David Lam

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"China's been on a very significant six-month losing streak. Let's think about it, Venezuela, the Maduro regime had been one of their puppets for decades —that's gone." @AlexGrayForOK unpacks for @ChinaInFocusNTD the recent moves in Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba, and how we should read the back-to-back summits in Beijing.

Rubio says China and Russia are arming Cuba and running spy bases just miles from Florida. China is upgrading secret spy bases in Cuba that can eavesdrop on U.S. military commands across the Southeast, including Florida. Rubio just announced the arrest of Adys Lastres Morera, sister of the executive president of GAESA, the Cuban military conglomerate that controls 40% of the island’s economy. She was living in Florida on a green card. Now it’s revoked. She’s in ICE custody. Rubio’s warning there is little time left for the regime. #Cuba #China #Russia #Trump #Rubio #NationalSecurity

🚨BREAKING | A new @ChinaSelect investigative report is out today and the findings are troubling. Our investigation and subsequent report found that @jpmorgan, @BankofAmerica, and @MorganStanley helped Chinese companies tied to the CCP’s military apparatus and forced Uyghur labor raise BILLIONS in global capital markets. Just months after @DeptofWar designated Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. (@catl_official), the world’s largest battery maker, as a “Chinese military company,” JPMorgan and Bank of America moved forward with underwriting its Hong Kong IPO, helping the company raise billions in new capital. According to our investigation, the banks proceeded even after CATL was linked to China’s Military-Civil Fusion strategy and despite evidence connecting the company to entities tied to the PLA, China’s defense-industrial base, and forced labor in Xinjiang. The investigation uncovered CATL partnerships and business relationships with blacklisted Chinese defense-linked entities including @Huawei, NORINCO, CETC, @CSSC_global, COMAC, @ChinaMobile_X, and @CN_Nuclear_Corp. The report also details CATL’s ownership stake in Wuhu Shipyard, a key builder of Chinese naval vessels and military equipment, as well as research partnerships tied to the PLA’s National University of Defense Technology and China’s nuclear weapons complex. The Committee found further evidence linking CATL’s supply chain to Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC)-connected entities implicated in forced labor and the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang. According to the investigation, CATL refused to provide full supply chain audits, while banks proceeded with the deals anyway despite public evidence and internal diligence reports identifying ongoing exposure to forced labor risks. In a separate transaction, Morgan Stanley sponsored the IPO of Zijin Gold even after its parent company and Xinjiang subsidiaries were added to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. Internal documents showed the firm identified significant sanctions and national security risks and moved forward regardless. Our investigation concluded that Wall Street’s due diligence processes prioritized deal completion over national security and human rights concerns. Policy changes are needed to stop U.S. financial institutions from bankrolling companies tied to the CCP’s military buildup and forced labor system. More on the report here: chinaselectcommittee.house.gov/media/press-re…

News: President Trump will announce at 11 am new EPA actions rolling back Biden-era refrigerant restrictions, projected to save American families & businesses over $2.4B, a White House official tells @NTDNews. Savings will hit consumers via lower grocery prices, cheaper refrigerated transport, and more affordable home AC. Projected savings at a glance: - $900M+ from fixing the 2023 Technology Transitions Rule - Up to $1.5B for transporters of refrigerated goods - 350,000+ high-skilled American jobs protected - Lower-cost options preserved for homeowners’ AC repairs/replacements

@Telegraph @sophia_yan China could've created the greatest civilization of all time and lifted out of poverty the hundreds of millions who still are deprived, but its government correctly realized that this would require uncomfortable political form, so they built this police state instead.

President Trump says Xi Jinping asked him directly whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan if China attacked. Trump’s response: “There’s only one person that knows that… I don’t talk about that.” Now Taiwan’s president is thanking Trump and Rubio for reaffirming U.S. policy toward the island — while a $14 BILLION arms package hangs in the balance. Trump calls it a “very good negotiating chip.” Taiwan says peace in the Taiwan Strait “will never be sacrificed or traded.” Many analysts say it will likely go through as Trump already approved an $11 BILLION weapons sale to Taiwan in December. And getting U.S. allies to spend more on their defense is a priority for the Trump administration. Why Taiwan matters: • Nearly 50% of global container traffic passes through the Taiwan Strait • Taiwan is central to the global semiconductor industry • Beijing considers Taiwan its top issue with Washington • Another Trump-Xi summit is already expected later this year The world is watching this standoff closely.

A taste of Communist China. An awkward moment unfolded in Beijing during President Trump’s visit Thursday, when Western reporters found themselves in a standoff with Chinese security personnel at the historic site, Temple of Heaven. According to video broadcast by the BBC, journalists traveling with the presidential press pool were blocked from leaving a building as President Trump and Xi Jinping toured the site. Reporters repeatedly told Chinese officials they needed to return to the president’s motorcade. One Chinese official responded: “Security of our side do not allow you sir to leave this building.” The situation reportedly began after a Chinese security officer blocked an armed U.S. Secret Service agent from entering the area. No explanation was given to the press. “We gotta go!” “Move, move, move!” Eventually, reporters pushed their way out without further escalation. Frustration was evident, with one U.S. press member telling colleagues: "Be gentle but we are going. Don't run over anybody. Do not do what they did to us." Another striking moment: voices from the Chinese side could be heard asking in Mandarin, “Whose idea was this?” Separately, Fox News host Bret Baier said his crew’s vehicle was ticketed within minutes in Beijing — a reminder of the extensive surveillance apparatus operating across the Chinese capital. For many Western journalists, it was a brief but revealing glimpse into the atmosphere of control and restriction under the Chinese Communist Party.

