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EXCLUSIVE: CCP-Tied Activists Desperately Trying To Keep Chinese Land Grabs Alive Near US Military Bases

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A network tied to the Chinese government is mobilizing activists to protest two Republican-sponsored U.S. national security bills, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Midwest affiliates of United Chinese Americans (UCA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, first packed a March 17 Ohio House hearing with dozens of opponents to H.B. 1, an Ohio bill which would prohibit citizens of “foreign adversary” nations from acquiring property near military installations, before allegedly chasing down proponents in the capitol hallway to pepper them with questions.

Several days later, UCA and its Iowa chapter staged a protest on March 21 at the Hawkeye State’s capitol against H.F. 2513, which would ban Iowa’s universities from hiring H-1B visa holders from foreign adversary nations.

While the UCA network frames recent activism as opposition to “discriminatory” and “anti-immigrant” bills, a significant number of UCA’s leaders have served as members of the Chinese government and/or in arms of a Chinese influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), raising concerns about foreign interference in American politics.

The U.S. China Economic and Security Commission, which is a U.S. legislative branch commission, has detailed the nefarious workings of the UFWD.

“Chinese leader Xi Jinping describes the ‘united front’ political war machine as his number one weapon to erode American power and ultimately displace the U.S.,” Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, told the DCNF.

“One way they do this is by interfering in statehouses across the country, packing committee rooms with CCP loyalists, like we saw in the Ohio statehouse,” said Lucci, who testified in favor of H.B. 1. and engaged directly with the activists on March 17.

UCA president Haipei Shue told the DCNF that his organization has never had a relationship with the Chinese government, but acknowledged that he previously worked for the Chinese government before moving to the U.S. and that another board member has a “casual official tie with a Chinese city.”

“Tell me who has not worked in Chinese government?” Shue said. “Are you going to weaponize that employment fact to suggest that all these people are suspicious? They should not be trusted?”

However, Shue did not address Chinese government and state media reports flagged by the DCNF indicating that several other current UCA board members have also held Chinese government positions or that UCA has promoted UFWD youth programs.

[OCCA home page screenshot]

‘CCP Propaganda’

A UCA community partner that promotes UFWD initiatives called the Ohio Chinese American Association (OCAA) and its sister organizations coached activists to testify against H.B. 1, according to DCNF translations of social media posts and the network’s documents.

“CCP-linked individuals shouldn’t own property near sensitive infrastructure in Ohio or any other state,” Jacqueline Deal, a State Armor advisory board member who testified in favor of H.B. 1, told the DCNF. “They also shouldn’t be surprised to find themselves exposed when they try to interfere in our democracy by testifying without disclosing their CCP ties.”

Republican Ohio State representatives Angela King and Roy Klopfenstein introduced H.B. 1 in January 2025, which would prohibit citizens of China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia and Venezuela from owning land within 10 miles of military bases and critical infrastructure in Ohio, such as water treatment facilities. The bill has now had four hearings in the state’s Republican-majority House and is nearing a potential vote, according to House Speaker Matt Huffman, the Toledo Blade reported.

The Buckeye State is home to several sensitive U.S. military installations including Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the National Air and Space Intelligence Center is garrisoned, as well as the Defense Supply Center Columbus, which “provides weapons system and platform support to U.S. forces and federal agencies worldwide.”

Several states, including Alabama, Florida and Missouri have also moved to limit or outright ban Chinese nationals from owning land following news reports highlighting CCP-tied entities purchasing plots near U.S. military sites.

However, UCA and its national affiliate network maintain such bans are “anti-Chinese” and “xenophobic.”

OCAA — which lost its nonprofit status in November 2025 for failing to file with Ohio’s Secretary of State — claims that H.B. 1 “discriminates based on national origin” and would “threaten fundamental civil liberties,” according to a March 13 OCAA-sponsored statement. It is unclear if OCAA has appealed the loss of its nonprofit status.

Two days before H.B. 1’s March 17 hearing, OCAA and related nonprofits circulated a template promoting their talking points as well as instructions on how to testify. OCAA and its affiliates also provided “Stop H.B. 1” t-shirts to the bill’s opponents, according to social media posts.

Footage from the hearing shows H.B. 1 opponents wearing matching purple “Stop H.B. 1” shirts, all testifying with very similar language against the bill.

UCA “community partnership representative” and OCAA chairman, Vincent Wang, urged lawmakers in his opposing testimony to “reject fear-based policymaking and instead craft evidence-driven solutions to the real challenges Ohioans face — rising cost of living, workforce availability, healthcare access, and long-term economic competitiveness.”

Lucci told the DCNF that after he and Deal testified, they exited the still on-going hearing and were allegedly followed out by approximately five H.B. 1 opponents, including Wang, who purportedly “began ceaselessly pestering” Deal.

“Wang followed me into the hallway to pepper me with questions about how I found out what I knew about him,” said Deal, whose testimony noted UCA’s Chinese government ties and OCAA’s relationship with UCA. “He seemed to be upset by transparency.”

Lucci claims he then posed “one simple question” to Wang: “Should the CCP be kicked out of Ohio?”

“Wang refused to answer over and over, but even when he finally conceded that the CCP is the enemy of the U.S., he still couldn’t bring himself to admit the obvious truth that the CCP should be kicked out of Ohio,” said Lucci, who called the confrontation “highly unusual behavior in a state legislature.”

Ohio business filings also identify Wang, whose Chinese name is Wang Wenkui, as the registered agent for Ohio-based Global Media Collaborations LLC (GMC), which Wang has used to develop close ties with Chinese state media outlets like CCTV, according to DCNF translations of reports from Erie Chinese Journal, an Ohio-based Chinese language news outlet. OCCA and Wang did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Yet, GMC is not Wang’s only organization with Chinese government ties.

OCAA’s website also spotlights several CCP ties, including posts promoting a UFWD-run summer camp in China for ethnically-Chinese children as well as announcements detailing OCAA’s participation in UCA’s “Food of Love” program. That program, which ostensibly exists to donate food to local communities, is actually an initiative that was launched by the UFWD‘s All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to DCNF translations of ACFROC announcements.

The Chinese government has been accused of orchestrating a global campaign during the pandemic to hoard medical supplies and later donate such goods to countries with “political conditions, such as public statements of gratitude,” according to federal reports. The Food of Love program is a related pandemic-era initiative that aims to highlight the contributions of the Chinese community to pandemic relief worldwide while also contributing to a shared sense of identity with China and Chinese culture, according to the ACFROC announcements.

UCA’s president Shue denied knowledge that ACFROC had launched the Food of Love program, but did not address the ACFROC announcements or a UCA webpage about the food drive that directly links to the UFWD’s website, both of which the DCNF flagged in an email.

“Ohio lawmakers should power forward through this wave of CCP propaganda and advance H.B. 1,” Lucci said.

“The CCP is pre-positioning across the country near our military installations and critical infrastructure to cause mass disruptions,” Lucci added. “The CCP and all their spies and beholden businesses should be kicked out of Ohio.”

[Image created by DCNF with ACFROC + Erie Chinese Journal pics]

‘Party-State Affiliations’

Several nonprofits including UCA and its Hawkeye State chapter, the Chinese Association of Iowa (CAI) — which is led by Swallow Yan, according to IRS Form 990s disclosed by ProPublica, a member of both UCA and ACFROC’s overseas committee — co-organized the protest against H.F. 2513 in Des Moines on Saturday, according to DCNF translations of UCA and Chinese government announcements.

H.F. 2513 passed through Iowa’s House on March 3 and would prohibit the state’s universities from entering into employment contracts with citizens of foreign adversary nations holding H-1B visas, which allow U.S. employers to hire “nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations,” according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

There are 117 H-1B holders in Iowa’s public universities, 104 of which are Chinese nationals, Iowa’s Board of Regents told state lawmakers in February 2026, Iowa’s Gazette reported.

Concerns about China’s activities on American campuses have spiked in recent years following media reports and federal cases involving Chinese academics who have participated in UFWD-tied technology transfer programs like the Thousand Talents Plan, often while receiving large U.S. government research grants.

Despite growing concerns, UCA and its affiliates claim H.F. 2513 is “discriminatory” and would “hurt Iowa’s universities, economy, and hard-earned reputation,” according to an announcement for the protest that the nonprofit posted on X.

Around 150 activists attended the protest at Iowa’s state capitol on Saturday, the Des Moines Register reported, with accompanying photos showing protestors carrying signs stating “Education Not Discrimination” and “Fear Is Not A Policy.”

