{"id":1762674,"date":"2022-12-05T05:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762674"},"modified":"2022-12-05T05:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T10:09:01","slug":"meet-the-beijing-aligned-group-that-branded-a-republicans-tough-on-china-rhetoric-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-beijing-aligned-group-that-branded-a-republicans-tough-on-china-rhetoric-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Beijing-Aligned Group That Branded a Republican\u2019s Tough-on-China Rhetoric \u2018Racist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fmeet-the-beijing-aligned-group-that-branded-a-republicans-tough-on-china-rhetoric-racist%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=1762674&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--><p>The Chinese-American nonprofit that branded a Republican congresswoman&#8217;s tough-on-China campaign ads &#8220;racist&#8221; has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party influence groups and Beijing-backed companies through its members, staff, and former leaders, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found.<\/p>\n<p>In late October, with the 2022 midterms just two weeks away, the Committee of 100\u2014a nonprofit that works to &#8220;advance U.S.-China relations&#8221;\u2014issued a statement condemning China-related campaign ads from California Republican Michelle Steel. Those ads, which the committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.committee100.org\/press_release\/committee-of-100-statement-on-the-negative-rhetoric-in-the-race-to-represent-u-s-house-of-representatives-california-district-45\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> included &#8220;racist attacks&#8221; that encouraged &#8220;anti-Asian hate and violence,&#8221; criticized Democrat challenger Jay Chen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/meet-the-ca-dem-who-invited-the-ccp-into-his-local-classrooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">past support<\/a> for the Confucius Classroom program, a CCP-run initiative that provides American K-12 schools with Beijing-backed teachers and curriculum materials.<\/p>\n<p>The committee&#8217;s decision to wade into the race\u2014a rare one, given that the nonprofit usually avoids electoral politics in favor of commenting on academic research, legislative developments, and federal appointments\u2014sparked attention from mainstream media outlets and liberal groups. Within days of its release, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/07\/1134121891\/why-a-southern-california-congressional-race-hinges-on-asian-american-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2022-10-28\/michelle-steel-faces-backlash-charges-of-racism-from-aapi-groups-over-campaign-attack-ads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dccc.org\/ca-45-michelle-steel-disavowed-by-aapi-groups-for-dangerous-false-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee<\/a> used the statement to declare that the Asian-American community had turned on Steel, with the Times and NPR innocuously describing the Committee of 100 as &#8220;a New York-based nonprofit led by prominent Chinese Americans&#8221; and a group that &#8220;represents Chinese Americans.&#8221; Those descriptions, however, ignore the fact that many of the nonprofit&#8217;s members, staff, and former leaders have extensive ties to CCP-controlled groups and Chinese state-backed companies\u2014ties that have led some China experts to assert that the committee is a crucial target for the CCP&#8217;s foreign influence efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Committee member Ronnie Chan, for example, serves on the governing board of the China-United States Exchange Foundation, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/organization\/china-u-s-exchange-foundation-cusef\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP-funded Chinese foreign agent<\/a> whose founder, billionaire Chinese national Tung Chee-hwa, is the vice chairman of a CCP advisory body. Fellow member Yu Meng, meanwhile, for three years worked as a top officer at the Chinese government-controlled State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a job that China&#8217;s Thousand Talents Program\u2014which the FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/californias-highest-paid-govt-employee-worked-for-org-tied-to-chinese-espionage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> engages in &#8220;non-traditional espionage against the United States&#8221;\u2014reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/congressman-calls-on-california-to-fire-pension-official-tied-to-chinese-spy-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recruited<\/a> him to take. Meng in 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/congressman-calls-on-california-to-fire-pension-official-tied-to-chinese-spy-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> CCP propaganda rag People&#8217;s Daily that he was inspired to take the job due to his commitment to &#8220;the motherland.&#8221; Former committee chairman Dominic Ng also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/meet-the-ccp-loving-biden-donor-responsible-for-us-economic-interests-in-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">served<\/a> on the board of the Asia Society, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/china-backed-confucius-institute-rebrands-to-avoid-scrutiny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked to spread<\/a> Confucius Institutes\u2014the CCP-run higher education equivalent of Confucius Classrooms that a former top Chinese official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2019\/03\/confucius-institutes-china-spent-the-last-decade-bankrolling-hundreds-of-college-programs-now-congress-has-had-enough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> &#8220;an important part of China\u2019s overseas propaganda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese-American nonprofit that branded a Republican congresswoman&#8217;s tough-on-China campaign ads &#8220;racist&#8221; has extensive ties to Chinese Communist Party influence groups and Beijing-backed companies through its members, staff, and former leaders, a Washington Free Beacon investigation found.<br \/>\nThe post Meet the Beijing-Aligned Group That Branded a Republican\u2019s Tough-on-China Rhetoric \u2018Racist\u2019 appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1300102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762674","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}