Gary Bauer: China’s Threat | The Patriot Post

Here’s news you probably haven’t heard much about. In December 2024, representatives of the lame duck Biden administration held a secret meeting in Switzerland with their counterparts from the Chinese communist regime. What the Chinese said shocked the U.S. delegation.
 
They admitted to years and years of dangerous cyberattacks against the United States.
 
We’ve told you about those attacks. They were carried out by a Beijing-backed group called “Volt Typhoon.” They hacked into major U.S. telecommunications systems, our utilities, our water systems, our ports, and other critical infrastructure. They hacked U.S. government networks, gaining detailed information on federal employees.
 
The Left goes into a panic over the idea that Elon Musk might have access to information about federal bureaucrats. But when the communist Chinese stole information on federal employees, it was a one-day story and a collective yawn.
 
The Chinese communists also hacked into our airports during Biden’s presidency. Thursday, two planes ran into each other on the ground at Reagan National Airport. We still don’t know what caused a military helicopter to collide with a civilian passenger jet near Reagan National Airport in late January.
 
Multiple unnamed officials in our intelligence agencies can’t understand why the Chinese communists would “confess” to the hacking. Was it a mistranslation?
 
No, I think it was a warning and a threat.
 
The Chinese communists were telling us that they have the ability to shut off our water, our lights, and our phones, and ground our airplanes in the event of a military confrontation over Taiwan or anything else.
 
We have been warning for years that communist China is preparing for war against the United States. Yet, right now, the entire left-wing establishment is doing everything it possibly can to prevent President Trump from weaning America off our dependency on cheap Chinese goods.
 
The Left has people freaking out that their medications might cost more. How about having no medications if war breaks out?
 
It became painfully obvious during COVID that we needed to reshore pharmaceutical production to America. It’s a national emergency. We have to do it. Well, Novartis, a major European drug company, just announced a $23 billion investment to expand pharmaceutical production here in the United States.
 
Bingo! That’s what Trump’s tariffs are all about.