UFWD front groups have organized “protests against topics deemed threats to the stability of CCP rule” and have also encouraged “overseas Chinese to get involved in politics to advocate for Beijing’s interests” in order to “turn Americans against their own government’s interests and their society’s interests,” according to a 2018 U.S.-China Economic And Security Review Commission report.

It is standard operating procedure for UFWD front groups to disguise their opposition to U.S. national security laws by appealing to classic American values, Lucci warned.

“These CCP-intelligence tied actors obscure their party-state affiliations and hide their true intentions by laundering their propaganda into American terminology such as ‘property rights’ and ‘American Dream,’” Lucci told the DCNF. “They are here to hurt our economy and national security.”

CAI and Yan could not be reached for comment.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Intel Funded Projects Riddled With Chinese Gov’t-Linked Researchers

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The U.S. Intelligence Community has awarded more than a dozen sensitive defense grants to researchers affiliated with institutions connected to the Chinese government and its military, according to a report exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — which is tasked by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) with investing in “high-risk, high-payoff research programs” — have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units and nuclear weapons development institutions, according to the report published by Parallax Advanced Research, a nonprofit funded by U.S. federal, state and municipal governments. Participants in at least two of the IARPA projects cited in the report conducted similar research during the same period with Chinese government-tied institutions, raising serious concerns about U.S. defense technology transfer to a hostile foreign power.

“These studies reveal a deliberate effort by China’s intelligence and public security apparatus, alongside military-affiliated entities, to extract lessons, methodologies, and technical knowledge from IARPA-funded programs,” the report warns. “This includes attempts to reverse-engineer research outputs, replicate experimental designs, and adapt [U.S. Intelligence Community] technologies for use in China’s mass surveillance apparatus and strategic military capabilities.”

Researchers with ties to adversarial nations, like China, should be prohibited from collaborating on U.S. intelligence and defense research, the report’s co-author, L.J. Eads, director of research intelligence at Parallax, told the DCNF.

“What I found most concerning was the sheer number of IARPA funded projects that IARPA itself describes as having clear Intelligence Community value that have involved — and in some cases continue to involve — Chinese institutions and companies, including personnel directly tied to the [People’s Liberation Army],” said Eads.

ODNI and IARPA did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

‘Grave National Security Threats’

In one 2024 case study highlighted in the report, the lead investigator for IARPA’s BRIAR Program was allegedly found to have “a long history” of simultaneous collaboration with Chinese institutions connected to China’s military as well as U.S. government-sanctioned researchers.

IARPA’s ongoing BRIAR Program aims to produce detection and tracking software for individuals by “extracting biometric signatures from the whole-body (e.g., gait and/or body shape) and face,” according to IARPA, and supports U.S. counterterrorism, military force protection, and border security.

The lead investigator for the $11 million BRIAR Program is a Michigan State University faculty member, who has simultaneously collaborated on Chinese government-funded projects with a number of institutions including “Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), in China, on similar gait research,” according to the report.

SUSTech has “documented partnerships across China’s defense research ecosystem,” the report states, citing a threat assessment from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, which is a think tank partially funded by that nation’s Department of Defense.

Additionally, the lead investigator for IARPA’s BRIAR Program has also allegedly collaborated on research with the deputy director of China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, according to the report. The U.S. Treasury Department added that deputy director to its “Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons” list, which flags entities “controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, targeted countries,” resulting in their assets being blocked, according to the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC).

China’s research sectors have “deep entanglements” with U.S. intelligence defense programs, and “present grave national security threats,” former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Cella told the DCNF after reviewing Parallax’s findings.

“[I]t is critical to the U.S. and its Free World allies to do a deep-dive self-assessment and begin the process of de-risking, and in some sectors, de-coupling,” said Cella, who now serves as director of the Michigan-China Economic and Security Review Group.

A Michigan State University spokesperson declined to answer questions related to the report’s findings and referred the DCNF to the school’s policy on academic conflicts of interest and disclosure requirements.

‘Intelligence Applications’

In another case study highlighted in Parallax’s report, datasets from IARPA’s BABEL Program were used by PLA researchers, U.S. and Chinese academics to conduct experiments for a 2018 publication concerning speech recognition technologies.

Operating under the control of the Chinese Communist Party, the PLA “focuses squarely on overcoming the United States through a whole-of-nation mobilization effort,” and aims to achieve “‘strategic counterbalance’ against the United States in the nuclear and other strategic domains” by 2027, according to the Department of Defense.

The BABEL Program aims to support the U.S. intelligence community by developing technologies capable of generating a “speech transcription system for any new language within one week,” according to IARPA.

Despite its value to the U.S. intelligence community, the 2018 publication included a researcher from PLA Unit 62315, who “concurrently filed a related patent in China “with other members of the same unit,” Parallax’s report found.

“Although extensive searches of Chinese-language sources did not yield public information on the internal mission or structure of PLA Unit 62315, its role using IARPA-provided datasets, combined with the concurrent filing of a related patent by the same unit, demonstrates a clear PLA interest in advancing speech recognition and acoustic modeling capabilities,” the report states.

‘Security Problem’

The report also flags a 2023 IARPA-funded publication that included a researcher from the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP).

Subordinate to China’s Central Military Commission, CAEP is “the technology complex responsible for the research, development and testing of China’s nuclear weapons” and is on the Entity List, according to the U.S. Federal Register.

The Entity List identifies persons likely involved in “activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States,” and, consequently, prohibits certain items, like semiconductors, from being exported to those entities, according to the federal government.

The 2023 publication involving the CAEP researcher was connected to IARPA’s LogiQ Program, which “aims to advance quantum computing” in order to solve problems “of interest to the Intelligence Community and the U.S. Government as a whole,” according to IARPA.

CAEP’s involvement in IARPA’s LogiQ program “means sensitive U.S. quantum error correction innovations may have been exposed to [China’s] nuclear and quantum military ecosystem,” the report warns.

“This report only scratches the surface of a much larger and more serious research security problem,” Eads told the DCNF.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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Authorities Put CCP-Tied Trailer Park Next To Top Secret U.S. Bomber Base On Notice

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Missouri is moving to shut down a trailer park business bordering Whiteman Air Force Base after a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation uncovered links between the property and a convicted fraudster with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence ties.

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins announced Thursday the administrative cancellation of Property Solutions 3603 LP, the operator of a Knob Noster Trailer Park that shares a perimeter fence with Whiteman Air Force Base, home to the B-2 stealth bombers. The company is ultimately controlled by a Georgia-based firm owned by a Canadian couple with ties to disgraced Chinese tycoon Miles Guo, who has publicly identified himself as a former CCP intelligence “affiliate,” a November DCNF investigation revealed.

“We applaud Secretary of State Denny Hoskins for taking this strong action to ensure Missouri’s laws are appropriately enforced,” Republican Missouri Rep. Mark Alford told the DCNF. “We have raised the alarm about the potential links between the Chinese nationals who own the Knob Noster Trailer Park next to Whiteman AFB through this shell corporation and the Chinese Communist Party.”

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Business records obtained by the DCNF show the property is owned through a web of shell companies controlled by Esther Mei and Cheng Hu. The Canadian couple has connections to the New Federal State of China, an organization associated with Guo. The self-described former CCP-affiliate was convicted in 2024 for orchestrating a fraud scheme exceeding $1 billion and is currently awaiting sentencing.

Mei, Hu and the New Federal State of China did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment, while Guo could not be reached.

Hoskins’ office said the cancellation followed a routine compliance review that found the company’s registered agent information was inaccurate and failed to meet statutory requirements. The office formally notified the registered agent in November, but the deficiencies were not corrected within the allotted time frame.

“Failure to respond to notice is a strong indicator that an entity is not operating responsibly or in good faith,” Hoskins’ office told the DCNF.

“When you operate next to Whiteman Air Force Base, good faith and compliance are the bare minimum,” said Hoskins. “Missouri doesn’t make excuses for entities that refuse to meet them.”

Though the secretary of state described the action as routine enforcement of Missouri business law, Hoskins said persistent legal noncompliance is “inherently concerning, particularly when it involves entities operating near secure or sensitive locations, including critical military installations.”

Those concerns were underscored in early January when federal prosecutors announced charges against a Chinese illegal immigrant who allegedly photographed the B-2 aircraft by the base’s perimeter fence.

Worries about Chinese-owned property near sensitive military sites extend beyond Whiteman Air Force Base. Air Force Global Strike Command, based at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and oversees all U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear bombers, is flanked by two golf courses owned by a Chinese intelligence official, a January DCNF investigation found.

“Secretary Hoskins deserves the gratitude of all Americans for acting decisively to protect American national security,” Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, told the DCNF.  “When Hoskins saw a company presenting a threat to Whiteman Air Force Base, he acted to administratively cancel that company for violating Missouri law.”

