl began distributing the money,                      Sadly, all four lawsuits were dis-
 Epps-Johnson, ctcl’s founder and exec-         concerned citizens filed lawsuits                    missed. The reasons varied, but the
 utive director, is an Obama Fellow at the      against the organization in Michigan,                judges across all states generally
 Obama Foundation in Chicago.                   Wisconsin, Minnesota and Pennsylvania,               rejected the notion that the money
    Here’s what we do know: When ctcl           arguing that federal law prohibited local            would be used to manipulate the elec-
 received Zuckerberg’s first donation, it       governments from accepting private                   tion. Yet in the end, that’s exactly
 immediately gave at least $75 million to       federal election grants. The plaintiffs              what happened!
 local authorities in heavily Democratic        in these suits were worried that the                    This is only one of the paths of
 areas in battleground states!                  money donated by Mark Zuckerberg—                    evidence that suggests Barack Obama
    In A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald      who was counseled by David Plouffe,                  lies at the epicenter of this election
 Trump, released last year, Plouffe wrote       and maybe even Barack Obama—                         crisis. There are others. The fact that
 that “the contest for the presidency           would be used to commit fraud!                       the media is not seriously investigating
 may come down to block-by-block                  And rightly so. Amistad Project direc-             evidence like this, nor exposing what
 street fights in Detroit, Milwaukee and        tor Phillip Kline obtained a court order             figures like Obama, Plouffe, Zuckerberg
 Philadelphia.” Is it a coincidence, as         from the Middle District of Pennsylvania             and the entire radical left are doing, is
 Ken Blackwell wrote for Breitbart, that        that allowed him to view Philadelphia’s              itself a massive scandal!
“some of the biggest recipients [of ctcl’s      communications with ctcl. “Those                        In last month’s cover story, “Why
 money], in fact, were the very locales         communications show that ctcl dic-                   Donald Trump Will Remain America’s
 Plouffe had identified as the linchpins        tated the way the election would be run              President” (theTrumpet.com/23193), edi-
 of the Democrat strategy in 2020”?             in Philadelphia, how many polling places             tor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote, “I am
    A recent study by the Amistad Project       they would have, they paid the election              also certain that we are about to see
 listed the 20 largest publicly identified      officials, they paid the satellite election          some of the biggest frauds exposed
 recipients of ctcl funds. Remarkably,          officials, they paid the judges, they                perhaps ever!” In coming weeks and
 the counties and cities that received          brought in these drop boxes,” said Kline.            months, expect to see more evidence
 Zuckerberg’s money are virtually the             T h e M i c h i g a n l aw s u i t c l a i m e d   of Barack Obama’s fingerprints on this
 same as the counties and cities where the      Zuckerberg’s money was used to print                 election coup.     BY BRAD MACDONALD
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types of Antiochus. First, there is the spiritual Antiochus,            Consider the recent U.S. election. It’s fair to say we live at a
the man who led God’s Church astray. Second, there is an             time “when the transgressors are come to the full”! Lawless-
Antiochus in physical Israel. Third, an Antiochus also leads         ness, corruption and sin are rife, even celebrated! And here is a
the prophesied final resurrection of the Holy Roman Empire,          leader who understands “dark sentences” and is able to destroy
which God uses to punish Israel.                                     mightily, “not by his own power,” but by the devil.
  Barack Obama is the end-time type of Antiochus who seeks             “And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper
to destroy physical Israel!                                          in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by
  This is not a new prophecy. I have been warning about              peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the
Mr. Obama and his anti-American ambitions since before he            Prince of princes [Jesus Christ Himself]; but he shall be broken
became president in 2008. Throughout his eight-year presi-           without hand” (verse 25). Notice: Antiochus has a policy of
dency, I explained that Mr. Obama was an Antiochus-type who          craft. He misleads people, appearing to come in peace before
sought America’s destruction. This is the main theme of my           he destroys them!
booklet America Under Attack, first published in 2012.                  Satan is deceitful and duplicitous, skilled at presenting him-
                                                                     self as something he is not. He is the father of liars and was a

      His books show he has had the                                  murderer from the beginning (John 8:44). When he is involved,
                                                                     things lead to murder if we don’t wake up!
      goal to fundamentally change
        America since he was a boy.                                  A Promised Land
           And that life goal didn’t go                               Last November, around the time of the U.S. election, Barack
                                                                      Obama published his new book, A Promised Land. The book
            away when he left office.                                 and its author received much critical acclaim both in America
                                                                      and around the world. The timing was no coincidence.
