{"id":2412116,"date":"2025-03-10T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsoms-cozy-relationship-with-china-called-out-in-new-book\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T20:18:41","slug":"gavin-newsoms-cozy-relationship-with-china-called-out-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gavin-newsoms-cozy-relationship-with-china-called-out-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom\u2019s cozy relationship with China called out in new book"},"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\">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%2Fgavin-newsoms-cozy-relationship-with-china-called-out-in-new-book%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=2412116&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-was-right-fbi-quietly-makes-stunning-admission-that-its-crime-statistics-were-very-wrong\/\" title=\"Trump Was Right: FBI Quietly Makes &#039;Stunning&#039; Admission That Its Crime Statistics Were Very Wrong\">article discusses claims made<\/a> in a forthcoming book titled *Fool&#8217;s \u200bGold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All*, wich scrutinizes California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s\u200d connections with the\u2064 Chinese Communist Party (CCP).\u200b Authors \u200dSusan Crabtree and\u2063 Jedd McFatter argue\u2064 that Newsom \u2064has consistently engaged \u200cwith the CCP in ways \u200cthat undermine California and the U.S.Thay \u2063highlight several instances, including Newsom&#8217;s veto of a bill that would have restricted foreign ownership of agricultural land,\u200b his hiring of Yu Ben Meng\u2014an individual \u2062with ties to the CCP\u2014as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-plans-to-unveil-advisory-warning-for-americans-doing-business-with-deteriorating-hong-kong\/\" title=\"Biden Plans To Unveil \u2018Advisory\u2019 Warning For Americans Doing Business With \u2018Deteriorating\u2019 Hong Kong\">chief investment officer<\/a> for California&#8217;s public pension system, and his acceptance of $300,000 from \u200bTikTok \u200bto promote \u200bCOVID-19 \u2062mandates. The authors \u200bassert that these\u200b actions raise notable concerns about Newsom&#8217;s integrity and accountability, with implications\u200c for the political landscape in California. They portray Newsom&#8217;s decisions as politically motivated and suggest they \u2063serve the interests of the CCP and tech \u2063companies rather than the people of California. Newsom&#8217;s office did\u200d not respond \u2063to the publication&#8217;s request for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Gavin Newsom&rsquo;s cozy relationship with China called out in new book<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2031797\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash; <\/strong>Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Newsom \">Gavin Newsom<\/a> (D-CA) has veered into shaky political&nbsp;territory by &ldquo;consistently&rdquo; engaging with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/communist-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Chinese Communist Party\">Chinese Communist Party<\/a> and selling out his state and country multiple times, according to explosive claims in a new book.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fools-Gold-Radicals-Traitors-California\/dp\/1546008039\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All\"><em>Fool&rsquo;s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All<\/em><\/a>, which will be released Tuesday, authors Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter take a microscope to the governor&rsquo;s cozy relationship with Beijing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3342686\/michelle-obama-launching-podcast-with-brother\/\">Michelle Obama launching podcast with brother to &#8216;share our perspectives&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/3342766\/doge-investigation-opm-inspector-general-access-email-data-system\/\">DOGE under investigation by OPM inspector general for access to email data system<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3342721\/ilhan-omar-suggests-brandon-gill-constituents-xenophobic-racist\/\">Ilhan Omar suggests all of Brandon Gill&#8217;s constituents are &#8216;xenophobic and racist&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) speaks to reporters in the spin room following the presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris on Sept. 10, 2024, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They point to at least three instances in which Newsom, an early 2028 Democratic White House front-runner, sided with or aided people with ties to the notorious CCP.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.-China relations expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gordon-g-chang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Gordon Chang\">Gordon Chang<\/a> told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>that while &ldquo;China&rsquo;s regime has infiltrated both political parties,&rdquo; it is the Democratic Party in California that has &ldquo;a special problem because it has&nbsp;viewed Chinese-Americans as a rich source of votes and this group has maintained troubling ties to Communist Party front organizations. This means the California Democratic Party has troubling ties with the Party.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Gavin Newsom, who has so much power to help China, has been a target of front activities, and his left-wing politics have made it easy for Beijing to exploit the situation,&rdquo; Chang added.<\/p>\n<p>One of the instances in the book involves&nbsp;Newsom&rsquo;s 2022 veto of a bill that would have prohibited foreign governments&nbsp;from purchasing or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bipartisan-group-of-senators-push-to-ban-china-from-buying-us-farmland\/\" title=\"Bipartisan Group of Senators Push to Ban ... From Buying US Farmland\">leasing agricultural land<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov\/faces\/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB1084\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Senate Bill 1084<\/a>, authored by state Sen. Melissa Hurtado, would have also created an annual report&nbsp;from the California Department of Food and Agriculture that would list how much agricultural land is still owned by foreign governments. According to Hurtado, more than 3%<a href=\"https:\/\/sd14.senate.ca.gov\/news\/press-release\/governors-veto-hurtados-bill-jeopardizes-future-food-supply\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;of all of California&rsquo;s agricultural land<\/a>&nbsp;has international owners &mdash; an amount that grows each year.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom vetoed the bill, claiming it was unnecessary because the U.S. Department of Agriculture already keeps track of the data. He also said the process would be too arduous.