United States’ Reliance on China for 90 Percent of its Medicine Could Prove Disastrous

Chinese Communist Party Wants To Destroy The United States, Bans Are Necessary United States' reliance on China for 90% of its medicine could prove disastrous. Crisis of unseen scale, experts warn deaths in China easily in millions. It's all covered in today's China Truths. Chinese Communist Party Wants To Destroy The United States, Bans Are Necessary The Chinese Communist Party, or CCP, wants to destroy the United States and is actively trying to purchase agricultural property and property adjacent to military complexes to achieve that goal. South Dakota's governor, Kristi Noem, explained in an interview, which aired on Newsmakers by NTD and The Epoch Times on January 25. Noem said, They're not a bunch of dummies. They hate us. They want to destroy us, and every action that they take is to undermine our freedom. Thus, to prevent the CCP from achieving its objective, Noem signed Executive Order 2023 on January 20. In addition to China, the executive order lists Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea as problematic. And the executive order defines them as a prohibited entity with which the state of South Dakota can't do business. Noem said about what led to the executive order, Here we had an incident up in North Dakota, our neighbors to the north, where the Chinese Communist Party and foreign entities were buying up ag land, and they were buying ag land near military installations, which they were saying were for a different purpose, but we recognize the real national security threat we have. Noem further explained, This executive order is specifically targeted towards countries that hate us. And listen, these are evil governments that want to undermine the United States of America and want to take away our freedoms and liberties. So my job as governor is to protect the people of South Dakota. This executive order builds the momentum for preventing people from doing business with the state of South Dakota that hate us. National Security According to Noem, who's worked in food policy for approximately 20 years, the CCP has grown its military and stolen the United States' intellectual property for Additionally, they've purchased fertilizer and chemical companies, as well as processing systems, to gain control of America's food supply chains. I've worked on food policy for probably 20 years now. I've seen the CCP infiltrate our food supply chain. I've seen them control different supply chains by purchasing processing plants, Noem said. In fact, there's been programs in the federal government that allowed people to literally invest in processing systems for our food manufacturing here in the United States in exchange for citizenship. Still, gaining control over America's food supply chain isn't the only reason the CCP has for purchasing agricultural land. And they've infiltrated our country now to where now they're purchasing land, and they may be purchasing this land not necessarily to grow food, but to get a presence close to some of our national security bases that they should not have any logistical latitude to be near. Specifically, Noem stated, South Dakota is home to Ellsworth Air Force Base. You know, we have Ellsworth Air Force Base here in South Dakota. It's going to be the first base in this nation to have the B-21 bombers, the next generation bombers. The most horrific thing that could happen is if China was able to come in and purchase land that would be near Ellsworth that would allow them to conduct surveillance on that new bomber that we're going to use to protect our country far into the future. Sebastian Gorka, United States reliance on China for 90% of its medicine could prove disastrous. The United States has not managed its military resources well, said Sebastian Gorka in an interview which aired on Newsmakers by NTD and The Epoch Times on January 25. But a more significant concern is the United States' reliance on China for 90% of its medicine. Gorka said, there are far broader issues than how many bullets and bombs America has. Think of this, more than 90% of the medicines we have here in America, like antibiotics, we buy from China. If China decided that it wants to take Taiwan, it wants to get military aggressive in the Pacific region. And as a price of that, they say, oh, and by the way, we're not going to sell you the medicines that you've been buying from us for the last 30 years. Not only will we not be able to fight a multi-front war against a potential aggressor, but we probably won't have enough drugs and medicines to provide for our own citizens. Gorka, a former strategist for President Donald Trump, is a counterterrorism expert and served in the British Army Reserve in a military intelligence unit. He has a doctorate in political science and was a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Gorka said President Joe Biden's decision to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine was a stupid move, but being in bed with Communist China was even more problematic. Geopolitical Stupidity According to a recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS, if a major regional conflict, like between China and Taiwan, occurred, the United States would run out of some munitions in less than one week. The U.S. use of munitions would likely exceed the current stockpiles of the U.S. Department of Defense. According to the results of a series of CSIS war games, the United States would likely run out of some munitions, such as long-range, precision-guided munitions, in less than one week in a Taiwan Strait conflict, the report found. The report further stated, the war in Ukraine has also exposed serious deficiencies in the U.S. defense industrial base and serves as a stark reminder that a protracted conflict is likely to be an industrial war that requires a defense industry able to manufacture enough munitions, weapons systems, and material to replace depleted stockpiles. Gorka, in part, agreed with the CSIS report and said Biden sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine is a perfect example of the Biden administration having no idea what it's doing when it comes to geopolitics and national security. The M1 Abrams tank is not something Ukrainians have ever used. They haven't been trained on. They don't have the ammunition for it, Gorka said. Since the beginning of the war, I've been very