  When Mr. Obama left the White House in January 2017,                   Mr. Obama is an exceptional public speaker and can sound
some said this was a failed prophecy. Mr. Obama was no longer         and look very appealing. He appears sophisticated and enlight-
president and it appeared he no longer had any influence on           ened, and seems full of love and concern for America and its
American politics. But the truth is, this Antiochus never             people. And just as the nation was convulsing in political crisis,
left the political scene, and he never stopped trying to              this book and the associated publicity thrust Barack Obama
undermine America!                                                    into the spotlight. He was on screens all over America sounding
  The details of this prophecy have very personal, emotional          rational, wise and presidential.
meaning to me—because we dealt personally with the Antio-                In his book, Mr. Obama writes multiple times that America’s
chus in the Church of God. Satan used that man to destroy            “need for fundamental change” was a big theme of his campaign
the Church! Daniel 8:11 says this man ”magnified himself even         and presidency. He has said repeatedly that America needs to
to [against] the prince of the host [Jesus Christ], and by him the    change. During an election rally on Oct. 30, 2008, he famously
daily sacrifice [the work of God] was taken away, and the place       declared, “We are five days away from fundamentally trans-
of his sanctuary was cast down.” The devil used this Antio-           forming the United States of America.”
chus-like man inside the Church of God to destroy God’s work.            This is a towering theme of Barack Obama’s life! His
  Verse 12 further describes this man’s character: “And an host [a    books show he has had the goal to fundamentally change
demon army] was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason       America since he was a boy. And that life goal didn’t go away
of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground;           when he left office.
and it practiced, and prospered.” Antiochus cast truth to the            As president, Mr. Obama pursued this ambition with passion.
ground. He was a lawless man! Moreover, his campaign of               He had a lot of success reshaping America’s identity, both
lawlessness “practiced and prospered”—it was very successful.         domestically and internationally.
  Read Daniel’s entire prophecy to see what sort of man this             Recall the Obama administration’s support of the popular
Antiochus is. History also provides insight. Daniel 11:21 says        Islamist uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
this leader obtained rule through deceitful lies and flatteries.      Recall the way they ignored the popular uprising in Iran—
He was a smooth talker and had a compelling personality.              then negotiated a grotesque nuclear deal with Iranian leaders
Anciently, Antiochus Epiphanes gained control by pretending           that flushed them with cash and provided cover for ongoing
to be someone he wasn’t. The same is true of the three end-           nuclear activity. Think of the way they handled Benghazi, when
time types of Antiochus: They are master deceivers.                   a jihadist mob attacked America’s embassy on the anniversary
  We must always beware of the devil for this reason: He comes        of 9/11. Obama officials shamefully told our soldiers to stand
as an angel of light (e.g. 2 Corinthians 11:14).                      down while terrorists killed an ambassador and three other
  Daniel describes Antiochus further in Daniel 8:23-24: “And          Americans. Recall Obama’s restoration of diplomatic ties with
in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors           Communist Cuba. Recall Mr. Obama’s treatment of Britain (for
are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and under-        example, the threat to send the United Kingdom to the bottom
standing dark sentences, shall stand up. And his power shall          of the list if it voted to leave the European Union). Recall his
be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy             open hostility toward the Jewish state. Recall his keen support
wonderfully [or mightily], and shall prosper, and practise, and       of international organizations like the corrupt World Health
shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.”                                                                       OBAMA     PAGE 30 u
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                                                                                                   hina is going to eat
                                     SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA

                       Wake Up to the
                                                                                                   ou r lu n c h? C ’m o n
                                                                                                   man,” Joe Biden said
                                                                                                   wh i l e h e wa s c a m-
                                                                                                   paigning for America’s
                                                                                                   presidency, ridiculing

                        Threat From
                                                                             statements from Donald Trump. “They’re
                                                                             not bad folks, folks. But guess what?
                                                                             They’re not competition for us.”

                               CHINA
                                                                                Particularly since the national elec-
                                                                             tion on Nov. 3, 2o2o, reports exposing
                                                                             the dangerous naivety of this statement
                                                                             have been descending in a deluge. And
                                                                             many of them suggest not only that
                                                                             Joe Biden knew better, but that his
                                                                             blindness to the threat from China is
                       This nation seeks world domination—and it is making   willful, rooted not in compassion but in
                                                                             compromise and corruption.
                          impressive progress in realizing that ambition.
                                                                               “All warfare is based on deception,”
                               BY STEPHEN FLURRY AND JOEL HILLIKER           wrote famed Chinese general Sun
                                                                             Tzu. “Supreme excellence consists in
                                                                             breaking the enemy’s resistance with-
                                                                             out fighting.” It seems Sun’s modern
                                                                             Chinese disciples are carrying out his
                                                                             war stratagems with stunning success.
                                                                             Emerging facts are exposing realities
                                                                             that sound like conspiracy theories—
                                                                             realities about the deceptive activities of
                                                                             Communist China aimed at breaking its
                                                                                enemies’ resistance without fighting.
