Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

Well this is interesting!

Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks

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.

But what's really interesting is who they are funding.

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.

So the Chinese are funding liberal, but not conservative think tanks. No mention of AEI or the Heritage Foundation here. Maybe, just maybe, that would explain the recent liberal turn around on the subject of trade. The Democratic Party used to be almost Trumpian on trade, now they're libertarians on trade, and socialist on almost everything else. That sounds like a perfect combination of policies if China could pick policies for it's enemies to have.