Lucci added that other state officers must use their authority to safeguard the homeland from CCP influence.

Missouri previously won a $25 billion lawsuit against the Chinese government for “causing and exacerbating the COVID-19 pandemic” and for hoarding medical equipment during the pandemic.

“Whether it’s ‘show me the filings’ for this limited partnership or ‘show me the money’ for Covid reparations, the Show Me state is showing the CCP that no one is above the law in Missouri,” Jacqueline Deal, a State Armor advisory board member, told the DCNF.

State Armor provided information to the DCNF for use in its investigation.

“This is a great step, but we shouldn’t confuse compliance concerns with national security and counterintelligence issues,” L.J. Eads, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, told the DCNF.

“Florida and New Hampshire are just getting started in their pursuits for statewide counterintelligence units … we should start seeing more of that effort, especially where the states could help defend our military installations and surrounding areas,” Eads said, calling for a national approach to counter CCP operations in the U.S.

Alford said his office will continue pressing federal authorities to closely scrutinize foreign ownership of property near the critical military installation.

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EXCLUSIVE: US General Plotted With CCP-Tied Mogul To Seize Strategic Islands For China, Tell-All Claims

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A Chinese intelligence official’s autobiography details decades of efforts to cultivate ties with American officials, culminating in an alleged plot with a three-star U.S. general to annex strategic territory for Beijing, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Chinese-American businessman Eugene Ji, who owns two golf courses flanking Louisiana’s Barksdale Air Force Base, developed a years-long professional and personal relationship with retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, which allegedly  included expensive gifts and meetings with high-ranking Chinese government officials, according to DCNF translations of Chinese government announcements and Ji’s 2014 Chinese language autobiography “New Circle.” Among other concerning episodes, the autobiography claims the pair organized an event to bring Chinese military officers to a U.S. nuclear base and also repeatedly propositioned Chinese political insiders with a half a billion dollar plan to seize Japan’s Senkaku Islands for China through weaponized migration, which the general denies.

“When I asked his opinion on the matter of the [Senkaku Islands], the general said those few small islands are of course Chinese territory — why keep talking without acting? No need to consult Japan. If pigs can be raised on the islands, set up a pig farm. If tourism is possible, build dozens of houses. Sovereignty is China’s. Welcome tourists from around the world. Japanese can go too, just get a visa at the Chinese embassy in Japan, so what’s the hang-up?” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation of the autobiography. “Do your friends think the price is too high?”

Honoré, who retired in 2008, allegedly served as the “U.S. affairs advisor” for an organization founded by Ji called the G2 Club, which has offices in the U.S. and China, and is comprised of business leaders and government officials from both nations, according to DCNF translations of “New Circle.”

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Honoré, who coordinated military relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina and later led then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s security review task force following the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, denied involvement in the Senkaku scheme and told the DCNF that Ji is “full of shit.” However, he did not deny being pictured with the businessman in multiple photos featured in “New Circle” and in Chinese government announcements unearthed by the DCNF.

“I did meet with them, but I had no agreement with them, and was no kind of official advisor,” Honoré said. “I’ve never gotten anything out of it, never been paid anything, and it’s mostly cost me time as a courtesy to Eugene, because he’s a serial entrepreneur and I do consulting work.”

Honore’s more than decade-long relationship with Ji — who has held multiple Chinese government positions, including serving as an official for an arm of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence agency called the United Front Work Department (UFWD) — raises red flags about how China targets influential Americans.

“What makes this especially concerning is that a documented United Front–affiliated actor openly describes influencing senior U.S. military officers and elected officials, getting meetings arranged, access granted, projects discussed, and relationships leveraged,” L.J. Eads, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, told the DCNF after reviewing select chapters of Ji’s autobiography. “When a foreign political influence system is able to shape behavior, decisions, or access among generals and politicians through informal business and social channels, that crosses from engagement into a national security vulnerability.”

Ji did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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‘Oblivious’

The scheme to seize the Senkaku Islands for China involved using Chinese prefabricated dwellings to build a resort on the islands, which would be staffed by “100 black people” from an unspecified U.S. civil rights organization explicitly in order to deter the Obama administration from intervening, according to a DCNF translation of “New Circle.”

The Senkaku Islands are a small chain in the East China Sea administered by Japan and claimed by China, which contribute to ensuring “U.S. strategic, political, and economic interests in the Indo-Pacific region and elsewhere,” according to the Congressional Research Service.

Ji wrote that he and Honoré repeatedly pitched the $500 million project to Chinese counterparts as a pretense to assert Beijing’s sovereignty over the uninhabited isles, according to DCNF translations of the third-to-last and final chapter of “New Circle.”

Ji’s Chinese business contacts would first secure state–backed loans to manufacture prefabricated dwellings in China, which the government would then escort to the Japanese islands, after which China’s flag would be raised and access controlled by its visa authority, according to the plan.

“[W]e would also hire the American black civil rights Martin Luther King organization to organize 100 black people to provide security and hotel services for Chinese tourists,” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation of the autobiography. “The U.S. government wouldn’t dare interfere — this is private commercial cooperation. Black civil rights organizations helped Obama get into the White House.”

“What the government can’t do, we the people will handle,” Ji continued, according to a DCNF translation of “New Circle.”

However, it’s unclear if the scheme ever advanced beyond attempts to recruit Chinese business partners.

“All that’s lies,” Honoré told the DCNF.

Ji and Honoré allegedly had at least one discussion concerning the progress of the scheme after playing golf at one of the businessman’s courses, according to “New Circle.”

After golfing on or around the same day, the pair also allegedly discussed organizing a “Sino-U.S. Generals’ Friendly Golf Tournament” that was later held, according to the autobiography.

“Every year, the club invites 50 Chinese military personnel to visit the U.S., make friends with U.S. military personnel, play golf and increase mutual understanding,” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation of the autobiography. “The G2 Club specially invited three-star First Army General Russel Honoré and other senior U.S. military officers to participate in the club’s golf-themed annual meeting, tour a U.S. B-52 bomber training base, visit General Chennault’s military museum, and revisit the history of the Flying Tigers’ assistance to China during World War II to promote friendly exchanges between the two militaries.”

“It’s all fabricated shit,” Honoré told the DCNF when asked about the alleged tournament.

“I hate fucking golf,” Honoré said. “I live on a golf course. I’ve been on it one fucking time since 2010.”

A spokesperson for Barksdale AFB, which is the only Louisiana base hosting B-52s, neither confirmed nor denied Ji’s claims.

“[W]e do not discuss specific intelligence, investigative matters, or alleged interactions involving individual personnel,” the spokesperson said.

The U.S. military is not doing enough to protect its bases and personnel from Chinese influence operations, author and China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF.

“The Air Force in particular and the Pentagon in general need to stop being oblivious,” Chang said. “We’ve known about China’s infiltration of areas around military bases and done little or nothing about it. What is wrong with us?”

“The Department of War should take its name seriously. China thinks it is at war with us, so, yes, we’re at war,” said Chang.

[Image created by DCNF with New Circle photos]

‘Made In China’

Ji also allegedly gave Honoré a number of gifts, including expensive liquor and LED lights for his home, according to DCNF translations of the autobiography.

“New Circle” claims that after playing golf Ji and Honoré frequently drank Moutai liquor together, which is made from sorghum and is China’s “most-prized liquor,” according to Chinese state-run media.

During one G2 Club dinner in New Orleans with visiting Chinese state-owned enterprise executives, Ji allegedly gifted Honoré a bottle of Moutai costing more than $400, according to a DCNF translation of “New Circle.”

On another occasion, Ji allegedly procured an entire case of Moutai for Honoré from the distillery in China.

“Whenever I return to China, if I have the time, I make a special trip to Guizhou. My alumnus Hu Pinglin will give me a few bottles to take back. Since there is counterfeit liquor on the market, I’m afraid something could go wrong if the general drank fake alcohol, so I only buy it through friends directly from the distillery,” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation. “Last time, Mr. Hu managed to obtain an entire case directly from the Moutai distillery. The general took it back to Washington D.C., where more than 10 generals finished it all in one sitting.”

Hu has held numerous high-level Chinese government positions, including serving as the Communist Youth League secretary of an unspecified Chinese defense enterprise, and the deputy chairman of a branch of the Chinese Culture Promotion Society (CCPS), which is an arm of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, according to DCNF translations of “New Circle” and CCPS announcements.

Honoré told the DCNF he did not recall receiving Moutai from Ji, and could not account for a “New Circle” photo showing him holding a bottle of the Chinese liquor.

