A Group of Xi’s old friends from Iowa have been invited to a dinner he will attend next week, 38 years after they welcomed the then-unknown party official for a Mississippi River boat ride as they showed him how capitalists do agriculture.https://t.co/aJd5B00Od4
3 President Xi recalled his first visit to the U.S. during which he stayed at the Dvorchaks in Iowa. He said that he still remember their address—2911 Bonnie Drive. That was his first face-to-face contact with the Americans. The days he spent with them are unforgettable. For… pic.twitter.com/JPNpvlckzF
Biden accompanied Xi to his car following their meeting. "It's a beautiful vehicle," he remarked. "It's a Hongqi car, made in China," Xi replied. This brief moment became top trending on Weibo today, where it received over 270 million views. pic.twitter.com/piyhUlCxr6
China's Xi Jinping rolls into San Francisco inside bulletproof, 18ft Hongqi sedan – but it's dwarfed by Joe Biden's 10-ton, $1.5million Cadillac https://t.co/3qLogWyUG9
Hongqi LS7. SUV, 4.0T, 360Ps, electric side pedals, leather seats, double row heating and ventilation, front row massage. 231109F pic.twitter.com/ivJhI2Em3A
“The lab contained thousands of vials biological substances… infectious pathogens including the AIDS virus, COVID, TB, and the deadliest form of malaria.
One freezer was labeled Ebola.” — @jaketapper reports on the CA biolab operated by a Chinese national illegally in the US. pic.twitter.com/0g2DOipGem
— Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (@committeeonccp) November 16, 2023
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BREAKING: Last night, Chairman @RepGallagher, alongside @SpeakerMcCarthy & @RepJimCosta unveiled our bipartisan report on the Illegal Biolab in Reedley, CA run by a wanted PRC national with previous ties to the Chinese government.
Illegal California lab with vials of deadly viruses existed because of gaps in regulation, U.S. House Panel on China says
Tim Sheehan, Gillian Brassil
Thu, November 16, 2023 at 9:15 a.m. MYT·6 min read
A congressional committee investigating Chinese communist influence blames gaps in the U.S. regulatory framework for allowing a “wanted fugitive” to set up a clandestine biological laboratory in Reedley, California last year.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control was also faulted by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party for its “baffling” and “unacceptable” response to Reedley city officials who sought the agency’s help identifying thousands of vials of suspected contagions inside the warehouse.
The committee’s conclusions were included in a 41-page report released Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The report specifically criticizes the Centers for Disease Control for refusing to test the biological material found in refrigerators and freezers at the Reedley site, instead relying on labels on containers to determine that the lab contained samples of various infectious viruses, bacteria and parasites that include chlamydia, streptococcus, hepatitis B and C, HIV, rubella, malaria and COVID-19.
The report states that “CDC’s refusal to test left local officials unable to assess the danger to the … Reedley community or inform the community about what steps, if any, it should take to protect public safety.”
The report is based on evidence obtained through a subpoena served on the city of Reedley in September and subsequent interviews by investigators. It amounts to thousands of pages of documents seized from the warehouse where Universal Meditech Inc. set up shop on I Street in downtown Reedley, hundreds of photographs taken inside the warehouse, and hours of video.
“This evidence, alongside interviews of local officials and other investigative steps, revealed troubling gaps in federal pathogen safeguards,” the report states. “Those gaps allowed a wanted fugitive from Canada, who is a (People’s Republic of China) national who had previously stolen millions of dollars of American intellectual property, to operate an illegal facility” in Reedley.
The alleged operator of the lab, Jia Bei Zhu, was arrested in October in Reedley on federal charges of manufacturing and distributing illegal COVID-19 test kits and lying to federal investigators. He remains in custody in the Fresno County Jail. He is expected to have a court hearing Thursday at the U.S. District Courthouse in Fresno, where his attorney Anthony Capozzi said Zhu will plead not guilty when a grand jury indictment is issued.
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