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CalPERS Investment Chief with ‘Long and Cozy Relationship with China’ Resigns

August 6, 2020 8:17 amAugust 7, 2020 3:45 pm

California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) said late Wednesday Yu Ben Meng resigned as its chief investment officer, Reuters reported. California Globe reported in February when House Armed Services Committee member Rep. Jim Banks (R-IND) sent California Governor Gavin Newsom...

Academia Must Wake Up to Sophisticated Chinese Espionage Threat

June 23, 2020 2:33 pmJune 23, 2020 2:57 pm

Amid the frivolity of frat houses, football games and spring break parties lies a far more serious concern on America’s college campuses. “China’s Communist Party uses American professors and Chinese national students as ‘nontraditional collectors’ of valuable information,” explains Congressman Michael...

CA Assembly Dem Budget Chair Phil Ting Outed for Extramarital Affair

June 22, 2020 4:29 pmJune 24, 2020 2:52 pm

It was revealed over the weekend that California Assemblyman Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), the budget chairman for the California State Assembly, frequented the dating site, “What’s Your Price?,” carried on a four-year extramarital affair in and out of motels with...

President Trump Orders Federal Retirement Funds Invested in Chinese Equities to be Pulled

May 12, 2020 2:20 amMay 12, 2020 9:08 am

President Trump is moving to cut investment ties between U.S. federal retirement funds and Chinese equities, in a move that is tied to the handling of COVID 19, Fox News reported Monday evening. “National security adviser Robert O’Brien and National Economic Council Chair...

California’s Coronavirus By the Numbers

April 7, 2020 3:47 pmApril 8, 2020 6:19 am

Only a few blocks away food service employees, bartenders, waiters, bakery workers, ice cream parlor employees, barbers and hair stylists, day spa workers and estheticians, boutique and retail clerks, seamstresses, Uber and Lyft drivers, manufacturing employees, and gym employees, aren’t...

More Warnings of U.S. Dependence on Goods Produced in China, and CalPERS Investments in China’s Military

March 16, 2020 6:24 pmMarch 16, 2020 6:35 pm

Last month, California Globe reported about Rep. Jim Banks’ (R-IND) letter to sent California Governor Gavin Newsom, calling for the investigation of the CalPERS Chief Investment Officer Yu Ben Meng, for his “long and cozy relationship with China.” The California...

Coronavirus and Leviathan: Is Gov. Newsom Exploiting a Crisis to Expand State Government Power?

March 15, 2020 8:08 amMarch 15, 2020 8:09 am

Executive Order N-25-20, issued on March 12 by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, “readies state to commandeer hotels & medical facilities to isolate & treat COVID-19 patients,” and also “readies the state to commandeer property for temporary residences and medical facilities...