Posted on 08/24/2018 11:47:38 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influence operations in the United States that include funding Washington think tanks and coercing Chinese Americans, according to a congressional commission report.
The influence operations are conducted by the United Front Work Department, a Central Committee organ that employs tens of thousands of operatives who seek to use both overt and covert operations to promote Communist Party policies.
The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies.
"The [Chinese Communist Party] has sought to influence academic discourse on China and in certain instances has infringed upon—and potentially criminally violated—rights to freedoms of speech and association that are guaranteed to Americans and those protected by U.S. laws," the report says.
"Despite the CCP's candid discussion of its United Front strategy, the breadth and depth of this issue remain relatively unknown to U.S. policymakers."
The report said the Johns Hopkins School of Advance International Studies, a major foreign policy education and analysis institute, has received funding from Tung Chee-hwa, a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the party group that directs the United Front Work Department and includes a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the collective dictatorship that rules China.
The funding for Johns Hopkins came from Tung's non-profit group in Hong Kong, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, which is a registered Chinese agent.
In addition to Johns Hopkins, other think tanks funded by China and influential in American policy circles include the Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, Center for American Progress, EastWest Institute, Carter Center, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The Exchange Foundation is tied to Chinese government influence operations and uses the same public relations firm as the Chinese embassy.
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And they are probably directly finding every “free trade” supporting “conservative” in DC !
Ping. The Chicom influence at Johns Hopkins goes back to the days of the China Hands.
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You wonder why everyone whoops up the “Russian influence” caca...
To distract from stuff like this.
If any of those think tanks does anything to support any candidate, they must report the foreign funding to the FEC, right?
Don’t worry, members of congress wouldn’t take any chicom money in exchange for an impeachment vote.
I think those archaic regulations are being relaxed in areas where it could hurt Trump. Scary if you ponder it with Rosenstein and Wray in charge.
As do several moslem nations
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Mexico and cemeteries are THE largest propagators of election fraud.
But the Chinese love you, right?
Think tanks... notice how the Chinese went big into the liberal ones? The Clintons paved the way for the Chinese with their drop a few coins in the turnstile to ‘open the doors’...
But don't worry, whatever excuse you boys come up with - no matter how lame, the MSM will buy it... believe it ... and condemn us for even thinking you ‘intelligence’ boys could do anything wrong. Peter Beinart can write a piece on it... “Why it's ok to sell out your country if you're a democrat.’
Nothing wrong with it.
China has no need to fund those “russia, russia, russia....” neo lib/cons.
and from the above FR post:
Alumni doesn’t mean all that much when you have Chinese money rolling in:
UNC’s partnerships with universities in China include:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Peking University, Beijing
Tsinghua University, Beijing
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
UNC has also developed bilateral relations with schools, departments, or programs with Chinese universities including:
Beijing Sports University, Beijing
China Europe International Business School, Shanghai
China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing
East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai
Fudan University, Shanghai
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Jilin University, Changchun
Sichuan University, Chengdu
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou
Yunnan University, Kunming
Additionally, the UNC School of Education has developed a partnership with a K-12 school in China:
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China > Atlantic Council / Schiff staffer Sean Misko Bump
Oh yeah, Yosemite Sam too.
And Carnegie was headed up by Biden cabinetmember William Burns...
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