Will China Attack America From Within?

Our feature story this morning, “The EU’s First Dictator?”, is an interview with a Hungarian journalist speaking out against the authoritarianism of Viktor Orbán. It highlights the Bible’s warnings about Europe’s direction.

Experts: China aims to destroy America from within: Growing evidence of China’s intent to use irregular warfare to weaken and neutralize the United States have informed recent warnings from top national security think tanks. Those warnings align with biblical prophecies and should be sounding alarm bells.

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The Modern War Institute says, “The ways available for China to inflict serious physical and psychological damage on the U.S. homeland and population in case of war are only limited by Beijing’s imagination.” The July 15 report by Sandor Fabian, a former special operations officer, says 9/11 was only a taste of what is possible:

If 19 hijackers with about $500,000 could cause such unimaginable physical and psychological damage, consider what China could do with its vast resources, years of preparation and deep reach into U.S. society.

The risks of directly confronting the U.S. are too great. But irregular warfare, Sandor argues, offers plausible deniability and far less risk of full-scale retaliation. These include cyberattacks, sabotage and psychological operations aimed at disrupting political and military decision-making, overwhelming emergency services, eroding public trust and deepening societal divisions.

America is deeply dependent on the smooth operation of critical infrastructure to facilitate communication, commerce and every other facet of society, and is thus rich with soft targets—power grids, communication networks, transportation hubs, energy facilities, financial systems, even military installations. Most of these sites are unsecured, creating endless possibilities for nightmare scenarios that would require few resources and little expertise to create.

Another report, from the RAND Corporation’s Ian Mitch in April, describes how China has built a network of sources, including law enforcement officers, in American cities willing to harm civilians or damage property. In one case, an operative disguised as an art dealer installed surveillance equipment in his workplace. “It is not hard to imagine how operatives trained in such covert surveillance could instead plant explosives, start fires, or carry out assassinations,” he writes.

U.S. authorities have tracked dozens of incidents in which Chinese nationals, sometimes posing as tourists, attempted to access military bases and other sensitive sites. U.S. national security officials are concerned that such incidents may signal early efforts by Beijing to test security and develop plans to physically attack these locations.

Last month, two Chinese nationals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party were charged with smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen into the U.S. This is just one of several recent incidents showing China’s intent to deploy spies, collaborators or students on U.S. soil. FBI data from 2020 showed that half of its 5,000 counterintelligence probes were China-related, and the threat has increased since. The FBI aggressively investigates Chinese intelligence assets, but the scale of China’s operations poses a risk of undetected spies.

Official figures show that Chinese entities have bought 265,000 acres of American agricultural land in recent years, some of it near sensitive military sites. Such land could easily be used to stage operations similar to the one Ukraine conducted against Russia last month.

“Additionally, irregular warfare in the U.S. homeland could also occur to set conditions ahead of an expected conflict,” Sandor writes. This aligns with biblical prophecy, which foretells major disruptions within America (and the other nations of prophetic Israel) that precede a direct foreign attack.

Violence, destruction and burning prophesied to overwhelm America’s cities are likely sparked, at least in part, by attacks such as these reports suggest. Passages suggest technological disruption that means “none goes to battle” in the event of war—probably caused by cyberattack. Other prophecies speak of economic siege that cuts America off from foreign markets and causes violent tumult.

These prophetic warnings should not be ignored, and experts are showing how readily they could become terrifying reality.

Don’t give your kid a smartphone: Children who own a smartphone before age 13 face much worse mental health outcomes in early adulthood, a new study has found. The global study of over 100,000 18-to-24-year-olds, published in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, found that early smartphone ownership leads to higher rates of suicidal thoughts, aggression, emotional instability and low self-esteem. It suggests early smartphone use often leads to social media exposure, increasing risks like cyberbullying and poor sleep.

Smartphones aren’t good for teens at any age, but the younger kids are when they get them, the more damage they do. A StudyFinds summary reports:

Those who got phones before age 13 show higher rates of aggression, feelings of detachment from reality and hallucinations. Among specific mental health functions, early smartphone users struggle more with self-image, self-worth, emotional control and resilience—particularly females. Males show greater difficulties with stability, calmness, and empathy.

Girls are particularly affected. For example, 48 percent of girls who got phones at age 5 to 6 reported suicidal thoughts, compared to 28 percent who got them at 13. What would the numbers be for girls who never get them?

The study also shows that effects in the English-speaking world are worse, both because we give our kids smartphones at younger ages, and because the English-speaking Internet has “a greater volume of harmful, hyper-sexualized or exploitative content compared to other languages and regions.” What an embarrassing condemnation of the modern nations of Israel.

The study’s researchers recommend age restrictions on smartphone access, mandatory digital literacy programs and stronger tech company accountability to protect children’s mental health. Parents: Don’t wait for the government to fix this. Don’t give your child a smartphone. He will live—and will be healthier for it.

Why you shouldn’t believe the media: A picture is worth a thousand words, and last week, pictures of this poor young child eloquently expressed the suffering of children in Gaza:

Pictures of this child appeared in CNN, NBC, BBC and several other major news outlets. The Daily Express called it “a horrifying image encapsulating the ‘maelstrom of human misery’ gripping Gaza. Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, one, weighs the same as a three-month-old baby, as famine slowly snuffs out life in the sealed-off enclave. … Hunger and suffering has now reached a level never seen before with at least 12 children dying from malnutrition in the past 48 hours alone.”

Turns out it is a blatant lie. This boy doesn’t look like that because he is starving, but because he suffers from a rare muscle disorder. As HonestReporting pointed out, in some of the other photos, his older brother is in the shot—healthy, alert, well-fed:

The media shamefully published only the pictures that supported their narrative. They lied and knew they were lying.

IN OTHER NEWS

Four people were murdered in New York yesterday after a gunman walked into a 44-story building in Manhattan and began shooting. The shooter was known to have mental health problems, and authorities have not yet revealed a motive. To understand why such attacks are tragically common, read “The Motives for Mass Shootings.”

We are about to get even more information about Barack Obama’s lie that Donald Trump colluded with Russia. CIA director John Ratcliffe said over the weekend he would soon declassify a secret annex to John Durham’s 2023 report. An anonymous source told Fox News that this annex shows that a foreign intelligence service knew in advance of the way the FBI would smear Trump “with alarming specificity.” The source said that “the release of the classified annex will lend more credibility to the assertion that there was a coordinated plan inside the U.S. government to help the Clinton campaign stir up controversy connecting Trump to Russia.” We’ll continue to report on this as it comes out.

India wants to resume doing business with China: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s call yesterday for a resumption of business relations is the latest sign of reconciliation between the world’s two most populous nations. In October 2024, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi initiated a thaw by meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping. Last week, India resumed tourist visas for Chinese citizens after a five-year gap. Biblical prophecy shows that a partnership between India and China will emerge in the modern era, supported by Russia. Our In Brief has more.