clear. We can assist them, but we have to assist them in ways that make sense. That Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, it knows how to use Soviet-era equipment, whether it's the AK-47 or the T-series of tanks or the BTR series of armored personnel carriers or RPGs. There are lots and lots of Soviet-era equipment. Gorka said supplying M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine and the Biden administration leaving $83 billion worth of equipment in Afghanistan are examples of the United States not managing its resources well. If you look at what's happened with the amount of equipment, $83 billion worth of equipment that was left on the territory of Afghanistan when Biden surrendered and left that nation precipitously last September, also, it hasn't been a lot of thinking being done in terms of what we're supplying to Russia, Ukraine, and how rapidly we're supplying it, Gorka said. Those types of decisions, and lack of geopolitical savvy, have left the United States in a position where it couldn't effectively fight a multi-front war. Crisis of unseen scale, experts warn deaths in China easily in millions. An expert has dubbed China's COVID management as a crisis of a scale unseen since Mao in regard to its death toll. In an opinion piece published on January 5th, sinologist and military advisor Ben Lawson warned that Chinese citizens potentially face the country's largest mass death event since the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1961. Chinese officials revealed on January 14th that there have been 59,938 COVID-related deaths from December 9th, 2022, to January 12th, 2023. Yet health experts including virologist Dr. Xiaoxu Shanlin and Stanford senior fellow Dr. Scott Atlas are concerned that the numbers may still be underreported. While this increase seems more reasonable than the 37 deaths previously reported during that time frame, Lin expressed that a death toll of roughly 60,000 does not justify the reports of inundated morgues. Drop in population. China's recent announcement about its population decline for the year 2022 has also sparked speculation that the country has been faring a lot worse than it's let on. China's 2022 decline of roughly 850,000 people to a total of 1.41 billion, according to the country's National Bureau of Statistics, is the first drop officially reported by China since 1961, the last year of the country's Great Famine. Official recognition of the declining population in 2022 is an extremely important historical inflection point. Fu Xianyi, a researcher from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a longtime critic of China's single-child policy, wrote on Twitter, Other evidence of higher death tolls comes from Tongjiang County in Sichuan Province. The county's official reports showed that by the end of 2019, there were over 670,000 residents, but at the end of November 2020, this number fell to just over 520,000. Within 11 months, the resident population fell by more than 148,000, which is over 20% of the residents. The population decline is unlikely to be caused by migration, considering Tongjiang County provides a major labor force for Sichuan Province and is marked by many employment opportunities. Since the discovery of these numbers, Tongjiang County's official webpage reporting these data has been inaccessible. Tongjiang's neighboring Nanjiang and Pingchang Counties have similarly reported a precipitous population decline in 2020. Overwhelmed Morgues Reports of crematoriums inundated with corpses suggest that the actual situation in China may be a lot more severe than we've been led to believe. Tang told NTD that with less than 60,000 deaths in a month, the number of funeral homes in Beijing alone would be enough to manage the bodies. There are 94 furnaces in Beijing, and if all of these furnaces increased operating hours to 24-7, it would take less than 27 days to cremate all these bodies. However, that has not been the case. Hebei, a province near Beijing, has also had several of its funeral homes increase their hours to 24 hours operating time, indicating that the real body count is much higher. A worker at Baoxing Funeral Home in Shanghai told the Epoch Times in December 2022 that they were burning 400 to 500 bodies a day, up from the maximum of 90 before the pandemic restrictions were lifted. Baoxing Funeral Home, Beijing's main crematorium, also had to increase to 24 hours of operation within a week after reopening, due to overwhelming demands. A funeral home employee who identified as Lin told the Epoch Times on December 14, 2022, that there was a week's backlog in cremations. We are very busy every day, and we had never been so busy, the employee said. There are more people being cremated every day than before, and the appointment calls are too many for us to handle. Many people are queuing up for our service. We don't have any rest time here at all. The facility hosts 19 cremation furnaces, according to 2017 reports, and is apparently Beijing's only place for specialty cremation, containing wider, longer, and taller furnaces for tall or obese corpses. From December 8, 2022, to January 12, 2023, Baoxing's business volume was almost seven times its average pre-opening volume. Looking at many reports of 24-hour operating crematoriums, Lin figured that if all of China's reported cremation furnaces were now running 24-7, that would amount to around 6 million deaths between December 8, 2022, to January 12. But that figure is likely only about half of all deaths, as cremation only made up less than 60 percent of Chinese people's funeral procedures in 2021. The death toll could have reached 10 million by now, Lin said. Since early January, NTD has found at least 37 crematoriums that have put forward bidding documents for furnace construction on government websites. Perhaps the most telling example of cremation demands is what happened with Shantou Funeral Management Station funeral home in Guangdong province. According to what NTD uncovered, the center needed to make an urgent purchase of two furnaces. Construction was to begin within three business days and the furnaces had to be installed within 10 days of payment. Please share your thoughts in the comments section below. We will keep reporting on the COVID surge in China, so don't forget to subscribe to our channel and turn on the notification bell to get the latest videos. And thank you for tuning in.