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China Witch Hunt: It's Here!
• https://www.newsbud.com, Peter LeeIt's titled Chinese Influence and American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance
It touts "transparency, integrity, and reciprocity" as the magic bullets to combat Chinese influence.
Unfortunately, past history and current reality tell us when panic about a foreign threat roams the land, the dirty work of anti-influence campaigns in America is not a matter of transparency, integrity, and reciprocity; it's more about secret denunciations, moral capitulation, and smears and blacklists to short circuit due process, all orchestrated by the national security services.
In other words, Witch Hunt!
This episode of China Watch provides a useful guide to how U.S. natsec witch hunts work, keying off the notorious FBI campaign against the University of California system in the 1950s and looking at the unfolding witch hunt in the US, which has kicked off with a campaign against Confucius Institutes—and the universities and colleges that host them.
It's not about security; it's about intimidation and providing a shield of impunity for the natsec establishment and its minions.