{"id":186140,"date":"2021-03-02T07:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186140"},"modified":"2021-03-02T08:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T13:39:43","slug":"ccp-uses-private-dinners-and-paid-trips-to-influence-media-and-politicians-investigative-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-uses-private-dinners-and-paid-trips-to-influence-media-and-politicians-investigative-reporter\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP Uses Private Dinners and Paid Trips to Influence Media and Politicians: Investigative Reporter"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fccp-uses-private-dinners-and-paid-trips-to-influence-media-and-politicians-investigative-reporter%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=186140&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 regime uses private dinners and paid trips to push for favorable reports or policies from the media and politicians, according to Natalie Winters, an investigative reporter with The National Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe uncovered that an organization by the name of the China-United States Exchange Foundation [CUSEF]\u2026 specifically seeks to co-opt and neutralize any opposition to the Chinese Communist Party [CCP], and really target elites in the West to push policies that advance the desires of the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d\u00a0Winters told The Epoch Times\u2019 \u201cCrossroads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winters pointed out that CUSEF has been identified repeatedly by the U.S. government as working with China\u2019s United Front Work Department, an affiliate of the CCP central committee.<\/p>\n<p>The CUSEF was established in 2008 in Hong Kong, labeled as\u00a0\u201can independent, non-profit and non-governmental foundation committed to the belief that a positive and peaceful relationship\u201d between China and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were paying journalists, reporters, editors from basically every Western media outlet\u2014Newsweek, even Fox, CNN, Washington Post\u2014all these outlets that love to lecture us on journalistic integrity, to take trips to China to tour not only military facilities, tour Huawei, meet with Chinese Communist Party officials,\u201d Winters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in exchange, when you read the Foreign Agent Registration Act filings, you see that they were forced to essentially provide \u2018favorable coverage\u2019 and \u2018disseminate positive information\u2019 with regards to China,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Winters pointed out that these activities were aided and abetted by Western lobbying firms, specifically BLJ Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>In a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) <a href=\"https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/5875-Supplemental-Statement-20200831-32.pdf\">filing (pdf)<\/a> last year BLJ Worldwide stated: \u201cBLJ has also helped CUSEF to engage openly with academic and thought leaders, including through the use of salon-style dinners. We also supported trips to China for the following media outlets\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winters suggested that the media and universities, Hollywood, and current and former officials have taken such trips to China and have been given a \u201cvery curated view\u201d of the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo no wonder why they treat it with such kid gloves and are very kind to them,\u201d Winters said.<\/p>\n<p>Winters suggested that the media treats China softly when reporting the genocide of Uyghurs. Sometimes media also refuse to cover certain stories, such as the recent controversy over Hunter Biden\u2019s hard drive, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just my opinion or conspiracy theories. These are within the Foreign Agent Registration Act filings. These are explicitly what they\u2019re hired to do, what they\u2019re supposed to do,\u201d Winters added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven [President] Joe Biden actually met with the chairman of the organization when he visited China in 2013. That same trip he conveniently saw his son ink a very lucrative deal with the Bank of China and other entities,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The CUSEF chairman is Tung Chee Hwa, first chief executive to Hong Kong and currently a vice chairman of the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the Chinese Communist Party attempts to overtake the United States, it\u2019s not that they necessarily want to fly a Chinese flag over the White House,\u201d Winters continued. \u201cThey just want everybody who\u2019s in that White House to somehow have liaised with them, whether through an organization like CUSEF, they want them to come from university programs that have been entirely funded and bankrolled by the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winters also pointed out that the Congressional Black Caucus, which is made up of most African American Congress members, had a very \u201cintense\u201d relationship with CUSEF for around a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of this caucus, which include [Vice President] Kamala Harris, include \u2018Squad\u2019 members like [Rep.] 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,\u201d Winters added. \u201cThey toured Huawei facilities. It\u2019s absolutely astounding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winters said that many students who go on these trips write blog posts for the CUSEF website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in one of the posts, one of the poor girls who went on the trip, she actually talked about how China is an \u2018amazing communist country\u2019 that outperforms the United States in virtually every level,\u201d Winters added. \u201cSo that is propaganda at its absolute finest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3716346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congressional-Black-Caucus-supported-students-visit-to-china-FARA-05152019-600x501-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CUSEF supported student visits to China. (Screenshot\/FARA filing on May 15, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>Winters also pointed out that the first group of students that went to China was called the \u201cMarcia Fudge Inaugural Cohort\u201d because Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) spearheaded the \u201cwhole effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fudge was nominated by Biden to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is not something that I would want my name on or anywhere near or subject my constituents to,\u201d Winters said. \u201cAbsolutely bizarre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CUSEF is not the only organization that works for the CCP. On Dec. 4, 2020, the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/termination-of-prc-funded-propaganda-programs\/index.html\">terminated five China-funded propaganda programs<\/a>,\u00a0including CUSEF.<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the five programs are \u201cdisguised as cultural exchanges\u201d and \u201care fully funded and operated by the PRC government as soft power propaganda tools.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese regime uses private dinners and paid trips to push for favorable reports or policies from the media and politicians, according to Natalie Winters, an investigative reporter with The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congressional-Black-Caucus-supported-students-visit-to-china-FARA-05152019-600x501-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CCP Uses Private Dinners and Paid Trips to Influence Media and Politicians: Investigative Reporter","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Congressional-Black-Caucus-supported-students-visit-to-china-FARA-05152019-600x501-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"CCP Uses Private Dinners and Paid Trips to Influence Media and Politicians: Investigative Reporter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186140","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}