Give It Up, NBC
The article discusses concerns about Chinese infiltration in various sectors of American society, including politics and academia. It critiques NBC's focus on potential anti-Asian backlash following the resignation of a Chinese-American mayor who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent. The author argues that recognizing these threats should not be equated with racism or hate.
- ▪Eileen Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, resigned after pleading guilty to being an illegal foreign agent for China.
- ▪NBC News reported on the backlash against Wang's resignation, highlighting fears of anti-Asian discrimination.
- ▪The article suggests that concerns about Chinese infiltration into American infrastructure are based on common sense rather than hate.
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| Original publisher | Hot Air |
| Canonical URL | https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/05/18/give-it-up-nbc-n3815060 |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 2026 19:20:25 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T23:29:56.958Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T23:29:56.958Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Give It Up, NBC David Strom 7:20 PM | May 18, 2026 AP Photo/Ng Han Guan China keeps infiltrating our academic, technological, and political systems, and NBC wants us to know that noticing this fact is a surefire way to increase anti-Asian hate. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); So quit noticing!READ MORE: https://t.co/wJxucdpqz9— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) May 18, 2026It's the old Norm Macdonald joke come to life. It's not the assaults on our society that we should care about, but rather the collateral damage that stems from our noticing how we keep getting infiltrated and damaged.
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