The "BD family" scandal is catastrophe for Chinese Communist Party operatives in the US. It exposed how they operated nearly at will during the former "Happy Time".The complacency may be ending, if the media can be persuaded to take notice, but the CCP is far from beaten.
The rollup of the CIA network in China, the loss of the OPM data should have warned the media something evil was loose. But the then-dominant narrative was the Global World, so the signal was filtered out.
The "2nd Happy Time" known among German submarine commanders as the "American Shooting Season" was the informal name for the Operation Paukenschlag ... as defense measures were weak and disorganized and the U-boats were able to inflict massive damage with little risk.
Like the early days of the Uboat campaign against the East Coast when America retained peacetime practices while the wolfpacks rampaged freely the Chinese had a field day against an elite bent on denying a threat even existed.

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