To my sheer dismay, I opened a letter the other day informing me of yet another speeding ticket. How? I saw no cops. I stay just slightly above the speed limit like every other functioning adult in this country. No flashing lights, no sirens, no officer pulling me over to exercise any semblance of human judgment.
No need. The District of Columbia has taken a page straight out of the Chinese Communist playbook, embedding surveillance cameras on every major road in the city, lying in wait to snare Washington, D.C. residents in a money trap. The same residents, by the way, who already pay some of the highest taxes in the nation.
$400. I was as thrilled to see that bill as Pete Hegseth was <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2054745647819948456">shaking</a> President Xi&#8217;s hand this week. Granted, I was going too fast, and I&#8217;ll pay it like a law-abiding citizen, but I shouldn&#8217;t have to feel like I&#8217;m dodging the Ministry of Public Security just to get to work.
Because that&#8217;s exactly what this is. China operates one of the world&#8217;s largest surveillance states, with an estimated 700 million CCTV cameras tracking its residents&#8217; every move. The Fox News crew <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2054699064940216690">found</a> that out the hard way during Trump&#8217;s Beijing trip, getting slapped with a $40 ticket for parking illegally for two whole minutes! It&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/i/status/2054726431918420393">authoritarian</a>. It&#8217;s Orwellian. And it&#8217;s a reminder: keep CCP-style surveillance and Chinese influence out of America.
Speed cameras are annoying and invasive, but they&#8217;re the least of what&#8217;s crushing the Chinese people. China is a disaster area. As President Donald Trump sits across from Xi Jinping this week, it&#8217;s worth remembering exactly who the enemy is and exactly how weak they really are.
You wouldn&#8217;t know it from their propaganda show. As Trump stepped off Air Force One in Beijing, he was greeted by perfectly choreographed children, waving flowers and American flags with rehearsed smiles, robotically jumping to the music. It looked like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c7DIWEIvWA">scene</a> out of The Interview. Abnormal. Creepy. Stop it.
Beneath that polished, stage-managed surface is a nation rotting from the inside.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I30A5Z63Uyk">China&#8217;s</a> nominal GDP per capita is under $15,000 a year. Ours is $95,000. They’re facing a huge demographic problem after their one-child policy prevented 400 million births, gutting their workforce and leaving no one to pay the bills — bills that now sit at a 336% debt-to-GDP ratio, propped up by trillions in bad loans that will never be repaid. Beijing long ago crushed free enterprise in favor of a top-down mercantilist system where the Party picks winners and losers, and the result is a country that can&#8217;t innovate or build, which is why America is running away with the AI race and the global hegemonic title.
So instead, they steal — up to $600 billion in American IP every year — and mass-produce what they can, because they have no regard for human life or child <a href="https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods-print?items_per_page=10&amp;combine=china">labor</a> laws. That same apathy toward their own people shows up in how they govern them: heavy taxation just to keep the nation afloat, a military that&#8217;s large but technologically limited, with no real deep-water capability or meaningful power projection. Their one-party autocracy doesn&#8217;t produce innovation; it produces loyalty oaths. China is not an ascending power threatening to displace us. It&#8217;s a declining one, desperately trying to stop the bleeding.
The CCP is not just our adversary. They are our enemy. And they&#8217;re losing. Some of it is self-inflicted, some of it is courtesy of our sanctions, investment restrictions, and the compounding advantage of being a free market that keeps innovating while they stagnate. But the Iran situation? That&#8217;s the cherry on top.
Fifty-four percent of China&#8217;s total oil imports come from the Middle East. Another 3–5% was coming from Venezuela before that dried up. They are almost entirely dependent on a region currently on fire, and they have no leverage to do anything about it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said it plainly this week: Chinese ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf, Chinese cargo got hit over the weekend, and their export market is in limbo. An Iran war hurts China far more than it hurts us.
That desperation is precisely why this week&#8217;s White House meeting produced real <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2054859596938785204/photo/1">concessions</a>. China agreed to greater U.S. access to Chinese markets, an end to fentanyl precursor exports, a halt to purchasing American farmland, and — most significantly — that Iran cannot ever have a nuclear weapon. The Strait of Hormuz stays open. China even wants to buy American oil, because when your energy supply chain runs through a war zone, you get pragmatic fast.
Our little enemy has been backed into its rightful corner. We need more of this, because China has been running a full-spectrum assault on the United States for years: espionage, economic theft on a historic scale, and subversion right here at home.
In California, <a href="http://justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/arcadia-mayor-federally-charged-acting-illegal-agent-peoples-republic-china">Arcadia</a> Mayor Eileen Wang just pleaded guilty to spying for the PRC. A sitting mayor. A <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/4568091/lu-jianwang-convicted-chinese-spy-post-new-york-city/">Bronx</a> man named Lu Jianwang was just convicted for operating a secret Chinese &#8220;police station&#8221; in Manhattan&#8217;s Chinatown, monitoring dissidents and harassing fugitives on direct orders from Beijing. Eric Swalwell, the disgraced former congressman, got honey-potted by a Chinese spy named Fang Fang while sitting on the House Intelligence Committee — and it barely made a ripple. Chinese &#8220;students&#8221; embedded in our research universities go home upon graduation and take whatever they&#8217;ve collected with them. TikTok is a CCP <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-coercive-tactics-abroad/">propaganda</a> pipeline running on 170 million American phones. The <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/chinas-coercive-tactics-abroad/">Confucius</a> Institutes spent years pumping Beijing-approved curriculum into U.S. campuses, scrubbing any mention of Taiwan, Tiananmen, or the Uyghurs — the same <a href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/china-xinjiang-uyghurs-muslims-repression-genocide-human-rights">Uyghurs</a> sitting in Chinese concentration camps right now — millions of them.
So when Xi this week <a href="https://x.com/AtlasWireHQ/status/2054852243476947274">claims</a> he wants &#8220;strategic stability&#8221; between China and the United States — great. Close the spy stations. Stop the fentanyl. Stop the stealing. Then we&#8217;ll take you seriously.
The fake news will tell you China holds the cards this week. They don&#8217;t. They never did. Trump is in Beijing, Xi is making concessions, and China is desperate for oil, stability, and a lifeline. That&#8217;s not strength. That&#8217;s a country running out of options.
America, don&#8217;t be like China. Don&#8217;t let their surveillance creep into our cities. Don&#8217;t fall for the communist propaganda, whether it comes from Bernie Sanders, AOC, honeypotters, or Xi himself.
And D.C.? Take those stupid cameras down. 

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