How China Bought the Biden Family
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Review How China Bought the Biden Family Even if Biden wakes up to CCP’s threat to America, he’s in too deep to escape BY STEVEN W. MOSHER n the classic movie The Manchu- Irian Candidate, an American prisoner of war is brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party into becoming an unwitting assassin of an anti-communist presidential candidate. While the CCP is a master at brainwashing, and is certainly not averse to assassinations, it has long followed a simpler script where American politicians are concerned. Yestock/Getty Images. The preferred ploy is for Party operatives to offer a politico’s im- nizing a bribe for what it was — sent Now “Pop” says that he knows mediate family members sweetheart the CCP operative packing. The oth- nothing — zip, zilch, nada — about business deals. The expectation is er candidate’s son accepted a $1.5 bil- his son’s business dealings in China that the paterfamilias will then toe lion “investment.” Then Hunter Biden and elsewhere. Son Hunter, on the Beijing’s line — or else. went back to China at least five times other hand, complains in an email Both 2020 presidential candidates for more. extracted from his defunct laptop have been offered such barely dis- Nobody pays useless money to a that he has to give half of his earnings guised bribes. One candidate’s son- drug addict. The intended recipient to “Pop.” in-law was offered a half-billion-dol- of this largesse was obviously “Pop” Dead computers don’t lie. lar “investment” into his family’s real Joe Biden. estate firm. Jared Kushner — recog- (continued on page 5) 2 Which Way Forward? 8 Beware the Controllers 3 All Thanks to You 9 Pandemonium, Part 2 4 Jesus for Our Times 11 PRI in the News 6 Vatican on Vaccines 12 From the Countries INSIDE JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021 1 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021 VOL. 31, NO. 1 One of Two Divergent Paths: Review What’s Next for Pro-Life The Population Research by Steven W. Mosher Institute Review is published bimonthly by: Population Research y the time you read this, the U.S. Refund the World Health Organiza- Institute Bpresidential election will have been tion, another UN agency that relent- 109 East Main St. resolved in favor of President Donald lessly pushes abortion, sterilization Front Royal VA 22630 Trump, who will serve a second term, and contraception overseas, not to (540)-662-5240 or Vice President Joe Biden, who will mention helped China cover up its [email protected] serve his first. COVID-19 crimes. www.pop.org Of course, if the recounts and law- Other actions harmful to life will suits take as long or longer than they happen as well, albeit largely out of Fr. Paul Marx, OSB, PhD did in 2000, when the Supreme Court sight of the American public. A Biden (1920-2010) did not decide Bush v. Gore until 37 administration will: Founder days after the election, the matter may Demand that poor countries ac- still be in limbo. Steven W. Mosher cept the radical anti-life anti-family What is clear is that, depending President agenda. upon the outcome, our nation will take Joel Bockrath Insist that poor countries legalize one of two starkly different paths. Since Executive Vice President abortion as a condition of receiving most of my work has been on pro-life foreign aid. Jonathan Abbamonte issues, and the bulk of this in the inter- Research Analyst national arena, let me lay out what these Appoint fanatically pro-abortion ne- two paths mean to me, a lay Catholic gotiators to the UN, where they will Karen Shannon pro-life leader who has been fighting for push for abortion to be recognized Development Manager life for over three decades. as an international “human right.” Carlos Polo Simply put, if Joe Biden becomes You may wonder if I am not paint- Director, PRI Latin the 46th President of the United States, ing too grim a picture of what a Biden American Office administration portends? I wish I were, all of our work is in the crosshairs. The Carlos Beltramo but I have been in the pro-life trench- most pro-abortion administration in Director, PRI European es too long to be sanguine in such American history will take office on Office January 20, 2021. matters. Joe Biden has pledged to his Progres- The actions I outlined above were sive supporters that he will immediately all taken by two previous Democrat Design by sign Executive Orders that will: administrations—Bill Clinton’s from 1993-2001 and Barack Obama’s from Perceptions Studio Force Americans to fund Planned 2009-2017—and there is every reason Amherst, New Hampshire Parenthood. to