{"id":1319105,"date":"2022-02-20T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1319105"},"modified":"2022-02-20T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:52:38","slug":"the-enemy-within-how-americas-elites-sold-us-out-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-enemy-within-how-americas-elites-sold-us-out-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Enemy Within: How America\u2019s Elites Sold Us Out To China"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fthe-enemy-within-how-americas-elites-sold-us-out-to-china%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=1319105&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/China-1.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>One of Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung\u2019s favorite phrases was, \u201cPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.\u201d Today, as China plots to displace the U.S. as the world\u2019s leading superpower, that gun is pointed at the heads of America\u2019s middle class by American elites who are doing the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party. That\u2019s the message of The Daily Wire\u2019s new documentary series, \u201cChina: The Enemy Within,\u201d the work of investigative journalist Lee Smith.<\/p>\n<p>In a five-part series, Smith offers a panoramic view of the way the wealthiest and most well-connected members of society have hollowed out America\u2019s economy, imperiled our national security, and refused to hold China accountable for the spread of COVID-19 in exchange for a piece of the China\u2019s ever-expanding economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re describing here is an enormous network of American elites who draw their wealth, power, and prestige from their relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. That\u2019s the actual enemy,\u201d Smith told me in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the ruling class\u2019 influence comes from sapping the power, strength, and resources of the American people \u2014 of closing factories, foreclosing homes, and forcing U.S. citizens into a life of hopelessness to enrich the Chinese \u2026 and themselves.<\/p>\n<p>American corporations and politicians have worked in tandem for decades to bolster China and lower the American standard of living, because employing Chinese workers instead of Americans padded corporate profit margins, Smith said. Industry titans long dreamed, in Smith\u2019s words, that China\u2019s \u201ccheap pool of labor would be the centerpiece of this new order.\u201d The trade deals brokered by politicians, whose donations come from corporations seeking to do business with China, left blue-collar Americans devastated.<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s elites have exported America\u2019s industrial base \u2014 even the capacity to manufacture everyday pharmaceuticals \u2014to China. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trafficked-how-joe-bidens-open-border-policies-have-fueled-americas-fentanyl-epidemic\">What we have in exchange is fentanyl<\/a>,\u201d Smith told me. \u201cThat\u2019s what the Chinese have given us in exchange for our jobs.\u201d Fentanyl overdoses reached an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/5-stories-the-media-tried-to-ignore-in-2021\">all-time high<\/a> in 2021, with 100,255 dying from the drug. Fentanyl is now the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-biggest-killer\">leading killer<\/a>\u00a0of young people between the ages of 18 and 45. And China is its leading source. Yet American elites often ignore the problem, because drug overdoses tend to cluster in rural areas and places beset by poverty. \u201cOf the counties experiencing above-average overdose death rates in 2015, 646, or roughly two-thirds, were in rural America,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/pinpointing-opioid-in-most-impacted-communities\/\">reported<\/a> the Brookings Institution. While 41% of high-poverty counties had more overdose deaths than the national average, only 13% of well-to-do counties suffered the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s documentary shows that the individuals pulling the strings of our China policy don\u2019t care, because they don\u2019t live there. \u201cAmerica\u2019s ruling class is no longer on the side of Americans,\u201d Smith says in a jarring monologue that introduces the series. \u201cThey are compromised by their dependence on China\u2019s rise and so it\u2019s our elites, and not China, that represent the greatest threat to our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, politicians either rely on donations from corporations reaping the benefits of trade with China or \u2014 as Smith examines in one episode \u2014 they sometimes benefit directly. Hunter Biden\u2019s private deals with the Chinese, one of which was inked during then-Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s visit to Beijing, are one example. Smith also highlights the case of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), whose husband has deep business ties to China. It later emerged that one of her servants was a Chinese spy.<\/p>\n<p>Smith turns a keen eye on how elites\u2019 thirst for profit undermines national security. Big Tech sought to undercut the wages of America\u2019s white-collar workers by expanding the number of immigrants eligible for such programs as the H-1B visa, which increased the number of foreign workers available to them. While allegedly temporary, the three-year visas have become a conduit for foreign workers to replace American workers in the high-tech field. Even one of the program\u2019s sponsors, Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-CT), later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/workforce-economy\/h-1b-visas-cheap-foreign-labor-versus-american-worker\">lamented<\/a>, \u201cThe H-1B has been hijacked as the main highway to bring people from abroad and displace\u00a0Americans.\u201d Many of these new employees hailed from China and, as Smith exposes, many had been sent to acquire sensitive technology the CCP could use to fuel China\u2019s growing military. The CCP often coaxes those not willingly engaged in espionage by threatening their family members on the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Smith dedicates a full episode of the show to academia\u2019s embrace of the CCP. China frequently bribes professors who work in advanced scientific fields. The influx of spies posing as Chinese exchange students \u2014 the most famous of whom is Eric Swalwell\u2019s former lover Fang Fang \u2014 has enriched colleges and universities, whom Smith says have turned a blind eye to Chinese influence in exchange for cash.<\/p>\n<p>While a war with China (thankfully) remains theoretical, China\u2019s capture of American elites and institutions has impacted the world through the spread of COVID-19. The virus\u2019 origins remain shrouded in mystery, although many believe SARS-CoV-2 spread after a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.\u00a0 Smith exposes how Dr. Anthony Fauci supported a grant for controversial gain-of-function research at WIV, then stonewalled Senator Rand Paul (R-KY). \u201cIt\u2019s Anthony Fauci and other American scientists who are standing in between the truth and the American people,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThey\u2019re protecting their relationships with Chinese Communist Party elites from whom they draw so much of their wealth, power, and prestige.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the greatest value of the series is that it pulls no punches. No guilty party escapes unscathed. Politicians, Big Business, Hollywood, academia, the U.S. medical establishment \u2014 even professional sports franchises \u2014 come under Smith\u2019s unrelenting, fact-fueled critique. \u201cThis is the story of how America\u2019s ruling classes attach themselves to a foreign power, China, in order to enrich themselves at the expense of the United States,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the enemy within.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Smith\u2019s docuseries exposes the scope of China\u2019s penetration of U.S. elites, the problem continues to deepen. Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/anita-dunn-what-to-know-about-bidens-senior-adviser\">tapped<\/a> Anita Dunn, who has served <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/08\/politics\/badass-women-anita-dunn\/index.html\">six<\/a> other Democratic administrations as well as Democratic megadonor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/harvey-weinstein-receives-pr-help-from-former-obama-adviser-womens-right-advocate-anita-dunn\">Harvey Weinstein<\/a>, as an adviser during his campaign and early presidency. Dunn made headlines in 2009, as President Obama\u2019s communications director, when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/the-radical-truth-about-anita-dunn\">told<\/a> a D.C. commencement class about \u201ctwo of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa.\u201d Thanks to Smith\u2019s invaluable series, no one is confused about which one guides the modern Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. Join us in this mission and stream Shut In today by becoming a Daily Wire\u00a0<\/em><em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a><\/u><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Chinese dictator Mao Tse-tung\u2019s favorite phrases was, \u201cPolitical power grows out of the barrel of a gun.\u201d Today, as China plots to displace the U.S. as the world\u2019s &#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-1319105","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\/1319105","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=1319105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319105\/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=1319105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}