![]() ![]() The propaganda effort is working, said Winters. Members of this caucus, which include Kamala Harris, include “Squad” members like Ilhan Omar, they have actually sent their student-age constituents to China on these sponsored trips, the same ones that the media outlets have been going on. We also supported trips to China for the following media outlets:ĬUSEF also enjoys the support of the far-left Congressional Black Caucus, according to Winters: One of CUSEF’s lobbying arms, BLJ Worldwide, registered as a foreign agent, expanded on just whom it is touching, and how:īLJ has … helped CUSEF to engage openly with academic and thought leaders, including through the use of salon style dinners. relations,” and another half a million for the same purpose the following year. The firm he founded with his brother Tony received $668,000 in 2016 to lobby congress on the topic of “friendly China-U.S. One such recipient, John Podesta, has links to the Clinton and Obama administrations. ![]() It also pays PR firms to push the “trust us, we’re your friends” narrative into Congress. leaders “to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”ĬUSEF is not shy about pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into these think tanks. The U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission has spelled out CUSEF’s intentions: “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and to get U.S. ![]() James Leibold, a professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia (also not on CUSEF’s donor list), made it clear exactly what’s going on: “What we’re talking about here is not Chinese influence per se, but the influence of the Chinese Communist Party.” The very act of accepting funding from a nation that is arguably America’s enemy destroys Lampton’s claim to “integrity.” And being dependent upon CUSEF financially challenges his claim to be independent of pro-communist Chinese influence. We have full confidence in the academic integrity and independence of these endeavors. There are absolutely no conditions or limitations imposed upon … by reason of a gift or otherwise. It’s based on what Peter Mattis, a fellow at the Jamestown Foundation (not on CUSEF’s favored list), calls “ecological change”: “If they cultivate enough people in the right places, they start to change the debate without having to directly inject their own voice.”ĭavid Lampton, director of the China Studies Program at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and funded by CUSEF, is one of those “voices.” He has drunk the Chinese Communist Party’s Kool-Aid: One of CUSEF’s most effective tools is the granting of funding to left-wing think tanks. journalists, scholars, and political and military leaders to mainland China … including the Brookings Institution … the Atlantic Council, the Center for American Progress … and the Carnegie Endowment for Peace. conducts academic and professional exchanges, bringing U.S. the Chinese Communist Party has sought to repress ideas it doesn’t like and to amplify those it does, and its efforts have met with growing success…. One of the most effective tools of China’s United Front - a strategy dating back to the days of Mao to present a false but persuasive and believable picture of China under Chinese Communist Party rule - is CUSEF, the China-United States Exchange Foundation.įounded and funded by billionaire CCP member Tung Chee-hwa in 2008, the effectiveness of CUSEF was brought to light in late 2017 by Bethany Allen-Ibrahimian, an investigative reporter for Foreign Policy (FP): In her 20-minute interview with the Epoch Times’ Joshua Philipp, she laid out exactly how effective, and insidious, this part of China’s United Front effort is in changing the narrative on China. The latest interview with Natalie Winters, an investigative reporter for the National Pulse, revealed more of China’s successes in infiltrating the media and left-wing think tanks on Monday. Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus ![]()
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