It has been a year since Joe Biden ended a Trump-era initiative to hunt down Chinese spies. The results of this decision have been devastating. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on January 29, “The Chinese Communist Party’s inside every major American university today with research dollars and with their students. They’re at the University of Pennsylvania, too. And we now know that this Chinese money, these Chinese officials met classified documents in that space. They were in the same place.”

The reason Pompeo drew attention to the University of Pennsylvania was that a trove of classified documents was discovered at the Penn Biden Center, where Biden worked from mid-2017 until he started campaigning for the 2020 election. Yet as concerning as this classified document scandal is to America, the Chinese espionage scandal is even worse. It doesn’t look like Biden was storing anything overly sensitive at the Penn Biden Center, yet Chinese professors are stealing millions of dollars in trade secrets yearly.

Just last month, a Kansas district court ruled that University of Kansas chemistry professor Feng Tao should not serve jail time for lying about his recent trip to Fuzhou University in China because he received no money from that institution. He had initially faced up to 20 years in prison and substantial fines under the Trump-era policies. But Biden wants men like Feng working in Kansas even though Chinese espionage costs America between $225 billion and $600 billion yearly, which is almost the entire U.S. defense budget.

And the Chinese threat to corporate America is just the beginning. According to the Epoch Times, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn recently dropped a case against Baimadajie Angwang, an ethnic Tibetan arrested for working to connect Chinese officials with senior contacts in the New York Police Department. According to court documents, Angwang told his official Chinese handler that he wanted to get promoted within the New York Police Department so that he could assist the People’s Republic of China in keeping tabs on the Tibetan community in New York. Still, his indictment was dismissed after Biden changed the persecuting rules.

It should be no surprise that the Biden administration has a soft spot for China. Nonprofit research group Marco Polo has put together a 630-page analysis of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop that documents extensive business connections between Hunter Biden and Chinese firms like Bohai Harvest rst and cefc China Energy Company Ltd. This dossier also documents business connections between Hunter Biden and Chinese politician Ho Chi Ping, whom Hunter called the “spy chief of China” in a 2018 voice message.

The Marco Polo report fully documents 459 violations of state and federal laws found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, including 191 sex offenses, 128 drug offenses and 140 business crimes. And many of the business crimes involve Communist China. So you can see why Joe Biden would want to soothe relations with his son’s business partners by allowing the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate U.S. universities.

This level of corruption is shocking, but it is not unique to the Biden family.

“The central pillar of the corrupt new order is the American elite’s relationship with China,” Lee Smith wrote for the Tablet in September 2020. “American political and corporate elites didn’t choose decline. They chose to get rich. By shipping America’s manufacturing base off to China, they seized a business opportunity the likes of which had never been seen before—an enormous captive labor force controlled by an authoritarian regime that guaranteed the steady production of goods at a fraction of what it would cost at home.”

Since the Clinton White House granted China most-favored-nation trade status in 2000, over 3.7 million American jobs have been lost to China—mostly in the U.S. manufacturing sector. President Donald Trump’s trade war with China earned him the enmity of the Clintons, the Bidens and America’s whole China class, which has grown wealthy helping China become a world-class power by offshoring America’s industrial strength.

The Prophet Amos condemned leaders who put their selfish interests above the needs of their people. “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! … Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph. Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed” (Amos 6:1, 3-7).

During the reign of Israel’s King Jeroboam ii, powerful people “put far away the evil day” as they enriched themselves while afflicting the people. They “swallow[ed] up the needy” and engaged in deceitful business practices (Amos 8:4-6). But God promised these people would be the first to be taken captive when the Assyrians invaded.

Today, you see this same attitude in America—especially among the political class selling America’s industrial might and natural resource wealth to foreign nations in return for profit. They put far away the evil day and refuse to mourn for the affliction of their nation. President Trump built his political campaign on a promise to drain the swamp of establishment politicians and start fighting for the interests of the American people.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry explains in America Under Attack that President Trump is an end-time type of King Jeroboam ii. Like the ancient King Jeroboam, God will use him to save his nation from the brink of destruction, just as He warns, “I will not again pass by them any more” (Amos 7:8). This will be America’s last chance to repent. That is why God is allowing so much governmental corruption to be exposed. People have to see how bad things are if they are going to “wake up” and realize something is wrong.

To learn more, read “Wake Up to the Threat From China,” by Stephen Flurry and Joel Hilliker.