Dueling statements out of the Trump-Xi Summit @SteveYates Senior Research Fellow on China and National Security Policy @Heritage unpacks for @ChinaInFocusNTD the main takeaways of the visit: Iran, Taiwan, Fentanyl, Trade, and Human Rights What China's focus on the Thucydides trap is, and if any substantial moves come out of these types of summits.

Sam Altman, 41, said OpenAI needed to become for-profit. Testimony: donations and $10 billion in funding weren't enough to stay afloat. While OpenAI generated revenue, the CEO said it couldn’t cover its costs. Evidence for the high profile Elon Musk v. Altman trial is coming to a close. Musk says without himself, OpenAI wouldn't have existed. He's suing the executives for changing the non-profit structure and alleged unjust enrichment. ntd.com/ntdplus/openai…

The Chinese Communist Party has committed some of the worst human rights abuses in modern history. Their victims are mostly Chinese. Forced organ harvesting. Religious persecutions. Genocide. I joined @NTDNews to expose how the CCP is directly opposed to American values.

President Trump could ask Xi Jinping directly: Does he really want his legacy to be that of a murderous organ-harvesting regime? The president's negotiation style involves maintaining a "great relationship" with Xi (and other key U.S. antagonists). In this context, the above strikes me as the most compatible way for the President to raise the issue. People have been asking me—what could the President do? This is one thing, among a great many. Referencing core human rights and religious freedom helps the president build more leverage. The CCP knows very well it's its achilles heel.

An NVIDIA executive says the company’s AI computing costs are now higher than what it spends on employee salaries, showing just how expensive modern AI has become. Despite fears of AI replacing workers, humans are still cheaper for many tasks today.

🚨CASE UPDATE from @FBILosAngeles: Arcadia, California, Mayor Federally Charged with Acting as Illegal Agent of the People’s Republic of China Eileen Wang has been charged in federal court with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). From late 2020 through 2022, Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun worked at the direction and control of PRC government officials. They coordinated with U.S.-based individuals to promote the PRC’s interests by, among other things, promoting pro-PRC propaganda in the United States through U.S. News Center, a website that purported to be a news source for the local Chinese American community, and they received and executed directives from PRC government officials to post pro-PRC content on the website. Read more: justice.gov/opa/pr/arcadia…

🚨 BREAKING: Trump says the Iran ceasefire is now “ON LIFE SUPPORT” after Tehran rejected the latest U.S. peace proposal. He’s warning more U.S. strikes could be coming. U.S. & Israel already wiped out dozens of top Iranian leaders — including their supreme leader — and destroyed their missile capabilities. Now America has a full naval blockade on Iranian ports. Over 60 ships blocked. Strait of Hormuz shut down. Gas hitting $4.50/gallon national average. Trump says he'll suspend the federal gas tax (18 cents/gallon) to lower prices.

⚖️ UK prosecutors say the 2 men gathered details on Hong Kong pro-democracy activists on British soil. The men worked for those connected to the CCP, and were told to find out what cars the dissidents drove, where they lived, and their social media.

Rare earths is out for China, energy and human rights are in for the U.S. @LeeSmithDC, bestselling author of "The China Matrix" unpacks for @ChinaInFocusNTD how the leverage has changed ahead of the Trump-Xi summit. "Right now, the positions are very different, since Donald Trump now has a hand on lots of the oil that Beijing was getting at very steep discounts. So right now, Donald Trump controls a lot of China's energy, and that's that that makes things very different. Xi no longer has the the the amount of leverage that he had," Smith tells me. Human Rights "Presidents have shied away from human rights in China since at least Tiananmen Square. This is something that presidents have not only shied away from, but they've essentially covered up for... So when President Trump says he's going to make some noise over human rights, I think this is a very big deal, and I think it marks a significant change from his his predecessors," Smith said. Taiwan "The way I believe that President Trump sees Taiwan, and I think the appropriate way to see Taiwan is as a function of a much larger problem. Taiwan is obviously strategically crucial for the United States, right and for Western civilization, the entire first island chain. If China makes a run on the first island chain makes a run on Taiwan, that's a big problem." Elite Capture "But the reason that China's military is such a threat, the reason the People's Liberation Army is so big and so powerful, as Donald Trump has said many times before is because the United States has made China Rich...So this is why the tariff regime, this is why the trade war has been so important to President Trump, to eliminate that trade deficit, or at least in the mean, at least until it's eliminated, cut it down seriously, and to take money that the People's Republic of China has been used to investing, investing in different instruments to defeat the United States, to take that money away from them," Smith noted. Venezuela, Panama, Iran "The biggest thing right now is we're seeing that Donald Trump has been rolling up Beijing's allies around the world, Iran, Madura and Venezuela... That's the big difference right now, the amount of leverage that Donald Trump has over Xi Jinping and that he has over the Chinese Communist Party, and that is because he has his boot on Iran's throat, that's a very big deal," Smith said.

@NTDNews On OpenAI donations Brockman said he asked Sam Altman: “How do I actually donate this money?” He said he’d let me know when the time was. .. “He has not yet.”

INTERESTING EXCHANGE: Lawyer reads from Brockman’s journal: “… been thinking about maybe we should just flip it for a for-profit, making money for us sounds great and all.” Brockman: “It was an expression of frustration, not a plan.” Lawyer: “How many times did you rehearse that?” Brockman: “I’m not sure I understand.” Lawyer: “The phrase… Had you rehearse that phrase before you came to court today?” “No” “You sure?” “Yes” “Anybody write it down, tell you this is a good one to use?” “Nope.”

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said he invested zero dollars for his ownership interest. @gdb testifies in week 2 of Musk v Altman trial