                                                                                       China’s ambition to dominate
                                                                                        the globe is becoming clearer
                                                                                          all the time. In many ways this
                                                                                            has hardly been a secret. Its
                                                                                             Belt and Road Initiative and
                                                                                              its Asian Infrastructure
                                                                                               I nve s tm e nt B a n k a re
                                                                                               designed to challenge and
                                                                                               replace America’s central
                                                                                              role in the world economy.
                                                                                              Its “debt-trap diplomacy”
                                                                                            has given it leverage over a
                                                                                           string of nations across con-
                                                                                         tinents. Beijing is militarizing
                                                                                      the South China Sea and seizing
                                                                                  strategic choke points worldwide.
                                                                             Nations across Asia are nervously
                                                                             working to accommodate China as they
                                                                             recognize that it has supplanted the U.S.
                                                                             as the region’s dominant power.
                                                                                Recent reports, however, expose
                                                                             China’s achievements in matching
                                                                             these overt actions with covert oper-
                                                                             ations. They expose how members of
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                                                                             the Chinese Communist Party have
                                                                             surreptitiously infiltrated foreign
                                                                             entities, working in academia, major
                                                                             corporations and governments around
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the world. They reveal Chinese spies         in Shanghai. Its headquarters is also           the administration of Bill Clinton in
seducing high-placed government              home to intelligence officers from the          1992. This “old friend” delivered China
officials with money and sex. They           UK security services” (Dec. 12, 2020).          some big victories: He was America’s
show American federal representatives           The loyalties of these people are            first president to publicly oppose the
using their entrusted power for political,   devoted not just to China but to the            independence of Taiwan—a nation
personal and financial benefit. They         ideology, the party and the chairman of         Beijing claims as part of China. He also
show election interference and literal       the Chinese Communist Party.                    granted Most Favored Nation trading
election hacking. And all this against          This revelation proves that the world        status, effectively sending more than
the backdrop of a world-changing virus       is dealing with a determined, resource-         3.7 million jobs from the U.S. to China.
unleashed on the world from China.           ful enemy, and that nations have been           According to Di, China’s influence
  That this nation would aggressively        too casual about protecting themselves          continued through the administrations
target the world’s dominant superpower       against espionage, intellectual property        of George W. Bush and Barack Obama
should not surprise us. But the extent       theft, and who knows what else these            (and Joe Biden). It abruptly stopped with
of its success, and the fact that America    Communists are doing.                           Donald Trump.
has not only allowed it but seems uncon-        Tens of thousands of Communist                 “To put it bluntly,” Di said, “for the past
cerned, is appalling. In fact, viewed in     Party branches. Millions of members.            30 years, 40 years, we have been utilizing
the context of biblical prophecy, it is      Positions in sensitive areas. This is what      the core power of the United States”—so
a potent symbol of nothing less than a       we are only now finding out. What else          this even predates Bill Clinton. “But the
historic global shift occurring before our   don’t we know?                                  problem is that after 2008, the status
eyes: the end of the Anglo-American             And will even this be swept under            of Wall Street has declined—and more
era, and the beginning of a short,           the rug, dismissed or “debunked” by             importantly, after 2016, Wall Street
dark period that will mark the final         American media? Will American leaders           can’t fix Trump.” The regime of the ccp
years of the age of man.                     and everyday Americans care enough to           has been utilizing the core power of the
  Remarkably, most people remain             at least demand more information—let            United States. As we will see, President
asleep to this issue. This is largely        alone deal with it?                             Trump’s opposition to China put him
because many elites in politics, media,                                                      in opposition to the “core power of the
business and technology—including Joe        ‘We Have People at the Top’                     United States”—America’s “China Class.”
Biden—have prioritized personal inter-       Di Dongsheng is an economics professor            “During the U.S.-China trade war,
ests over the interests of their country.    in Beijing and a liaison to China’s Com-        [Wall Street] tried to help. And I know
They have been bought off by China.          munist Party. Speaking at a Nov. 28, 2020,      that; my friends on the U.S. side told me
  In addition to the prophetic trends        event hosted by the Chinese nationalistic       that they tried to help, but they couldn’t
this highlights, it also contains a larger   website Guan Video, this man dropped            do much,” Di continued. You read that
lesson—a profound truth about our            these bombshell statements: “The                right. Powerful Wall Street investors—
human nature and our need for God.           Trump administration is in a trade war          the supposed embodiment of American
                                             with us, so why can’t we fix the Trump          capitalism—tried to aid the interests
Infiltration                                 administration? Why between 1992 and            of the ccp against those of their own
A group of Chinese who oppose the            2016 did China and the U.S. used to be         “America first” president. “But now,
Chinese Communist Party (ccp) regime                                                         we’re seeing Biden was elected. The
hacked a server in Shanghai and in                 This revelation proves that               traditional elite, the political elite, the
December 2020 exposed the identities                the world is dealing with a              establishment, they’re very close to Wall
and details of nearly 2 million members                                                      Street …. You all heard that Trump said
                                                     determined, resourceful
of the party, and of some 79,000 Commu-                                                      Biden’s son has securities companies all
nist Party branches. The leak unmasked                enemy, and that nations                over the world. But who helped Biden’s
Communists working in sensitive and                have been too casual about                son build his global companies? You
powerful positions in business, technol-               protecting themselves.                understand? There are indeed buy-and-
ogy, prestige media, defense and politics                                                    sell transactions involved in here.”
