Big news today. ALL the publications that carry this story tell you that the United States has banned relationships between her citizens and Chinese citizens in that country. Trump has been back in office for two and a half months and the titles of the articles, all of them, lead you to believe that this was the Trump Administration. Au contraire! This ban was put in place by the former Ambassador Nicholas Burns right before he left office. That doesn’t make the ban wrong or bad. No. Just would have liked a little clarity. Thank you.

Here is the Newsweek article and intro: US Bans Sex Between Personnel and Chinese Citizens in China: Report

The U.S. government has enacted a sweeping ban on romantic or sexual relationships between American government personnel and Chinese citizens in China, an unprecedented move not seen publicly since the Cold War, The Associated Press reported.

Four individuals with direct knowledge of the new rules confirmed to the AP that the policy took effect in January, shortly before U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns left his post in Beijing. It applies to all American diplomatic staff, family members, and contractors with security clearances stationed at U.S. facilities in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Burns is mentioned in the second paragraph. The New York Post title and intro: US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

The US government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens, The Associated Press has learned.

Four people with direct knowledge of the matter told the AP about the policy, which was put into effect by departing US Ambassador Nicholas Burns in January shortly before he left China.

The Democrats and Never Trumpers would read the titles and think that this was because of that cold-hearted Donald Trump. It’s weird that Nicholas Burns did it at the end of his tenure, right before he left. What was going on during his tenure between his American AND his Chinese employees. Remember Eric Swalwell and the two Midwest mayors who slept with Fang Fang:

#BREAKING: US bans romantic and sexual relationships with Chinese citizens for government employees in China — Fox News

Has anybody checked on Eric Swalwell…??? pic.twitter.com/fE6urFMruU

— The Patriot Oasis™ (@ThePatriotOasis) April 3, 2025

Again, I will ask – what was Nicholas Burns seeing that he made the decision to ban relationships right before he left the country, hmmm?

Maybe the place was rife with romance and hookups. More from the New York Post:

A more limited version of the policy was enacted last summer prohibiting US personnel from “romantic and sexual relations” with Chinese citizens working as guards and other support staff at the US Embassy and five consulates in China.

But Burns, the departing ambassador, broadened it to a blanket ban on such relations with any Chinese citizen in China in January, days before President Donald Trump took office.

The AP was unable to determine exactly how the policy defined the phrase “romantic or sexual relationship.”

Two of the people with knowledge of the ban told the AP the new policy was first discussed last summer after members of Congress contacted Burns to express concern that restrictions on such relationships were not stringent enough.

If you are old enough to be posted at an embassy outside of the continental United States, You are old enough to understand the phrase “romantic or sexual relationship” without having it defined in the embassy handbook. Unless, that is, you are Eric Swalwell.

Spyscape.com has more information:

Christine Fang
Fang Fang, as Christine Fang is known, had relationships with two US mayors and targeted Democratic politicians in what US officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China. Fang Fang likely didn’t pass classified information while she was in the US from 2011 to 2015, but she was in a position to observe government officials and their habits, schedules and social networks. Federal investigators were so concerned they gave a defense briefing to Eric Swalwell, a California Democratic congressman who Fang Fang had helped with fundraising. She fled the US shortly after Swalwell cut ties with her.

Swalwell is now 44 years old and still calling out other people’s foibles without acknowledging his own follies.

Hint: Don’t play reindeer games at work.

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