Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
The serious side of this seems to me to be that China or Russia could launch a wave of these, some armed and most not, with small nukes easily light enough, and there would be no way to distinguish the threats from the others.