Cajun Conservatism
China wants to undermine our national security. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Texas.
There are credible threats that Chinese nationals are buying up thousands of acres here to spy on American military installations. But the Chinese Communist Party isn’t just interested in our property. It also wants to control our financial services.
Read more: BELL: Don’t Let Congress Jeopardize Texas’ Data Security
Dear Editor,
I am deeply concerned about the legislation currently being pushed by liberal Senator Dick Durbin that would benefit Chinese credit card companies at the expense of American small businesses. This bill would require credit card companies to partner with at least two unaffiliated network providers, including China Union Pay, which has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
It is alarming to see how China is trying to steal American data, and this bill would only make it easier for them to do so. Allowing a Chinese credit card company to access our personal information is like inviting a spy balloon to hover over every single American with a credit card and take whatever data they want.
This legislation is a classic example of Democrat policy that hurts Americans rather than helping them. By partnering with China Union Pay, Americans' information will be freely handed over to the CCP, giving China an unfair advantage over our small businesses. This will only make it more challenging for small businesses that are already struggling to compete in the market.
It's crucial to remember that Communist China remains the most significant threat to our country. We need to be careful and vigilant, and the last thing we should be doing is giving them an opportunity to hurt us. I am grateful that Louisiana has Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy who continually put Louisianans' interests first and oppose any pro-China bills that could harm our country.
Senator Durbin and the Chinese Communist Party must be stopped, and I hope that Senators Cassidy and Kennedy will continue to stand firm against this harmful legislation. Louisiana deserves strong leaders who will protect our credit cards from those who wish America ill.
Sincerely,
DK Willard
In another significant move towards securing our elections, Secretary of State Kyle Ardoin has taken a stand against Tik Tok. This week the Secretary joined with State Representative Daryl Deshotel to institute a BAN on TikTok on all state-owned smartphones.
Over the past few years, Tik Tok has become one of the most popular social media networks, but at the cost of the American people's data security. The Chinese-based tech firm is partly owned and run by the Chinese government - meaning that all data collected on the app is going straight to President Xi and his goons.
By banning Tik Tok on all state government devices, Ardoin will further secure our state's elections and confidential information.
Ardoin released a statement on the initiative earlier this week:
"I am grateful to be teaming up with Representative Deshotel after his announcement that he would pre-file a bill to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok on state-issued devices. TikTok is a threat to our citizens' personal data and has no business on any device owned by the State of Louisiana. Representative Deshotel and I believe we should be doing everything we can to protect our constituents' personally identifiable information. This bill will help do just that."
This common-sense bill will go before the legislature this spring. We look forward to making it law and defending our state from Communist Chinese data breaches.
WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) has cosponsored the No People’s Liberation Army in Logistical Operations and Other Pertinent Humanitarian Operations Leading to Endangered Security (NO PLA LOOPHOLES) Act to close a loophole in U.S. law that allows the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) access to vital U.S. military training and expertise.
“The Chinese military is more than happy to take advantage of American altruism to boost its combat abilities, and we can’t allow Beijing’s ruthless regime to do that. The NO PLA LOOPHOLES Act would help ensure Communist China can’t exploit American military strengths to advance its oppressive, genocidal agenda,” said Kennedy.
The NO PLA LOOPHOLES Act would prevent China from using a legal loophole to improve the PLA’s combat abilities. Under current law, the U.S. military cannot engage in military-to-military exchanges with the PLA in any way that would give the PLA access to vital U.S. military training and expertise. The law, however, permits U.S.-Chinese military cooperation on search-and-rescue and humanitarian missions and exercises. The PLA has gained access to traditional U.S. military training under the guise of engaging in these humanitarian exercises.
The bill would ban this form of cooperation.
“The Biden administration sold roughly one million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to a Chinese state-controlled gas giant that continues to purchase Russian oil, a move the Energy Department said would ‘support American consumers’ and combat ‘Putin’s price hike,'” the Beacon’s Collin Anderson reported. “Biden’s Energy Department in April announced the sale of 950,000 Strategic Petroleum Reserve barrels to Unipec, the trading arm of the China Petrochemical Corporation. That company, which is commonly known as Sinopec, is wholly owned by the Chinese government.”
Sinopec is also tied to Hunter Biden, whose private equity firm, BHR Partners, bought a $1.7 billion stake in the company seven years ago.
