Mr. Chen mixes holiday greetings with elaborate questions about manufacturing in Vietnam and Mexico and the future of Venezuela's oil industry. This is a pattern, whether it is trying to recruit spies who are staffers on Capitol Hill, or whether it is placing spies as staffers to Democrat senators, or whether it is sending honey pots to sleep with Democrat elected officials like Eric Swalwell, or whether it is in this instance, and this is the most brazen, electing a Chinese Communist spy as a mayor, a Democrat mayor. This is a concerted effort and we need to be serious fighting this. Yeah, I agree. And I think the sensing guidelines are another big part of this. (16:41–17:10)
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Asserts a pattern of Chinese espionage involving recruitment and placement of spies in U.S. political positions.
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