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DNC Chair Secretly Addressed Chinese Communist Party Conference
Natalie Winters Substack ^ | 23 Sep, 2026 | Natalie Winters

Posted on 09/23/2026 6:34:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber

At the conference, a CCP official urged America to drop the “enemy narrative” about China.

DNC Chairman Emeritus Howard Dean delivered the American welcome address at a China dialogue involving the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a think tank identified in congressional commission testimony as “run by Chinese intelligence.”

The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, which co-organized the event⁠, has an equally explicit allegiance. Its charter⁠ says it:

“upholds the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.”

According to the American organizer’s account⁠, Dean delivered his welcome virtually on June 23, 2026. The meeting took place in Wenzhou, China. Lu Kang, a vice minister of the CCP’s International Department, delivered the keynote.

Dean, a former Vermont governor and presidential candidate, was named DNC chairman emeritus in 2009⁠.

The think tank at the dialogue, known as CICIR, was specifically named by China intelligence specialist Peter Mattis in 2016 testimony to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission⁠. He described it among:

“think tanks run by Chinese intelligence.”

The peace association, known as CPAPD, says it jointly organized the event with the American Arsenault Family Foundation.

The association’s commitment to CCP leadership is written into its governing rules. Its charter requires it to establish a Communist Party organization, conduct Party activities, and provide the conditions necessary for those activities.

And the Party official speaking at Dean’s event had a message for the Americans.

According to the CCP International Department’s readout⁠, Lu urged participants to:

“move beyond the ‘enemy narrative’”

He also called on them to:

“foster a correct strategic perception”

The CCP then portrayed American participants as ready to translate the strategic-stability framework announced after the Trump-Xi summit into:

“practical and feasible policy measures”

The following day brought another forum organized by the same Chinese association. The American delegation’s opening speakers included⁠ Center for American Progress senior fellow David Rank and foundation leader Marcel Arsenault, who spoke by video.

Lu again made public perceptions a priority. He blamed “cognitive biases and groundless suspicions” for obstructing relations and urged exchanges that would:

“guide the peoples of both countries to objectively view each other’s development achievements”

Those are translations from CGTN’s coverage, republished by Bastille Post⁠.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: china; communism; sedition

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To: MtnClimber

What a shock the head of the Democrat Communist Party would address fellow Communists. Difference is the Chinese don’t hate America as much as Dean does.


21 posted on 09/23/2026 8:23:29 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: MtnClimber

Someone really should make a movie about all this.


22 posted on 09/23/2026 10:48:47 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MtnClimber

Zero surprise. I would bet that China indirectly funds most of the degenerate, civilization-collapsing political causes the Left promotes.


23 posted on 09/23/2026 10:53:43 AM PDT by Antoninus (Confusion and disorder to the Left.)
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To: MtnClimber

Sum Ting Wong
Luk Me Op


24 posted on 09/23/2026 12:24:55 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Flaming Conservative

You are to frightened to matter

President Trump knows that China is. China will be.

China can not be ignored and must be delt with.


25 posted on 09/23/2026 5:41:31 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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