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‘Unprecedented’
"No laughing matter". That's how one bank described the escalating consular battle between the US and China.
Now that the media has figured out China's San Francisco mission may be harboring a fugitive whose crimes include wearing a PLA uniform in a yearbook picture (it's a little more serious than that, but there's room for humor), one imagines tensions will ratchet higher still.
Mike Pompeo is scheduled to give a speech Thursday called "Communist China and the future of the free world" -- in
Both countries have had intelligence personnel operating out of embassies and consulates for decades. What’s unprecedented (almost) is that the Trumpian idiots are openly talking about it to score political points. If they have their way, Trump and Company will cause the dismantling of an intelligence operation that took decades to build. Simply breathtaking stupidity.
Yeah, I mean, the idea that intelligence officers in consulates is somehow a new development is absurd and it’s even more absurd that Pompeo would suggest as much given the roles he’s occupied over his career.
It seems to me that Pompeo is just an automaton that knows better than to think.
Just another trump peon who will join the ranks of the unemployed next January.