What Our Spies Cut Out of the China File

The story is not that China declined to fire every weapon it built. It is that China built them, still holds them, and can deploy them in the next election.

Two facts now sit in plain sight in the declassified record. Communist China entered the 2020 election with an integrated arsenal capable of shaping an American presidential contest. And officials inside our own intelligence community worked, in their own written words, to strip that intelligence of its election releva