New Yorker: "Jared Kushner Is China's Trump Card"

[tblue37]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Jared Kushner Is China’s Trump Card:
How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

Adam Entous, Evan Osnos
January 19, 2018 8:41 PM

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By now, Americans are accustomed to reports of Russia’s efforts to influence American politics, but, in the intelligence community, China’s influence operations are a source of equal concern. In recent years, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. have dedicated increased resources to tracking efforts by the Chinese government to spy on or to enlist Western officials in pursuit of their policy goals. (The F.B.I. and the C.I.A. declined to comment on this.) “The Chinese influence operations are more long-term, broader in scope, and are generally designed to achieve a more diffuse goal than the Russians’ are,” Christopher Johnson, a former C.I.A. analyst who specializes in China, said. “To be unkind to the Russians, you’d say they are more crass.”

Kushner often excluded the government’s top China specialists from his meetings with Cui, a slight that rankled and unnerved the bureaucracy. “He went in utterly unflanked by anyone who could find Beijing on a map,” a former member of the National Security Council said. Some officials who were not invited to Kushner’s sessions or briefed on the outcomes resorted to scouring American intelligence reports to see how Chinese diplomats described their dealings with Kushner. Other U.S. officials spoke to Cui directly about the meetings. Kushner was “their lucky charm,” the former N.S.C. member said. “It was a dream come true. They couldn’t believe he was so compliant.” (A spokesman for Kushner said that none of the China specialists told him that “he shouldn’t be doing it the way he was doing it at the time.”)

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Kudos to Chinese/Russian espionage, they have been brilliant.

They walked right in and took over the US government.

[BSdetect]

2. He's a corrupt traitor like his mentor.