How a Nanjing-style Salted Duck Endangered U.S. National Security?

Everyone knows that in the past two years, on one hand, the United States has been catching spies, and on the other hand, they have been targeting the Chinese, and these two matters have become intertwined, leading to the Chinese being targeted under the guise of catching spies. A major event has unfolded in New York in recent days.

The prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, the same jurisdiction that issued the arrest warrant for Meng Wanzhou, has filed a lawsuit against Linda Sun, the former deputy chief of staff to current New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former senior assistant to former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, accusing her of being a traitor to the United States.

Originating from the Democratic Senate leader Schumer’s camp and appointed by Biden, the prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York, Breon Peace, listed several major charges against Linda Sun and her husband in a 65-page indictment, including obstructing Taiwanese officials from meeting the governor, facilitating New York State’s acquisition of emergency epidemic prevention materials from China in the early stages of the pandemic and having Cuomo express gratitude towards China, facilitating communication between Chinese and American officials, and the common charge of money laundering.

Among the series of charges, one particularly stands out, where American compatriots accuse Linda Sun’s parents of receiving “bribes” from the chef at the Chinese consulate. What kind of bribe? The prosecutor emphasized that it was Nanjing-style salted duck.

From the New York Times to CNN, the Democratic Party’s mouthpieces have been heavily promoting the Nanjing-style salted duck incident as an achievement, similar to the situation we described in “Reactions to Sullivan’s Visit to China”. The Democratic Party media is using a megaphone to proclaim “look how tough we are” and “the Biden-Harris administration is winning”. In contrast, the Republican Party media seems to be “quietly watching the show”. Interestingly, in the Democratic Party’s reports, one can hardly find any statements from Linda Sun, while these details can be found in reports from the Republican Party media.

As for the specific situation with Linda Sun, the information we have is insufficient to make a judgment. We will only comment on the matter of the United States catching spies and targeting the Chinese.

In the article “The Deep Historical and Psychological Reasons for Anti-China Sentiment in America Today”, we have previously introduced the renowned work “The English People: The Formation of a Nation, 1707-1837” regarding the nature and historical traditions of the English. The methodology of continuously seeking out enemies to establish one’s own identity, which was developed by the British Empire after the acquisition of Scotland and later passed on to the immigrant nation of America. Therefore, since its founding, America has either practiced slavery and strict scrutiny of “white qualifications”, or implemented the Chinese Exclusion Act or “Japanese internment camps”. The conflicts such as “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” today are all manifestations of historical inertia.

In this inertia, America is quite similar to its British ancestors over three hundred years ago, easily embarking on the path of vigorously catching traitors. A few years ago, we discussed another case of the United States catching a traitor in the technology sector, where the individual arrested was a respectable Chinese-American elite who had made significant contributions to America’s technological development and educational sector, and showed unwavering loyalty to America. Despite his outlandish claims about his birthplace, he was firmly and resolutely taken down. Recently, in the news, that individual, after being tormented for several years, was “acquitted of all charges”, after wearing the label of “traitor” for so long, the matter ultimately came to a close.

Additional reading:
Chinese-American elite the Author mentioned is Feng “Franklin” Tao
In 2019, the United States Department of Justice indicted Tao for ‘failing to disclose conflict of interest with a Chinese university’, as the first case of its China Initiative.
On July 11, 2024, a federal appeals court voided Tao’s last conviction for the count of false statements, finding that the government had failed to provide sufficient evidence to show that any harm had been done, and directing the lower court to acquit him. Tao is currently seeking reinstatement of his tenured faculty position at the University of Kansas.

He is relatively fortunate compared to Professor Wu Ying, who was forcibly driven to suicide in the United States some time ago.

The American political and judicial systems have launched a severe crackdown on these Chinese-American scientists and grassroots officials. Where is the absurdity in this matter? The absurdity lies in the fact that, as described in “Journey to the West”, demons with connections are rescued, while those without connections, whether they are demons or not, are mercilessly attacked. If they are, it’s convenient; if not, it’s also convenient to gain false merit.

Regarding corruption, Linda Sun’s husband is a businessman, a wealthy individual. Despite the FBI wracking their brains, they have even exaggerated the significance of the salted duck, but in the end, they only calculated assets worth 6 million dollars. The stock market gods of Capitol Hill, like the Pelosi family, saw their net worth surge from 20 million dollars in 2008 to 120 million dollars against the trend of the global financial crisis, isn’t there corruption there as well?

Biden, your precious son, with mountains of evidence, had the Attorney General come out to deflect the heat, while the Attorney General got scolded on the bottom half of the newspaper, and Hunter Biden was all over the top half, waiting to discuss swapping out the Attorney General. This operation, so corrupt, yet what’s the result? Nothing happened.

Do you remember the headline in the New York Times about the stock market god on Capitol Hill that came out right after the end of the 2022 midterm primary elections? They took the already viral “Capitol Hill Stock God Report” from unusual_whales on Twitter, and while berating the Republican stock gods for corruption, they helped the Democratic stock gods “clarify” – “We made money without insider trading, all thanks to disobedient children and hired financial advisors with exceptional investment skills.”

Whether Republican or Democrat, which stock god didn’t easily surpass $6 million in red envelopes? Has anyone been held accountable to this day?

What Linda Sun and others lack is a mouthpiece like the New York Times to “clarify” for them, what they lack is a public “education” to show the people that “it seems like Biden’s brother and son did engage in corruption, but what does that have to do with the president” from The Washington Post, what they lack is the promotion of “even if Hunter Biden is corrupt, what did you Americans lose” from the Capitol Hill Gazette and the First Lady’s press secretary, what they lack is the Supreme Court to help determine that “receiving money beforehand is bribery, while receiving it afterward is a tip.”

Anti-corruption in America is a joke, the American system is extremely corrupt, lacking self-cleansing ability, lacking the spirit of self-revolution. More importantly, in its long-term cooperation with the propaganda system, it boasts of being “efficient and clean” to hypnotize others, only to end up hypnotizing itself.

The reasons for anti-corruption in the Linda Sun case are already ridiculous enough, but what’s even more ridiculous is the “betraying America” reason put forward by the Democratic Party’s mouthpiece. These days Republicans in Congress are relentlessly pursuing the relationship between the Biden family and Henry Z, while the Democrats are now using Linda Sun as a sacrificial pawn. Rather than saying they are catching spies for America, it’s more like they are diverting attention away from Hunter Biden.

To be honest, reading the New York Times’ coverage of the Nanjing salted duck case, it’s hard to believe this is a real case. Let’s all appreciate the tone at the beginning of the New York Times article:

Leaving everything else aside, just look at the repetitive rhetorical techniques used here in the New York Times, creating a sense of ongoing tension, just by writing it this way, doesn’t this Nanjing-style salted duck seem like a big deal?!