Joshua Philipp

Host of The Josh Philipp Show and Crossroads. Senior investigative reporter at @EpochTimes.

[Joshua Philipp @JoshJPhilipp]

Elon Musk was accused of having blood on his hands for DOGE’s cuts to USAID.

There was just one problem with that narrative: the data didn’t back it up.

After the cuts, Africa did not see the wave of deaths Musk’s critics warned about.

Musk fired back that deaths actually decreased while calling out USAID for funding violent leftist regime change.

The doomsday predictions failed.

And that’s before considering what happens when communities are freed from foreign aid programs that have spent decades failing to deliver the prosperity they promised.

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I break down how this happens and how USAID played a part in my latest episode.

https://t.co/erIoXM3ADg

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Foreign aid is ruining countries.

How?

By disincentivizing hard work.

Add in other problems like corruption, crime, and the local government being more focused on getting more handouts instead of serving local interests – and you’re looking at some of the key arguments on how foreign aid can actually have a negative effect.

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Economic warfare like this will hit harder than conventional war. And this will send shockwaves through China as well, unless they sever ties with Iran.

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@elonmusk Chauvin is a political prisoner. The media painted him as the symbol for an entire political movement, people following that movement believe in a false reality, and releasing Chauvin would force them to confront that false reality.

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Forced labor in modern-day gulags used to punish free thought.

Persecuted minorities and religious believers imprisoned, killed, and subjected to forced organ harvesting.

Currency manipulation and forced technology transfers.

State-backed cybercrime and intellectual property theft.

This is what followed after the CCP was given access to the free market.

The CCP exploited the free world, broke its rules, and used the wealth and power it gained to spread corruption and undermine the global rule of law.

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In 2024 alone, 37 political candidates were assassinated during Mexico’s election season.

Cartels pick the politicians they want in power and kill those who stand in their way.

And this problem extends far beyond Mexico.

Across the world, criminals have embedded themselves so deeply into political systems that standing against them can cost you your life.

That’s how a country slides toward kleptocracy: play ball with the criminals or become their next target.

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Military equipment has built-in backdoors from the CCP. It was found recently that UK drone ships were relaying data to China, and similar "supply chain threats" have also been known in the US for years.

[Tiffany Meier @tiffanymeier_]

"We're clearly in a tech competition with China [on 6G], and we are really working hard to be that offer of choice for all the users throughout the world."

Deputy Assistant Secretary @StateDept Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, John Mills tells @ChinaInFocusNTD the three areas of direct competition with China.

On how to secure the supply chain following the news of the Chinese component found in the UK's Naval drones, Mills said "this was a clarion call for everyone to redouble their efforts."

Adding, "you have to know not where did just the system come from, but where did the parts of the system come from, and where did the parts of the parts, and where did the piece parts of those parts — and you have to trace it all the way back."

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I explain the global criminal network no one talks about, and how the US can take it down.

https://t.co/7pDEMBBimO

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The US has the winning strategy for an unseen war that's being fought on a global scale.

The US could leverage foreign corruption as a tool to take down all key enemy nations, from China to Cuba.

However, the problem is that, right now, the US plays by rules its adversaries don’t follow.

Like state-backed drug trade, intellectual property theft, bribery as a way of making deals, scams, and whole economies built around black markets.

But where there’s a problem, there’s also an opportunity. And the sheer scale of state-backed crime in the world is also a weak point in many regimes.

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The CCP has spent years looking for ways to manipulate what Americans see, think, and fight about.

That includes courting legacy media journalists and using groups like BLM to heighten racial tensions inside America.

The goal is to take America’s existing divisions and drive Americans even further apart.

Watch my full breakdown of how the CCP is trying to influence America from within:

https://t.co/fXZ0xXr39t

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The CCP has been wining and dining America’s legacy media.

Journalists from major outlets took part in China-linked meetings, dinners, and trips.

Foreign agent filings described plans to recruit influential journalists and generate favorable coverage of China.

And in several cases, journalists published reporting favorable to Beijing’s positions after these trips.

Control the information, control the perception.

That’s exactly what the CCP was trying to do.

[Real America's Voice (RAV) @RealAmVoice]

CCP'S SOUTH CHINA SEA CHOKEHOLD

@JoshJPhilipp warned the CCP is building and militarizing artificial islands across the South China Sea to create an “anti-access/area-denial” zone, potentially giving Beijing a chokehold over critical oil, trade, and semiconductor routes while “locking us out.”

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Was the CCP behind the BLM protests in 2020?

Newly declassified documents reveal the CCP was actively working to inflame the racial tensions sweeping America at the time.

The CCP sought to incite demonstrations, deepen racial divisions, and drive conflict between police and anti-racism activists.

The strategy was clear: exploit America’s racial divisions and make them worse.

The CCP was deliberately trying to turn Americans against each other and destabilize the country from within.

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The CCP is grooming US journalists for positive coverage.

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: China-Linked Influence Group Paid to Cultivate Dozens of U.S. Journalists and Manufacture “Positive” Coverage of the Chinese Communist Party.

CNN. NPR. NYT. WaPo. Reuters. NBC. Bloomberg. Politico. Vox.

Here are their names. 🧵

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@ChinaUncensored Lol this is real. And the English version is coming soon. https://t.co/dfoU0WETcI

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Good news. The gold at Fort Knox is still there.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive, but the real point is what it still teaches in 2026.

In 1971 we severed the dollar from gold. Since then the currency has lost roughly 85% of its value. Prices are higher because the money itself is weaker.

A family making $50,000 with two kids that has not received a 25% raise in the last five years is falling behind.

This is now often called “affordability,” but the the accurate word is inflation.

We run annual deficits of two trillion dollars. The Federal Reserve buys about a third of that debt by creating new money. Every new dollar dilutes the value of the dollars already in people’s pockets. Gold does not expand when Congress spends. Paper does.
That is the difference.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Opioid deaths in America dropped 20% last year. That didn’t happen by accident.

President Trump’s leadership and direct engagement with President Xi opened doors that were previously closed to American law enforcement.

Now, this FBI is having frank conversations with Chinese officials to assist with disrupting the flow of deadly drugs and precursor chemicals into American communities.

-DKP🇺🇸

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The CCP may not even be capable of invading Taiwan, after it purged so many key military leaders.

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PHILIPP: CHINA'S RETALIATION COULD ACCELERATE U.S. DECOUPLING

@JoshJPhilipp says Beijing's latest trade retaliation may backfire, arguing it will only accelerate America's economic separation from China.