around the globe. They work inside           able to settle all kinds of issues? No mat-        This clip was quickly deleted from
major companies like Boeing, Volkswa-        ter what kind of crises we encountered          Chinese social media, and you can see
gen, hsbc, anz and others, as well as at     … things were solved in no time. … We           why. It would be difficult for China’s
least 10 consulates. AstraZeneca and         fixed everything in two months. What is         Communists to explain these state-
Pfizer, both of which were working on        the reason? I’m going to throw out some-        ments. It would also be difficult for a
covid vaccines, employ 123 ccp members.      thing maybe a little bit explosive here.        Biden-Harris administration to explain
  “Beijing’s malign influence now            It’s just because we have people at the top.    how Joe Biden’s steady support of favor-
stretches into almost every corner of        At the top of America’s core inner circle       able treatment of China—which dates
British life, including defense firms,       of power and influence, we have our old         all the way back to when he helped the
banks and pharmaceutical giants,”            friends” (emphasis added throughout).           Clinton administration open trade with
reported the Daily Mail. “Among them is         In other words, China’s ability to influ-    the Chinese regime—are not a function
a senior official at the British Consulate   ence the U.S. government began with             of his own family’s corruption.
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The Bidens                                      Information released on Sept. 5, 2020,        Seen as Emerging Threat,” stated, “The
                                   Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he           by the Government Accountability                infiltration by foreign countries like
                                   has “never spoken to my son about his         Institute (gai) documents Hunter                China into election voting equipment is
                                   overseas business dealings.” Evidence of      Biden’s involvement as a director for           emerging as a growing concern among
                                   the full extent of these dealings has been    an investment firm in Shanghai, Bohai           vendors, who are actually asking for
                                   mounting—as has the impossibility of          Harvest rst, which is involved in selling       more federal regulation as they grapple
                                   Joe Biden’s ignorance of them.                American technology to the Chinese              with a lack of domestic suppliers pro-
                                     These include Hunter Biden’s 10 per-        military. When Hunter Biden was a direc-        ducing critical technologies.”
                                   cent stake and a position as one of the       tor, Bohai bought American auto parts             Dominion Voting Systems is a com-
                                   nine directors of a Chinese private           manufacturer Henniges. Since Henniges           pany that supplied election machines
                                                                                                                                 used in 28 U.S. states, serving more than
                                                                                                                                 40 percent of the American population.
                                                          Tony Bobulinski said he was personally involved                        And it turns out this company has strong
                                                           in an investment partnership with a Chinese                           connections to China.
                                                           government-linked company and not just                                  In testimony before Congress, Domin-
                                                          Hunter Biden but also Jim Biden and Joe Biden.                         ion chief executive John Poulos said
                                                                                                                                 his company’s voting machines were
                                                                                                                                 built with Chinese hardware “from
                                   equity firm called bhr Partners. Though        manufactures technology with military          the screen on the interface down to
                                   its name sounds American enough, its           applications, the sale had to be approved,     the chip component level.” Litigation
                                   funding comes mostly from institutions         and was approved—by the administra-            Attorney Dana Jill Simpson alleged that
                                   owned by the Chinese government.               tion of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.            Flex China manufactured Dominion
                                   Before the 2020 presidential elections,          “[T]hese deals didn’t just make the          machines in cooperation with Hua-
                                   investor Tony Bobulinski told Fox News         Bidens money; they had potentially dan-        wei Technologies, a state-supported
                                   host Tucker Carlson that he was person-        gerous consequences for our national           Chinese firm that has been accused of
                                   ally involved in an investment partner-        security,” noted Peter Schweizer, who          enabling surveillance by Beijing.
