Caught In The Tender Trap: With Trump Gone China Can Put The Hammer Down

The news that Democrat congressman and Intelligence Committee member Eric Swalwell, a frequent talking head on cable news, was snagged in an espionage honeypot by a female Chinese agent drew much mirth when the news was released. 

Then it was revealed that Swalwell wasn’t the first gormless U.S. politician to fall into this woman’s clutches. She’d apparently lured two American mayors in the same sort of trap. Did Swalwell, a notorious media mouthpiece, give up anything of value? He won’t say. 

And— shock— the Democratic wing of the media party is not pushing the issue of a corrupted, now-former member of the Intelligence committee. Imagine if GOP firebrand Matt Gaetz was the cuckold? 24/7 CNN & MSNBC would call for a special prosecutor,

It is reminiscent of how Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Rules Committee (2007–2009) and the Select Committee on Intelligence (2009–2015), unknowingly had a Chinese spy as a chauffeur for almost 20 years. BTW Feinstein and her husband are both fervent China fans. Feinstein has said, "I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese."

But the mockery of being spied on by China was less humorous when a November 28 video emerged of Di Donnsheng, vice dean at Renmin University in Shanghai, delivering a lecture (see below) on China’s infiltration of America’s financial and political sector.

Donnsheng implied in the his speech (10:00) that China has had many willing friends at the very top of the U.S. power structure for decades. Especially on Wall Street. But that cozy relationship has been stymied the past four years by the election of Donald Trump. Trump was having nothing to do with business as usual with China or the globalists of Wall Street.

Trump won election in 2016, in part, on his promise to stop the Chinese raiding American technology and gutting its manufacturing base.  He applied tariffs and cut off the financial ability of top Chinese from accessing the U.S. financial system. When the “old China hands” of U.S. foreign policy (you know who you are Bush family) protested Trump told them to pound sand. 

This implacability, Donnsheng implied in his speech, had been bad for Chinese business after many years of easy credit and pliable Americans political officials. But now Joe Biden has been elected (the audience actually laughs at this), things are going to return to normal.

He makes reference to the grifting of Biden’s son Hunter, who has been selling his father’s influence in China and elsewhere for hundreds of millions of dollars. He also suggests that China was useful in the younger Biden setting up his Foundation in China, which received millions from state-owned businesses. 

The implications are unmistakable. China will be looking to leverage the Biden family’s shakedown business as soon as January 20. They will come calling to make good on the deal they’re made. In short, Biden is hopelessly compromised in the way that he and his Democrats friends falsely claimed Trump was by the Russians.

If only Americans had known about Biden’s shameless sellout before the election. Oh, wait… the news was out there. Documented and sourced from a number of people and computers. Except all the major news organizations outside of Fox TV and the NEW York Post actively buried the story to protect Biden in the election.

Only now that it’s safe is the Democrat media party mentioning that Biden the Younger is being pursued for tax fraud, (We reported on this journalistic malpractice here just after to the election, and how one in six Biden voters had known this and the suppressed stories they would not have voted for him.)

Clearly China is ramping up its efforts to penetrate the American (and Western) economies and to back that with an aggressive military posture. There is nothing subtle in Donnsheng’s condescending attitude. He sees no pushback from a Biden Democratic administration more concerned with Critical Race Theory than a race for weapon superiority. It is a chilling piece of tape.

Luckily for the Chinese, they have no such problems with Canada. The current stance seems to be that Canada’s a great place to launder money, buy real estate and dump Chinese products for shipment into the American market. Since Jean Chretien beat a hasty path from the prime minister’s office to the Forbidden City, Canada has been very willing to sell itself in the long run for profits today.

This has produced a stance in the Trudeau government so pliable that China thought nothing of kidnapping Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor when Canada held Huawei executive Meng Whangzou as the Americans tried to have her extradited for fraud. 

Prime minister Trudeau has pretended to talk tough, saying “other countries must stand up to China to ensure it also follows international rules and stops trying to throw its weight around to get what it wants.” 

But the reality is more like Francois-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s Foreign Affairs mister. "I know, Mr. Chair, that some like to talk tough on China," Champagne told the committee recently. "To those who are seduced by this one-dimensional view, I say this: while it is easy to be tough, let's continue to be smart. Let's not fall into the temptation of tough and irresponsible rhetoric that will generate no tangible result for Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, our farmers and entrepreneurs, and human rights victims and advocates.”

Translation: Hey, China kidnapping our nationals works. But don’t expect us to do more than talk. Message received. “

Canada’s softness on China goes back to the earliest days of Mao’s leadership when Canadians born in China were friendly with the regime. Jonathan Manthorpe in the Vancouver Sun writes, “Several of these [people] became central figures in the construction of Canada’s foreign ministry after the Second World War. They planted in the foreign policy culture a conviction that the CCP looks on Canada with special favour. This self-delusion still exists.”

Using Power Corp’s Paul Desmarais as the point of the spear for decades, Canadians have tried to chart an independent China course from America, which it often loathes. “The CCP found that Canadians would always take the bait to one-up the United States if the temptation was offered,” writes Manthorpe. In exchange Canada allowed the CCP to exert influence and bully the over 1.5 million ethnic Chinese in Canada. 

The Biden administration promises a return to pacifying China and allowing its hegemony in Asia to spread. Canada. As always, will be there to assist China, as well. As Trudeau admiringly said in 2013, “There is a level of admiration I actually have for China, Ahh, because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime”.

You can be sure tat’s music to the ears of Professor Donnsheng.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx