The people who brought us the coronavirus, deadly fentanyl to fuel the opioid crisis, and who regularly crush the human spirit by limiting free speech and religion, want you to vote for Joe Biden for President of the United States.
China today announced sanctions against Congressman Chris Smith, Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Ambassador for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, according to multiple media reports.
The sanctions, which are as yet unspecified, will “correspond” to sanctions imposed upon Chinese officials by the Trump Administration last week over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in its Xinjiang region.
Hong Kong (AFP) – Pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong held primary polls on Saturday to choose candidates for upcoming legislative elections despite warnings from government officials that it may be in breach of a new security law imposed by China.
Thousands queued in the intense summer heat at unofficial polling stations across the city hours after police raided an opinion pollster helping to conduct the vote.
“The more Hong Kong people were suppressed, the firmer Hong Kong people stand,” democracy campaigner Benny Tai, a legal scholar and co-organiser of the primary, said as voting got underway… Read the rest of this entry »
At a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, Rep Chris Smith (R-NJ), author of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act said “the great people of Hong Kong had a sweeping, draconian, anti-democracy policy imposed upon them yesterday—the so-called National Security Law.”
Congressman Chris Smith witnesses President Donald Trump signing an Executive Order for Combating Human Trafficking and Online Child Exploitation in the United States. Jan. 31, 2020 . Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour.
Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ4), a forty year critic of China and champion of human rights throughout the world, today applauded President Donald J. Trump for “doing what previous presidents have failed to do” by sanctioning China for violating the “one country, two systems” treaty and ending democratic freedom for the people of Hong Kong.
The government of China has threatened to inflict pain, including interfering in the upcoming November election, on Congressman Chris Smith and several other Republican lawmakers and officials who are working to hold China responsible for the tragic results of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Legislation introduced by Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Ron Wright (R-TX) on Friday would strip China and other countries of their sovereign immunity if they intentionally made misrepresentations regarding the coronavirus, thereby allowing U.S. citizens, businesses and local government to sue those governments for the deaths, pain and suffering, and economic losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
(USA Features) U.S. intelligence agencies are currently investigating whether the coronavirus may have escaped from a Chinese lab in Wuhan city where research is done on highly contagious diseases, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley told reporters at the Pentagon Tuesday that initial information indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be a “natural” event that stemmed from animal-to-human transmission.
But he also noted published reports indicating that the virus may have occurred after escaping a research lab.“It should be no surprise that… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: April 15th, 2020 | Author:admin | Filed under:COVID-19 | Tags:China, COVID-19, Gen Mark Milley, Wuhan | Comments Off on Joint Chiefs chairman: U.S. probing whether coronavirus escaped a Chinese lab
Last December, when it became obvious China faced a deadly disease of historic dimensions, Xi Jinping and his government went into damage control mode.
We are not talking about controlling the terrible damage wrought by COVID-19 among humans, but rather the damage to China’s reputation as an emerging global leader, fearing that a carefully crafted, but bogus image would be damaged as more people around the world succumbed to COVID-19.
Congressman Chris Smith has introduced the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act four times since 2014. Today, the bill will have a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives.
