No Chinese Balloons Above Tennessee

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Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn sits down for a conversation with host of the Sara Carter Show, Sara Carter, about national security. They go beyond the Chinese spy balloon incident that the title of the conversation references to border security and agricultural and technological warfare. China has launched a multi-faceted assault on the United States, and the spy balloon crossing the United States was just a symptom of a larger problem. It was a signal of the greater encroachments China has made on the United States by way of TikTok, acquiring American agricultural land, and facilitating drug and human trafficking through the southern border. TikTok, a China-owned social media platform, has been the center of controversy for its violation of user privacy and free speech. It is collecting user data, biometrics, and behavioral patterns to create profiles of American citizens while targeting children and controlling the content they consume. The United States is handing China another virtual portal into the country by allowing Chinese broadband network, Huawei, to place towers in the United States and near nuclear weapon storage facilities. China’s influence is not just virtual, however, but very real in the form of purchased agricultural land in the American heartland near military installations. The land gives China influence on the food supply and a platform for spying on military activity.

Perhaps the most egregious offense, is China’s facilitation of drug and human trafficking through the southern border. China is the number one supplier of fentanyl to Latin American drug cartels who then funnel it illegally into the United States. The result has been a devastating drug epidemic that has killed thousands of Americans. The humanitarian crisis of human trafficking has also resulted due to the cartels’ increased accessibility across the border. China is, thus, truly in the middle of a full-fledged war on the United States that is taking lives, prisoners, and land.