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The Chinese Communist Party Has Breached U.S. Borders
Right-leaning and left-leaning news organizations agree on something, and it’s bad news for all of us.
In the long history of the 24-hour news cycle, there have probably only been a handful of times right-leaning and left-leaning news outlets have ever agreed on anything. They certainly haven’t agreed on much during the Trump years.
Any news media consumer who still dares look into both abysses on a daily basis knows they look like news commentary from two different planets.
Nearly all of the Trump administration has been marked by news coverage from right and left that converges into a single deafening and directly-conflicting news report with nothing salient to speak of.
So when the right and left-leaning media outlets do agree on something, however, it is a bit like when two or more major religions agree on something: There might be something to it and it certainly might be worth looking at.
On Monday evening, popular right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson performed a segment on Fox News in which he shared a video from Chinese social media. The video shows Di Dongsheng, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing. In the video, Professor Di claimed China “has people at the top of America’s…