                                   ship with a Chinese government-linked          made the gai’s documentary Riding                Though Dominion is headquartered in
                                   company and not just Hunter Biden but          the Dragon: The Bidens’ Chinese Secrets.       Canada, it is majority-owned by Staple
                                   also Jim Biden and Joe Biden. He said         “Hunter quietly maintains an ownership          Street Capital, a private equity firm in
                                   the arrangement included a $5 million          stake in the firm, a stake worth millions      New York City. Just a month before the
                                   loan to the Biden family. He also said         of dollars, and stands to be worth even        election, this firm received $400 million
                                   one of the business partners told him to       more as its China partnership prospers.”       from ubs Securities, a Swiss investment
                                   keep Joe Biden’s involvement secret.              It all brings chilling plausibility to Di   bank partially owned by the Chinese gov-
                                      Also before the election, on Sept. 23,      Dongsheng’s claim that “at the top of          ernment. “An ntd tv report on December
                                   2020, the Senate Committee on Home-            America’s core inner circle of power and       5 showed that three board members
                                   land Security and Governmental Affairs         influence, we have our old friends.”           of ubs Securities llc appeared to be
                                   released a report titled “Hunter Biden,           When these “people at the top” are          Chinese, including Luo Qiang, Ye Xiang
                                   Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact            so willing to sacrifice national interests     and Mu Lina, according to the company’s
                                   on U.S. Government Policy and Related          and even national security for personal        profile page on Bloomberg,” the Epoch
                                   Concerns.” Among its findings: Hunter          enrichment, this opens up disastrous           Times reported. “Later, these names were
                                   Biden received $1 million from a former        vulnerabilities. And China is keen to          taken down from the profile page, raising
                                   Hong Kong official; he received $5 mil-        exploit them.                                  questions about whether the company
                                   lion from a Chinese energy company tied           Given its frustrations over not being       made changes following media reports”
                                   to the ccp; and he received a 2.8-carat        able to “fix” Donald Trump, would you          (Dec. 15, 2020). ubs has refused to answer
                                   diamond from the company’s founder,            not expect China to try to ensure he           questions about these board members,
                                   Ye Jianming, whom he met on one of             wouldn’t achieve a second term? That           and Dominion has deleted the LinkedIn
                                   several trips to China under Secret Ser-       it would work to secure victory for            accounts of one third of its employees.
                                   vice protection while his father was vice      another of its “old friends”?                    This company’s troubling connections
                                   president. Ye Jianming also did business                                                      are deadly serious. “China poses a
                                   with Jim Biden. E-mails from Hunter           Election Hacking?                               greater national security threat to the
                                   Biden’s laptop show he opened a line of        Last year, White House National Secu-          U.S. than any other nation—economi-
                                   credit with Ye’s associate the same day        rity Adviser Robert O’Brien warned that        cally, militarily, and technologically. That
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                                   the Chinese energy company announced           China was targeting U.S. election infra-       includes threats of election influence
                                   a $9.1 billion deal with a Russian govern-     structure with cyberattacks. Bloomberg         and interference,” Director of National
                                   ment energy company. Another e-mail            News highlighted that Chinese hardware         Intelligence John Ratcliffe has said.
                                   lists “the big guy” as a shareholder in the    in U.S. voting machines was a threat             Considering China’s intentions and its
                                   Chinese energy company deal, which             to the nation. A Jan. 9, 2020, report,         track record, Americans should assume
                                   some have identified as Joe Biden.            “Chinese Technology in Voting Machines          the worst and investigate accordingly.
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Remarkably, however, only a small             once-dominant anti-Communist lead-            infiltration on the national stage?
minority seem concerned. Despite              ership to the point that San Francisco’s        John Ratcliff, who has access to more
considerable evidence of irregularities,      Chinese community is now reliably             intelligence than any member of the
lawbreaking, tampering and hacking,           pro-China, along with much of San Fran-       government besides the president, says
the pressure and intimidation to simply       cisco’s non-Chinese political leadership,     the problem is even worse than it looks.
move on and accept the election results       including Feinstein” (Aug. 20, 2018).
is overwhelming. Many influential               In December 2020, it emerged that           America’s China Class
Americans are more concerned about a          California Congressman Eric Swalwell,         In a Dec. 3, 2020, Wall Street Journal
second Trump term than about election         another House Intelligence Committee          opinion editorial, Ratcliffe wrote: “If I
hacking from China.                           member, had been targeted by a woman          could communicate one thing to the

Blue-Gold-Yellow                                                      House Intelligence Committee member Eric
Exiled Chinese dissident Guo Wengui, a
                                                                      Swalwell was targeted by a woman known as
former business tycoon, has said China
has an overarching strategy for world
                                                                       Christine Fang, an operative of Chinese State
domination known as “bgy,” initials                                    Security who had been deployed for years as
for Blue (control the Internet), Gold                                 an undercover agent in the U.S.