Read more: Biden Sold Oil From Emergency Reserves To Chinese Gas Giant Tied To His Scandal-Plagued Son
RT if you agree → Joe Biden should NOT be sending our oil reserves to a Chinese company Hunter Biden has a stake in.
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) July 8, 2022
As the United States and other countries respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, shortages of some medical products, like personal protective equipment (PPE), have led to renewed calls for “Buy American” rules and other measures to “reshore” supply chains.
Let’s be very clear: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is laser-focused on making the United States the best place in the world to invest, manufacture, hire, and do business. Before, during, and after the pandemic, we are working around the clock to strengthen American industry here at home.
But as we debate this issue, we first have to get the facts straight. For example, it’s common to hear that 80% of the pharmaceuticals consumed in the United States come from China, but it happens to be wrong. In fact, 70% of our pharmaceuticals are made in America, and China is the source of less than 1% of all the pharmaceuticals Americans consume.
Read more: Safeguarding the U.S. Supply of Medicines and Medical Products
Cajun Conservatism has reported in the past about Louisiana officials trying to do business with a Chinese state-owned chemical company that has a questionable safety record. This chemical company has been trying to build a plant in the state for years, with little success. Last year, Wanhua pulled plans to build a massive plant in St. James after local opposition mounted and just this year, the Westwego City Council pulled the rug out from under them. Well, they’re back in the news touting their efforts to help Louisiana cope with coronavirus:
To help pandemic response, businesses are encouraged to donate urgently needed PPE equipment. Several companies including Krunchy Kripsy Chicken, ExxonMobil and Wanhua Chemical have donated various supplies in the wake of the national shortage of PPE.
Ironic that a Chinese state-owned entity would try to help Louisiana recover from a virus that came from China. What comes around goes around. Now, The Washington Post reports today that the United States has been concerned for years about coronavirus research being done at facilities in Wuhan. Wanhua and Wuhan … if they can’t control their health labs, what makes you think they can control their chemical plants? Or maybe it’s, if they can’t control their chemical plants, what makes you think they could have controlled their health labs?
Earlier this week a plant in Yancheng China exploded, killing a dozen, injuring even more. This most recent explosion at a Chinese plant has been a growing trend in recent years for plants in Red China. The CNN report notes "the lack of safety standards" that has resulted in numerous explosions over the years. In 2016, a Wanhua plant exploded, killing 4 people and injuring even more. These plants have a history of weak safety standards, failed reports, and "management failures."
If this name, Wanhua, sounds familiar, that's because it is. Remember when we here at Cajun Conservatism reported on the bailout money at taxpayer expense being sent to the Chinese government by Gov. John Bel Edwards and warned about this? Well, this is the company we were talking about.
Again, why are we financing, at taxpayer expense, foreign corporation with a blatant disregard for the safety of their employees and the surrounding area?
The video on the explosion can be seen here: Dozens killed in explosion at Chinese chemical plant
Link to Lens story: St. James residents slam Wanhua chemical plant plans in Convent
Photo source: Inside Sources
Cajun Conservatism recently pointed out that our governor decided to do business with China in this post. Now, Congressman Peter King (R-NY) addressed, in a recent House Intel Committee meeting, that a Chinese company, Wanhua Chemical, who John Bel Edwards gave state taxpayer money to, is reconsidering their investment in Louisiana. As indicated in this piece, it is troubling to have an "economic enemy", as President Trump has called China, acquiring American technology.
China aggressively seeks to acquire American technology and intellectual property through multiple vectors including: physical and cyber theft, forced technology transfers, evading United States export controls, export restraints on raw materials, and investments in more than 600 high-technology assets in the United States worth close to $20 billion.
Secondly, this is a clear indication of the trade imbalance that remains between the US and China. The main reason that this project was cancelled was because of labor and material costs. The citizens of Louisiana should be rightly concerned about a plant being built with Chinese material and being fabricated by Chinese labor.
Photo source: Inside Sources
If Donald Trump is having a trade war with China, word has yet to reach Louisiana.
At the same time the Trump administration is calling China “an economic enemy” and their business practices a threat to “the economic and national security of the U.S.,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) has identified the People’s Republic as his state’s “primary foreign direct investment” partner.
Read more: Why Are Louisiana Taxpayers Subsidizing America’s “Economic Enemy,” The People’s Republic of China?
