Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 24, 2018 | Bill Gertz

[TBP]

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 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 linked to 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.

[Nero Germanicus]

Ironically, the 2018 Heritage Foundation’s Annual Economic Freedom rankings has Hong Kong as the freest nation on earth. “One nation, two systems” People’s Republic of China controls Hong Kong.
https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

[jjotto]

Where’s the surprise that John Podesta and his Center for American Progress are on the Chinese Communist payroll? Billionaire Trump-impeacher Tom Steyer is on its Board of Directors. Chinese money trying to impeach Trump. Where’s the DOJ?

[familyop]

Yeah, the new Heritage Foundation. It's not what it used to be.