(buy influence with money), and Yellow
(seduce key people with sex). He says the     known as Christine Fang. This woman           American people from this unique van-
plan is “to ruin the U.S. and to assure       had placed at least one intern in Swal-       tage point, it is that the People’s Repub-
that China controls the world” (myanniu.      well’s office and developed a personal        lic of China poses the greatest threat to
com, Oct. 5, 2017).                           relationship with him. She was also           America today, and the greatest threat
   The credibility of these explosive         an operative of Chinese State Security,       to democracy and freedom worldwide
claims was certainly strengthened by          deployed for years as an undercover           since World War ii. The intelligence is
the Hunter Biden revelations. It has been     agent in the U.S.                             clear: Beijing intends to dominate the
further reinforced by reports of literal         So, these Chinese spies are befriending    U.S. and the rest of the planet economi-
spies from the Chinese Communist Par-         members of the House Intelligence Com-        cally, militarily and technologically.”
ty’s Ministry of State Security snuggling     mittee. Imagine the reaction of Demo-            This is China’s goal! And it doesn’t
up with some of the nation’s top leaders.     crats and the media if these congressmen      take a pile of classified reports to see it.
   China’s Ministry of State Security         were Republicans! But they are Demo-             Reacting to news of Chinese spying,
has a unit devoted solely to political        crats. What was Democratic Speaker of         Sen. Josh Hawley said, “[W]e’ve seen
infiltration, influence and intelligence      the House Nancy Pelosi’s reaction to peo-     the Washington politicians and the D.C.
operations in California. Not only does       ple demanding that Swalwell be stripped       establishment look the other way with
California boast America’s largest state      of access to American intelligence?           China for years and years now. … It’s not
population and biggest economy, it is           “I don’t have any concern about Mr.         as if they haven’t known that the Chinese
dominated by the Bay Area and Silicon         Swalwell.”                                    has enacted espionage efforts against
Valley, which are dominated by Demo-             No concern. That is the general            the U.S. It is known they are using tech
crat politicians. The Blue, Gold and Yel-     response to all evidence of Chinese espi-     companies to spy on Americans, trying
low strands of China’s strategy coalesce      onage and infiltration. Why? The Center       to leverage that information against us.
here in a commanding way.                     for Strategic Studies has assembled a         It’s not as if they haven’t known that the
   Two years ago it was shown that a staff    list of 147 publicly reported instances of    trade policies and other economic poli-
member of the chair of Senate Intelli-        Chinese espionage against the U.S. in the     cies that we pursue with China have been
gence Committee, California Sen. Dianne       past decade. Why is this not a matter of      ruinous for American workers. They’ve
Feinstein, was a Chinese spy. For two         urgent national interest? Government          known all of that. They just don’t care.
decades, Russell Lowe was office director     data shows that about 30 percent of           D.C. doesn’t care and they still don’t care.”
in Senator Feinstein’s San Francisco          foreign students in the U.S. are Chinese         This is a devastating observation, but
office and served as her California liaison   nationals—about 340,000 of them.              tragically true: Top politicians, jour-
to the Asian-American community. This         These students pay full tuition, so           nalists, tech executives, businessmen,
man was a known Chinese activist, hav-        universities are addicted to the income       professors, actors and even professional
ing participated in Maoist-leaning, far-      stream. Yet intelligence officials say this   athletes routinely take the same effec-
left organizations very influential in San    pool has provided many spy recruits           tively pro-Communist view. It’s a measure
Francisco politics. One of these, Chinese     for China. Why such carelessness over         of the success of China’s strategies—
for Affirmative Action, “worked with          something so potentially ruinous?             using Americans’ own greed, selfishness
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other Maoist-influenced groups such              Why are Democrats, the news media,         and short-sightedness against them.
as the Chinese Progressive Association        tech giants and so many others in                These efforts have created what ana-
to push the Beijing line in Chinatown,”       lockstep with each other—and, largely,        lyst Lee Smith terms “America’s China
the Epoch Times reported. “Together,          with China’s Communist Party? What            Class”—a swath of elites beholden in
they helped to marginalize Chinatown’s        else don’t we know—yet—about China’s          one way or another to Chinese money
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and influence. And they, like Di Dong-        government organizations, including one           the Assyrians would invade, and that
sheng, are eager to clear the obstacle to     blacklisted by the U.S. government for its        these people would be the first to be
relations with China—a president who          role in abusing the Uyghurs.                      taken captive!
