Posted on 08/26/2025 7:54:43 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
In New York City, social clubs backed by China undermined a congressional candidate who once challenged the regime on Chinese television.
They helped unseat a state senator for attending a banquet with the president of Taiwan.
And they condemned a City Council candidate on social media for supporting Hong Kong democracy.
In the past few years, these organizations have quietly foiled the careers of politicians who opposed China’s authoritarian government while backing others who supported policies of the country’s ruling Communist Party. The groups, many of them tax-exempt nonprofits, have allowed America’s most formidable adversary to influence elections in the country’s largest city, The New York Times found.
The groups are mostly “hometown associations” of people hailing from the same town or province in China. Some have been around for more than a century, while dozens of others have sprung up over the past decade. Like other heritage clubs in a city of immigrants, they welcome newcomers, organize parades and foster social connections.
But many hometown associations have become useful tools of China’s consulate in Midtown Manhattan, according to dozens of group members, politicians and former prosecutors. Some group leaders have family or business in China and fear the consequences of bucking its authority. Consulate officials have enlisted them to intimidate politicians who support Taiwan or cross Beijing’s other red lines. In one case, a Chinese intelligence agent and several hometown leaders targeted the same candidate.
This meddling may seem modest, involving politicians who are unlikely to affect international policy. But China is determined to quash dissent in its diaspora before it spreads back home, said Audrye Wong, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies Chinese influence.
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IslamoSocialist Mamdani...too.
Oh, Russia does plenty too (just not as reported by the MSM.)
Either (and any) are unacceptable.
All involved including US citizens involved need to immediately get put on a flight back to the capital of the country @ the root of the influencing.
By catapult.
This can’t be The New York Times.
Queens is the World’s borough. They are proud of that and have that on their signs.
For some weird reason, I don’t think mandami the commie wins.
Trump is importing 600,000 Chinese, and expect his supporters to pay for their stay here...
Do we really want hundreds of thousands more of these people here?
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