China Has Infiltrated U.S. Government

In Washington, the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t have to hack or trick Americans — it usually just buys them off. Too many politicians, bureaucrats, and their ilk suffer from willful blindness at best or naked greed more commonly. The result is a New China Lobby paralyzing Washington, as Chinese Communists wage economic war and prepare for actual war.

China does, of course, have actual spies in Washington. After the 1996 election, for example, the Democratic National Committee had to return more than $2.8 million from Chinese agents and military intelligence. The scandal resulted in nearly two dozen criminal convictions. In another case, Chinese double agent Katrina Leung, over more than a decade, received $1.7 million from the FBI, slept with at least two FBI agents, and stole classified material, including information about a highly classified counterintelligence program.

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Tom Cotton represents Arkansas in the U.S. Senate.

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In Washington, the Chinese Communist Party doesn’t have to hack or trick Americans — it usually just buys them off. Too many politicians, bureaucrats, and their ilk suffer from willful blindness at best or naked greed more commonly. The result is a New China Lobby paralyzing Washington, as Chinese Communists wage economic war and prepare for actual war.

China does, of course, have actual spies in Washington. After the 1996 election, for example, the Democratic National Committee had to return more than $2.8 million from Chinese agents and military intelligence. The scandal resulted in nearly two dozen criminal convictions. In another case, Chinese double agent Katrina Leung, over more than a decade, received $1.7 million from the FBI, slept with at least two FBI agents, and stole classified material, including information about a highly classified counterintelligence program.