{"id":613909,"date":"2021-08-05T20:50:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=613909"},"modified":"2021-08-05T20:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T00:50:25","slug":"ominous-potential-china-watchdogs-urge-biden-to-ban-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ominous-potential-china-watchdogs-urge-biden-to-ban-vaccine-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ominous Potential\u2019: China Watchdogs Urge Biden To Ban Vaccine Passports"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fominous-potential-china-watchdogs-urge-biden-to-ban-vaccine-passports%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=613909&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--><p>China watchdog groups urged President Joe Biden to ban the use of vaccine passports throughout the U.S. in an open letter signed by dozens of conservative leaders Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The letter, authored primarily by the Committee on the Present Danger: China and Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers, warns Biden that even state, local and private-level vaccine passport systems could offer a step toward a China-style \u201csocial credit system.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/17\/andrew-yang-2020-social-credit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democratic 2020 Candidate Wants Government-Sponsored \u2018Social Credit\u2019 System Comparable To China\u2019s)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden-Harris administration has officially declared that it will not be imposing vaccine passport schemes as a matter of federal policy. That commitment will ring hollow, however, if others in state and local governments or the private sector are able effectively to institute such a mechanism for controlling, repressing and coercing many millions of Americans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/stopvaxpassports.org\/petition-stop-vax-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the letter states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7249495\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7249495\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7249495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he attends the art performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China on June 28, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904-279x120.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904-620x266-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904-768x330-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904-1536x660-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233706265-1-scaled-e1627674658904-2048x880-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7249495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he attends the art performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China on June 28, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While the Biden administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/white-house-psaki-vaccine-passport-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly stated its opposition<\/a> to a federal vaccine mandate or passport, it has allowed for\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/03\/28\/vaccine-passports-for-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and even encouraged<\/a>\u2013the use of passports on the state, local and private levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it may begin with only carrying digital information regarding whether an individual is vaccinated, the rest of the functionality of the Chinese Social Credit System can be integrated into the \u2018Vaccine Passport\u2019 system in a matter of minutes,\u201d the letter argues.<\/p>\n<p>The letter\u2019s authors go on to state that vaccine passports could lead to a \u201ctwo-tiered\u201d society in which only those who have been vaccinated can travel or go to restaurants, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen state governments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/articles\/which-states-have-banned-vaccine-passports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have already gone forward<\/a> with banning vaccine passports on similar grounds, including Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call upon you actively to discourage and preclude such end-runs by issuing an Executive Order and securing federal legislation barring the use of vaccine passports or similar arrangements to suppress our constitutional rights,\u201d the letter, addressed to Biden, concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The letter\u2019s signatories include historian Eric Metaxas, National Tea Party Movement co-founder Michael Johns, Martin Organization founder and CEO Rod Martin, NSCI Institute Founder Kevin Freeman, and many others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China watchdog groups urged President Joe Biden to ban the use of vaccine passports throughout the U.S. in an open letter signed by dozens of conservative leaders Thursday.The letter, authored &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613909","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\/613909","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=613909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613909\/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=613909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}