Forget Russian Meddling, What About Chinese Communists Funding Left Wing Think Tanks?

Or doesn't foreign meddling matter if they are funding left wing groups?

OK, we know Putin has been funding left wing groups that stir up racial hate to divide Americans. While there is a current "red scare" about Russians, who is keeping an eye on the Chinese?

Chinese Communist Party Funds Washington Think Tanks
United Front Work Department conducts aggressive influence operations in U.S.
BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz
The Washington Free Beacon
August 24, 2018 4:55 pm

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.

The Party's United Front strategy includes paying several Washington think tanks with the goal influencing their actions and adopting positions that support Beijing's policies.
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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.

The Exchange Foundation is tied to Chinese government influence operations and uses the same public relations firm as the Chinese embassy.
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"Most Americans and many members of Congress have no idea of the range of activities undertaken by this Chinese Communist Party web," Wortzel said. "It is a form of activity by Communist parties that dates back to the days of Lenin."

Yep. Just like the Russians, efforts to buy influence, particularly from sympathetic targets on the left is an ongoing operation. When will we have a Special Prosecutor to look at this or are ten year old tax charges the only thing of interest?