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Posted on 06/12/2025 9:24:09 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
The administration of New York Governor Kathy Hochul assigned a senior state government official to participate in back-channel talks led by a Chinese Communist Party bureau allegedly involved in espionage and co-opting foreign political leaders.
This individual was slated to deliver remarks on a Zoom call on October 19, 2023 with the CCP’s International Department and several Chinese officials linked to the Party’s political influence organs, according to emails and documents obtained by National Review under a public records disclosure law. Hochul’s then-director of Asian Affairs, Elaine Fan, coordinated the official’s participation. The official was only referred to as a “senior representative of New York State” and is not named in the correspondence.
In a statement, Hochul’s press secretary Avi Small suggested that the administration’s involvement in the dialogue was authorized and that the State Department had coordinated its role in the talks: “The Hochul Administration has strong vetting procedures in place to review potential invitations and determine their provenance. It is not uncommon for the United States Department of State to ask state government officials to participate in conversations with foreign counterparts.”
At the time, the Biden administration was seeking a diplomatic rapprochement with Beijing, following the Chinese spy balloon incident in February 2023.
Two months after the videoconference to which the Hochul administration sent a New York State official, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited San Francisco. Then, in January 2024, International Department minister Liu Jianchao, the lead Chinese delegate to the virtual talks, met with top Biden administration officials in Washington, D.C.
Meetings involving the International Department are controversial given its role in espionage and malign political influence schemes.
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During the BUY-DUNG regime.
Is Fan and Hochul trying to put the blame on the Biden Admin that she became a Chi-com spy? That administration was bad, but did someone twist her arm to become their asset?
China had President Vegetable by the short hairs.
How many millions to the extended family?
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