Posted on 10/04/2017 7:41:11 AM PDT by RohanKapoor
A Washington think tank, under pressure from China, on Tuesday canceled the first public meeting for dissident Chinese businessman Guo Wengui—one day before the event was to be held.
The Hudson Institute, a conservative-oriented public policy group, sent an email notice stating the widely anticipated session with Guo had been postponed.
David Tell, chief spokesman for Hudson, said the event was put off because of improper planning. "The planning just got away form us and we feel bad," he told the Washington Free Beacon.
Tell acknowledged the institute has been under pressure from China.
The Hudson Institute website was the target of a major denial of service cyber attack traced to Shanghai, Tell said. The cyber attack was thwarted and only caused a minor disruption, he noted.
Shanghai is home of the Chinese military's notorious Unit 61398, a military cyber espionage unit. Five of the unit's members were indicted in 2014 for hacking U.S. businesses.
Chinese involvement in a cyber attack against a U.S. academic institution highlights the priority Beijing appears to have placed on silencing Guo, a billionaire dissident who broke with the Chinese government and began speaking out about abuses of power and corruption. He is now living in exile in New York City and recently applied for political asylum.
Follow the money.
Some of these “conservative” think tanks are bankrolled by foreign countries such as Saudi Arabia.
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