The MAGA administration has reportedly halted a package of sanctions against China over a colossal spying campaign because it doesn’t want to upset Donald Trump’s trade deal with President Xi Jinping.

Officials with knowledge of the plans told the Financial Times that the measures had been drafted after the Chinese Ministry of State Security hacked into multiple American telecom providers, allegedly permitting them to access virtually any phone they wanted to target.

“The administration appears to be giving ground on export controls in order to secure President Trump’s trip to Beijing and buy time to diversify critical mineral reliance away from China,” Zack Cooper, an expert on Asian security at the American Enterprise Institute, told the newspaper.

“I worry that this is simply conce

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