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The recent guilty plea of Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, should serve as a warning to a nation that has spent 30 years refusing to defend its own sovereignty against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) subversion.<\/p>\n

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Wang, a naturalized citizen after immigrating to the United States around 30 years ago, admitted to acting as an unregistered agent for the Chinese government, using her political platform to disseminate pro-Beijing propaganda through a front website called \u201cU.S. News Center,\u201d which branded itself as a news source catering to Chinese Americans.<\/p>\n

While the corporate media headlines focus on the political fallout, Wang represents something much more sinister. Her guilty plea is the latest predictable harvest of a \u201cPandora\u2019s Box\u201d opened in the 1990s when American leaders traded our national security for economic gain and the fantasy of liberalizing China.<\/p>\n

The Clinton Legacy<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The groundwork for this crisis was laid by President Bill Clinton, who championed the normalization of trade with the People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) despite mounting evidence of Beijing\u2019s hostility.<\/p>\n

The 1990s provided two clear warnings that should have halted America\u2019s renewed relationship with China: the bipartisan , which revealed the theft of classified designs for the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, and the \u201cChinagate\u201d scandal, which exposed CCP cash being funneled into the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n

And yet, despite all that was revealed about China\u2019s growing subversion, Clinton still stood at Johns Hopkins University in March 2000 and gave a speech promising that normalizing trade relations with China would \u201cliberate the potential of its people,\u201d and allow America to \u201cexport products without exporting jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not only was Clinton wrong on both counts, but America also ended up importing a permanent class of potential foreign subversives like Eileen Wang.<\/p>\n

Since 1990, around the time Wang came to the U.S., the population of Chinese immigrants in the United States has more than tripled, increasing from around 677,000 to approximately 2.4 million by 2023.<\/p>\n

This trend can also be seen within America\u2019s elite Academic institutions. The number of Chinese international students has increased nearly fivefold since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001 under the Bush Administration.<\/p>\n

During the 2004-2005 academic year, there were only 62,523 Chinese students in the U.S.; by the 2019 peak, that number soared to more than 372,000 \u2014 accounting for 35 percent of all international students and providing a massive pool for potential CCP exploitation.<\/p>\n

The threat from this influx presented itself most recently when a Chinese national and post-doctoral researcher at Indiana University was sentenced to more than four months in prison, resulting in his immediate deportation back to China after pleading guilty to smuggling biologic materials into the United States.<\/p>\n

This is yet another example in an \u201calarming pattern\u201d of Chinese subversion coming not only from without, but from deep within our borders.<\/p>\n

The Birth of the \u2018Manchurian Generation<\/strong>\u2018<\/h2>\n

Today, the CCP\u2019s strategy has evolved from stealing sensitive state secrets and influencing U.S. politicians like Wang to the literal manufacturing of \u201cAmerican\u201d babies.<\/p>\n

As Peter Schweizer details in his book, The Invisible Coup<\/em>, we are witnessing a form of \u201ccivilizational warfare\u201d through the exploitation of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

This demographic strategy is most visible in the American territory of Saipan. Located just 2,000 miles from Shanghai, the island has been effectively repurposed as a CCP forward-operating base for \u201cmaternity tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Due to a visa-free visitation policy dating back to the Obama era, Saipan\u2019s local hospitals have become a conveyor belt for foreign nationals, with Schweizer noting that 70 percent of all newborns on the island are now children of Chinese birth tourists.<\/p>\n

The scale of this influx has created what Schweizer terms a \u201cManchurian Generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a matter of changing demographics, but of a latent political force: more than 1.5 million American passport holders are currently being raised under the CCP\u2019s educational system.<\/p>\n

These individuals represent a long-term \u201csleeper\u201d asset for Beijing, capable of returning to the U.S. as adults to leverage their voting power at age 18, and chain-migration privileges at age 21, all for the benefit of the Chinese state.<\/p>\n

Manufacturing <\/strong>\u2018American\u2019 Citizens<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The industrialization of this process has reached the American mainland, specifically in the suburban enclave of Arcadia. While Eileen Wang was building her pro-Beijing media front, a CCP-linked businessman named Guojun Xuan was allegedly operating a massive \u201csurrogacy command center\u201d from a multi-million-dollar mansion in the same city.<\/p>\n

By utilizing American \u201ccarriers\u201d and an unending embryo pipeline, the CCP is overtly manufacturing entry points into the American body politic from within our own neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

This practice is not done secretly. In fact, official expos are held in China to match CCP clients with American surrogates. American women are essentially being used as biological hosts to create legal entry points for future agents of a hostile foreign power.<\/p>\n

The industry facilitating this is sophisticated and brazen. Companies like \u201cGlobal Baby 8\u201d openly advertise \u201cSupreme\u201d packages starting at $45,000, which include luxury villas, private chefs, and \u201cvisa specialists\u201d who coach expectant mothers on how to deceive U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They are taught to wear loose-fitting clothes and fly through less-scrutinized ports of U.S. entry to avoid detection.<\/p>\n

American hospitals bear the cost of this scheme as well. Coached by their tour operators, many birth tourists falsely claim financial hardship to obtain reduced medical rates, then board a flight home with their bills unpaid, leaving American taxpayers to foot the bill for a transaction that was never meant to benefit them.<\/p>\n

A Proposition is not Enough<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The case of Eileen Wang in Arcadia is a stark reminder that a \u201cpropositional nation\u201d grounded merely on an adopted \u201ccreed\u201d cannot adequately shield itself from the primal loyalty to one\u2019s original homeland and people.<\/p>\n

As American citizenship is further treated as an unvalued commodity, available to everyone from anywhere on earth, the very concept of American national identity and sovereignty is increasingly hollowed out.<\/p>\n

We are currently seeing the results of thirty years of demographic surrender and the refusal of our leaders to acknowledge that an adversarial power is playing a long-term demographic game through the exploitation of birthright citizenship and the narrow interpretation of the 14th Amendment\u2019s jurisdiction clause.<\/p>\n

Congress must close the visa loopholes that allow for the \u201cmanufacturing\u201d of citizens by a hostile state, further regulate surrogacy contracts with foreign nationals, and most importantly, the Supreme Court must end the current interpretation of birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

America threw open the doors to China in the 1990s; now Congress and the court must bolt them closed, or there may not be a country left to defend by the time the \u201cManchurian Generation\u201d comes of age.<\/p>\n

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