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Cotton: U.S. Should Eliminate China’s ‘Most Favored Nation’ Trade Status

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Monday said he will introduce a bill that would eliminate China’s permanent "most favored nation" trade status.

In 2000, the United States granted China permanent most-favored-nation status—a designation that normalized trade relations between Washington and Beijing and eliminated a series of trade barriers between the two countries. On Monday, Cotton took aim at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who as a senator voted to include China in the World Trade Organization and give Beijing most-favored-nation trade status.

"This week is the 20th anniversary of Joe Biden voting to give permanent most-favored-nation status to China," Cotton told Fox & Friends. "Over the last 20 years, that decision supercharged the loss of American manufacturing jobs."

Biden defended both decisions as recently as last week when CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the presidential nominee if he was previously naive on China policy.

"No," Biden said. "In the context of that, we want China to grow, we don’t want to have a war with China. … It’s in our interest that China be stable."

Cotton warned on Monday that "Joe Biden will continue to send our jobs to China if he’s the president." The senator’s new legislation will signal a tougher stance from Washington on Beijing to allies and China-accommodating Democrats alike, a senior aide in Cotton’s office told the Washington Free Beacon.

"We should not thoughtlessly continue to grant extraordinary privileges to a country whose behavior is indefensible," the aide said. "This sends another strong signal to our allies in the region that Congress stands with them on Chinese aggression, that it won’t be tolerated."

Cotton also said the ability to revoke China’s favored trade status could be used to deter Beijing’s belligerent behavior in critical regional issues, including Hong Kong and the South China Sea. One expert told the Free Beacon that Cotton’s proposed policy would be a welcome addition to Washington’s increasingly hard line on China.

"Senator Cotton identifies a major problem, which is China’s bad conduct in international trade," Dean Cheng, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Free Beacon. "The United States should absolutely pursue measures via the WTO, and separate measures in coordination with our friends and allies, to make clear to China that its economic activities must abide by the international norms to which it has already agreed. Whether it is withholding the export of personal protective equipment, cyber theft of intellectual property, or subsidized exports of various goods, China must be held accountable."

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Black Lives Matter Protesters Injured Surfing Cop Car and Blocking Traffic Near Site of President Trump Sacramento Visit (Video)

Several Black Lives Matter protesters were injured while blocking traffic near the site of President Trump’s visit to Sacramento, California on Monday. Trump met with Governor Gavin Newsom and other officials about the devastating wildfires plaguing the West Coast.

Videos posted online show several incidents of protesters blocking traffic lanes and harassing drivers, including swarming a police car. One protester climbed on the hood the police car as it tried to escape the mob. The protester crawled hood, onto the windshield and up on the roof as the police car kept driving. The protester surfed off the roof down the rear window and tried unsuccessfully to land on his feet, instead spinning out and hitting the pavement hard.

Longer version has protesters chanting, “You can’t stop the revolution!”

View from rear of cop car:

Another incident going viral is of a car being blocked by protesters that swerved into them and drove off. Other angles below the viral news video shows what really happened.

An ambulance took at least two of the injured protesters away.

More from the scene:

And earlier:

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Lil Marco Joins Democrats on Senate Intel Committee and Refuses to Provide Support for Recent Garbage Report

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, requested the notoriously corrupt Senate Intel Committee provide support for their recent bogus report that claimed Russia interfered with the 2016 election.  To no one’s surprise, the Intel Committee won’t comply.

The Washington Examiner reported earlier today:

The Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Intelligence Committee rejected a broad request from two Republican Senate leaders seeking access to the panel’s records to assist in their investigation into the Trump-Russia investigators.

Acting Chairman Marco Rubio of Florida and Vice Chairman Mark Warner of Virginia rejected a late August letter from Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who said that they “respect the authority” of the Senate Intelligence Committee to protect its interests, adding that “ultimately, we have the right as United States Senators” to access the records.

“We note that your request of the Committee is made pursuant to Senate Rule 26, but fails to account for the unique authorities and obligations invested in this Committee through Senate Resolution 400 and respected over decades of Senate and Committee practice,” Rubio and Warner responded. “Accordingly, we must reject the absolutist interpretation of Rule 26 that you propose. If this Committee elects to share materials that it has collected and generated in the course of its investigation into Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, it will do so pursuant to these long-standing Committee rules, and specifically, the joint agreement of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman.”

The Examiner continued:

In August, Johnson argued that “it is Democrats who have sought out and disseminated Russian disinformation” because “it was the Democratic National Committee, together with cutouts for the Clinton campaign, that paid for and helped peddle the Steele dossier.”

Grassley and Johnson told the Senate Intelligence Committee they also wanted records related to the CIA’s contacts with Perkins Coie lawyers Michael Sussmann and Marc Elias. Elias hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which then hired British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled the anti-Trump dossier. Both Sussmann and Elias had contact with Steele during the 2016 election.

The Conservative Treehouse explained why the Senate Intel Community won’t provide requested information to fellow Senators:

The reason and motives for the denial are simple, yet the majority of Americans have no idea…. The SSCI was the legislative entity, both republicans and democrats, who participated in the unlawful effort to remove President Trump from office. The risk of exposure is exactly why Mitch McConnell put Senator Marco Rubio on the committee as chairman to replace Richard Burr. The Senate was participating in the soft-coup.

The Senate Intel Community showed that although the Republicans chaired the committee, ugly crooked Democrat Mark Warner was the one running the committee.  Warner was involved in the coup and the committee released numerous reports without any supporting evidence that claimed Russia was interfering in the 2016 election.

No wonder Grassley and Johnson want to know what’s going on and no surprise the Intel Committee won’t provide any data.  Thank God Lil Marco didn’t win the 2016 Republican nomination for President.  His true colors are now coming out.

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MPR reporter quits over handling of sex misconduct reporting

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) – An arts reporter at Minnesota Public Radio News announced her resignation Monday, accusing management of dragging their feet on a potential story about a male employee at a sister station accused of sexual misconduct.

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Americans more knowledgeable about Constitution in 2020 than in 2017, survey finds

A new survey has found that significantly more Americans today are knowledgeable about the Constitution, which turns 233 on Thursday, than they were three years ago.

According to the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, 51% of Americans can name the three branches of government, compared to …

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Inside the Beltway: Michael Savage: America’s at war with itself

Many Americans are now wondering when the next crisis will arrive in the U.S. They mull those memories of a fine economy, record low employment, a promising trade deal with China and a more peaceful Middle East. All that was flourishing before the coronavirus pandemic hit, followed by unprecedented social …

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FBI Raids Home of Netflix Star and Biden Surrogate Over Underage Sex Allegation

A man featured in a campaign video with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is under federal  investigation for soliciting sex with minors, according to USA Today.

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