I'd be hard pressed to see what influence China has in the US.
Seriously?
Convictions from the Clinton Administration
Finance: Johnny Chung - Clinton cronie - felony guilty plea - funneling money from China
Gene Lum - convicted - felony for money laundering for the DNC
Nora Lum - convicted - felony for money laundering for the DNC
Howard Glicken - guilty plea - 2 misdemeanors - funneling foreign donations
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie - guilty plea - illegal Clinton campaign donations
John Huang - Clinton cronie - felony guilty plea - funneling money from China
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China has the largest shipping company in the world. All under the control of the Chinese military.
President Jimmy Carter set the date for releasing Panama from US control.
President Bill Clinton worked to arrange for China to get the long term leases on the seaports at both ends of the Panama Canal. They also got a long term lease on part of the Longbeach seaport. They are working on deepening a seaport in the Bahamas near a 13,000-foot runway.
Prior to President Clinton, China had a difficult time hitting the Pacific Ocean with its rockets. Clinton changed the bureaus responsible for approving the sale of our rocket motors and rocket guidance systems. Now they have pinpoint accuracy with their highly dependable rockets and have demonstrated that they can destroy satellites in orbit.
Those are all facts. My thought is that it isn't impossible that the Chinavirus was developed in a known research facility near Wuhan China. We have no clue as to what that research facility is capable of doing or what areas they study. Is it impossible that they were working on a destructive virus? Intentionally or unintentionally, did it get loose?
The US seems to set goals and targets a decade in advance, at most. The Chinese, in the next 100 years.