{"id":1585897,"date":"2022-08-03T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585897"},"modified":"2022-08-03T05:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:04:41","slug":"nyt-columnist-hosts-chinese-government-adviser-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-columnist-hosts-chinese-government-adviser-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT Columnist Hosts Chinese Government Adviser in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyt-columnist-hosts-chinese-government-adviser-in-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/\">Media<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Thomas Friedman criticized Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s Taiwan trip<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCenter for China &#038; Globalization president Wang Huiyao and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman \/ Center for China &#038; Globalization\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 3, 2022 4:58 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Thomas Friedman last month hosted a delegation from a think tank helmed by a Chinese government adviser deeply enmeshed in Beijing&#8217;s propaganda operations.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman <a href=\"http:\/\/en.ccg.org.cn\/archives\/77364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met<\/a> in July with Wang Huiyao, the president of the Center for China and Globalization, to discuss &#8220;megatrends and the transformation of globalization in the post-pandemic era.&#8221; Friedman also <a href=\"https:\/\/planetwordmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosted<\/a> the group at Planet Word, a Washington, D.C.-based language museum run by his wife, Ann.<\/p>\n<p>Wang advises the Chinese government, is an official at two united front organizations, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scgti.org\/wanghuiyao\/a\/Dynamic\/2011\/1026\/581.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped develop<\/a> China&#8217;s controversial &#8220;Thousand Talents&#8221; program<strong>, <\/strong>which the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\/counterintelligence\/the-china-threat\/chinese-talent-plans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> Beijing uses to steal trade secrets from American companies and create national security risks for the U.S. government. The think tank has been linked to China&#8217;s united front system, which the Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/U.S.-Strategic-Approach-to-The-Peoples-Republic-of-China-Report-5.20.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uses<\/a> to influence &#8220;universities, think tanks, scholars, journalists,&#8221; and government officials, according to a Trump administration report.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman, reportedly one of President Joe Biden&#8217;s favorite newspaper columnists, wrote in a <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/01\/opinion\/nancy-pelosi-taiwan-china.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column<\/a> on Tuesday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s (D., Calif.) trip to Taiwan is &#8220;utterly reckless.&#8221; The columnist has repeatedly urged government officials to take a softer stance toward Beijing. Chinese state media last year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/chinese-propagandists-tout-nyt-columnist-thomas-friedmans-comments\/\">touted<\/a> Friedman&#8217;s remarks in an interview with Wang that America could not succeed without a &#8220;healthy relationship with China.&#8221; He conducted a glowing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huawei.com\/it\/facts\/voices-of-huawei\/ren-zhengfeis-interview-with-new-york-times-op-ed-columnist-thomas-l-friedman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> in 2019 with the head of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, in which he asked what &#8220;America loses&#8221; by blocking the company from building 5G infrastructure because of its links to Chinese intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist has also made inaccurate claims about China&#8217;s efforts to deter Russia&#8217;s actions in Ukraine. While criticizing Pelosi&#8217;s trip in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TUGPb6y8W1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview<\/a> last week, Friedman said that &#8220;China is helping us&#8221; in Ukraine and cautioned against &#8220;poking the bear right now.&#8221; But U.S. officials have publicly criticized Beijing for supporting Russia, as the<em>\u00a0Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/13\/world\/asia\/china-united-states-russia-ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> last month. The State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/disarming-disinformation\/prc-efforts-to-amplify-the-kremlins-voice-on-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in May that Chinese Communist Party media outlets &#8220;routinely amplify Kremlin propaganda, conspiracy theories, and disinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like Friedman, Wang also criticized Pelosi for her Taiwan visit, calling it a &#8220;very, very bad move&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/biden-faces-fresh-showdown-with-xi-despite-talk-of-summit-1.1798893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an interview<\/a> with <em>Bloomberg News<\/em> over the weekend. And he portrayed China as a potential peacemaker in Ukraine in a <em>Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/13\/opinion\/china-russia-ukraine.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in March. The Gray Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/new-york-times-gordon-chang-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came under fire<\/a> for the piece for failing to disclose that Wang is a Chinese government adviser.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for China and Globalization has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.ccg.org.cn\/archives\/58293\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">downplayed<\/a> its links to the Chinese government, saying that it is &#8220;independent from direct government control.&#8221; But the organization acknowledges that Wang advises several Chinese government agencies and serves on two organizations\u2014Western Returned Scholars Association and the China Overseas Friendship Association\u2014that are both part of the CCP&#8217;s united front.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration in an intelligence memo last month sounded the alarm about the united front. The director of national intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dni.gov\/files\/NCSC\/documents\/SafeguardingOurFuture\/PRC_Subnational_Influence-06-July-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the united front &#8220;a coalition of entities working towards CCP goals&#8221; that plays a leading role in China&#8217;s &#8220;foreign influence efforts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The center touted the stateside trips as an overseas think tank &#8220;engagement mission \u2026 filled with productive meetings.&#8221; Wang met with leaders of several groups known for sympathetic views toward China, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/top-biden-allies-worked-for-group-with-close-ties-to-chinese-communist-party\/\">National Committee on U.S.-China Relations<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/soft-on-china-blinken-to-unveil-biden-admins-china-policy-at-china-friendly-org\/\">Asia Society<\/a>, and the U.S.-China Business Council. After meeting with Friedman, Wang visited with the head of CGTN America, a TV station controlled by the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s propaganda department.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Thomas Friedman criticized Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s Taiwan trip  Center for China &#038; Globalization president Wang Huiyao and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman \/ Center for China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}