ANALYSIS – Several of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet picks, including for Secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence (DNI), led the pro-China consulting firm – WestExec Advisors. This is causing national security concerns since the firm, as recently as late July, was publicly touting its access in China and ability to gain access for China in the United States.
Most concerning was WestExec Advisors’ push to expand Pentagon-related research and funding by Chinese entities in U.S. educational institutions. Even more suspicious was the company’s purging of that specific information from its website as soon as Joe Biden became the Democrat nominee for President in early August.
These links and the firm’s work to promote Chinese government interests in the U.S. appear to pose a potentially serious conflict of interest for Biden’s proposed national security team. And a national security concern for the country.
As Fox News reported:
Web archives show that as recently as late July, the firm was touting its success in helping U.S. research universities accept donations from China, expand foreign research collaboration, and welcome foreign students in key STEM programs while remaining a “trusted partner for DOD-sponsored research grants.”
In early August, the firm said it had helped a leading American pharmaceutical company and a multibillion-dollar American technology company gain market access to China.
Both references were removed in early August, just a few weeks before Biden formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president.
WestExec Advisors, founded in 2017, notes on its website that it “offers unique geopolitical and policy expertise to help business leaders make the best decisions in a complex and volatile international landscape.” Its co-founders include Biden Secretary of State pick Antony Blinken, and Michele Flournoy who is reportedly on Biden’s shortlist for Secretary of Defense.
Avril Haines, who is Biden’s nominee for DNI, was a WestExec principal.
Despite the purge of specific details noted above, the company’s “What We Do” page now shows more benignly that it maintains a China focus by offering to help clients manage “China-related risk in an era of strategic competition.”
WestExec’s work appears to run directly contrary to the recent developments exposing the subversive influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in American research and educational institutions, as well as massive espionage efforts across the country.
President Trump has made it a point to remove all these subversive Chinese tentacles in the U.S. in the past two years as he forged a first-ever strategy to counter the China threat. All the while Biden’s top choices for his national security team were helping communist China gain vital access in the U.S. Will Biden’s pro-China team bring these dangerous tentacles back to the U.S. and soften the U.S. relationship with Beijing?
The U.S. Senate must dig deeply into these WestExec and China links during any potential confirmation hearings. They appear to pose a potentially serious conflict of interest for Biden’s picks and a significant national security danger for the United States.
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MORON!!!
Have no fear. The treasonous corrupt demented pedo will never step in the WH.
i sure hope not~!
Joe said he is going to do. you know . the thing.
By God, the treason and subversion knows no bounds. It makes me wonder if Biden’s gun control plans include Chinese PLA troops being the ones doing door-to-door gun confiscation….
A load of buckshot to the face will rid the world of Chinese thugs just as easily as American thugs.
Hmm, Biden in bed with the Chinese! Who would have thought it?
Shepherds Chapel on tv all the time. Direct tv channel 224. Worth watching. Many of us are of the 12 tribes of Israel. GOD knows where we are all at. The tribe of Judah is in Israel. It is only one of the 12 tribes. The USA, England and a lot in Europe is of the other 11 tribes. In the King James bible read chapter 38 and chapter 39 of Ezekiel. Also read chapter 16 and chapter 20 of Revelations. Gog and Magog is Russia today (Rosh). Persia is the old name for Iran (old maps). Gomer is probably China of the east. There will be two battles Hamon Gog and Armageddon. Because Many of the USA is of the 12 tribes of Israel then the USA will be in the battle of Hamon Gog. We are the sons and daughters of Joseph. Joseph was one of the 12 tribes. The 2 sons of Joseph was Ephraim and Manasseh which is many of us. Hamon Gog will probably happen in Alaska possibly. A man named Stuart bought Alaska from Russia for appox. 1 to 7 million dollars. It was called Stuarts folly… Russia still wants that land for all its riches so they will probably try to take it back. That would be the battle of Hamon Gog. The battle of Armageddon will take place over by Israel. In these battles GOD says not to worry because he will take care of it his self just to show the anti-god countries that he is GOD. The bible tells us a long time ago what is to happen in the future. LOOK who we are in contending with right now Russia, China, and Iran + others. Many study with the Shepherds Chapel to gain much knowledge. Check out Stuarts folly on the internet or somewhere and you will see we bought it from Russia. I don’t know when this will come to pass, but I know it will. Watchmen watch. Trump 2020
china jo with his china dough now boarding on the communist express.
what else can we expect from communist democrats.
THIS CHINESE LEADER NEEDS TO STAY OUT OF OUR GOV. BUSINESS AND OUR GOV. HE HAS PUSHED HIS WAY IN HERE AND HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE CCP IS AFTER AND ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN NOT WHEN WE HAVE TRUMP. HE WILL PUT HIS FOOT DOWN. IT HAS FLOORED ME ON HOW THE CCP HAS JUST MOVED RIGHT IN WITH DUMBO BIDEN WIT H NO BY YOUR LEAVE ATTITUDE. THEY HAVE ALREADY DONE DAMAGE WITH NO GUILTY CONSCIENCE OF WHAT THEY DID TO US OR THE REST OF THE WORLD. I WANT THEM KICKED OUT OF HERE NOW.!!!!