REPORT: Alleged Chinese Spy Spent Years Rubbing Elbows With Dem Congresswoman

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From the Daily Caller: A man arrested for obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent in New York City has been photographed attending events with a Democratic congresswoman as far back as 2014, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

Lu Jianwang was charged in April 2023 with conspiring to act as an agent of China and other crimes related to operating an illegal police station out of a New York City-based nonprofit called the America Changle Association. Yet, before he was charged, Lu Jianwang had a long history of rubbing elbows with New York Democratic Rep. Grace Meng at events in Washington, D.C. and New York City.

The DCNF reviewed dozens of reports and photos from Chinese-language news outlets and community organizations to uncover Lu Jianwang’s interactions with Democrat lawmakers, including Meng. These interactions range from attending Meng’s fundraisers and rallies to cutting checks to the congresswoman’s campaign committee.

The DCNF previously reported that Lu Jianwang socialized with New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and Mayor Eric Adams at anniversary celebrations for America Changle and related Chinese nonprofits. The meetings show how frequently Lu Jianwang was able to gain access to elected Democrats and the great lengths he went to associate with American politicians

In a statement to the Daily Caller, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, a national security and Chinese influence operation expert, warned, “The extent of infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party into New York’s Chinese community and, by extension, to its governmental representatives is both alarming and largely unaddressed by U.S. national security agencies.”

Daily Caller reporter Philip Lenczycki posted a lengthy and informative thread on social media Monday about the disturbing Chinese infiltration into American politics:

Linda Sun, Meng’s 2012 director of operations for her 2012 congressional campaign, was recently arrested for allegedly acting as an unregistered foreign agent of China and money laundering.

@WSJ reported Sun met the “heads of key groups identifiable in the indictment as being United Front-linked” including Henan Association of Eastern America (HAEA).

The groups’ heads were “supervised, directed, & controlled by [Chinese] government officials” DOJ alleges.

@DailyCaller subsequently reported Meng was listed as HAEA’s “deputy chairwoman” as far back as 2008 & is now listed as “honorary chairwoman”

HAEA’s photos show Meng as far back as 2009 at events with Sun, whom the DOJ alleges later became a committee member of the All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC) — an agency of a Chinese intel service called the United Front Work Department

@DailyCaller has now found that HAEA’s website also links to a clip of Meng at a 2008 welcome banquet in NYC for Lin Jun, ACFROC’s chairman & a CCP Central Committee member at that time

Footage shows Meng praising Chairman Lin at the event:

“My name is Meng Zhaowen. In January of next year, I will begin serving as a New York State Assembly member. Today, I specially welcome Chairman Lin to Flushing’s largest and newest building. Today, our Zhejiang overseas Chinese organization and everyone made [this banquet] very beautiful — am I right? — all for the sake of specially welcoming our Chairman Lin! And, as for me? It’s my duty to represent the state government, overseas Chinese and our second generation overseas Chinese. [I’m] especially grateful to Chairman Lin for taking care of us — we really need your leadership!”

“Any member of Congress who is found to have had a working relationship with the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front must resign immediately” @RepJimBanks told @DailyCaller. “I hope Democrats in Congress become more willing to condemn CCP infiltration of their party”

“The All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese is openly and very directly linked to the CCP, with explicit mandate to influence overseas Chinese communities”
@YatesComms told @DailyCaller. “It is not a cultural organization. It is political”

“I’ve witnessed that the CCP uses carrot-and-stick methods to control the Chinese diaspora” @SolomonYue told @DailyCaller. “The UFWD invites and pays for leaders of Chinatown associations to visit China. In return, those leaders facilitate the CCP’s infiltration of America”

“Over the last forty years, a network of pro-CCP Chinese-American organizations operating in coordination with the Chinese Consulate has been established, which now has enormous influence on New York’s business and political climate, basically providing an outpost and pro-CCP personnel for directly executing China’s foreign policy from within the United States” @LawrenceSellin told @DailyCaller

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