Posted on 07/30/2020 6:20:36 AM PDT by The Houston Courant
In the week since the Trump administration evicted the Chinese consulate in Houston, American leftists have begun to echo China’s assertion that allegations of intensive espionage by the communist country are overblown. The Intercept’s Mary Hvistendahl, who in the past has reported from Shanghai for Science magazine and other publications, for instance has characterized China’s reported activities as “hardly an imminent threat to U.S. national security that would require closing a consulate.” She nonetheless had to concede some extent of “technology transfer or intellectual property theft” by China in the recent past.
Hvistendahl and others who oppose ousting the consulate reiterate that the U.S. State Department has gone into little detail regarding evidence of spying. Presumably not joking, they expect American diplomatic and intelligence agencies to elucidate to the press—and, therefore, to China—specifically how economic interference and medical-research theft were detected. But pro-China apologetics can get even more staggering than that.
Last Wednesday on Twitter, just after the ouster was announced, ABC 13 reporter Miya Shay assessed the accusations against China as utterly unremarkable: “Everyone spies, right? But nobody admits to it.. that’s sort of the point, right? That just appears to be how these things go?” Also in a Twitter exchange with viewers, she wrote, “I think it’s a given that every country spies. That’s what the movies say.” That afternoon, Shay conducted an exclusive interview with Chinese Consul General Cai Wei, offering little pushback against his insistence that the consulate hasn’t been complicit in spying or that the office’s burning of documents last week was alarming.
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Trump is the first American president, in the last THIRTY YEARS to stand up for America.
The first one.
Asian culture puts the group first over the individual, it is completely incompatible with our way of thinking...
“Everyone spies” = “I am a spy.”
The coziness our top edu and research centers have with china should frighten the crap out of any reasoning person.
I contracted for a Scholarly Publication for a few months, and the fawning and closeness with china made me feel uneasy.
Our brightest minds tricked into helping the enemy, under the guise that we are helping the billions of people live better.
If China were ever to take over the world, everyone not Chinese would be seen as chattel! We would all be slaves!
Well, it is true that everyone spies. We even spy on our best allies, and they spy on us.
Nice excuse, ShayIdiot.
You spy till your caught, then you are disavowed.
Got to maintain that plausible deniability, yo.
“Asian culture puts the group first over the individual, it is completely incompatible with our way of thinking...”
Agreed, but as we may be stuck with their way of thinking, which is different from ours, it doesn’t mean they are welcome here just because they are another country. Also, if you find articles, it will mention that they were burning documents in their courtyard while packing. Kind of displays a small problem there doesn’t it? If they were benign, they could be sent out to burn. Why didn’t they want them observed if they were innocent and could not possibly incriminate themselves?
Besides, they have a history. The following is a list of spies investigated and caught from China, most since 1995:
Larry Wu-tai Chin, Glenn Duffie Shriver, Katrina Leung, Peter Lee, Chi Mak, Moo Ko-Suen, Wen Ho Lee, Fei Ye, Ming Zhong, Lan Lee, Yuefei Ge, Gregg Bergersen, Tai Shen Kuo, Anne Lockwood, Michael Haehnel, Fuping Liu, Bryan Underwood, Bo Jiang, Hua Jun Zhao, Walter Liew, Guoqing Cao, Shuyu Li, Sherry Chen, Xiaoxing Xi, Szuhsiung Ho, Edward C. Lin, Kun Shan Chun, Candace Marie Claiborne, Kevin Mallory, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, Xu Jiaqiang, Shuren Qin, Ron Rockwell Hansen, Ji Chaoqun, Yanjun Xu, Xudong Yao, Yi-Chi Shih, Yu Zhou, Li Chen, Zhongsan Liu, Hongjin Tan, Xuehua Edward Peng, Zaosong Zheng, Yanqing Ye, Dr. Charles Lieber, Anming Hu, Simon Saw-Teong Ang, Xiao-Jiang Li, Qing Wang, Xin Wang, Juan Tang, Chen Song, Kaikai Zhao, and Jun Wei Yeo.
Smoke/fire.
rwood
Note the superior glare. No big deal, China people spy on you! Communist Party no big deal either! Just the way it is! Learn to love it!
Get in line, paleface racists! Bow down, and never criticize All Powerful Number One Communist Party of China people!
They were doing more than just spying. They were funding insurrection against the US
Asian, Black, Hispanic, they all put La Raza over the individual and it’s all supposed to accepted...........................unless you are White, and then you are being RACIST!
Maybe so, but everyone also catches spies and boots them out when they are found.
Agreed, they should only be allowed here IF THEY ACCEPT AND ABIDE BY OUR WESTERN CULTURAL NORMS.
The irony is that countries such as China will deny entry visas for any individual who they believe will violate theirs, which also includes specific races (especially blacks) and religions (Muslims, aka I submitters™).
But as Jerold "sandwich" Nadler would tell you, "this is just a myth".
Sounds like the Red Army has an asset in the Texas Legislature (and local media).
And if you accuse these Stalinists of spying, they have the nice handy-dandy race card to play. The Communists invented it.
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