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Tom Tiffany: “Former President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…”

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'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy

Published June 27, 2024 | Video Starts at 01:22

These directives do not help the United States and they do not help Taiwan. But they do help the Chinese Communist Party. And that is why Former President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got rid of them. Unfortunately, the Biden administration quietly reinstated them in 1920 or excuse me, in 2021. And that is why I'm offering this amendment today. (01:22–01:28)

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“My amendment would prevent the enforcement of arbitrary, self-imposed State Department rules that limit communication between U.S. officials…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 00:22-00:32
“These guidelines are designed to prevent high-level coordination between our two countries.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 00:32-00:38
“These rules inhibit the ability of high-ranking US Defense officials to work with military planners in Taipei.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 00:46-00:54
“They impose degrading and embarrassing restrictions that serve no reasonable purpose, such as a ban on displaying Taiwan's flag and the…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 00:53-01:07
“They even police language warning American officials not to refer to Taiwan as a country or its elected leaders as a government.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 01:06-01:16
“These directives do not help the United States and they do not help Taiwan. But they do help the Chinese Communist Party.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 01:15-01:22
“Unfortunately, the Biden administration quietly reinstated them in 2021.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 01:27-01:35
“It makes no sense that a State Department memo supersedes the laws we pass.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 01:38-01:44
“America should not have to ask China for a permission slip to talk to our friends and allies in Taiwan or anywhere else.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 01:43-01:52
“The executive branch sometimes does not get it right as we saw with President Jimmy Carter who adopted the one China policy here.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 03:41-03:55
“Congress had to step in with the Taiwan Relations Act in order to make sure that Taiwan was identified as a country.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 03:55-04:03
“We've seen the impacts of that weakness across the globe.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 04:20-04:25
“My amendment would withhold U.S. contributions from the corrupt and scandal-plagued United Nations.”
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“Despite making up less than 5% of the world's population, Americans remain the largest single state contributor to the UN footing around 1…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 06:02-06:14
“What have our donations financed? Decades of mismanagement, waste, fraud and abuse.”
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“More than a dozen UNWRA employees participating directly in the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel and potentially 1000 more with links…”
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“Seats on the UN. So-called human Rights Council for the notorious rulers of countries like Communist China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 06:42-06:53
“Incompetent UN agencies like the World Health Organization, which ignored Taiwan's early warnings about the dangerous Wuhan virus and chose…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 06:52-07:06
“The UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently cooked up a plan to take on backyard barbecues, burgers and brats, demanding that…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 07:13-07:30
“It's time to put the UN's bloated bureaucracy on a diet and stop outsourcing our sovereignty to the shady transnational organization.”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 07:37-07:47
“I've authored a resolution that I hope to see in July in regards to the World Health Organization which stood with Beijing rather than the…”
'America Should Not Have To Ask China For A Permission Slip': Tiffany Slams Biden's Taiwan Policy | Uploaded June 27, 2024 | 10:19-10:29
“The virus that came from a lab in Wuhan almost certainly came from a lab in Wuhan and devastated our world.”
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