It’s not just Eric Swalwell. Many American politicians are owned by China

lifesitenews ^ | 12/10/2020 | STEVEN MOSHER

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Most of them — but by no means all — have D’s after their names.

December 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Last night I went on Laura Ingraham’s show to talk about the Chinese spy who helped her lover get elected to Congress. It’s a spy story right out of the pages of Red Sparrow, the novel, later made into a movie, about Soviet-era sexpionage.

The operative in question went by the name of Fang Fang which — fittingly, given her occupation — translates into “Fragrant” Fang. Axios reported that Fragrant was sent by the Chinese Ministry of State Security to America in 2011 in order to cozy up to Democrat politicians in Northern California.

One of her most important “conquests” was then-Dublin City Council member Eric Swalwell. She promoted his political career, bundling cash for him during his successful 2012 campaign for Congress. She remained in close contact with Congressman Swalwell even after he became a member of the highly sensitive House intelligence Committee in January 2015.

As tempting as it is to focus on the story of how “Fragrant” Fang got her hooks into Eric Swalwell, the big picture is far more important. The use of “honey pots” — women who were sent into the enemy camp to seduce and compromise its leaders — has a long history in China and is still in use today. “Fragrant” Fang is only the latest in a long line of attractive young women who have been sent to America to compromise American politicians, gather intelligence, and influence policy.

John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, warned in a December 3rd op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that Beijing was attempting to “dominate the world.” He highlighted how Chinese spies pose a much bigger threat to the U.S. than any other country not only because of the sheer scale of the effort that the Chinese Communist Party is making, but also because of its scope. Chinese spies, using sex, drugs, and money as bait, not only carry out military and commercial espionage, they also compromise U.S. lawmakers for the purpose of reshaping U.S. foreign policy to favor Beijing.

He expanded on his concerns in an interview with Catherine Herridge this past Sunday, stating that China was using blackmail, bribery, and covert influence to target members of Congress. The goal is to make sure that “only laws that are favorable to China are passed.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed another aspect of Chinese spying in the U.S. on Wednesday, warning that China was aggressively attempting to influence state and local governments in various ways, including by offering all-expense-paid trips to China and seemingly innocuous sister-city agreements.

The scale of China’s influence operations inside the U.S. dwarfs anything that the Russians, or any foreign power, has ever attempted. There are literally thousands of U.S. officials at various levels of government — federal, state, and local — who have been approached by Chinese intelligence operatives and offered inducements of various kinds to become a “friend of China.” The PRC carefully tracks their response.

For example, here are lists of “friendly” and “tough” governors that were published in a report by the Chinese-run “D.C. Think” group in 2019. There are 17 “friendlies” listed versus only 6 “toughs,” which gives you some idea of just how successful Beijing has been in winning friends and influencing people. Given the way the CCP operates, these efforts always involve something of value changing hands.

Occasionally, in an unguarded moment, a Chinese official will be open about just how much leverage they have been able to acquire throughout successive presidential administrations.

For example, Di Dongsheng, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, recently suggested in a Nov. 28 speech that China “has people at the top of America's core inner circle of power and influence,” and that “China had influenced American policies for decades through a covert network of ‘old friends’ who had penetrated the highest levels of the U.S. government and financial institutions before the Trump administration.” He went on to say that the Chinese Communist Party had helped Hunter Biden obtain Chinese business deals.

I listened to Prof. Di’s lecture in Chinese. He was bragging about China’s ability to corrupt and control American politicians like Joe Biden and their families — and the audience was laughing uproariously as he did so. They were greatly amused at how the Chinese Communist Party had so cleverly outsmarted the naïve and stupid Americans.

Di ended his talk on China’s influence operations in the U.S. by saying that he could not provide further details about the work of Chinese agents without compromising their identities. But he did admit that President Trump’s trade war with China had upset decades of close ties between Washington and Beijing that the CCP’s network of agents had facilitated. If it were not for Trump, he suggested, China would still be having its way using their “old friends” at the highest levels in Washington.

The best evidence that Professor Di’s revealing speech was accurate came when it was quickly scrubbed from the Internet after it began to be circulated on these shores. Chinese agents spend years, even decades, cultivating relationships that may one day pay off in terms of policy decisions down the road. And they do not hesitate to use any and all means at their disposal, from cash bribes and sweetheart deals to family members, to drugs and sex, as in the case of Hunter Biden. Most, but by no means all, of those who have been compromised in this way have D’s by their names.

