'Blood Money' author Peter Schweizer tells 'Life, Liberty & Levin' China's connection to the drug crisis is larger than believed.

More than a year after their spy balloon nearly launched an international incident, China has hit a rough patch. Slowing growth, an aging workforce and the aftershocks of their "zero-COVID" policies have fueled their economic woes, with foreign businesses’ direct investment falling to a 30-year low.

Yet certain inexplicable decisions from the White House represent a lifeline to a country that has made no secret of its desire to supplant the United States as the world economic superpower by 2035. Here are three of them.

First, President Joe Biden used Super Bowl Sunday to debut his campaign on TikTok. In doing so, Biden implicitly defied the orders of 34 governors, including many Democrats, who have explicitly banned the app on government devices. Biden’s decision "worried" Democratic Senator Mark Warner, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who urged the United States to follow India’s lead and prohibit TikTok.

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At issue are two competing interests: political vs. security. On the former, Biden is desperate to win over young voters, normally a reliable Democratic voting bloc, but where recent polls show him behind former President Donald Trump by a considerable margin. More than four in 10 voters between the ages........

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