Daniel Greenfield
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July 30, 2020 @ Sultan Knish Blog
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 the summer air.
Video showed consulate employees throwing paper into burning bins.
“We have directed the closure of PRC Consulate General Houston, in order
to protect American intellectual property and American’s private
information," the State Department had warned.
The Houston consulate had become notorious for trying to intimidate
American elected officials in Texas and nearby states, as well as
American energy companies, especially those doing business in Asia.
Some have also linked the Houston consulate to Chinese espionage against
American tech and medical firms.
FBI investigations into the Houston consulate involved theft of medical
research, recruiting researchers to get at scientific secrets, and
forcing Chinese nationals to return to the People’s Republic of China.
Why would the People’s Republic of China have thought that Houston would
be a safe base for spying on and intimidating Americans? Houston and
Texas Democrats quickly rushed to provide the answer.
Rep. Al Green, who had hosted a luncheon at the spy consulate, accused President Trump of racism.
“Don’t give the impression, please Mr. President, that they are all
spies,” Green whined. “My appeal is to the president to understand that
his words take on a meaning that can be harmful to other people.”
Rep. Green then went on to suggest that Trump had endangered his
constituents by referring to the pandemic as the 'China virus', and
suggested that Trump's actions might be leading to "more anti-Asian
American violence, or worse, internment.”
While shamelessly playing the race card, for a race he doesn’t belong
to, the Democrat did not discuss his own collaboration with the spy
consulate.
Rep. Green had co-hosted a Houston press conference with Consul General
Cai Wei of the spy consulate, whom he described as a friend, with
Chinese state media in attendance, at which the Democrat urged local
residents not to worry about the virus, and described himself and Wei as
a “committee of two”.
The Houston Democrat boasted that the enemy consulate was close enough for him to walk to.
That's the same Wei who had been accused of using fake identification to
get Chinese nationals through the airport, with whom Rep. Green, an
American official, had been meeting with on a regular basis.
Texas state representative Gene Wu, who had also been at the press
conference, warned that, "in retaliation, China may basically stop all
the investments and tell companies to pull out of here."
Green and Wu were far from the only Democrats playing defense for the Communist dictatorship.
Democrat sanctuary cities don’t just provide sanctuary for illegal aliens, but for enemy spies.
The Trump administration had already ordered the shutdown of the Russian
consulate in San Francisco over its espionage. And the Chinese
consulate appears as if it will be next. But if the Chinese consulate in
Houston was able to garner the support of Democrats at the local and
national level, the situation in San Francisco is expected to be much
worse because of Chi-Com infiltration of California Democrats.
Chinese intelligence officials at the San Francisco consulate had
successfully recruited a staffer at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s San
Francisco office and the situation at the local level is much worse.
And Democrats, instead of supporting their country, are once again undermining it in favor of China.
The same Democrat officials who had castigated President Trump for not
trusting the “intelligence community” are the ones rejecting
intelligence findings about China’s spy networks.
Senator Angus King suggested that the move was a political stunt by
President Trump. "Is it really about confronting China, or does it have
something to do with an election in four months?"
Former Senator Max Baucus, Obama's ambassador to the Communist
dictatorship, has falsely claimed that the closure was "electioneering".
“This is the wrong way to handle it," Baucus wheedled. "If Pompeo thinks
he is going to quote ‘change Chinese behavior,’ he is gravely
mistaken.”
Baucus' China rhetoric has, in recent months, tipped into blatant PRC
propaganda, when he compared Trump to Hitler for opposing the brutal
dictatorship in an interview with a Chinese propaganda outlet. Baucus
has a consulting firm that works with Chinese businesses, and sits on
the boards of several Chinese companies. The media outlets who have had
Baucus on have not disclosed his ties to China.
"There are a lot of very responsible people in America who know this
China-bashing is irresponsible and we will pay a price if it continues.
That is all I am saying," he had warned.
The Democrat has claimed that relations with China will improve if Biden
wins the presidency. That’s not surprising since Biden and Baucus are
good friends, and Baucus got the ambassadorship due to Biden.
Biden’s China ties have made it impossible for Democrats to confront the
Communist dictatorship. Instead they’ve decided to accuse President
Trump of closing the consulate as an election stunt even though it’s
only July and the closure it hardly likely to have any meaningful impact
on the election.
Instead of standing with America, the Democrats are trying to shift the onus to President Trump.
“The White House must be transparent and show that it is taking smart
and thoughtful action, rather than engaging in brash foreign policy,"
Rep. Lizzie Fletcher complained.
Meanwhile local Democrats like Rep. Al Green, and local Houston media,
are treating the consulate closure as a hate crime perpetrated by
President Trump in order to persecute Asian-Americans.
Gordon Quan, a former Houston City Councilman, contended that, "to have
the consulate close, to have accusations being made that this is the
hotspot for spying, just creates a further cast upon the loyalties of
Chinese Americans.”
And the Chinese Communist propagandists have adopted the familiar
playbook of the Left, complaining about racism, and whining that PRC
embassies are facing bomb threats and angry messages. This propaganda is
coming from a brutal regime which has engaged in genocide, ethnic
cleansing, and the ruthless suppression of political dissent, ethnic and
religious minorities, and anyone who gets in its way.
Chinese Communist consulates in America, including in Houston, have been
used to intimidate Chinese residents in America, and to suppress
political protests against China in this country. The Communist regime’s
diplomatic corps has organized Chinese students to shout down,
threaten, and even physically intimidate political opponents on campuses
and even off them in San Francisco.
And yet, Democrats and the media insist on treating the Chinese Communist regime as the victim.
The Democrats are more loyal to their hatred for President Trump than
they are to America. And even in the face of blatant enemy action, they
choose the People’s Republic of China over the United States. A growing
number of Democrats have also been directly or indirectly compromised by
the enemy regime.
And that makes President Trump’s crackdown on spy consulates in Democrat cities all the more urgent.
When the State Department closed the spy consulate in Houston, Democrats
had to choose between standing with Communist China or standing with
America. They chose China and they chose treason.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.