“I got LED lights and a globe from him, never any boxes of expensive liquor,” Honoré said. “He gave me a globe, I’ve got the globe in my office, it’s one you can buy out of any Amazon shop.”

While Ji did not mention gifting Honoré a globe in “New Circle,” the autobiography claims he outfitted the general’s entire home with Chinese LED lights.

“Shenzhen Punai Optoelectronics sent over some energy-saving LED lights that could be installed in shipping containers. I had a friend deliver three boxes and replace all the lighting in the general’s villa with ‘Made in China’ products that had American UL certification,” Ji wrote, according to a DCNF translation. “Later, the general even asked me to introduce Shenzhen Punai’s products to 25 U.S. military bases.”

Although the autobiography presents the LED company as an unrelated third party, business filings reveal it shares its phone number with a similarly-named Chinese LED manufacturer called Shenzhen Punai Energy Saving Lighting Co. Ltd., which Ji owns. Furthermore, both of Shenzhen Punai Optoelectronics’ board members also sit on the board of Ji’s LED company, one of whom likewise serves as the G2 Club’s secretary general, according to a DCNF translation of a Guizhou University announcement.

“He had them at his office, and he said ‘you want some LED lights for your house,’ and I said, ‘okay, I’ll take some,’” Honoré told the DCNF, while denying he asked Ji to introduce the lights to 25 U.S. military bases.

Ji’s activities go beyond “normal civic behavior,” Eads told the DCNF.

“When a foreign political intermediary supplies luxury goods and installs electronic systems inside the home of a senior U.S. military official without clear disclosure or vetting, that is not just a social courtesy,” Eads said. “It is a counterintelligence concern.”

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Nuclear Bomber Fleet Shares Fence With Trailer Park Linked To Chinese Intel-Tied Fraudster

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The top secret June 2025 B-2 Bomber strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was launched from Whiteman Air Force base, which shares a fence with a foreign-owned trailer park linked to a convicted fraudster with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence ties.

The Knob Noster Trailer Park in rural Missouri is located less than a mile from the runway of “the world’s only nuclear-capable stealth bomber.” Business filings and social media posts reveal the RV park is one of several properties near U.S. military interests acquired by a web of shell companies, which are ultimately owned by a couple who live in Canada and belong to organizations controlled by disgraced Chinese tycoon and self-described former CCP intelligence “affiliate,” Miles Guo, The New Yorker wrote in a 2022 profile.

Guo did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The Knob Noster Trailer Park’s manager declined to comment.

The companies’ purchases raise serious national security concerns and must be investigated by federal authorities, says State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP. State Armor provided information to the Daily Caller News Foundation for use in its investigation.

“China is pre-positioning assets across the U.S. in both the cyber and physical realm,” Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, told the DCNF. “They seek to be able to incapacitate us. Federal and state leaders should be rapidly assessing how China’s assets within the U.S. — including industrial, residential and commercial properties on top of agricultural land — will double for military use. China’s agents should be expelled accordingly.”

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‘Thin Veneer Of Legitimacy’

Business records for the property neighboring Whiteman AFB reveal a curious maze of shell companies that appear to have been established solely for the trailer park’s purchase.

Four days after an entity called Property Solutions 3603 LP registered as a Missouri limited partnership on Aug. 28, 2017, business filings show the company purchased an approximately 25-acre RV park located directly north of Whiteman AFB in the town of Knob Noster, population 2,902.

Three months later, the company registered to operate under the business name “Knob Noster Trailer Park.”

In October 2017, the trailer park was placed under the control of a Georgia firm owned by Esther Mei and Cheng Hu, a Canadian couple at the center of the web of companies including Property Solutions 3603, and two others that have all used the same Michigan address, Utah business filings, Missouri and Michigan property records show.

Mei and Hu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The use of foreign citizens and shell companies is “classic Chinese intel ops” providing the CCP with a “thin veneer of legitimacy,” Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA operations officer, told the DCNF.

“There’s zero chance a Chinese couple from Canada rolled into Knob Noster and saw a strictly financial investment in a dumpy plot of land,” said Wright, who now hosts The Wright Report. “This trailer park would hypothetically give Xi Jinping a range of options to wreak havoc. For example, certain spy tools can connect to the local grid and fry systems at Whiteman AFB. He might also house signals intelligence equipment like a StingRay to catch cell phone data of people on base and target them for later recruitment. He can also hide attack drones or even missiles in nearby storage units and otherwise benign-looking shipping containers, as we’ve seen in the war in Ukraine and Russia.”

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Social media posts indicate that Mei and Hu are members of the New Federal State of China (NFSC), a purported political movement to “take down” the CCP that was launched in 2017 by Miles Guo, who was found guilty of orchestrating an over $1 billion fraud conspiracy in July 2024. Guo is awaiting sentencing on the fraud conviction.

Although NFSC champions Guo as “the CCP’s number one enemy,” questions linger about the exact nature of his relationship with the Chinese government in light of Guo’s repeated acknowledgment of close ties with Chinese intelligence arms. In one interview, Guo said that China’s Ministry of State Security had tasked him with “handling things for them” and had used the code name “Wu Nan,” The New Yorker reported in October 2022.

The FBI also discovered two gold People’s Liberation Army pins bearing CCP symbols as well as 29 cell phones, a cell phone scrambler, and multiple passports within the mogul’s U.S. properties during March 2023 raids.

While it is unclear how the couple first entered into Guo’s orbit, the firebrand has interviewed them on several NFSC livestreams, and they have defended him using their social media platforms, from which they also host NFSC programs. The DCNF has not been able to determine the location of the NFSC’s internet server, but it appears likely to be located in the U.S.

The NFSC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Hu hosts “NFSC Promotion Team” shows like “Flowery Talk” using his moniker “Flowers In June,” and Mei has used the name “Estie” to host programs like “NFSC Finance” on YouTube and other platforms, according to DCNF translations of social media posts.

DCNF translations show the couple have also hosted shows for NFSC’s “Vancouver Sailing Farm,” which was named as a party in a civil adversary proceeding related to Guo’s ongoing bankruptcy case in February 2024. The court-appointed trustee for the bankruptcy case alleges Guo attempted to hide his assets by fraudulently transferring $255,000 to NFSC’s Vancouver arm.

While the couple have not been named in that lawsuit, they are named in a May 2024 civil claim in British Columbia brought by Gao Bingchen, a Canadian journalist, who alleges they and other NFSC members slandered him as a “CCP spy” during demonstrations held outside his home in 2020 and 2023. Several videos Gao posted to social media appear to show Mei and Hu demonstrating outside his Surrey home.

“The defendants, Estie and Cheng Hu, have not responded to my lawsuit, and the court will issue a default judgment after May,” Gao told the DCNF. “I have no connection whatsoever with any CCP organization.”

Mei and Hu’s ownership of the Knob Noster Trailer Park poses a serious national security threat given their relationship with Guo, Lucci told the DCNF.

“It is a five-alarm fire for foreigners tied to Chinese intelligence to own the mobile home and RV park that is essentially off Whiteman’s runway,” Lucci said, pointing to one Google review video for the trailer park showing a B-2 landing at Whiteman AFB’s runway less than a mile away from the property.

“Beyond the obvious risk of photos and footage of B-2 bombers, properties immediately adjacent to an airfield create direct — and dangerous — access vectors,” L.J. Eads, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, told the DCNF, and pointed to satellite communications (SATCOM) infrastructure located on the north end of Whiteman AFB.

“Those dishes are plausibly tied to the base’s SATCOM and secure command-and-control links and would logically fall under the purview of the 509th Communications Squadron,” Eads said. “The 509th is responsible for the B-2’s global-strike command, control, and communications networks — the systems that allow the bomber force to receive, process, and transmit mission data securely from Whiteman or forward-deployed locations.”

Line-of-sight and/or close proximity is a requirement for some methods of surveillance and electronic warfare attacks, Eads told the DCNF.

“In a left-of-war environment the CCP would prize that marginal access to map and influence these links,” Eads said. “In wartime the same access becomes a high-value avenue to disrupt tactical command-and-control, and mission assurance. That’s precisely why continuous counterintelligence, emissions-control, and community reporting matter.”

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‘Alarmed’

The couple’s company acquired the Missouri RV park and several other properties, which are located near U.S. military bases and a General Motors facility producing defense hardware, while Mei worked for a foreign investment firm with extensive ties to the Chinese government, business filings show.

“Individuals affiliated with the Chinese government use shell companies to disguise their identities and their intentions,” Michigan Republican Rep. John Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP told the DCNF.

