Yale Professor Couple Under Fire for Attending Chinese Conference, Guided Tour in Brutally Repressed Xinjiang Region: Prof Praised China for ‘Respect for Minority People’

Two Yale faculty members are facing scrutiny for traveling to an "academic forum" in China's far-flung Xinjiang region, where China has been accused of rampant human rights abuses against the ethnic Uyghurs, including locking them up en masse in re-education camps. The forum's organizers and accompanying tour included institutions linked to a Communist Party "paramilitary organization sanctioned by the U.S. government," according to a new investigation by the intelligence firm Strategy Risks.

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Exclusive: US ambassador says Canada walked away from 'the best trade deal' — twice



United States Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says Washington has lost patience with Prime Minister Mark Carney's handling of trade negotiations — and sees little reason to make further concessions.

“We thought we had reached an agreement on two occasions with Canada. On two occasions now, Canada has walked away from an agreement,” Hoekstra said in an interview with Blaze News. “As people from our side look at it, you know, this is the best trade agreement that anybody in the world has been offered. And if that's not good enough for Canada, you know, hey, we'll wait. We'll wait for Canada to come back and … ask to go back to the negotiating table.”

'If the Canadian government wants the Canadians to see the elements of a trade deal, it's the Canadian government's responsibility to release them.'

Hoekstra suggested that repairing relations will require more than resolving differences over tariffs. Anti-American rhetoric from Canada's federal and provincial governments, he said, has changed how Washington views its northern neighbor.

Hard bargain

“We no longer necessarily view Canada as Canadians liking America. You have multiple numbers of your premiers who are saying, ‘Do not travel to the United States.’ I think you now have 11 provinces and territories that ban American alcohol. You have another that has put 50% tariffs on it. So that's 12 out of 13.”

The ambassador was particularly incredulous at Carney's characterization of the trade dispute.

“You call a trade disagreement where, for a period of time, you were getting 93% to 95% of trade across the border tariff-free … you call that a trade war, OK?”

Canada's rejection of the proposed agreement remains a source of contention. Carney has argued that American negotiators demanded concessions that would compromise Canadian sovereignty, including protections for French-language rights and Quebec culture. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has disputed Canada's characterization of the negotiations.

Carney has refused to release the proposed agreement, even to Official Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre, leaving Canadians unable to examine the terms for themselves.

Asked whether Washington would make the proposal public, Hoekstra placed the responsibility squarely on Ottawa.

“If the Canadian government wants the Canadians to see the elements of a trade deal, it's the Canadian government's responsibility to release them. We have decided not to release them.”

European vacation

Meanwhile, Carney has been pursuing closer economic and political ties with the European Union. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently floated the possibility of making Canada the EU's first “associate member,” an arrangement whose terms have yet to be defined.

Hoekstra indicated that Washington would assess the consequences once Ottawa decides how far it intends to go.

“We're more than willing to let Canada go through this process, determine exactly what it's going to do with the EU as an associate member, and we'll then take a look at how that may impact the relationship with the United States, either militarily or economically.”

Canada's growing relationship with China is another source of friction. Hoekstra warned that steel, aluminum, and other Chinese materials could enter the United States through Canadian products, circumventing American trade restrictions.

“Transshipment is a huge irritant,” he said.

Hoekstra argued that the practice allows Chinese producers to compete unfairly with American manufacturers.

“It's not putting Canadians to work except maybe shaping the steel and the aluminum, but it's putting Americans out of work through unfair competition because they are using ... in some cases ... slave labor."

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Mission to Mars?

The ambassador was less concerned about the possibility of an outright military confrontation between the two countries.

Asked about a recent New York Times interview in which Carney acknowledged considering the “extreme tail risk” of an American invasion of Canada, Hoekstra recalled an American general's response to a similar question in Vancouver.

“I think one of our generals answered that question very effectively when he was asked about this a couple of weeks ago in Vancouver. ‘Yeah, and after that, why don't you ask me about our plans to invade … the Martian soil.’”

Hoekstra's outspoken style has irritated Canadian politicians, some of whom have even supported a petition to have him sent back to Washington.

The ambassador joked that not all of the petition's supporters would be Canadian.

“If you see an American out in front of Parliament gathering signatures, it very well could be my wife.”

University of Wisconsin Researchers ‘Helped China Tighten Its Surveillance Machine’ During Yearslong Partnership, Investigation Finds

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin worked for nearly a decade with partners in China on sensitive technology projects that likely helped China build its notorious domestic surveillance apparatus, including in Xinjiang province, where the Chinese are accused of brutal repression of the ethnic Uyghur population, a new report has found.