One final comment on Eric Swalwell: For three-plus years Swalwell used his stature as a member of the House Intelligence Committee to give credence to his claims that President Trump was colluding with Russia. He would go before the TV cameras and say the most outrageous things about the President. He relentlessly promoted the fabricated Steele Dossier, with its phony stories of dalliances with Russian prostitutes, and intimated that Trump was being blackmailed.

Now it turns out that Swalwell himself was in bed with a Chinese spy, who was using him to gain information for China.

(When asked whether he had a sexual relationship with “Fragrant” Fang, he refused to comment on the grounds that — the information “might be classified.”)

Nancy Pelosi, who has known for the past five years that Eric Swalwell was a security risk, should immediately remove him from the House Intelligence Committee.

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who followed me on Laura’s show, suggested that simply kicking Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee doesn’t go far enough. McCarthy suggested that he should be forced to resign from Congress as well.

I have to agree.

[doc maverick]

Yup! Both demonrats and some repukes on the take from China and won’t help Trump. Don’t these stupid idiots know the CCP will chop their heads off when they are done taking over America?
That includes YOU Bill Gates! You are very stupid and greedy.

[Rennes Templar]

Trump- Russia was a distraction from Democrat-China collusion.

To what end? Why would Democrat Americans want us to be like China?

[nathanbedford]

Many of us have been predicting long before the election that a victory for Joe Biden would lead to at best a Regency presidency and at worst a coup of sorts. In short we were predicting that sometime after the inauguration the Democrats vying for virtual if not titular ownership of the Oval Office would start eating their own.

It seems that our predictions were not ambitious enough. There are many straws in the wind indicating that the infighting has already commenced. The revelations concerning the crimes of the Biden family are not emanating from conservative sources, rather, the Biden family itself released information that Hunter Biden was being criminally investigated. This is no longer being ignored by the left-wing press but trumpeted by the left wing press, witness the article by The Daily Beast. Were the Biden's tipped by the DOJ, by The Daily Beast or other left-wing media?

The fact of the Biden corruption is after all old news, more interesting is the source of the revelations. Left-wing media sources are citing anonymous leaks from the Department of Justice, my bet is that those leaks in the Department of Justice are coming not from right-wingers but from the very same leftists who tried to unseat Donald Trump by waging lawfare. Donald Trump has been deposed, they believe, and their useful idiot is now expendable. After all, Biden has promised all things to all leftists but the exotic menagerie of leftist interests are not always parallel, they are competitive. Why is the CIA quarreling with the Department of Defense?

If so, the source of these leaks will begin to profile the factions vying for power. An obvious candidate, of course, is Comella Harris who stands 1st in constitutional line for the office. Is she cutting deals with some left-wing factions? Will she be exposed or otherwise discredited? Who will do that?

Representative Eric Swalwell has been exposed and humiliated not by a right-wing media outlet but by Axions. Is this is only a simple news story or is this a way to undermine Nancy Pelosi? After all, the speaker of the house will be 2nd in line behind Comella Harris and it is not inconceivable that a deal is being cut either by aggressive Democrats in the house with Comella Harris or with Biden to protect them in the house. We simply don't know who the players are and what their alignments are. Events will ultimately reveal all.

The DoD wants to withhold funds from the CIA. Is that part of the internecine warfare which I believe is being waged even now below the surface? It will be interesting to see how Harris, Biden, Pelosi and Schumer align in this dispute. Which side does China favor? Which side does the military-industrial complex favor? What leverage by way of blackmail does the CIA have? What about the FBI? Follow the money. Analyze the leaks.

Qui Bono?

[Gene Eric]

Should be a capital crime.

[LegendHasIt]

"It’s not just Eric Swalwell. Many MOST American politicians are owned by China"

Fixed it for ya.
Although some are only leased with an option to buy.

[stanne]

Like the entire democrat party and most of the GOP?

Yeah. We’re about three months ahead a yiz

[Maris Crane]

Senator Toomey of Pennsylvania!

[MAGAthon]

China has infiltrated most countries. Australian PM, Liberal Party(conservative) Scott Morrison was just dumped by Boris from giving a major speech at a “climate” talkfest, where it’s been announced that China will speak.

Scott Morrison holds the line after climate action summit snub
The Australian - 10 Dec 2020
China, the worlds biggest carbon emitter, is expected to be given priority over Australia, New Zealand and Canada to speak at Boris Johnson’s climate action summit..

