China’s Influence on Biden, Part 2

Judge John H. Wilson (ret.) concludes his review on Beijing’s influence on Joe Biden.

According to Mike Gonzalez of the Heritage Foundation, “the Chinese Progressive Association of San Francisco is the financial sponsor of two ventures associated with Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza: the Black Futures Lab and the Black to the Future Action Fund.

“More importantly, the Chinese Progressive Association of San Francisco trains activists and helped mobilize Chinese Americans for the violent protests we saw this year as well as in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. So did like-named organizations in New York and Boston, run independently but set up by the same Maoist Marxists.”

Though attempts have been made to discredit Gonzalez’ information, the details are both extensive and persuasive – “the Chinese Progressive Association was founded in San Francisco in 1972 by operatives of the Maoist militant group I Wor Kuen, which supported the Chinese Communist Party…A few years later, I Wor Kuen also set up groups called the Chinese Progressive Association in Boston and New York.

“These CPAs are registered separately and apparently run autonomously, but interact with each other in a host of other hard-left outfits such as Seeding Change, Right to the City, and LeftRoots. The three CPAs also collaborated in publications of the League for Revolutionary Struggle, a Marxist-Leninist organization that I Wor Kuen created by uniting with other communist groups from 1978 to 1990.”

As the relationship between the Black Lives Matter organizations in America and the Chinese Communist Party is described in the Washington Post, “the most vocal support for Black lives from Asia came from the representatives of Beijing. State-run media outlets such as the Global Times and the China Daily published hundreds of articles related to the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent unrest. Lijian Zhao, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry, described the United States’ race problem as a ‘social ill’ and argued that ‘Black Lives Matter and their human rights should be protected’…China’s support for the Black Lives Matter movement seems opportunistic, given its own poor record on human rights.”

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From day one, the Biden Administration has expressed its desire to satisfy the desires of BLM and in turn, their Communist Chinese supporters. As reported by The Hill, “Biden’s presidential transition website says ‘Biden-Harris administration will: … [make] bold investments in homeownership and access to affordable housing for Black, Brown and Native Families,’ and ‘promote diversity and accountability in leadership across key positions in all federal agencies.’” Further, according to Joe Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain, “Of course, these actions are just the start of our work…(m)uch more will need to be done to…combat systemic racism and inequality…”

In particular, it is assumed that the Biden Administration will reverse President Trump’s ban on “diversity training” in federal government agencies and their contractors. While a “White House memo in late September suggested rooting out ‘ideologies that label entire groups of Americans as inherently racist or evil’ in diversity training materials by searching for keywords such as ‘white privilege,’ ‘systemic racism,’ ‘intersectionality’ and ‘unconscious bias,’” instead “I think its highly probable that this Executive Order will be rescinded in fairly short order’ Franklin Turner, a partner with law firm McCarter and English…told USA Today.”

Why did President Trump institute this ban in the first place? “Asked about his executive order during the first presidential debate, Trump said: ‘They were teaching people that our country is a horrible place, it’s a racist place. And they were teaching people to hate our country. And I’m not gonna allow that to happen.’”

Will BLM activists and their Chinese Communist Party supporters be satisfied with these actions by the incoming Biden Administration? If history is our guide, the answer is no. Further, given the financial ties alleged to exist between the 46^th President and the Chinese Communist Party, Joe Biden will have every incentive to satisfy the on-going demands of BLM, another indirect beneficiary of Chinese Communist support.

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Quick Analysis

Russia Expanding Aggression

President Putin is using more than one pathway to enter Europe and undermine the West. While most of the world watches the conflict he initiated in Ukraine, the Russian government is actively pursuing a second front in a little noticed campaign in Cyprus. Although the corrupt Cypriot government ended its issuance of “golden passports” in 2020, Russian intelligence is functioning quietly there to transform this EU country into a Russian beachhead of illicit economic activity aimed at penetrating the capitalist West, according to Paul Goble of the Jamestown Foundation. Cyprus is not a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) nor does it receive as much attention as those countries who are member states. That adds to its allure as a prime location for Russia to attempt to gain a European foothold. Last week a NATO report, cited in the European Daily Monitor, noted that Russian intelligence agents have been plotting to destroy European infrastructure across the continent to disrupt states supporting Ukraine. It further suggests that Putin’s immediate goal is to lay the framework for a future move against the security organization’s members. Hungary, in particular, is another country garnering Moscow’s attention as it opposes the Western response to Russian aggression. Russia is focusing its intelligence efforts on other European, non-NATO member countries in addition to Cyprus, including Austria, Malta, and Ireland. The NATO report suggests that Moscow has had success in disseminating the Russian political narrative in these states to advance its campaign against the West. The island of Cyprus is proving to be a good target for Moscow as it is an ethnically divided island that is part of the EU since 2004. Northern Cyprus, officially called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that is only recognized by Turkey. The division precludes it from joining NATO. As Goble suggests, “it offers Russia troubled waters in which to fish.” Over the last 20 years, he points out, Cyprus’ challenges have opened it to a massive influx of Russian citizens, who now comprise approximately 10 percent of the island state’s population. Over 2,900 residents are Russians who entered until the “golden passport” program that allowed wealthy or well-connected Russians to move to Cyprus. It also provided them with documentation to travel freely throughout Europe! Although less visible on the world’s radar than the war in Ukraine, Moscow is also being helped by Cyprus’ banks opposition to seizing Russian assets and its support in evading Western sanctions. Russia has placed tens of billions of US Dollars there for money laundering. It has been more than two years since a single Russian “diplomat” has been deported and, in fact, the Embassy has grown to over 300 staffers on this tiny island state of only 1.2 million people. The Russian embassy in Nicosia has advanced communications antennae on its roof and opened a consulate on the northern end of the island. Moscow’s Ambassador, Mura Zyazikov, is a lieutenant general in the FSB with no diplomatic experience. The FSB, SVR (Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service), and GRU are actively using the island as a base of operations against NATO Member states, Israel, and other Western allies. Moscow backs pro-Russian political parties who in turn influence Cypriot decisions on education, language, and other issues. “Dmitry Khmelnitsky of the Dossier Center says that its findings should be of concern not only to Cyprus but to the West as a whole. Those who ignore what Moscow is doing because Cyprus does not follow the EU sanctions regime are missing something critical,” says Goble. “Cyprus does not seek to get rid of Russian agents and does not interfere with their work,” Khmelnitsky concludes, “despite the fact that what the Kremlin is doing is so clearly visible.” This has an impact not only on the small island but on the EU, NATO, and the West in general. Earlier this year the Moscow Times reported that when the FBI became more interested in Russian business and oligarchs in Cyprus, at least 10 of the major Russian businesses operating there left. Despite the government of Cyprus’ vow to implement plans for new sanctions against Russia, it continues to ignore Putin’s atrocities in Ukraine and to shield the wealth of the 50,000 wealthy Russian citizens and oligarchs residing there. Daria Novak served in the U.S. State Dept. Illustration: Pixabay