has effectively revolted against a “deep         Incidentally, the Hollywood Reporter              Today, this same attitude infects
state” that is betraying America’s inter-     says Disney’s ceo at the time, Bob Iger,          America—especially among the political
ests to foreign powers like China—by          is at the top of Joe Biden’s wish list for a      class that is selling America’s industrial
ensuring “old friends” are back in power.     key ambassador post, possibly to China.           might and resource wealth to foreign
  “America’s China Class, which owns the                                                        nations for profit. Blinded by greed, they
platforms on which Americans commu-           Amos’s Warning                                    ignore threats to the nation. President
nicate, has waged a relentless campaign       Many, many of these elites are only               Trump has worked to check the political
of information warfare against [Presi-        concerned with money. But some are                establishment and to fight for America’s
dent Trump] through its social media          concerned with ideology too—and they              interests. But his campaign to make
and prestige media brands,” Smith wrote       find socialism and communism attrac-              America great again will be short-lived if
for Tablet. These elites are flooding news    tive. It’s trendy to self-righteously decry       Americans fail to repent of the sins that
and social media with disinformation “to      slavery in America from hundreds of               brought the nation to this point.
protect their core interests—foremost         years ago—and care nothing about your                As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald
among them being cheap Chinese labor          shoes being made by virtual and actual            Flurry has explained, President Trump
and access to Chinese markets. … Amer-        slave labor in China. “American cultural          is an end-time King Jeroboam ii (read
ican political and corporate elites didn’t    elites (Hollywood, sports, art, etc.) who         his landmark article on this subject
choose decline. They chose to get rich.       exploited the increasingly large Chinese          at theTrumpet.com/17092). Like that
By shipping America’s manufacturing           market for their products provided                ancient king, God is using him to tempo-
base off to China, they seized a business     cover for the China Class cohort with             rarily save the nation from destruction
opportunity the likes of which had never      messaging that dovetailed with ccp                (2 Kings 14:27)—just as God warns, “I
been seen before—an enormous captive          propaganda,” Smith continued. “Who                will not again pass by them any more”
labor force controlled by an authoritar-      were Americans to judge a great and               (Amos 7:8). This is America’s last chance
ian regime that guaranteed the steady         ancient civilization like China’s for jail-       to repent. That is why God is ensuring
production of goods at a fraction of what     ing dissidents and enslaving the Uyghur           so much governmental corruption is
it would cost at home” (Sept. 15, 2020).      minority? Doesn’t America have its own            exposed: He is trying to awaken people
   When you’re only concerned with            history of slavery and political prison-          to the evil around us—and to the piti-
money, doing deals with China is the          ers? It’s racist to protect American jobs.        able fragility of our sinful society and
opportunity of a lifetime. There is           Those jobs aren’t coming back and there           civilization—to prod us to repentance!
no other nation so large, with a labor        is nothing to be done about it, as Barack
force so subjugated. It is China’s com-       Obama famously said …” (ibid).                    ‘Times of the Gentiles’
petitive advantage.                              This development is not only disas-            The Americans and the British are
   This is why big-time companies like the    trous—it is deeply shameful because               descendants of ancient Israel. This means
nba are willing to censor and fire their      it was made possible by Americans’ own            that end-time Bible prophecies about
employees for criticizing China. Two          corruptibility. And not just among a              Israel primarily apply to the U.S. and Brit-
years ago, an employee running the Mar-       small cadre of leaders. True, Americans           ain today. Those prophecies clearly show
riott International Twitter account “liked”   don’t force their leaders to prostitute           that the peak of our power has passed,
a tweet from a Tibetan separatist group       themselves to big corporations for                and that our destruction looms.
that had praised Marriott for listing         money, to engage in overseas business                Decades ago—even before the U.S.
Tibet as a country separate from China.       dealings, to take bribes, to sell out Amer-       established diplomatic relations with
The Chinese government responded by           ican foreign policy, to use their power           Communist China in 1979—the late
blocking Marriott’s website and mobile        for personal gain. But we have allowed it.        Herbert W. Armstrong warned that an
app for a week. Marriott snapped back in      Our weak moral character has allowed it.          important factor that would strip Amer-
line, publishing a groveling apology and         Like our ancestors in the Bible, Amer-         ica of its historically unprecedented,
firing the employee—for a mouse click.        ica is fatally weakened not by bullets and        God-given blessings was its infiltration
   Most American entertainment and            bombs, but by sin.                                by Communist forces. “We are not
movie companies preemptively censor              Anciently, during the time of the              fighting a single nation in a military war,
themselves to ensure their output will        Israelite King Jeroboam ii, the Prophet           but a gigantic, worldwide, plain-clothes
be approved by Chinese Communist cen-         A m o s c o n d e m n e d g re e dy l ead e r s   army, masquerading as a political party,
sors. After all, a failure to appease them    who prioritized selfish interests and             seeking to conquer the world with an
shuts out a billion potential customers.      enriched themselves while afflicting the          entirely new kind of warfare!” he wrote
Disney even filmed a movie in Xinjiang,       people of Israel (Amos 6:1-6). These peo-         in 1956. “It’s a kind of warfare we don’t
the province where China is imprisoning       ple “put far away the evil day”—acting as         understand or know how to cope with.