think that a third will as well. Eliminate the Mexico City Policy, Indeed, a Biden administration may allowing taxpayer money to pay for well pose more challenges for Catholic abortions in other countries. pro-lifers than earlier Democrat presi- Refund the UN Population Fund, dencies because of the sharp left turn the very fund that helped create the that the party has taken on social issues brutal Chinese One Child Policy and in recent years. everywhere pushes for abortion. (continued on next page) 2 Indeed, a Biden administration We Can Do may well pose more challenges All We Do for Catholic pro-lifers than earlier Because of You! Democrat presidencies because of Happy New Year! the sharp left turn that the party has nd thank you for making it taken on social issues in recent years. Apossible for PRI to say this! It’s all because of you, and hun- dreds of others who were so gener- The Democrat party long ago will further expand the Mexico ous in your Christmas gifts to PRI, rejected the position popularized City Policy, helping to keep U.S. who have helped us to get 2021 off by Bill Clinton, namely, that abor- funds out of the hands of those to a happier start. tion should be “safe, legal and who would use it to perform or I can’t say it enough: you rare.” It now enthusiastically en- promote abortion. make everything that we do pos- dorses a radical abortion activism The bishops tell us that the pro- sible. From sending ultrasound that at times has even portrayed tection of innocent unborn life is machines to pregnancy centers baby killing as a positive act. the paramount issue, and on this in need in the poorest of places Major figures in the Democrat the position of the two candidates around the world, to investigat- party advocate abortion on de- could not be further apart. If there ing and exposing the numerous mand up to—and in some cases ever was, in the political arena, a human right violations that result beyond—childbirth. Manichean divide between light from coercive population control As a convert to the Catholic and darkness, between good and practices worldwide. faith, it is troubling for me that evil, it is now before us. You are the means for every the next Catholic to sit in the Oval The election will have only one saved baby, every healthier mother. Office—only our second in over of two outcomes. Either the light So as we enter into this new cal- two hundred years—may be the of Trump’s pro-life polices will endar year 2021, please remember most radically anti-life president stay on, or we will be plunged into how thankful we are, and how glad we have ever had. the darkness of an administration we are that you have joined in this There is another possibility. If that seeks to promote, in every life-saving work! Donald Trump is re-elected, the way imaginable, the greatest evil pro-life policies I have outlined of our time. above will not only stay in place, Whatever happens, of course, Thank you from they will be expanded. I was an faithful Catholics will not be curs- all of us! early supporter of the President, ing that darkness. Instead they largely because of the pro-life will be lighting candles—first be- Steven, Chris, Joel, Karen, promises he made to me, and I fore the altars of their churches, Jonathan, Allen, Ellen, have not been disappointed. and then through the good work Kate, Olivia, Cari, You may not have heard that, that they will do in assisting, for Therese and Sophie even during the press of last example, crisis pregnancy cen- month’s campaign, the President ters at home and pro-life proj- found time to sign a new execu- ects abroad. And I know that you tive order encouraging adoption will be helping PRI as we battle over abortion. And there is a new on, fighting for Life. rule, now in its final stages, that JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2021 3 PRI’s special gift to you . Reflections from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen – Reflections you’ll turn to for a lifetime! Like me, I imagine you are a great admirer of Ven- And there is more … erable Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. He set the standard Bishop Sheen asks for powerfully preaching the Faith through his radio this question–and and television broadcasts, reaching millions of people it certainly applies weekly for twenty years. to situations we As you probably know, Life of Christ is Bishop find ourselves in Sheen’s ultimate book of reflections. But at 690 pages, today: many (perhaps most) faithful Catholics simply don’t “How many times have the time to give Life of Christ the slow, careful do you read in the press reading it deserves (I am among them!).