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In the week since the Trump administration evicted the Chinese consulate in Houston, American leftists have begun to echo China’s assertion that allegations of intensive espionage by the communist country are overblown. The Intercept’s Mary Hvistendahl, who in the past has reported from Shanghai for Science magazine and other publications, for instance has characterized China’s reported activities as “hardly an imminent threat to U.S. national security that would require closing a consulate.” She nonetheless had to concede some extent of “technology transfer or intellectual property theft” by China in the recent past. Hvistendahl and others who oppose ousting the consulate...

Democrat Traitors Stand by China’s Spy Consulates Democrat sanctuary cities don’t just provide sanctuary for illegal aliens, but for enemy spies. Wed Jul 29, 2020 Daniel Greenfield 53 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. On Tuesday, Houston firefighters arrived at 3417 Montrose Boulevard. Neighbors had reported smoke and a burning smell at the Chinese consulate. The consulate, which had been given 72 hours to close by the State Department, did not let them in even as the smoke continued to waft into...