When You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas

Why do the powerful turn a blind eye to the flea bites and plagues inflicted on the United States by the Chinese Communist Party?

Chinese Communist Party flag displayed displayed at the Beijing Exhibition Center on Oct. 10, 2017. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

“For as they that write of poisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruin of man, do as well mention the flea as the viper, because the flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”