“That’s why land transactions near our military sites need to be scrutinized to the highest degree,” Moolenaar said. “I have bipartisan legislation that would increase transparency of foreign ownership of American land and Congress needs to act to support the Trump’s administration’s efforts to protect land near sensitive military sites.”

Around two weeks after Property Solutions 3603 bought the Knob Noster trailer park, Property Solutions 3601 LLC, which is also controlled by the couple, purchased the Pecan Grove Mobile Home Park in Oglethorpe, Georgia in September 2017, business filings and property records show.

The Georgia trailer park is located approximately 35 miles from Robins Air Force Base — a U.S. military logistical hub — and 50 miles from Fort Benning, which is home to the Army’s Airborne, Armor and Infantry schools, according to the Department of Defense (DOD).

“Kinetic weapons can obviously reach targets at 30–50 miles, but the real operational leverage for the CCP at those distances lies in electronic warfare, cyber intrusion, and persistent intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance,” Eads said. “Those capabilities are easier to operate from standoff, easier to maintain and hide, and allow adversaries to surveil, jam, and degrade critical nodes while remaining effectively ‘off the map’ of conventional defenses — precisely why co-location matters.”

Business filings show that when the couple purchased the trailer parks, Mei was a board member of Urban Select Capital Corporation, a Vancouver investment firm with offices in China. Founded in September 2007 as Orient Venture Capital II Inc., the company changed its name to China Select Capital Partners Corp. in April 2010 and rebranded again as Urban Select in October 2011, according to business records.

By the time Mei was hired in June 2016, the now-defunct firm had offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and had formed an investment company in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), a Chinese government-controlled zone that has housed at least 17 companies sanctioned by the U.S. government for supporting China’s military since 2019, according to federal records.

The firm had also by then formed partnerships with several Chinese state-owned enterprises, including SIP’s investment arm, Suzhou Venture Holdings (now called Oriza Holdings), which runs a venture capital center supporting China’s strategy to repurpose civilian technology for its military.

At least four CCP members have been listed on the Vancouver firm’s website as employees, as well as a National People’s Congress delegate, a staff member for a Chinese influence and intelligence service affiliate called the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), and several high-level personnel in the State Council’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), according to business filings and DCNF translations of Chinese government records.

The firm listed one such board advisor, who is also a party member, as having held positions within both the 863 Program and 973 Program, which employ overt and covert means to acquire U.S. technology in order to advance China’s national defense, according to federal reports.

While Mei left Urban Select in February 2019, and the couple ultimately sold the Georgia trailer park in May 2023, Property Solutions 3601 continues to own two Pontiac, Michigan homes less than a mile from General Motors and its Global Propulsion Systems facility, which develops DOD products, according to property records and an announcement from GM subsidiary GM Defense LLC.

Other properties in Canada, Washington, Michigan, and Utah have also been owned by the companies or have been listed as being associated with them, however do not appear to be located near U.S. military interests.

As China and its allies seek to realign global power, the U.S. must be on guard and expect the unexpected, Wright told the DCNF.

“The FBI and Department of War should be on this case immediately,” Wright said. “It deserves an alarmed reaction.”

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Gov’t-Tied Network Training Illegal Immigrants To Drive Big Rigs In US

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Chinese illegal immigrants are obtaining commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) and landing jobs in the U.S. trucking industry with support from a Chinese government-linked network, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

The Chinese American Trucker Organization USA Inc. (CATOU) is a New York-based nonprofit trade organization registered as a 501(c)6 that has allegedly helped over 1,000 Chinese students obtain CDLs and has a 100% pass rate, according to its business filings, social media posts and website. Videos posted on social media by an individual who crossed the U.S. southern border illegally shows they were able to rapidly obtain California CDLs after taking courses taught by CATOU instructors.

The public safety concern presented by truckers with unknown criminal backgrounds and driving records is compounded by CATOU’s board chairwoman, Geng Hang, who has held leadership roles within organizations operating as arms of the Chinese government and a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence agency called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to DCNF translations of announcements from those entities.

“No way American citizens voted for the California gateway for illegal migrants to operate heavy vehicles throughout America. That of itself is a public safety and homeland security concern,” Steve Yates, senior research fellow for China and national security policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF.

“Having a large CCP-tied network further train, certify, and place ‘their’ illegal migrants throughout vital surface shipping routes — urban, rural, and interstate — elevates national security risks,” Yates said. “At a time of high tension, crisis, or conflict with the CCP, what confidence could we have this network could not and would not be used against us?”

CATOU and Geng did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

‘Not One Has Failed So Far’

Chinese social media posts show CATOU instructors teaching students about the trucking industry inside the New York office of Red Apple Employment Agency, which is also led by Geng, and helps Chinese nationals both with and “without proper status” find work for “$80 to $100 per job placement,” The Wall Street Journal reported in July 2024.

While the DCNF found no New York business filing for Red Apple Employment Agency, the agency’s office displays signs featuring both CATOU and its name, videos posted by CATOU on Chinese social media reveal.

CATOU members have also taught truck driving courses at 7 CDL Driving School in Manassas, Virginia, videos within posts from the X account @tiange999 show. The driving school shares its address with a trucking company that Geng owns called Red Apple Enterprises Inc., according to business filings and 7 CDL’s website.

“The driving school where I’m studying has trained over 1,000 Chinese students and not one has failed so far,” @tiange999 wrote in a September 2024 X post featuring videos filmed with a CATOU instructor at 7 CDL Driving School, according to a DCNF translation. “Experienced students can pass in just one week, while those with no driving experience pass in about a month.”

The @tiange999 account is operated by a Chinese national who traveled up from South America and Central America into North America before crossing the U.S. southern border in June 2023. The owner of the account has since referred to himself as someone who “walked the line,” which is a “euphemism for illegal migration out of China,” Simon Hankinson, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center For Border Security and Immigration, testified during a May 2024 hearing held by the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability.

Roughly 8.5 million illegal aliens were encountered at the U.S. southern border during the Biden administration, including over 182,000 Chinese nationals from fiscal years 2021-2024, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection told the DCNF.

The @tiange999 account also features videos detailing how he passed the CDL test at 7 CDL Driving School and ultimately obtained CDL qualification in less than two months after first announcing he’d received a California driver’s license in August 2024.

More recent posts show @tiange999 driving a coach bus with identification numbers revealing his employer to be NC Transfer Inc., which has branches in North Carolina and New York, according to business filings.

The Trump administration is ramping up scrutiny of the trucking industry following a deadly August 2025 crash in Florida involving an illegal immigrant truck driver with a California CDL, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The truck driver has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and a preliminary Department of Transportation (DOT) investigation allegedly discovered he “did not speak English.”

“I would say just the drivers alone is not scary enough on the national security front,” Justin Martin, a 15-year trucking industry veteran, told the DCNF.

“These guys are already here, and they’re already operating, and it doesn’t matter how many of these trucks you catch or how many of these drivers you shut down, they’re just going to get hired somewhere else until they start going after the companies and the owners of these companies and shutting them down and preventing them from coming back,” Martin said.

‘Foreign Actors’

CATOU’s chairwoman, Geng, has served as an official in multiple organizations advancing Chinese influence and intelligence efforts in the U.S., including one entity that has held meetings in the New York office shared by CATOU and Red Apple Employment Agency, according to DCNF translations of Chinese media reports, social media posts, and the organizations’ announcements.

Among other Chinese government-tied leadership positions, the website of a New York nonprofit called the American Shaanxi General Chamber of Commerce (ASGCC) identifies Geng as its deputy chairwoman, according to a DCNF translation. ASGCC operates as a branch of the Shaanxi provincial Department of Commerce as well as a “sister association” of a UFWD arm called the China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA), according to DCNF translations of ASGCC and COFA announcements.

ASGCC has repeatedly met with Chinese government officials, including in June 2009, when the nonprofit welcomed a delegation from the Shaanxi government and the UFWD‘s Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries to discuss U.S. investment in China, according to DCNF translations of ASGCC announcements. Geng presented the delegation’s head with flowers at the airport, and she and other ASGCC members later serenaded the officials with songs like “Nanniwan,” which commemorates the CCP and Chinese military, according to Chinese state media.

Photos accompanying a January 2015 social media post made by ASGCC’s chairman also show ASGCC has held meetings within the shared New York office of CATOU and Red Apple Employment Agency.

“We are slowly giving over our entire truck industry to foreign actors,” Gord Magill, a truck industry writer, told the DCNF.

“I think foreign actors are fully aware that America’s corporations engaging in wage arbitrage and wage suppression against their own people are presenting opportunities for them to extract and scrape value out of the U.S. and give them some kind of strategic advantage in knowing exactly how our transportation systems work, and they’re just leveraging it for their own ends at the cost of American jobs and American motorists’ safety,” Magill said.

