WHO? BidenWatch for August 10, 2020. “Biden inserts foot into mouth yet again, refuses to leave his basement for something as trivial as the DNC, embraces illegal alien amnesty, mumbles about China, plays footsie with more commies, and gives up on door-knocking.”

THIS COULD BE BIG: GOP Senator Subpoenas FBI Director Christopher Wray for Obamagate Docs.

BREAKING: Hong Kong Crackdown: 200 Police Raid Newspaper, Arrest Beijing Critic Jimmy Lai.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Antifa Gives in to the Dark Side.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: What’s the difference between an antifa and a pro-fascist?

Answer: Beats us. It beats old ladies, too.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• There are certain sections of Colorado, Major, I wouldn’t advise you to invade.

• How much is that wine in the window?

• Brian Stelter: Master Gaslighter.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: TikTok’s Fate Is a Bad Sign for China’s Rise.

It’s starting to look like the biggest obstacle to China’s rise as a global technology superpower may well be its own government. As long as countries around the world mistrust China’s Communist regime, they will worry about Beijing using mainland companies to gather data on users, shape media content and interfere with critical infrastructure. If those companies in turn aren’t allowed to expand globally, China could find itself stuck in an increasingly uncompetitive bubble.

That’s what’s so dangerous about the travails of Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat, as well as companies such as telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. On Thursday, President Donald Trump issued executive orders giving anyone subject to U.S. jurisdiction 45 days to stop dealing with TikTok’s Beijing-based parent, ByteDance Ltd, as well as internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. in transactions related to its WeChat app. (Microsoft is aiming to buy TikTok’s U.S. operations before the deadline.) This follows an outright ban on TikTok and WeChat in India.

Meanwhile, last month the U.K. became the latest country to bar Huawei from its 5G telecommunications networks. And the Trump administration seems intent on going further yet. Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced an initiative that suggests the administration’s end goal is to scrub Chinese tech from U.S. communications networks entirely.

Beijing wants to enjoy the advantages of the global order but without playing by the rules that make orderliness possible.

OPEN BORDERS: Canadians ‘Doing Damage’ To American Cars, Want Immigration Restricted Amid Coronavirus Concerns.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: The Mainstream Media Has Betrayed Its Constitutional Privilege. “Sit back and wonder for a moment how any on-air CNN personality could ask with a straight face if any anti-Trump media happened to be out there. It’s so preposterous that you almost want to pity the person asking because he or she is obviously mentally impaired.”

COMPETITION: Russia wants to build its own reusable rocket, Roscosmos chief says.

SHE’S GOT HERS — WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Pelosi Takes Heat for Failed Negotiations on Coronavirus Relief Bill.

CHINA IS ASSHOLE: Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry. “Operation Skeleton Key has stolen source code, SDKs, chip designs, and more.”

At the Black Hat security conference today, researchers from the Taiwanese cybersecurity firm CyCraft plan to present new details of a hacking campaign that compromised at least seven Taiwanese chip firms over the past two years. The series of deep intrusions—called Operation Skeleton Key due to the attackers’ use of a “skeleton key injector” technique—appeared aimed at stealing as much intellectual property as possible, including source code, software development kits, and chip designs. And while CyCraft has previously given this group of hackers the name Chimera, the company’s new findings include evidence that ties them to mainland China and loosely links them to the notorious Chinese state-sponsored hacker group Winnti, also sometimes known as Barium, or Axiom.

“This is very much a state-based attack trying to manipulate Taiwan’s standing and power,” says Chad Duffy, one of the CyCraft researchers who worked on the company’s long-running investigation. The sort of wholesale theft of intellectual property CyCraft observed “fundamentally damages a corporation’s entire ability to do business,” adds Chung-Kuan Chen, another CyCraft researcher who will present the company’s research at Black Hat today. “It’s a strategic attack on the entire industry.”

What Communist China can’t innovate, they steal — and they steal a lot.

LINDSEY 2.0: Lindsey Graham Says Memo Shows FBI Lied To Senate About Dossier Source. “Somebody needs to go to jail for this.”

LITTLE MUSSOLINI: Evidence Is Mounting That Governor Cuomo Is Targeting Bars That Criticize Him for Suspension.

PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY: ‘Spiritual Health Is Essential’: Godspeak Church Defies Restraining Order, No Police in Sight.

MY LATEST FOR THE PJMEDIA MOTHERSHIP: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Myth of American Institutional Racism.

With the 75 anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings this week, the Progressive 2020 Hindsight Crowd is out in force, questioning or even condemning President Harry Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb.

Segregation in our WWII military remains a stain on our national honor. In practical terms, it was also a detriment to our warfighting capability in a total war requiring full national effort.

But it was Truman who would soon desegregate the military. It was also Truman who spared countless white, yellow, brown, and black lives in August of 1945.

Let me show you how Truman’s decision to tear the heart out of two Japanese cities was a profoundly necessary and moral decision.

This one is a deep dive into the last days of WWII, and it just for our VIP supporters.

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WHY NOT TAKE A BREAK FROM THE SERIOUS NEWS FOR A FEW MINUTES? Florida Man Friday: Supercharged Truck Attacker Goes Full T.J. Hooker.

BUT ORANGE MAN WANTS US ALL DEAD OR SOMETHING: There’s a Mountain of Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Is an Effective Treatment for COVID-19.

TROLL LEVEL POTUS DJT: Have You Seen the Trump Campaign’s 404 Error Page?

UGH: Released from jail at height of pandemic, Virginia rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser.

NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: The Cancel Culture Checklist. “Six signs that show you’re not just being criticized; you’re being canceled.”

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Lincoln Project Retroactively Endorses Obama.

Insanity Wrap needs to know: Who will the Lincoln Project endorse next in their anti-Trump delirium?

Answer: Karl Marx, we’re pretty sure.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Portland Mayor admits the obvious.

• A possible cure for lockdown fever: Math.

• Karens, defined.

And so much more, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Is Joe Biden Silent on the Attacks Against Catholic Statues, Churches, and Beliefs?

THOSE WHO KNOW HER BEST: Ilhan Omar’s Hometown Paper Endorses Her Primary Opponent.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Idiot MSM Hacks Confuse Joe Biden for a Practicing Catholic. “I’ve been a practicing Roman Catholic my whole life. I’m no saint, but I also understand that an integral part of being Catholic means that one doesn’t hold radical abortion views just for political popularity.”

REPUBLICANS POUNCE! Trump claims Biden ‘insulted the Black community’ with remarks on Hispanic diversity.

Biden’s actual words: “And by the way, what you all know, but most people don’t know, unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

UGH: Intel investigating breach after 20GB of internal documents leak online. “US chipmaker Intel is investigating a security breach after earlier today 20 GB of internal documents, with some marked ‘confidential’ or ‘restricted secret,’ were uploaded online on file-sharing site MEGA.”

This breach could prove to be a huge bonanza for malware creators.