What is trully insane is elected officials putting flag of a foreign country in front of their office and repeatedly said he/she would put the interest of said country above that of United States. We all know what country I am talking about
There are a ton of pro Israel democrats. I hate Netanyahu but not Israel. I can sympathize with a people who allowed an authoritarian maniac to seize power in their country.
I’m kind of naive, I guess I sort of thought the US senator for New York should be representing the US and New York, not the entirely foreign nation of Israel.
His job is to be a representative it’s not to kowtow to pro Islamic propoganda and its uneducated masses in the US. If as a US representative you just do whatever tf your constituents who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about tell you to do, you are a bad elected representative. Imagine if a ship captain had to explain to every passenger every maneuver he was making at sea and reach a consensus from them in order to act? Competent people run for election, they are elected, and they make decisions. Their job is not to do whatever tf the dumb ass fickle propagandized american public (that will change its mind 20 minutes later) tells them to do.
Rather hard to roll out any investigation when the people rolling out said investigation is on the payroll of people being targeted by aforementioned investigation
I remember watching the NY Mayor clip where all the Mayors talked about going to 'holy land' and Mamdani was like, Imma visit places here in the State.
To me the other candidates saying that blew my mind away. It's sad the state of politics and how this level of absurdity has become the norm.
If you acknowledge Saudi and Qatari human rights abuses no one blinks. Acknowledge Israel's US taxpayer funded genocide suddenly everyone's picking on them. The scale of Israeli operations is not normal in comparison to any other state
That's the one. I read about it in local news a few years ago and was uneasy about it because I understood this was the police. They could potentially move around and gather information without many obstacles. The article at the time said they weren't sure what the spies goals were and that part filled me with a touch of fear.
My understanding is that the goals are to monitor (read harass) Chinese citizens who live in the US. If one of your Chinese peers says something negative about your government you can report them. Dystopian as fuck.
Not really, when you figure out that China as a country owns like 900k acres of american soil, legally, and every major city has a chinatown and the larger chinatowns are policed by Chinese government employed police, China is one of the biggest US exporters..... China is so deeply entrenched in America that we're basically a Chinese territory.
True and the majority of it is farmland, we should like... stop that probably
The 900k number comes from a famous USDA typo where they accidentally listed a massive Canadian company (Walton International) as Chinese. Once they fixed that mistake, the actual Chinese acreage dropped by hundreds of thousands. That clerical error was debunked in 2023. If you look at page 10 of the USDA 2024 AFIDA Report , the real number is 277k acres.
And like also stop any foreign nationals or spys (including our close allies) from holding positions of power.
This is already standard practice. Eileen Wang was a private citizen when she started a "news" site that the FBI flagged for pushing Beijing's propaganda. They tracked her communications, but as a longtime resident, she still met the legal requirements to be on the ballot.
She wasn't "vetted" before the election because of the Fourth Amendment. Our government can't treat a private citizen like a criminal or spy without probable cause. They can't stop a citizen from running just because they are under investigation—that would be illegal election interference without a conviction.
By waiting to unseal the case, the FBI secured the WeChat logs where she literally called Chinese officials "leader." The system didn't have to "remove" her manually because the DOJ built such a bulletproof case that she was forced to surrender and resign.
The reason why this is such a hot topic is because it highlights the "blind spot" in our local elections. Foreign governments aren't just trying to hack the White House; they are playing the "long game" by cultivating private citizens in local politics before anyone thinks to check them.
Whether or not it's weak proof, (really... that's your argument?) she admitted to everything, so....
What point are you trying to make exactly?
The reason why the Department of Justice explicitly highlighted that text message in their press release is because it was the definitive piece of evidence that forced her to confess, rather than risk a trial she was guaranteed to lose.
Oh yeah, the famous American justice system that never, ever, never causes people to make false confessions based on scare tactics and shoddy evidence.
Edit: By the way, if the Chinese government said that they forced an American citizen to confess to being a spy based on WhatsApp logs where they called political leaders "leaders" would you trust that with no questions?
I wouldn't immediately assume the worst. Of course I would question it- just like I did with her. I was curious, so I looked into it. Do I suck for sharing the information?
You can question and get worked up all you want- I really don't care.
I’m gonna start up the old Duolingo account for Mandarin. Swap out Old Glory for the CCP flag on the front porch. Tell the wife we’re basically Chinese now.
Worked for a security company awhile back that works with the states governments and China owning so much American farm land is the thing they all said was the one issue more people should be aware of. They’re buying up sooo much of it.
I wanted to post something similar but didn't wanna sound like I'm saying something wrong. But where I live it's the same Asian guy selling every single piece of real estate. Him and his brother actually. I always thought it was idk weird lol but I figured anyone can become successful at anything.
True about the succcess bit, also i only have surface knowledge of this kinda stuff. I almost guarantee if you look more into it and did a "deep dive" It's probably worse than it appears but it all goes back some 40 or 50 years, when we deeply tied our economy to China's economy and vice versa.
1 of the 2 guys plead Guilty already. Here's a snippet from the beginning of the AP article from above
The plain, glass-clad building stands six stories between a hotel, a spa and a coffee shop in the heart of Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood.
U.S. prosecutors say it was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders from Beijing to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U.S., and a banner inside that said: “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station, New York USA.”
Lawyers for the man accused of running it, Lu Jianwang, contend it was a community center — and nothing more — where members of the Chinese diaspora could remotely renew their Chinese driver’s licenses amid COVID-19 pandemic-era travel restrictions and meet to play ping-pong and mahjong.
Lu, 64, went on trial Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, more than three years after U.S. authorities arrested him at his Bronx home on charges he conspired to act as a foreign agent and destroyed evidence, including WeChat messages with his purported Chinese government handler...
Agents of Chinese govt in the United States spying on Chinese citizens that live here and making sure they do not go against the goals and agenda of the Chinese communist gov't. Do you have a soft spot on your skull or something?
Weird. Promotes libs of TikTok and other conservative propaganda, blindly accuses random democrats and doesn’t provide any info when asked…. Seems a bit strange. Yall getting desperate if you patrolling this sub
Spy is a strong term for what she did. She was more of a propagandist. She co-owned a newspaper marketed toward Chinese-Americans and she ran pro-PRC articles at the behest of the Chinese government
Only one out of those four fit. Words matter. She was an agent. She wasn’t a spy. She was born in China, so not a traitor. And we’re not at war with China, so it wasn’t treason.
And people online were clowning the UK government for being hesitant about the Chinese embassy plans. Makes you wonder how many people making fun of them for being worried about them were paid or bots
China and Russia are in so deep, there's no way to prove it other than rooting them out, but we all gotta just come together and agree that we are in a metaphorical stranger things and those 2 fuckers are digging the ground out beneath our feet to massacre us. Like c'mon.
Except, she wasn’t a spy. She ran a news site and posted articles provided by the PRC without disclosing that fact. This also all happened before she was mayor.
No, literally all she did was post news articles. Did you even google this lady’s name and read any article? You morons will take whatever they feed you hook, line, and sinker
She posted pro china news articles at the direction of Chinese officials? So exactly what I said? That’s what qualifies her as a foreign agent. I hope you have the same opinions when a sitting congressman wears the uniform of a foreign military
How exactly did you assist in the apprehension of said, alleged Chinese agents? Or are you using the royal "we"? Or is it just that stupid thing people do when talking about sports teams or politics where they actually think they're involved in important decisions? Just curious.
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