Leroy N. Soetoro
2024-09-13 22:50:10 UTC
https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/opinion/ny-pols-need-to-wake-up-to-chinese-
communist-influence-operations/
New Yorks political establishment needs to wake up to the Chinese
Communist Partys influence operations here.
The latest is Isabel Vincents recent Post exclusive revealing that CCP
tendrils reached into the office of the Big Apples top cop: Now-ex NYPD
Commissioner Edward Cabans top aide, Assistant Commissioner GiuAn Lin,
is linked to CCP-controlled groups known collectively as United Front.
For 12 years, Lin served as vice chairman of a nonprofit associated with
the front, which operates to spread Chinese propaganda in the United
States.
This follows the arrest of Gov. Hochuls former ex-aide Linda Sun and her
husband Christopher Hu for acting as a secret Chinese agent. Sun had
previously worked for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Assemblywoman (now
Rep.) Grace Meng.
Those cases, as well as the ongoing FBI probe of ex-Mayor Adams aide
Winnie Greco, a case that also involves CCP influence, and one involving
two men charged with running a secret police station in Manhattan, are but
a small glimpse of Chinas effort to compromise public officials and
infiltrate Big Apple government and society.
CCP front groups are at work in multiple major US cities, Steven W. Mosher
notes, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, working to elect Beijing-
friendly politicians as well as to place agents in government.
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) says groups tied to the Chinese Community
Party tried to topple him and take over his predominantly Asian district
in the June Democratic primary which Kim won by 443 votes.
The CCPs sometimes gotten blatant in its operations: You see Chinas flag
at a lot more political events than you did a few years back.
At this point, no one has any clue how deep CCP penetration of New York
politics might be, but plenty of local pols wont think to look at any
strings that might come with free trips, convenient donations or what
looks like support from the Asian-American community.
That, though most ethnic Chinese in America want nothing to do with
Chinas government, and many rightly detest it: Indeed, Beijings show of
influence is partly aimed at intimidating a community that might otherwise
support dissent in China whose government is known to monitor and even
target its critics abroad.
To her credit, Hochul fired Sun upon discovering the staffer had secretly
promoted the CCP agenda in official documents; perhaps the gov will now
create a bipartisan state commission to investigate Beijings influence
operations here.
New Yorks leaders need to realize that, as former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo puts it: The dragon is inside the gates.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
communist-influence-operations/
New Yorks political establishment needs to wake up to the Chinese
Communist Partys influence operations here.
The latest is Isabel Vincents recent Post exclusive revealing that CCP
tendrils reached into the office of the Big Apples top cop: Now-ex NYPD
Commissioner Edward Cabans top aide, Assistant Commissioner GiuAn Lin,
is linked to CCP-controlled groups known collectively as United Front.
For 12 years, Lin served as vice chairman of a nonprofit associated with
the front, which operates to spread Chinese propaganda in the United
States.
This follows the arrest of Gov. Hochuls former ex-aide Linda Sun and her
husband Christopher Hu for acting as a secret Chinese agent. Sun had
previously worked for then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo and then-Assemblywoman (now
Rep.) Grace Meng.
Those cases, as well as the ongoing FBI probe of ex-Mayor Adams aide
Winnie Greco, a case that also involves CCP influence, and one involving
two men charged with running a secret police station in Manhattan, are but
a small glimpse of Chinas effort to compromise public officials and
infiltrate Big Apple government and society.
CCP front groups are at work in multiple major US cities, Steven W. Mosher
notes, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, working to elect Beijing-
friendly politicians as well as to place agents in government.
Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) says groups tied to the Chinese Community
Party tried to topple him and take over his predominantly Asian district
in the June Democratic primary which Kim won by 443 votes.
The CCPs sometimes gotten blatant in its operations: You see Chinas flag
at a lot more political events than you did a few years back.
At this point, no one has any clue how deep CCP penetration of New York
politics might be, but plenty of local pols wont think to look at any
strings that might come with free trips, convenient donations or what
looks like support from the Asian-American community.
That, though most ethnic Chinese in America want nothing to do with
Chinas government, and many rightly detest it: Indeed, Beijings show of
influence is partly aimed at intimidating a community that might otherwise
support dissent in China whose government is known to monitor and even
target its critics abroad.
To her credit, Hochul fired Sun upon discovering the staffer had secretly
promoted the CCP agenda in official documents; perhaps the gov will now
create a bipartisan state commission to investigate Beijings influence
operations here.
New Yorks leaders need to realize that, as former Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo puts it: The dragon is inside the gates.
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.