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US Vice President: China ‘Meddling in America’s Democracy’

WHITE HOUSE — The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is accusing China of trying to undermine it by targeting the American political system.

“China wants a different American president,” Vice President Mike Pence said in a speech Thursday. He accused Beijing of “meddling in America’s democracy” by employing power in more proactive and coercive ways.

Pence accused the Chinese Communist Party of “rewarding or coercing American businesses, movie studios, universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists, and local, state and federal officials. Worst of all, China has initiated an unprecedented effort to influence American public opinion, the 2018 elections, and the environment leading into the 2020 presidential elections.”

The vice president said a senior career member of the U.S. intelligence community recently told him, “What the Russians are doing pales in comparison to what China is doing across this country.”

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US Charges Chinese Spy Over Aviation Secrets

The United States has charged a Chinese spy with trying to steal trade secrets from some of the country’s top aviation and aerospace companies.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Yanjun Xu had been arrested on April 1 in Belgium, which then extradited him to the U.S. on Tuesday. Xu, who appeared Wednesday in federal court in Cincinnati, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Ohio.

Experts believe this is the first time a Chinese government spy has been brought to the United States to stand trial.

“This unprecedented extradition of a Chinese intelligence officer exposes the Chinese government’s direct oversight of economic espionage against the United States,” Assistant Director Bill Priestap of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division said.

The DOJ said Xu is a top member of the Ministry of State Security — the Chinese intelligence agency whose members have permission to spy in China and around the world.

U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said this case is not an isolated incident.

“It is part of an overall economic policy of developing China at American expense,” Demers said. “We cannot tolerate a nation’s stealing our firepower and the fruits of our brainpower. We will not tolerate a nation that reaps what it does not sow.”

US Lawmakers Want Next Winter Olympics Shifted From China

Two high-profile U.S. lawmakers have called for the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in China, to be reassigned due to ongoing human rights abuses being committed by the Chinese communist regime, especially the large-scale ongoing crackdown on the Uyghur ethnic minority.

Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Chris Smith — who lead the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China — wrote a letter October 10 to Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), urging the sporting body to “review and ultimately reassign the location of the 2022 Winter Olympics” because of the human rights abuses being committed by the Chinese state.

In particular, the letter cited “credible reporting of the mass, arbitrary internment of one million or more Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) and other ongoing human rights abuses by the Chinese government.”

The lawmakers’ letter said that this large-scale detention of the Uyghurs in so-called political re-education camps is “the largest mass internment of an ethnic minority population since World War II.”

The letter pointed out that China had certain obligations that should be met if it is a host country of the Olympic Games.

“Before the 2020 Olympic Games were awarded to Beijing, the Chinese government pledged to the IOC Evaluation Commission that it would respect the Olympic charter and the host city contract which required host cities to ‘prohibit any form of discrimination’ based on religion and ethnicity, and to protect and respect human rights and ensure any violation of human rights is remedied in a manner consistent with international agreements, laws, and regulations applicable in the host country and in a manner consistent with all internationally-recognized human rights standards and principles,’” said the letter.