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This China bombshell is blowing up in MS NOW's face



On MS NOW, "Deadline" host Nicolle Wallace took viewers through a montage of Trump’s past tough-on-China remarks, before excitedly suggesting that Trump had asked Chinese President Xi Jinping whether or not China wanted to buy American weapons.

“So much for Mr. Tough Guy,” Wallace scoffed. “Over the last few days, we saw Donald Trump roll out an actual red carpet for China’s President Xi Jinping when he came to the White House, a visit which Reuters called, quote, ‘a stalemate summit that was a glitzy gift to China,’ end quote.”

“And then there was this moment on Fox News yesterday, courtesy of America’s ambassador to China, David Purdue,” she added.


In the clip, Purdue said, “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point.”

“You heard that correctly. That was the ambassador to China saying that the United States president offered to sell arms to China,” Wallace said, laughing.

The State Department responded to the claim with a statement that read, “U.S. law prohibits arm sales to China, and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”

Wallace called the statement “backpedaling,” but BlazeTV host Pat Gray points out that she’s supposed to be reporting the news.

“This is a news person, supposedly. So the president and his team denied everything you just presented in the clip, and your response is a sarcastic, belittling, dismissive heh-heh,” he says, mimicking her laugh.

“That’s some good news broadcast right there. That’s some hardcore news and reporting and journalistic integrity right there,” he continues. “It’s unbelievable.”

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The one loophole in Trump’s tariff policy



The Trump administration’s tariff policies have delivered a series of wins for the American people. Ford announced that it would be shifting more production of its Lincoln line from China to the United States. Sapporo, the beer brewer, recently said it would move brewing from Canada to south of the border.

The tariff agenda has been pursued using a wide array of tools. Many, including steel tariffs, have come by way of Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act. Steel and aluminum tariffs of some sort date back to Trump’s first presidency. Former President Joe Biden kept them going, and upon returning to office, President Trump increased them to 50% in some cases.

The loophole is pushing America’s retailers toward cheaper, foreign-filled canned food.

These tariffs helped to support a domestic steel industry that had fallen on tough times and whose weakness had turned the Steel Belt to the Rust Belt.

The strategy is clear: make foreign production more expensive, particularly in countries that regularly cheat, like China, in order to encourage companies to reshore in the United States. This will result in more jobs, weaker adversaries, more government revenue, and a stronger economy.

There is only one problem: There’s a loophole in the steel tariffs. The tariffs include tinplate steel, a type of thinner steel used to hold canned foods. Practically all of the cans of soup, fruit, vegetables, and fish that Americans purchase are made with tinplate steel. Tariffing tinplate steel in itself is no problem, as it fits in with broader goals of the administration. But in the current tariff landscape, cans manufactured in America and filled with foods grown by American farmers face much higher levies than cans produced overseas and filled with foreign-sourced foods.

It’s these imported canned foods that increasingly show up on American grocery store shelves, outcompeting against foods made in America.

The resulting issues this creates are obvious. The loophole is pushing America’s retailers toward cheaper, foreign-filled canned food. However, foreign food, especially in places like China, can be far less healthy or safe, since food safety regulations in those countries are far less stringent than in the United States.

This loophole weakens the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again agenda. It also directly benefits foreign competitors over domestic producers, both in terms of the tinplate steel that goes into making canned goods and the food found within them. This tariff on tinplate also shifts production and jobs overseas, at a time when American farmers, food processors, and manufacturers are capable of supplying the same products domestically.

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Fortunately, the loophole can be easily corrected: Apply the same Section 232 treatment to the steel in imported finished food cans that applies to imported tinplate steel, using the authority President Trump has already granted to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative. It will align with the administration’s broader tariff goals and support domestic steel producers.

This fix should not be difficult. Steel producers and manufacturers want to make their products in the United States. U.S. Steel, which was just saved by the Trump administration, is reopening a tinplate steel mill in Gary, Indiana, next year. But as long as this loophole persists, other companies will have trouble following U.S. Steel’s lead. And Americans will continue, in an effort to save money, to be directed toward foreign-filled food cans.

If the administration wants companies to invest, reshore, and produce in America, it’s time to stop giving foreign-filled food cans the advantage. The steel tariff should follow the steel, whether it arrives as an empty can or inside a finished food product.

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a "dangerous partnership with Communist China" and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy goals.

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Glenn Beck: This may be the DARKEST secret coming out of China



In most countries, getting a life-saving organ transplant depends on tragedy, timing, and luck.

But according to the author of "Killed to Order," Jan Jekielek, China operates under a very different system.