Uyghur Muslims on a mass scale. The col-      if their lavish lifestyle would last forever      It uses every diabolical means to weaken
laboration with Beijing was so intimate,      and ignoring threats to the nation. God           us from within, sapping our strength,
the movie’s credits thanked eight Chinese     warned through the Prophet Amos that                               CHINA THREAT      PAGE 23 u
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      or the last three                                                                               universities, government and
      decades, the world has                                                                          even religions.
      been drawing closer to                                                                            H a m i l t o n w a r n s t h at
China. Of all major Western                                                                           China is turning Australia
nations, Australia has gotten                                                                         into a puppet state. Australia,
closer than any other. And                                                                            he says, has received a wave
now is it realizing the fear-                                                                         of “billionaires with shady
some consequences of that                                                                             histories and tight links to
embrace.                                                                                              the party, media owners
   It may be too late for the                                                                         creating Beijing mouthpieces,
Australians to pull out of the                                                                       ‘patriotic’ students
relationship. But their fate                                                                          brainwashed from birth, and
is a powerful warning to the                                                                          professionals marshaled
rest of the world.                                                                                    into pro-Beijing associations
                                                                                                      set up by the Chinese
Money, Money, Money                                                                                   Embassy.” He alleges that
It started with a business                                                                            Chinese spies coordinated a
relationship.                                                                                         penetration into all levels of
   After growing at an                                                                                Australian society.
astonishing annual rate                                                                                 In the aftermath of these
of around 10 percent for                                                                              allegations, Australian Sen.
                                                 SPECIAL REPORT: CHINA
some 30 years, China is                                                                               Sam Dastyari resigned, and

                                     AUSTRALIA:
now, by some measures, the                                                                            the nation had to change its
world’s largest economy. It                                                                           rules on politicians receiving
takes a massive amount of                                                                             donations from abroad.

                                     A WARNING
raw materials to fuel such                                                                              Other politicians appear
growth, making Australia a                                                                            to have received thinly dis-
perfect trade partner.                                                                                guised bribes. Special Envoy

                                    TO THE WORLD
   In 2017, one third of Aus-                                                                         Andrew Robb, for example,
tralia’s exports went to China,                                                                       was the man who signed off
and nearly a quarter of its                                                                           on China leasing Port Darwin
imports came from China.                                                                              for a century. And what was
   Soon the economic                  The consequences of growing too cozy with China                 waiting for him immediately
relationship went beyond                                BY RICHARD PALMER                             upon leaving political office?
trade. China started buying                                                                           An estimated $2 million plus
up huge tracts of Australia. Chinese         Australia’s Merriden airport.               expenses over three years—at the com-
companies own more than 1 percent               All this trade necessitated a close      pany to whom he had just leased the port.
of Australia’s land area, including coal     political relationship. In 2014 the Aus-       But Chinese influence on Australian
mines, energy companies, cattle farms,       tralian government invited President Xi     governance has been even more aggres-
tourist resorts and even tens of thou-       Jinping to address Parliament.              sive than all this. Three months prior
sands of private homes.                                                                  to Australia’s 2019 elections, someone
   By the end of 2019, China was offi-       Undercover                                  hacked the computer systems of the
cially Australia’s ninth-largest foreign     But this political relationship developed   Australian Parliament and all major
investor. However, much Chinese invest-      a dark side. China is being credibly        Australian political parties. Australian
ment is also funneled through Hong           accused of bribing Australian politicians   Prime Minister Scott Morrison said at
Kong, Australia’s fifth-largest investor.    and interfering with Australian elections.  the time that the attack was “sophis-
   The flourishing economic relation-           In 2017, Australia’s public television   ticated” and probably the work of a
ship affected other areas of Australian      station, abc, released a report showing     foreign government.
life. In 2015, a Chinese company closely     that billionaires affiliated with the Chi-     It has since emerged that this sophis-
tied to China’s Communist government         nese Communist Party were donating          ticated foreign government was China.
signed a 99-year lease of Australia’s        millions to Australia political parties and
northernmost port in Darwin. The             building close relationships with Aus-      Trade War
port is vital to the Australian military     tralia’s political elites. In 2018 Charles  Chinese infiltration and aggression
and also hosts a United States military      Sturt University ethics professor Clive     has caused Australians to change their
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base. Chinese companies also signed          Hamilton published an explosive book        position toward their large, wealthy
contracts for a 99-year lease on the port    titled Silent Invasion. It documents the    northern neighbor.
of Newcastle, a share in the port of Mel-    governing Chinese Communist Party’s            The turnaround started gradually. In
bourne, and a 100-year lease on Western      infiltration of Australian corporations,    2016 the Australian government blocked
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