The Department of Government Efficiency is shuttering organizations that Beijing worried about most, or actively sought to subvert.

Spinning bright red handkerchiefs and dancing in step to folk music, more than a dozen human-like robots took to China’s biggest stage in January, making a splashy debut at the annual Lunar New Year gala.

The Trump adviser had been originally set to receive a top-secret briefing on war plan but revelations of the meeting caused a change of course.