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There may not be reds under our beds but we're told there could be Sino under the lino perhaps.
Has the war against terror fizzled so much that now the USA has to invent a new enemy and it just happens to be Chinese spies?
With the claims that Chinese-made chips contained spying code that snooped on Western countries proven wrong, are the USA now rolling out new strategies to paint China as "the bad guy"? Has the CFO of Huawei been arrested solely to provoke the kind of response that will then be used to prove to the public that China is evil?
Will China fall for that trap?
And will this fabricated "war against Chinese spies" simply be used as a method of further stripping the public of Western democracies of what few rights they have left (as is happening in Australia right now)?