{"id":1288538,"date":"2022-02-10T13:09:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288538"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:09:36","slug":"rattled-chinese-propagandist-threatens-sanctions-over-breitbart-report-on-gop-plan-to-weaken-communists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rattled-chinese-propagandist-threatens-sanctions-over-breitbart-report-on-gop-plan-to-weaken-communists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattled: Chinese Propagandist Threatens Sanctions over Breitbart Report on GOP Plan to Weaken Communists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frattled-chinese-propagandist-threatens-sanctions-over-breitbart-report-on-gop-plan-to-weaken-communists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/outspoken-global-times-Hu-Xijin-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The former top editor of the Chinese government propaganda newspaper&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, Hu Xijin, threatened sanctions on Thursday against President Joe Biden and the entirety of the U.S. Congress in response to a Breitbart News exclusive revealing a Congressional bill that would sanction thousands of Communist Party officials and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Hu \u201cretired\u201d from his position running the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, China\u2019s most belligerent English-language propaganda outlet, in December, but remains on the newspaper\u2019s staff as a video blogger and commentator. Upon resigning, Hu Xijin also vowed to continue irritating opponents of communism on Twitter, an American social media outlet that Chinese citizens do not have access to without special government permission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hu published a low-resolution screengrab of a Breitbart News post on Twitter to his personal account on Thursday describing an exclusive on a bill called the \u201cStop CCP Act\u201d that, if passed, would result in sanctions and travel bans to the United States for thousands of members of the 90-million-strong Communist Party of China. Among those implicated would be not just dictator Xi Jinping and members of the Politburo, but their families \u2013an especially important detail given that many senior Communist Party members, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/what-did-chinas-first-daughter-find-in-america\">including<\/a> Xi, choose to send their children to American universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the bill is passed,\u201d I am sure China will sanction all the members of the U.S. Congress and all federal cabinet members,\u201d Hu threatened, \u201cincluding the U.S. president.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If the bill is passed, I am sure China will sanction all the members of the US Congress and all federal cabinet members, including the US President. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GB2fn43MQU\">pic.twitter.com\/GB2fn43MQU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hu Xijin \u80e1\u9521\u8fdb (@HuXijin_GT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1491694062092840960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hu remains a well-connected member of the Chinese regime elite despite his departure, seemingly in disgrace, from the top of the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> masthead at the end of last year. Hu\u2019s abrupt resignation led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/16\/longtime-editor-chinese-propaganda-newspaper-global-times-retires\/\">speculation<\/a> that regime leaders had punished him for the newspaper\u2019s poor handling of the scandal surrounding the disappearance of tennis champion Peng Shuai. Peng, a Wimbledon doubles winner, published an extensive statement on the Chinese government-run social media network Weibo in November accusing the former head of the Chinese Olympics Committee, Zhang Gaoli, of raping her. The accusations were particularly explosive given the fact that China was less than three months away from hosting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, despite global protests against granting China such an honor while its government engages in genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The post rapidly disappeared, as did Peng. She resurfaced in social media posts by Hu and the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> that featured highly choreographed videos in restaurants and an alleged Chinese tennis event. The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>\u2018 efforts to persuade the world that Peng was safe and not being repressed into silence by the Party backfired, resulting in the Women\u2019s Tennis Association (WTA) pulling all its events out of China.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cStop CCP Act\u201d that Hu objected to on Thursday is a project being led by&nbsp;Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/09\/exclusive-house-conservatives-introduce-sanctions-proposal-for-thousands-chinese-communist-party-officials\/\">Breitbart News<\/a>. Its targets would include Xi, the Communist Party Politburo, and the entirety of China\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress (NPC), its top lawmaking body. The NPC is run by the Communist Party and does not debate laws; it rubber-stamps the will of the Politburo. The bill is also unique in that it would target the families of prominent communists, who benefit directly from the regime\u2019s human rights atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has not used sanctions in a significant way to combat Chinese influence in the country. The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/03\/18\/china-dismisses-biden-sanctions-as-redo-of-trump-sanctions-already-in-place\/\">announced<\/a> sanctions in March against 24 officials, but the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> laughed at the move, noting Trump had already sanctioned most of the people on the list, so the move had no added effect even though it was also tried elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chinese Communists Impose Sanctions on British Politicians, Lawyers, Campaigners <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cf6QOWclYL\">https:\/\/t.co\/cf6QOWclYL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1375395352342368264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden and his family have a long history of business with Chinese individuals with close ties to the regime. As best-selling author and Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer revealed in his latest book&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\"><i>Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/i><\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em>the Biden family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/25\/red-handed-6-million-biden-family-deal-was-with-ye-jianming-who-had-ties-to-a-spy-linked-united-front-group\/\">engaged<\/a> in million-dollar deals with people like Ye Jianming, the head of a Chinese government energy company with ties to the People\u2019s Liberation Army. Donations from wealthy, regime-connected Chinese citizens to the University of Pennsylvania also skyrocketed after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/24\/red-handed-reveals-chinese-donations-to-university-of-pennsylvania-soared-after-biden-center-announcement\/\">founding<\/a> of its \u201cBiden Center,\u201d raising questions regarding the Biden family\u2019s Beijing ties.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations in&nbsp;<em>Red-Handed<\/em> have resulted in calls for investigations into dozens of American officials with ties to China and further sanction plans like the \u201cStop CCP Act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hu\u2019s threat follows multiple Chinese attempts to sanction American officials vocal about China\u2019s egregious criminal behavior that have largely failed because the individuals in question have no assets in China and no interest in visiting \u2013 unlike their Chinese counterparts in America. In August 2020, the Chinese government issued <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/10\/china-sanctions-11-us-citizens-including-marco-rubio-and-ted-cruz\">sanctions<\/a> against&nbsp;11 people, mostly lawmakers and human rights advocates, in response to their defenses of civil rights in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China\u2019s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper mocked Biden for abandoning his campaign promise to end the Chinese coronavirus pandemic and instead declaring that \u201cno federal solution\u201d to the problem exists. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgNnDbSKSa\">https:\/\/t.co\/kgNnDbSKSa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1475886918109904901?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time, the pro-democracy protests in the city had become an international affair and prompted the NPC to illegally impose a \u201cnational security law\u201d silencing dissent. Under the \u201cOne Country, Two Systems\u201d policy, Beijing lawmaking bodies do not have the power to pass laws in Hong Kong, but Hong Kong police have enforced the \u201cnational security law,\u201d anyway, essentially ending the protests.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions targeted lawmakers like Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Tom Cotton (R-AR), having no direct impact on their lives.<\/p>\n<p>After Biden took office in January, China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/01\/20\/china-sanctions-dozens-trump-officials-minutes-joe-biden-becomes-president\/\">passed<\/a> another set of sweeping sanctions against the now-former members of the cabinet of President Donald Trump, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, Former&nbsp;Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and former top trade adviser Peter Navarro.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw23AQC9DygBP6Uvx2AKooEo\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V8tY067ZdeWpATK5ZWNXI\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former top editor of the Chinese government propaganda newspaper\u00a0Global Times, Hu Xijin, threatened sanctions on Thursday against President Joe Biden and the entirety of the U.S. Congress in response &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}