ASGCC, Red Apple Employment Agency, 7 CDL Driving School, Red Apple Enterprises, @tiange999, NC Transfer Inc. and DOT did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Communist Party Members Are Studying On Campuses Near You

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members enrolled in U.S. universities have established overseas party branches on American campuses supported by their Chinese alma maters, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Chinese academic announcements reveal CCP members connected to two universities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have founded overseas party branches at Oklahoma State University (OSU), the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and the University of Colorado-Denver (UCD), which aren’t registered as official student groups at the U.S. institutions. The DCNF identified more than two dozen CCP members connected to these overseas party branches, some of whom are now pursuing graduate degrees at other U.S. institutions including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to academic records and LinkedIn profiles.

President Donald Trump announced in August that his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese nationals to study in the U.S. When asked about his decision during an Aug. 29, exclusive interview with the Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese, Trump said revoking student visas for Chinese students would “hurt the system” and negatively impact “lesser colleges,” adding that “China’s paying us a lot of money right now. They’re paying us hundreds of millions of dollars.”

Republican lawmakers, including Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, have criticized Trump’s plan, with Arizona Rep. Eli Crane characterizing the proposal as a “massive national security threat.”

“[T]he CCP manipulates our university partnerships, driving its military advancements through U.S. taxpayer-funded research and joint U.S.-PRC institutes,” Michigan Republican Rep. John Moolenaar told the DCNF.

“It’s clear: without stronger safeguards, Beijing can gain access to sensitive research with clear military and dual-use applications. We must find a balance — we can welcome the world’s best and brightest while also protecting American values from foreign influence and technology transfer,” said Moolenaar, chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP.

‘The Sons And Daughters Of The CCP’

CCP members from China’s second largest agricultural university, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (NWAFU), operate an overseas party branch at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and openly brag that the program adheres to socialist ideology, according to NWAFU announcements translated by the DCNF.

A “party branch” is the smallest “grass-roots” CCP organization, and is required in Chinese institutions containing three or more party members, according to a DCNF translation of an announcement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, which is China’s state organ for legal supervision.

UNL’s Department of Food Science and Technology welcomed its first batch of 55 students from NWAFU’s College of Food Science and Engineering in September 2015 as part of a joint “3+1 Program” allowing the Chinese university’s students to study in Nebraska during their senior year, according to a UNL announcement. Three years later, NWAFU announced it would establish an overseas party branch in May 2018, laying the groundwork for its branch at UNL.

While it does not appear that all NWAFU students participating in the 3+1 Program have been CCP members, NWAFU announcements have identified the names of at least 13 students in UNL’s overseas party branch over the years. At least five are still at UNL, LinkedIn profiles and the university’s website indicate.

Over the years, Chinese-language NWAFU announcements have become increasingly candid about how the school advances the party’s ideological goals through its overseas party branches.

NWAFU recently praised the work of UNL’s overseas party branch during a July 2025 CCP meeting in China detailing how the school injects the CCP’s ideology “deep into the student body” through activities in both China and abroad, which, among others, have included “inviting the college’s party committee members and instructors of ideological and political education courses from the School of Marxism to go deep into the party branches to teach special party lectures to strengthen ideological foundations,” according to a DCNF translation of a NWAFU announcement.

One UNL overseas party branch member attending the July 2025 meeting said that the Nebraska overseas CCP branch considered “food security” to be the “mission” of the 3+1 Program, according to a DCNF translation of the NWAFU announcement. The joint program also provides an opportunity to “educate people for the party” and “tell China’s stories in English,” the CCP members stated at the meeting.

NWAFU convenes pre-departure meetings for students in the 3+1 Program to discuss topics like “patriotism,” and once abroad its CCP committee holds virtual political and ideological seminars with overseas party branch members, according to DCNF translations of the university’s announcements.

The Chinese university “prioritizes the development of strong patriotic feelings” and “creates temporary overseas Communist Youth League and party branches,” an October 2022 NWAFU announcement about the UNL overseas party branch’s activities states, according to a DCNF translation.

One NWAFU overseas party branch member, “Kayla” Yu Yafan, who is now a UNL biochemistry graduate research assistant, according to the Nebraska university’s website, said it was the duty of overseas Chinese students to “repay the party and country with knowledge,” according to a DCNF translation of a December 2021 NWAFU announcement.

UNL and Yu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“No matter where we are, remember the blood of the Chinese people flows through our veins. We are Chinese, the sons and daughters of the CCP,” Yu said, according to a DCNF translation of the announcement.

NWAFU identifies one overseas party branch member as Peng Bo, whom UNL’s Department of Food Science and Technology lists as a PhD student. “[We must] always retain a high-degree of unity with the CCP Central Committee,” Peng said during an October 2021 party branch event in China, which included virtual participants, according to a DCNF translation of a NWAFU announcement.

Peng did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

Several NWAFU overseas CCP branch members have also transferred from UNL to graduate programs at other U.S. institutions, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, according to a LinkedIn profile and NWAFU announcements.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) has likewise absorbed three NWAFU overseas CCP members from UNL’s party branch including “Shane” Fei Shengyi, who is enrolled there as a Molecular & Cellular Biology Department PhD student.

Fei, U of I and University of Wisconsin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The CCP often directs Chinese students within American universities to expropriate sensitive research “back to Beijing,” Kate Bierly, a higher education policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the DCNF.

“These individuals have pledged loyalty to a party openly working to strengthen America’s greatest adversary,” Bierly warned. “That creates a clear national security risk and we are leaving the door wide open.”

Multiple NWAFU announcements spotlighting Fei’s academic career include photos showing him wearing fatigues during military training.

While the extent of Fei’s military experience is unclear, NWAFU announcements show other students training with gas masks, automatic rifles and mock grenades during military boot camps that “most” Chinese university students are required to undergo during their freshman year, according to Chinese state media.

“Any party-state or PLA military presence on campus is anathema to the purpose of American higher education,” Nebraska Democratic State Sen. Eliot Bostar told the DCNF. “All universities should cut ties with all predacious CCP entities.”

Bostar introduced LB644, a bill targeting CCP covert influence operations in his state, which Republican Gov. Jim Pillen signed into law in June 2025. Once in effect on Oct. 1st, LB644 will require agents of adversary nations, like China, to register or potentially face civil and criminal penalties, according to its text.

“CCP cells are an absolute no-go, and anything tied to the Chinese military is beyond the pale,” Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the DCNF. “Both state and federal policymakers need to take the universities to task so that our intellectual centers stop allowing themselves to be exploited.”

“Communist Party members should not be on American campuses,” said Lucci. “Universities have absolutely failed and have not even been looking for these obvious security vulnerabilities.”

‘Clear National Security Risk’

The International College of Beijing (ICB) at China Agricultural University (CAU) also operates overseas party branches at both UCD and OSU, according to the Chinese institutions.

ICB’s website states it was founded as “the result of a joint venture educational program” between itself and UCD.

As with NWAFU, ICB also directs overseas party branch members to spread CCP propaganda.

During a December 2016 ICB meeting held in China, the college’s party committee instructed overseas party branch members to refine how they “tell China’s story to American classmates and talk about CCP history,” according to a DCNF translation of an ICB announcement.

All ICB students in the UCD program must first complete political and ideological prerequisite courses, “love the motherland and support party leadership,” even if they are not overseas party branch members, according to a DCNF translation of an ICB announcement.

ICB posts identify the names of at least nine students in UCD’s overseas party branch as well as at least three in the OSU branch.

CAU is one of OSU’s “direct partners” in Asia and the schools run study abroad and dual degree programs together, according to OSU’s website.

ICB party branch members at OSU also actively engage in pro-party activities on campus, such as holding an October 2017 event to watch the CCP’s 19th National Congress, according to an ICB announcement. Accompanying photos from the gathering show at least eight individuals watching a Chinese state-run broadcast in what appears to be the John C. & Kathryn A. Williams study room within OSU’s Edmon Low Library.

“Members of the CCP studying at American universities are a real threat to our nation’s safety,” Indiana Republican State Rep. Matt Commons told the DCNF.

“Taxpayer dollars fund our public universities, and it’s a disservice to taxpayers to use their money to train the CCP,” said Commons, who is writing a bill banning Chinese students and others from adversary nations from enrolling in A.I. and science-related programs. “They play the system, hide their ties, and use our schools to get access to the best research in the world — research they can later use against us.”

OSU and UCD did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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EXCLUSIVE: Meet The Chinese ‘Congressman’ Accused Of Abusing 21 Kids In U.S. Surrogacy Scheme

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The man who recently caught police attention for allegedly abusing his 21 children in the U.S. previously served as a high-level Chinese government official for at least two decades in the region at the heart of the communist nation’s ongoing genocide, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.

