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ROGER SIMON: China and Iran Want You to Vote for Biden. It?s no secret the totalitarian governmen?

By Ed Driscoll

ROGER SIMON: China and Iran Want You to Vote for Biden.

It?s no secret the totalitarian governments of China and Iran favor Joe Bidenin the presidential election.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would like nothing more than to go back to the status quo ante, the pre-Trump world when American politicians convinced themselves (or pretended to) China would turn democratic if we gave them favorable trade terms and shut up about their monstrous repressive policies, including the hundreds of thousands?or is it millions?languishing in ?reeducation? camps while the rest of their population becomes subject to the pervasive Orwellian surveillance of the ?social credit? system.

Then there?s the little matter of the as yet still mysterious provenance of the novel coronavirus, appropriately called the CCP virus hereabouts, that has wreaked such havoc across the globe. When we will know the truth about what really happened in the Wuhan virology lab?  Would a Biden administration even want to know?

And, yes, as most of us realize, there?s considerably more, but it was all okay in the view of Democrats like Biden and Sen. Dianne Feinstein?she of the Chinese chauffeur who, mirabile dictu, was suddenly exposed as a spy after twenty years of service to her?as long as there was money to be made.

And there was, a lot, as Hunter Biden, not to mention Feinstein?s husband and Michael Bloomberg, can attest.

Hunter?s father had to revise his initial praise of China, pooh-poohing the idea they might be an enemy, when things started to get a little obvious and handlers whispered in his ear this was not exactly the road to the White House.

So it?s hard to feel reassured about how Joe would behave toward the communist regime once in office. There?s a great deal more reason, actual evidence of deals, to believe the Chinese have ?special leverage? with Biden than there ever was that the Russians had something on Trump.

And politicians like Biden and Feinstein are far from alone in their fealty to Beijing. They have plenty of support among American progressives. As is well known, many of our universities, from Harvard on down, have been bribed with huge sums by the CCP to regard them favorably, even have had spies on the faculty, with Confucius Institutes, essentially communist propaganda arms, installed on many campuses.

Would a President Biden fight this network of corruption that actually justifies and teaches totalitarianism to our youth?  Does he even think or know about it?

We know Trump would because he already has. He does it.

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Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 12, 2020 (boomark / email).