{"id":1640822,"date":"2022-09-14T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1640822"},"modified":"2022-09-14T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T15:05:24","slug":"us-green-initiatives-benefit-top-officials-family-members-with-ties-to-china-cybersecurity-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-green-initiatives-benefit-top-officials-family-members-with-ties-to-china-cybersecurity-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"US Green Initiatives Benefit Top Officials\u2019 Family Members With Ties to China: Cybersecurity Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook 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       <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) (<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22122281\/inflation_reduction_act_of_2022.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republican-lawmakers-criticize-inflation-reduction-spending-package-from-democrats_4627566.html\">spend<\/a> some $369 billion toward energy and climate programs over the next 10 years, those green initiatives will mostly benefit family members of top officials with ties to the Chinese regime, according to Rex Lee, a cybersecurity adviser at My Smart Privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s concern \u2026 that potentially lawmakers and or their family members stand to benefit [greatly] from legislation that they have influence over and are creating policy and making laws in Washington DC,\u201d Lee told the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/green-energy-fuels-chinas-economy-hurts-our-planet_4718857.html\">\u201cChina in Focus\u201d program<\/a>\u00a0on NTD News, the sister media of The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>To prove this argument, he pointed to Tony Podesta, the brother of former Hillary Clinton campaign manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/top-climate-adviser-gina-mccarthy-leaving-white-house-john-podesta-joining_4707393.html\">John Podesta<\/a> who recently joined the Biden administration to serve as a senior adviser on \u201cclean energy innovation and implementation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Podesta was tapped to \u201coversee implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act\u2019s expansive clean energy and climate provisions and will chair the President\u2019s National Climate Task Force in support of this effort,\u201d the White House said on Sept. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Tony Podesta, Lee said, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/tony-podesta-paid-1-million-lobbying-white-house-for-chinas-huawei_4230099.html\">represents Huawei<\/a> and their lobbying efforts go directly back to the White House, which means that \u2026 he has a direct line to [President] Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuawei \u2026 is allowed to market in the United States as a result of having some of Trump and Obama\u2019s executive orders repealed by the Biden administration,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Commerce officials in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/billions-worth-of-american-tech-licenses-approved-for-blacklisted-chinese-companies_4062081.html\">granted applications<\/a> worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Chinese tech company Huawei\u2014which was blacklisted under the Trump administration over national security concerns\u2014to buy chips for its auto supply business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is happening with green technology, as well \u2026 if you look at the lobbying efforts from the solar panel, panel manufacturers out of China, as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sweeping Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) (pdf) seeks to spend some $369 billion toward energy and climate programs over the next 10 years, those green initiatives will mostly benefit family members of top officials with ties to the Chinese regime, according to Rex Lee, a cybersecurity adviser at My Smart Privacy. \u201cThere\u2019s concern \u2026 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