10 Dec: Sydney Morning Herald: Morrison not expected to speak at global climate summit
By David Crowe and Nick O’Malley
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is not expected to speak at a United Nations summit on climate change this weekend after days of negotiation over whether his government’s climate policy is strong enough to justify a place at the peak gathering...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is convening the December 12 summit with the United Nations and leaders from France and Italy, asking all those who speak to make “ambitious” new commitments...
China appears likely to gain a position at the summit after talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.
The Climate Ambition Summit is being held on Saturday and will include speeches from United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, as well as Mr Macron...
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-shrugs-off-need-to-speak-at-global-climate-summit-20201210-p56mgg.html

10 Dec: Guardian: Australia will not be given speaking slot at climate summit, Scott Morrison says
Australian PM ‘not troubled’ by snub after organisers criticised the country’s lack of ambition on climate change action
by Katharine Murphy, Ben Doherty and Daniel Hurst
To date, the Australian government has resisted committing to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 – a pledge that has been taken by a range of Australia’s major trading partners including Japan, South Korea, the UK, the EU and soon the US under Joe Biden. China has pledged to achieve it by 2060...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/10/eu-tells-australia-to-move-on-actual-emissions-cuts-and-not-rely-on-kyoto-credits?CMP=share_btn_tw

PM (Prime Minister Scott Morrison) unfazed by snub at ‘some international summit’
Australian Financial Review - 10 Dec 2020 - by Phillip Coorey
Summit officials told the government like-minded nations and security allies New Zealand and Canada have also been excluded. Canada later argued its way back onto the list...
Greens leader Adam Bandt said Australia’s exclusion from the UN summit had exposed the nation as an international pariah on climate change...

meanwhile, New South Wales Liberal (conservative) Matt Kean is tweeting quote/video of John Kerry!

Tweet: Matt Kean, Liberal (CONSERVATIVE) MP, NSW Minister for Energy & Environment
“Taking action on climate change is a massive opportunity to improve people’s quality of life not lessen it” - John Kerry
LINK TWEET/VIDEO JOHN KERRY 2m12s
11 Dec 2020
https://twitter.com/Matt_KeanMP/status/1337124342560223233

9 Nov: ABC Australia: NSW Government’s $32 billion (US$24 BILLION) renewable energy plan announced
By Danuta Kozaki
Households and industry are being promised cheaper and cleaner power, with the State Government announcing the start of a massive funding package ahead of next week’s Budget.
NSW Energy Minister Matt Kean said the plan would drive investment in private infrastructure worth $32 billion in renewable energy over the next decade.
It will generate 6,300 construction jobs and 2,800 ongoing jobs, along with $1.5 billion in lease payments for landowners, especially in regional NSW for wind and solar farms...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-09/nsw-government-32-billion-renewable-energy-plan-announced/12862276

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Swallowswell’s reply about any sexual relations he had with Fang Fang is that they are “classified”. The dumb traitor can’t spell. They are “assified”, not “classified. Just ask Fang Fang and her little kids named Eric and Swallows.

[Bullish]

I’ve been saying that here for a couple years.

[Dick Bachert]

[Bobalu]

Swalwell would have been great fodder for a “Saturday Night Live” sendup back in the day...they are too progressive to even think of anything funny nowadays....

A random, streetwise, Asian, lady-of-the-night type as Fun Feng.

A very flatulent and horny young congressman played by John Belushi...

And with Jane Curtin as the wrinkled old prune Nancy Pelosi.

And the skit could use a Xi impersonator who could call on the phone to check on the spy’s progress with Swalwel...

The skits just write themselves.....

SNL is now just the Orange Man Bad weekly roundup...

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

In a few weeks, they will all be rounded up and going to jail!

[Guenevere]

Bttt

[Eagles6]

Bttt

[Ann Archy]

NO DEMOCRAT is going to jail....NOT ONE!

[Southern_Republican]

You are correct on that.

[Cboldt]

-- To what end? Why would Democrat Americans want us to be like China? --

That assumes too much, "too far." Those puppet actors in Congress who are globalists don;t think the US will be literally like China. They imagine an interdependent world where they have position of privilege. If they have to be bought - and most don't - the price is cheap.

Big government, nanny state, we know better than you, the government is there to solve problems, OUR government is indispensable -- they all utter this sort of nonsense.

They envision an American form. I see it as beneficent totalitarianism, and fax self-government. Voters get to pick between approved candidates. Romney or Obama? McCain or Obama? Gore or Bush? Kerry or Bush? The contrast tends to give certainty to those on the voting side -this is a righteous fight! We say. OMG, look how awful the other guy is! We say.

The people do not have control of the government. THE fundamental premise? It's shot. It's shot until the people assert their power, and voting is a joke. Death ray, fiddlesticks. It doesn't even slow them down.

[Steven Tyler]

Going out on a limb.

Chine owns all prominent progressives.
Chine owns Comma.