Today’s sentencing of Dongfan Chung, a 74-year-old former engineer for defense contractor Boeing who was convicted of economic espionage, makes the Obama administration’s recent downgrading of China as an espionage threat look foolish.

John Tkacik, a former State Department intelligence official, told the Washington Times, that the demotion of China to a second tier priority reflects bias in the National Security Council staff. The demotion was a political decision to assuage Chinese concerns that American intelligence agencies were exaggerating the Chinese threat.

“It means that the Obama administration doesn’t understand the profound challenge that China has become,” Tkacik told the Times. “Or, even more disturbing, it cannot understand that China’s challenges to America’s policies are becoming even more threatening with each passing week.”

Communist China is mounting a major espionage campaign against the United States, but the Obama administration has placed politics and economics above national security.

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