The dark-suited figure, news reports explained as they ran the clip on a loop, was a senator from Texas, one of the most hawkish on what he called the Chinese Crisis. He’d made a name for himself with fiery calls for sanctions, polemics on the creeping menace of Chinese industry, thinly veiled insinuations about loyalty.
There it goes: a murdered senator from TX (of course), who's opposing China (of course): the root of all evil. Then the Evil strikes back.
