Ben Shapiro

Because ain't nobody who really, really, really wants to move to China full-time.

Not an amazing place to live unless you're receiving benefits from the Chinese government.

In 2019, Harvard researcher Xiaozong Zhang

was arrested at Logan Airport for trying to smuggle 21 vials of biological research in a sock, and he ended up being deported.

And of course, just this week, actually, a man identifying himself as Chris Chen, according to the New York Times, came armed with a lucrative offer when he reached out to an aide to a House committee focused on threats from China.

The staff member, according to the report from the New York Times, was offered $10,000 or more by barely lifting a finger.

All he needed to do is agree to phone calls every other week to share information about the committee's work and U.S.

foreign policy about China.

So Chen, it appears, was essentially acting as a cutout for the Chinese.

The aide, instead of accepting the deal,

reported it to his bosses on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, and the panel concluded Chen was not a Singapore-based business consultant, but instead likely a Chinese intelligence officer or a contractor seeking a new recruit.

And as we know, China's technological development has been largely based on stealing American IP.

We are talking about not tens of billions, hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars in American IP stolen by the Chinese.

We know that China sends exchange students to the United States to learn about our technologies, to make connections, and then to act as Chinese operatives.

China is in fact trying to eat our lunch.

by using the power of being able to cram down suffering on their people in order to challenge us geopolitically.

Well, all of this leads up to President Trump heading on over to China.

There have been some rumors that President Trump is going to make overtures to China by not selling as many weapons to Taiwan or by allowing China to invest in data centers or manufacturing centers in the United States, both of which would be terrible ideas.

President Trump is traveling with a lot of our business leaders, and this speaks to some of the big challenges.

Already coming up, more on President Trump's trip to China and what we can do to fight back against China's opposition to the United States.