In May 2025, police in Arcadia, California, arrested Xuan Guojun, 65, and his wife, Silvia Zhang, 38, for child endangerment after their two-month infant was brought to a hospital suffering from a traumatic head injury, The Associated Press reported. Police reviewed security footage from the couple’s $4 million, 10,000 square-foot mansion and allegedly discovered that their nanny, Li Chunmei, 56, had verbally and physically abused their 21 children, 17 of whom are toddlers, the New York Post reported.

Xuan and Zhang have not been charged, Arcadia police told the DCNF, but authorities removed the children from their custody and are now working with the FBI to investigate the couple and their former company, Mark Surrogacy Investments LLC, which allegedly failed to disclose that surrogates were carrying the couple’s embryos, according to the New York Post.

While the scope of Xuan’s alleged surrogacy scheme remains unclear, translated Chinese government and state media reports reveal that he has held multiple Chinese government positions, including serving as a representative to the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) People’s Congress, which has enacted increasingly repressive policies contributing to China’s ongoing genocide against Uyghur and other ethnic minorities, according to U.S. lawmakers and human rights activists.

Salih Hudayar, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the East Turkistan Government-In-Exile, told the DCNF that “millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples were torn from their families, sent to concentration camps, psychologically destroyed, tortured, or even killed” due to the actions of members of the XUAR People’s Congress and related Chinese government bodies.

“Their hands are fully stained with the blood of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples,” Hudayar said. “They must be held accountable.”

Then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo determined in January 2021 that the Chinese government was committing genocide against Uyghurs and other minorities.

Xuan, Zhang and Li could not be reached for comment.

‘Repression And Bloodshed’

Xuan served as a representative to both the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress and the XUAR People’s Congress, Chinese media and state media reports reveal.

“[T]he history of the CCP in the region has been one of repression and bloodshed, beginning in 1949 with the forcible annexation of East Turkistan by Mao Zedong,” New Jersey Republican Rep. Chris Smith told the DCNF. Smith serves as co-chair of the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), which Congress created to “monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China.”

Xuan joined the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress in 1997, according to a 2012 interview published by Chinese media outlet Sina, which features Xuan’s photo. The article identifies Xuan as a representative to the XUAR People’s Congress and as the “general secretary” of Xinjiang Chuang Da Refrigeration Co. Ltd., which sells frozen goods and other food products, according to Chinese business filing platform Qichacha.

While still serving in the Urumqi Municipal People’s Congress, Xuan joined the XUAR People’s Congress in 2008, according to Chinese academic journal platform Xueshu.

Both bodies are subnational cousins of China’s National People’s Congress, which functions as a “‘rubber stamp’ legislature” under CCP control, according to a CECC report.

By 2012, Xuan had submitted over 200 proposals to the two congresses — more than any other representative, Sina reported.

When asked about himself in the interview published by Sina, Xuan laughed and described himself as “a person who loves to meddle in others’ affairs and provoke others” because he feels compelled to act when others need help, according to a DCNF translation.

“This individual did not join a democratic or independent legislature,” Hudayar told the DCNF. “Anyone who served in the so-called Urumqi or Xinjiang People’s Congresses between 1997 and 2012 was fully complicit in genocide.”

Hudayar cited seven regulations passed by the XUAR People’s Congress between 2008 and 2012 that upheld “policies central to the ongoing genocide,” including the Ethnic Unity Education Regulation, the Regulation On The Comprehensive Management of Social Order, the Revised Population and Family Planning Regulation and the Bilingual Education Promotion Regulation, which collectively criminalized expressions of Uyghur identity, initiated mass surveillance and expanded coercive reproductive controls.

The Chinese government goes to great lengths to recruit loyalists, doubly so when appointing representatives to sensitive bodies like the XUAR People’s Congress where members are implicitly, if not explicitly, expected to advance the CCP’s ethnic and demographic control agenda by enforcing existing laws, Hudayar said.

Hudayar pointed to the 2002 Xinjiang Population and Family Planning Regulation as an example of a law contributing to genocide that Xuan, as a XUAR People’s Congress representative between 2008 and 2012, would have been “complicit in upholding.”

“The 2002 regulation remained in full force during [Xuan’s] time in office and was further revised in 2011,” Hudayar said. “[The 2002 regulation] targeted Uyghur and other Turkic women and their unborn babies, resulting in the forced abortion of over 3.7 million babies by 2009 and the continued forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of Uyghur and other Turkic women.”

‘Must Be Investigated’

Xuan has also held leadership positions within multiple organizations controlled by a CCP influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD) as well as within Chinese civic associations cooperating with Chinese law enforcement, according to Chinese government and media reports.

A UFWD “subordinate unit” called the All-China Federation Of Industry And Commerce (ACFIC) has identified Xuan as an official for several Xinjiang branches, including as an “executive committee” member for the XUAR ACFIC branch, according to a January 2017 announcement concerning that organization’s annual conference in Urumqi. Photos show Xuan on stage during the conference, and the announcement also identifies Xuan as the “executive deputy chairman” of a related Xinjiang-Zhejiang ACFIC branch.

United Front arms often utilize a so-called “two nameplates” system in which an organization, like ACFIC, will masquerade as a “chamber of commerce” to conceal Chinese government-ties, according to The Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit. Xuan has served as the president of the California-based U.S.-Xinjiang Chamber of Commerce since at least 2019, according to an announcement by the Chinese American Federation, which itself has identified Xuan as its “executive deputy chairman” since at least 2018.

Xuan also serves as the “honorary deputy chairman” of the Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, according to a 2023 Chinese American Federation announcement. The Wenzhou Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce is one of several Chinese civic associations operating an unsanctioned Chinese government satellite court on U.S. soil, the DCNF reported in January 2025.

Another California-based Chinese civic association called the U.S.-Zhejiang General Chamber of Commerce also identifies Xuan as its “executive chairman,” according to an announcement from that organization. The co-chairman of that civic association is both a mediator for the Wenzhou People’s Court and also a Zhejiang Ministry of Public Security (MPS) supervisor, the DCNF’s January 2025 investigation found.

“Anyone with these type of Chinese government and United Front-ties must be investigated by the FBI and thoroughly prosecuted by the Department of Justice,” Hudayar said.

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EXCLUSIVE: Boston Mayor Opens City Hall Doors To Chinese Communist Party Members

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration appears to have a cozy relationship with a nonprofit that has repeatedly hosted members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Beijing’s intelligence network at City Hall, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

The Boston Urban Forum (BUF) bills itself as a nonprofit that convenes a “monthly event held at Boston City Hall,” which “invites officials and professionals from political, academic, and business sectors to discuss municipal policies and livelihood issues.” However, individuals identified as CCP members in Chinese government and state media reports have served as moderators and guest speakers for at least half of BUF’s events.

Wu has commended BUF’s founder, Gary Yu, on multiple occasions, and has also approved events supported by Yu and the CCP intelligence arm to which he belongs, Chinese state media reports reveal.

The DCNF did not find any evidence or allegations of a financial relationship between BUF or the CCP with Wu personally.

Wu and Yu did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“China has installed hundreds of CCP proxies in every major city across America,” Ina Mitchell, a Canadian investigative journalist and expert on China’s influence operations, told the DCNF. “These proxies present themselves as civic-minded leaders working to bridge the cultural divide between the U.S. and China at a grassroots level — but they are anything but civic-minded. These bad actors blend in clandestinely, hiding their true allegiance to the ‘motherland’ behind the respectable veneer of legitimate U.S.-based quasi-government organizations.”

‘Co-opting’

Since its founding in 2024, BUF has held 10 events in Boston City Hall, according to its website, at least five of which have included CCP members as moderators or guest speakers, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese government and university reports.

BUF’s website lists the nonprofit’s address as “5 Congress St., Boston, MA 02203,” which is a government building called the Civic Pavilion within the City Hall Plaza, according to Boston’s website. While the city’s website states that individuals may apply to hold events within certain government buildings, such as the Civic Pavilion, the exact nature of BUF’s relationship with the City of Boston remains unclear.

BUF claims it was established “with support from the City of Boston” by Yu, who helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Wu’s mayoral campaign, the DCNF reported in April. Wu reportedly presented BUF with a certificate of recognition on April 14, 2024, thanking the nonprofit for its “contributions and service to the community on behalf of the City of Boston,” according to an announcement made by Yu’s company, Boston International Media Consulting.

