{"id":538822,"date":"2021-05-24T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=538822"},"modified":"2021-05-24T16:50:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:50:44","slug":"republican-senator-rick-scott-stop-buying-from-communist-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senator-rick-scott-stop-buying-from-communist-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senator Rick Scott: Stop Buying From Communist 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\">18<\/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%2Frepublican-senator-rick-scott-stop-buying-from-communist-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=538822&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\/2021\/05\/RickScott.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In an age when America\u2019s billionaire class has wedded the country to Communist China, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has called upon Americans to stop buying from the oppressive country.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with \u201cThe Cats Roundtable\u201d on <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/cats-interviews\/senator-rick-scott-5-23-21\">WABC<\/a> 770 AM-N.Y., Scott differentiated between the Chinese people and the Chinese government. \u201cWe should stop buying anything from communist China. They are not our friend. The people are wonderful. The government is despicable,\u201d he said, as reported by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/rickscott-trade-america\/2021\/05\/23\/id\/1022441\/\"> Newsmax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government of China, communist China, what they want to do is they want to dominate the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Scott recalled the Cold War with the Soviet Union and how Americans \u201cnever thought about buying anything from the Soviet Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott then listed China\u2019s litany of human rights abuses, from its organ-harvesting practices, to its suppression of religion, to its encroachment on the sovereignty of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t believe in your rights. If you look at how they treat their own citizens, how do you think they think about Americans? They put a million people in prison [by] their religion,\u201d he said. \u201cThey involuntarily harvest your organs if you\u2019re in prison. They took away the basic rights of Hong Kong citizens. They built their military to defeat the U.S. military. They\u2019re threatening Taiwan right now. So, the way we can beat them is we have got to stop doing business with them \u2014 stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott also noted that the more the United States continues to grow the Chinese economy, the weaker America\u2019s will get, allowing China to become a world superpower unlike any other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot continue to help them build their economy, because as their economy grows and gets bigger than ours, we will never be able to beat or defend if they want to invade Taiwan, or wherever they want to go,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are an expansionary country\u2026China, they want to control every country all over the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rick Scott\u2019s denunciation of China follows recent news reports speculating about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently stated that the evidence has convinced him COVID-19 leaked from a lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know for sure they covered up this virus. I am confident that we will find that the evidence that we have seen to date is consistent with a lab leak and I\u2019m convinced that\u2019s what we\u2019ll see. If I am wrong, I hope the Chinese Communist Party will come forward and make a fool of me,\u201d Pompeo said on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo also recalled how China ignored the Trump administration and went dark after the first reported case of COVID-19 showed up in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t take our phone calls, they wouldn\u2019t answer our questions. We sent inquires, we couldn\u2019t get a straight answer,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Chinese Communist Party clearly knew they had a problem, they didn\u2019t want the world to know it and I\u2019m convinced they still know they have a problem and don\u2019t want us to know it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-secretary-of-state-convinced-covid-19-leaked-from-china-lab\">Former Secretary Of State \u2018Convinced\u2019 COVID-19 Leaked From China&nbsp;Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an age when America\u2019s billionaire class has wedded the country to Communist China, Sen. 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