Posted on 02/26/2021 7:43:21 AM PST by Red Badger
William Burns, the nominee for CIA director, testified before the Senate about links between a think tank he leads and a Chinese foundation that serves as a front group for the communist party.
Burns said that he cut ties with the group, the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), “not long after” he took over as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
But the founder of the foundation gave a pro-Beijing speech at a Carnegie event more than 14 months after Burns took over the think tank.
CUSEF donated between $200,000 and $500,000 to Carnegie between 2015 and 2017.
The founder of a front group for the Chinese Communist Party appeared at an event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in May 2016, where he pushed a pro-Beijing argument regarding a decades-long stalemate over control of the South China Sea.
The speech, by Tung Chee-hwa, the founding chairman of the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), was held more than 14 months after William Burns, President Joe Biden’s nominee for CIA director, took over as president of the Carnegie Endowment.
The timing of Tung’s visit to Carnegie would appear to conflict with Burns’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday that he cut ties between Carnegie and CUSEF “not long after” he took over as president of Carnegie in March 2015.
Tung, a billionaire who was formerly chief executive of Hong Kong, gave a speech at Carnegie’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. on May 11, 2016. The Daily Caller News Foundation has reported that CUSEF donated between $200,000 and $500,000 to Carnegie between 2015 and 2017.
During his Wednesday testimony, Burns downplayed Carnegie’s relationship with CUSEF, while acknowledging that the Hong Kong-based group was used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) “to sway public opinion and build influence.” (RELATED: CIA Nominee Says He Cut Ties With Chinese Propaganda Group As President Of Think Tank)
He also acknowledged in response to written questions released before the confirmation hearing that the CCP uses CUSEF as part of a “whole-of-government approach…to try and influence political, economic, and cultural developments to benefit CCP interests.”
Burns told Sen. Marco Rubio, who cited details reported this month by the DCNF, that he severed ties with CUSEF because he was “increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations.”
He said that Carnegie subsequently launched an initiative to counter foreign influence operations, which focused on China and Russia.
Whether Tung’s speech was coordinated with China is unknown, but he pushed an overtly pro-Beijing viewpoint during his speech at Carnegie, one of the most influential foreign policy think tanks in the world.
Tung spoke at length about the South China Sea, a geopolitical hotspot that has long been the center of a territorial dispute involving China, Taiwan, Vietnam and other Asian countries.
At the time, an international arbitration court in The Hague was deliberating rightful ownership of islands in the South China Sea.
The Chinese government waged a massive propaganda campaign in the West ahead of the arbitration court’s decision, with Reuters and CNBC reporting in July 2016 that Beijing was in “propaganda overdrive.”
“not long after” ha. Vague and Relative.
The CIA has been run by communists since Brennan ran it.
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CHINA NETWORKING IN US --Secy of State Mike Pompeo Has the List
American Governors Rated ‘Friendly’ by Communist China
pjmedia.com | 2/9/2020 | MEGAN FOX
In a shocking speech to the National Governors Association, Secretary Mike Pompeo revealed that he is in possession of a list of American governors who have been listed as “friendly” by Chinese Communist infiltrators. Pompeo said he had received an earlier invitation from a former governor to attend a networking event that promised great “deal-making” opportunities with the Chinese government. This networking event was run by “The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship in Foreign Countries,” said Pompeo.
But what the US participants might not have known is that “the group is the public face of the Chinese Communist party’s official foreign influence agency, the United Front Work Department.”
Pompeo knew of this connection from his former position at the CIA.
He questioned the governors on how many of them knew that this group was a Communist-front group. “What if you made a “new friend” at the China networking event?” he asked.
“What if your ‘new friend’ offered to invest big money in your state: (A) perhaps in your pension fund, (B) or an investment in an industry sensitive to our national security?”
And then Pompeo dropped a huge bomb on the crowd. “These aren’t hypotheticals. Last year a Chinese government-backed think tank in Beijing produced a report that assessed all fifty of America’s governors on their attitudes toward China.
China labeled each pol friendly, hardline, or ambiguous.” Pompeo continued, “I’ll let you decide where you think you belong, someone in China already has. Many of you, indeed, in that report, are referenced by name.” (Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com …
Dongsheng depicted the ease by which Communist Chinese operatives w/ hidden agendas conscripted
"prominent Americans and institutions" who were even willing to work against the interests of their own country.
The professor related his own triumphs as a CCP operative in recruiting new and useful American “friends.”
America’s top pols fell easily to China’s leveraging of insatiable Western appetites for power, influence, and money.
NOTE He is Vice Dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University (the school for children of the CCP elite).
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REFERENCE At a fund-raiser for turncoat Republican, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, he actually spoke Mandarin to hit up Chinese attendees for campaign contributions. So its easy to understand why he slapped down Trump when Trump needed Georgia votes last November.
Raffensperger is in the pockets of the Chinese---they tell him what and what not to do.
Raffensperger is a plusperfect example of a cruddy lowdown US pol willing to work against the interest of his own country to stay in power.
Since it was the OSS created out of COMMUNIST Germany, and EVERY single moment after and continuing.
Yep!
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