FBI Director Christopher Wray and his British counterpart, MI5 Director Ken McCallum, recently held the first ever joint press conference for leaders of the FBI and MI5. The topic of the press conference was the growing threat of espionage from communist China.

Director McCallum said plainly what I and a few others have been warning about for years:

“The widespread Western assumption that growing prosperity within China and increasing connectivity with the West would automatically lead to greater political freedom has been shown to be plain wrong.”

Donald Trump understood this threat. Unlike previous administrations, both Democrat and Republican, Trump was serious about confronting communist China.

One of the most important steps he took was banning the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from the U.S. He also got our British allies to act as well.

Now we’re learning more as to why President Trump was so insistent. It turns out that massive amounts of Huawei cameras, routers and other equipment was being installed in rural areas near U.S. nuclear missile bases.

According to CNN, “The FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.”

In other words, if we ever got into a “hot war” with communist China, Huawei technology was capable of sabotaging our nuclear arsenal, and who knows what else.

By the way, there’s growing alarm over communist China’s involvement in DNA research.

One of the great tragedies of the 2020 elections is that the Trump/Pence Administration did not get to finish the job of purging communist China’s influence in America. Sadly, Beijing’s influence over America has perhaps never been greater than it is today.