“In a normal ethical transplantation regime like here, if I need a new heart, right, someone has to have a catastrophic accident and that heart needs to match me, blood type and tissue type, so my body doesn’t reject it,” Jekielek tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“We end up with a situation where there’s very, very few available hearts for transplant. There has to be this catastrophic accident. In China, it’s the exact reverse,” he continues.

Jekielek explains that one of the original whistleblowers was a transplant surgeon who noticed that a patient was able to get an organ to order in just two weeks' time.


“Which means that that catastrophic accident was being arranged,” he tells Glenn.

And to be able to arrange this kind of sale, China has a very specific recipe.

“They have this long history in communist China of creating class enemies. OK, one of the first was land owners. They wanted to seize people’s land,” Jekielek explains.

“So they push this mass dehumanizing propaganda into the system, demonizing the land owners, convincing everybody that these are bad people, that they’re evil, that they’re dangerous, and basically conditioning the population to hate these people,” he continues.

After a successful dehumanization campaign, these people are incarcerated.

“They blood-typed, tissue-typed, and organ-scanned them across a database of a million or maybe 2 million people,” he tells Glenn.

“If I’m a rich person, I’ve got that 200 grand. I drop the money. That transaction is made, and I can get that new heart in two weeks,” he continues.

“Someone the regime has pushed dehumanizing propaganda against to be used against their will as my donor kills to order. That is what they do over there,” he adds.

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The Summit with More at Stake Than You Think

Summits between American and Chinese leaders often seem to mark turning points in international politics. In the 2013 meeting in the Sunnylands, the freshly installed Xi Jinping mollified Barack Obama by promising to stop his regime's hacking campaign. After breaking that promise, in 2016 Beijing denied Obama a staircase for Air Force One and forced him to exit "the ass of the plane" rather than get the normal red carpet. Last year's showdown in Busan partly halted the trade war, and this year's summit indicated that the uneasy truce will continue.

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White House drops anti-communism ad as Xi arrives in US — Glenn Beck says everyone’s missing the point



On Wednesday, the White House released an anti-communism TV ad titled “America Will Never Be a Communist Country.” It started airing on Fox News and Newsmax the same night Xi Jinping touched down in the United States for a summit.

Glenn Beck believes the contents and the timing of the ad are no coincidence.

He points out that the ad’s montage of images feature “[Trump] with the people” and “in the Oval Office,” followed by several clips of jets and bombers.

“[Trump] is showing the people love me; I am everywhere; I am doing everything; I have a huge apparatus and a huge support in the country. Oh, and one more thing. I have the toughest effing military in the world,” says Glenn.

He believes Trump “is sending Xi a message”: “We love you. You're a great friend. But we will never be communist.”

“That commercial is, I think, more for the Chinese than it is for you,” he says, noting that the message was likely also targeted at New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Trump, Glenn explains, is deliberately flexing American military muscle. Just as he fills the Oval Office with gold as “a projection of power for the Europeans,” he is showing Xi Jinping that “America is not weak, that Trump is not weak.”

China's perception, he claims, is that Americans are weak complainers.

“They hear us as a bunch of whiny people. ... We have told the entire world, every enemy of ours, we have no stomach for war. ... You hit us with gas, we're done,” says Glenn.

“Notice that Xi stayed out of the conflict with Iran for a while — until when? Until we started whining about gas. He saw that, and he went, ‘Ah, they're going to back out because the American people won't put up with it.’ That’s when he got involved.”

When Xi arrived in the U.S. this week, Trump’s “number one job,” Glenn speculates, was to sit him down and show that neither America nor Trump is weak — regardless of what the polls say.

He conjectures that Trump was indirectly telling Xi, “I don't care if I have a 4% approval rating. I don't care what you've heard about our military. I got so much stuff packed in mountains that nobody even knows about, and I'll use all of it.”

“He has to convince Xi to back out,” says Glenn, explaining that China “is doing more to hurt our gas prices than anybody else because China is now supplying things for the Iranian people.”

What everyone is missing about Trump’s anti-communism ad, he argues, is that it’s directly tied to lowering gas prices.

“So when you see [this ad], know one thing,” says Glenn. “That's the president working for you at the gas pump. That is the president saying, ‘I hear the American people. I know what's going on. The number one guy who is making that price go up is President Xi.’”

Trump is trying to cut off Iran’s “lifeline,” he explains. Even though it’s China sitting in the Oval Office, Iran is getting a clear indirect message: “You're not phoning any friends anymore. You're isolated. You're alone. I'm going to collapse you. And if I can't collapse you, I'll kill every single one of you one by one. You are not going to survive.”

To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the video above.

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Sarah Trone Garriott attacked incumbent Zach Nunn for accepting China-connected campaign money. The Democrat has done the same.