| Oligarchs and Chinese Spies: Who's the Bigger Threat to Americans? The Chinese government is not our friend, nor the friend of the Chinese people, nor the friend of democratic values. It practices and espouses a nationalist capitalist Leninism that under Xi Jinping has evolved into a nationalist capitalist neo-Stalinism, with increasing one-man rule, intolerance of any failure to exalt Xi sufficiently, and the imposition of nationwide high-tech Orwellian surveillance. It has extended that surveillance to the Chinese diaspora, with a global network of underground informers and the occasional thug who threaten Xi's critics in distant lands. |