👿 December 20, 2023: Gatestone Institute > The lab, it turned out, was owned by a fugitive, Jiabei Zhu, who has ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

by Lawrence A. Franklin
December 20, 2023 at 5:00 am

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), now active in more than 155 countries, was created ostensibly toward accomplishing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, including ending poverty, establishing food security. In practice, the BRI is assuring education warfare against the West, as well as presumably helping developing nations cultivate acceptance for the Chinese Communist Party model of governance. Many of the BRI projects have turned out to be debt-traps: China lends a developing country funds for a Chinese-built infrastructure project; then, if the country is unable to repay the debt, China offers to accept instead a port, airbase, rare earth minerals or other assets in lieu of repayment.

China also appears determined to emerge as the world’s leader in critical emerging technologies. China already is leading in some of these military applicable technologies such as: hypersonic flight, electric batteries and radio-frequency communications. One report claims that China already maintains a lead over the US in 37 out of 44 critical technologies.

In March and August of 2020, China threatened to restrict exports of life-saving medicines to the US.
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