U.S. State Department Bids Adieu to Waldorf-Astoria Amid Fears of Chinese Snooping

Foreign Policy: When world leaders descend every year on New York City for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. diplomats troop en masse to Park Avenue and set up shop at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, their traditional command post for the confab. But, now, the Americans are poised to abandon their swanky digs after the iconic hotel was purchased last year by a Chinese firm. Fears of prying Chinese eyes, the Associated Press reports, have led U.S. officials to turn their back on the Waldorf.

Read article