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Biden pardons Chinese spies convicted of stealing American tech secrets
The New York Post ^ | 12/13/2024 | Isabel Vincent

Posted on 12/13/2024 3:59:49 PM PST by thegagline

President Biden pardoned two Chinese spies and the relative of a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party who was caught with tens of thousands of images of child pornography on his computer last month in a prisoner swap between the two countries that was made public Thursday when the three received clemencies.

Yanjun Xu and Ji Chaoqun, who were both convicted of espionage, were granted clemency last month, along with Shanlin Jin, who was convicted of possession of more than 47,000 images of child pornography while a doctoral student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 2021.

Five days later, on November 27, the Chinese government released three Americans who were serving prison sentences in the Communist country: Mark Swidan, a businessman from Texas, who was arrested in 2012 and accused of drug related offenses; Kai Li, who had been held since 2016 on espionage charges; and John Leung, who was sentenced in 2023 to life in prison on spying charges.

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Xu was the first Chinese government intelligence officer ever to be extradited to the US to stand trial for targeting US aviation companies to steal technology, according to a DOJ press release. He was convicted by a federal jury in 2021 on conspiracy to commit economic espionage and conspiracy to commit trade theft, among other charges. The career intelligence officer who was a director of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the country’s main intelligence and security agency, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a federal court in Cincinnati a year later.

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Is there any doubt that Biden is the Manchurian President
1 posted on 12/13/2024 3:59:49 PM PST by thegagline
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To: thegagline

HE CERTAINLY IS THE PERVERTED PRESIDENT


2 posted on 12/13/2024 4:02:39 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: thegagline

Why in the world would Biden do this?


3 posted on 12/13/2024 4:06:23 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

Because China owns him


4 posted on 12/13/2024 4:10:04 PM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: thegagline

cha-ching


5 posted on 12/13/2024 4:10:46 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: faithhopecharity

Because Xi promised to destroy Brandon’s senses of taste and smell if he didn’t.


6 posted on 12/13/2024 4:14:33 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: faithhopecharity

Has to be a money trail somewhere. Why else does the Biden crime family do anything?


7 posted on 12/13/2024 4:21:13 PM PST by SiGeek
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To: thegagline

Say what you will about Joe, he stays bought.


8 posted on 12/13/2024 4:21:23 PM PST by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: thegagline

Inflation, 20% for the big guy.


9 posted on 12/13/2024 4:27:06 PM PST by DAC21
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To: thegagline

Looks like the Commies got their money’s worth buying some of Hunter’s paintings.


10 posted on 12/13/2024 4:31:34 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: thegagline

Who’s really doing all this Pardon crap ?


11 posted on 12/13/2024 4:32:12 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

It’s not the guy with applesauce for a brain !


12 posted on 12/13/2024 5:03:48 PM PST by onona
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To: thegagline

and almost immediately we have drones flying over our country!!! HMmmmmmmmmmmmmm....


13 posted on 12/13/2024 5:53:09 PM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: thegagline

The big guy did receive 10 percent and needs to deliver. This will be one of the last returns of that Chinese investment.


14 posted on 12/13/2024 6:02:54 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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Because China owns him

The certainly paid plenty for him.

Looks like they are getting their money's worth.

Appears to be tens or hundreds of millions of dollars.

15 posted on 12/13/2024 6:05:54 PM PST by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: faithhopecharity

10 million+ and a teaching job at 1 million a year, probably passes to jill when he is gone.


16 posted on 12/13/2024 6:30:06 PM PST by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: thegagline

He’s doing what his regime puppet master tells him to do.
The democrats are in cahoots with China.
Covid came from China.
The drones are probably from China working in concert with dems and the CIA.
The drone flyer arrested in California was Chinese.
1000’s of Chinese agents have been iinvited in across the border by Newscom.
The weather balloon was Chinese.
The Chinese and dems are going to do something big to screw up Trump’s agenda up big time again.
In the movie, “ The sum of all fears,” a hijacked nuke is set off at a football game ni Baltimore, Maryland.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/us-news/larry-hogan-sees-drones-hovering-at-maryland-home-after-similar-incidents-in-new-jersey-new-york/
Guess where the army/navy game is tomorrow?
Maryland.
Who’s going?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daniel-penny-nyc-subway-chokehold-jordan-neely-trump-army-navy-football-game/
WEIRD.


17 posted on 12/13/2024 6:59:45 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: faithhopecharity

Why, for 10%, of course!


18 posted on 12/13/2024 8:43:10 PM PST by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! SUPPORT THE FAIRTAX!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

19 posted on 12/13/2024 8:44:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
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To: thegagline

Aiding and abetting the enemy…


20 posted on 12/14/2024 6:07:11 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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