<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree and McFatter claim that both reasons are &ldquo;bogus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>They argue Newsom&rsquo;s reasoning that keeping up with foreign investments would be too difficult flies in the face of other first-in-the-nation type moves California has made, including the state&rsquo;s climate bill, which requires large corporations to disclose their carbon footprint. They also point to Newsom signing a law that would force venture capital firms to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">annually disclose diversity data<\/a> of their workers.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In other words, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/docs-reveal-facebook-and-twitter-collaborated-with-dhs-and-fbi-to-police-so-called-disinfo\/\" title=\"Docs Reveal Face... and Twitter Collaborated With DHS and FBI to Police So-Called &quot;Disinfo&quot;\">government data collection<\/a> is easily funded and achieved if it&rsquo;s for the oppressive monitoring of Californians; meanwhile, foreigners get a free pass,&rdquo; the book reads. &ldquo;Moreover, if Newsom really believed that it&rsquo;s dangerous to let foreign governments purchase California farmland, he would be prepared to do all the &lsquo;arduous&rsquo; data collection needed to prevent it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The authors also take issue with Newsom&rsquo;s claim that the USDA already tracks foreign ownership of farmland at the national level, arguing that the USDA has a &ldquo;well-documented history of failing to properly enforce Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act measures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;According to a 2022 report by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, no legitimate enforcement measures are in place to track lack of reporting or false reporting,&rdquo; the authors claim.<\/p>\n<p>Another incident Crabtree and McFatter point to is the hiring of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gic.com.sg\/event-speakers\/dr-yu-ben-meng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Yu Ben Meng\">Yu Ben Meng<\/a>, a Chinese national with a key CCP banking role, as chief investor officer at California&rsquo;s public pension system. The duo claims Yu was given a salary higher than any other state government employee, $1.5 million for two years, and was allowed to invest $3 billion in Chinese companies, including some that were blacklisted by the U.S. for their role in surveilling the Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in China.<\/p>\n<p>Crabtree and McFatter also found that Yu was recruited by China&rsquo;s Thousand Talents Program to serve as director of China&rsquo;s State Administration of Foreign Exchange, a regulatory agency that serves as the administrative arm of the People&rsquo;s Bank of China, which carries out the policies of the CCP. Yu resigned from the California pension system after he approved a $1 billion investment in a private equity company controlled by the Blackstone Group. A yearslong investigation also found him to be in violation of two other conflict-of-interest claims and fined him $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Newsom&rsquo;s hiring of Yu Ben Meng is especially reprehensible,&rdquo; Chang told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>.&nbsp; &ldquo;Why would Newsom allow the funding of our enemy&rsquo;s most dangerous practices?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The book also faults Newsom for turning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tiktok\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TikTok\">TikTok<\/a> for $300,000 in &ldquo;behested payments&rdquo; to promote his COVID-19 mandates. <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Congress banned the Chinese-owned social media platform, but President Donald Trump postponed enfo<\/span>rcement until April 5. Behested donations are contributions from an individual or organization solicited by a public official for a legislative, governmental, or charitable purpose. They are not illegal in California.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Newsom brought in almost $227 million in 2020, though the top donors were Facebook and Blue Shield of California, not TikTok, according to a January 2022 report from the state&rsquo;s political watchdog.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom asked for the money to help fight COVID-19 and run parts of his administration during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Unprecedented times call for an unprecedented response,&rdquo; Newsom spokesman Daniel Lopez told the <em>Associated Press <\/em>at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The book&rsquo;s authors, though, took umbrage with Newsom accepting money from TikTok and faulted him for promoting his mandates in a series of TikTok videos.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course, tech companies like TikTok had perhaps the most to financially gain from keeping people at home, remote, isolated, and glued to their devices,&rdquo; they said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From foreign entanglements to self-serving financial gains, Newsom and the other California corrupt class&rsquo;s actions raise critical questions about accountability, integrity, and the future of California,&rdquo; Crabtree said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3339767\/gavin-newsom-2028-california-drug-costs-labor-homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>GAVIN NEWSOM&rsquo;S BOLD PLANS HAVE A HABIT OF BLOWING UP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of people know California is a failed state,&rdquo; McFatter added. &ldquo;With&nbsp;<em>Fool&rsquo;s Gold<\/em>, we show for the first time that California&rsquo;s failure has been extremely lucrative for its permanent political class.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Newsom&rsquo;s office did not return a <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2031797\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2031797\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom&#8217;s ties to China criticized in new book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2412117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gavin-Newsom-California-2171251609.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4501,32742,32648,5894,18873],"class_list":["post-2412116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-china","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-new-book","tag-politics","tag-relationships"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Gavin-Newsom-California-2171251609.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412116","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\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412120,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412116\/revisions\/2412120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2412117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}