If there is one consolation for the West, it's that while the SVR's obsession with the West is a holdover from Soviet times, so, evidently, are some of its techniques.
2
他们之间的关系,是一脉相承的。
The relationship between them is the same strain.
3
这恰好与经济法的一重要理念——国家适度干预经济是一脉相承的。
This just comes down in a continuous line from the country's appropriately intervention of the economy.