Wu and several other New England lawmakers were also previously listed on BUF’s home page as “VIP Guests” until June 19, 2025, when they were quietly removed after the DCNF contacted the nonprofit for comment. BUF did not respond to requests for comment about why it removed the lawmakers from its website. However, BUF continues to list the City of Boston as a “sponsor.”

In total, at least eight CCP members have participated in BUF events since May 2024, with some events featuring more than one Party member.

An October 2024 event titled “Boston Global Scholars Workshop” included at least four CCP members, according to Chinese university records. The event concerned “discussions on scientific and technological innovation,” a BUF post on LinkedIn for the event states.

One of the guest speakers was Wang Hongwei, a member of Tsinghua University’s Party Committee, according to his biography, which was displayed on a projector screen during the event and also read aloud by the moderator, footage shows. In 2018, Tsinghua named Wang Hongwei as an “outstanding CCP member,” Chinese state media reported.

Wang Hongwei’s October 2024 BUF presentation focused on his university’s talent recruitment efforts. At one point in his talk, Wang Hongwei displayed a slide explicitly inviting academics to apply to Tsinghua with the promise of funding for successful applicants ranging between roughly $139,00 and $417,000, footage shows.

His presentation also showcased examples of previously recruited academics belonging to the CCP and Chinese talent programs, like the Thousand Talents Plan, which Wang Hongwei joined in 2012, according to Tsinghua. China’s talent recruitment plans incentivize participants to “steal foreign technologies needed to advance China’s national, military, and economic goals,” the FBI has warned.

In May 2025, Wang Hongwei hired disgraced Harvard University professor Charles Lieber to work for Tsinghua, Chinese language news outlet Sohu reported. Lieber was convicted of crimes related to concealing his participation in the Thousand Talents Plan from U.S. government agencies funding his research in December 2021.

Wang Hongwei could not be reached for comment.

[Image created by DCNF with BUF flyers from the nonprofit’s website]

BUF held an event on Nov. 17, 2024, concerning the Trump administration’s impact on U.S.-China policy, according to another LinkedIn post from the nonprofit.

While a BUF flyer names the event’s moderator as Harvard professor Wang Kaiyuan, his alma mater, Peking University, further identifies him as an influential CCP member who served as the youngest Party Committee member in a bureau within China’s former Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power.

During that event, guest speakers and audience members adopted a dim view of the Trump administration’s policies, according to BUF’s LinkedIn post, and appeared to echo jargon and talking points from Beijing’s mouthpieces claiming the U.S. had “hindered academic cooperation,” “weakened the vitality” of cultural programs, and caused “trade frictions.”

In April 2025, BUF held another event within City Hall concerning China’s political history moderated by a Harvard professor named Zhang Jishun, according to the nonprofit.

Zhang obtained a graduate degree in Marxism-Leninism from Beijing Normal University, according to the school, and has since not only served as East China Normal University’s Party secretary, but also as a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Chinese government records show. CPPCC delegates “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), which is a congressional commission tasked with monitoring the national security implications of the U.S.-China relationship.

Qin Hui, another Harvard professor who served as a guest speaker during the April 2025 event, is also a CCP member, according to Chinese state media, and has written multiple academic papers on “Marxist peasant theory,” his Tsinghua profile states. BUF’s founder, Yu, has known Qin since at least September 2019, when both men attended a 10-person talent recruitment event in Nanning, Guangxi autonomous region organized by the CCP, Chinese language media outlet Sohu reported.

Harvard, Wang Kaiyuan, Zhang and Qin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“[China’s proxies] use a strategy that often includes the co-opting or creation of forums, events, galas and award ceremonies,” Mitchell told the DCNF. “These feel-good endeavors open up a plethora of opportunities for the CCP’s agents to co-mingle with U.S. lawmakers, police, and titans of industry.”

“If you were to ask me what the end game is, it’s to make sure that captured lawmakers are influenced to lean toward pro-Beijing policies and shape public narrative in support of China,” Mitchell said.

[Image created by DCNF with Chinese state media photos]

‘Agents Of The CCP’

Boston’s Democrat Mayor has also approved the celebration of several Chinese cultural events promoted by local powerbroker Yu and the CCP intelligence arm to which he belongs, Chinese state media reports reveal.

The DCNF previously reported Yu is listed as an official of the All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), which is an agency of a Chinese influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to federal authorities.

On May 1, 2022, Wu celebrated the 40th anniversary of Boston’s “sister city” relationship with Hangzhou, Zhejiang province by proclaiming the annual observance of “Boston-Hangzhou Day” during a Beantown event attended by Yu and Chinese government officials, Chinese state media reported.

Yu read aloud a letter from the Zhejiang ACFROC branch at the event, in part, expressing hope that “overseas Chinese” would “unite their hearts” and “gather strength,” according to a DCNF translation. Wu, Yu and the Zhejiang ACFROC chairman, Lian Xiaomin, had crossed paths at least once several years prior during an October 2020 Mid-Autumn Festival webinar, which Yu organized, according to an ACFROC announcement including photos and footage.

During the May 2022 event, Yu also played a video recorded by Boston-Hangzhou Day’s “honorary ambassador,” Tan Jing, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese state media. Tan Jing is a CCP member and military performer within the Political Work Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), Chinese state media reported.

The Political Work Department “operates at the nexus of politics, finance, military operations and intelligence,” according to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and is responsible for “collecting and analyzing intelligence information regarding senior-level officers from the United States.”

Yu took credit for proposing Boston-Hangzhou Day, according to a DCNF translation of event footage, saying Wu had been “very supportive” of his suggestion. On the day of the celebration, Wu awarded Yu with a certificate thanking him for his “contributions and commitment to the betterment of the Boston-Hangzhou Sister City Partnership.”

Beginning as early as October 2019, Wu and the City of Boston have issued a series of certificates to Yu thanking him for his community service. Several months after Boston-Hangzhou Day’s establishment, Wu issued another certificate of recognition to Yu in November 2022 thanking him for “serving the Asian community and beyond,” according to the certificate posted on the website of a nonprofit Yu co-chairs called the New England Chinese American Association (NECAA).

Wu commended Yu more recently in January 2025 during a video celebrating the Boston Lunar New Year Festival Gala, footage shows. “I’m so grateful to Gary, NECAA, and the entire community that helped organize this special celebration,” Wu said in the clip. Yu first proposed for Boston to celebrate Lunar New Year in 2023 and was commissioned by the city to organize the inaugural festival the following year, according to BUF.

Yu’s company, Boston International Media Consulting, claims to manage the festival committee, and BUF identifies itself as a “supporting partner” of the event. The festival is also partnered with a nonprofit that lists Yu as a board member called United Chinese Americans (UCA), whose leaders have included individuals who’ve served as members of the Chinese government, CCP, and/or Beijing’s intelligence arms, the DCNF reported in June.

China’s government supports Chinese cultural events in the U.S. to allow “agents of the CCP to craft pro-Beijing narratives where ideological messaging is mixed-in subtly within entertainment formats,” Scott McGregor, an author and former Canadian intelligence official, told the DCNF. “Ceremonies where U.S. lawmakers give their tacit endorsement to United Front operatives with awards and commendations is another soft propaganda tactic used to build reputational trust for CCP proxies operating in the U.S.”

“What most American citizens don’t realize is that these proxies and the U.S.-based organizations they have set up here are part of the larger CCP United Front apparatus that is driving the engine of China’s overseas influence operations in America,” McGregor said.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter, political journalist, and China watcher. Twitter: @LenczyckiPhilip

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EXCLUSIVE: How Chinese Intel Infiltrated LA Mayor Karen Bass’ Camp

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An official in Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ administration is the son of a Chinatown powerbroker and Democratic donor who has praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and works with foreign intelligence agencies, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Adam Ma has held multiple positions in Bass’ office, his LinkedIn profile states, and now serves as both the city’s liaison for Asian-Americans and director of commission appointments, according to the Los Angeles government website. His father, who raised tens of thousands of dollars for Bass’ mayoral campaign, previously lauded the Communist Party for creating a “strong China” and is listed as an official by multiple arms of a Chinese government influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD).

“If China didn’t have the CCP, there’d be no strong China today, overseas Chinese compatriots send the highest praise and admiration to the CCP,” Adam Ma’s father, Ma Shurong, said in July 2021 to commemorate the Party’s 100th anniversary, according to a DCNF translation of a Chinese government announcement.

“The Communist Party’s UFWD has, in fact, penetrated Karen Bass’s office,” Gordon Chang, China expert and author of “Plan Red: China’s Project To Destroy America,” told the DCNF. “There is a high probability that, wittingly or unwittingly, she is implementing Chinese Communist plans to take down our country. She may be a loyal American, but she has almost certainly become a danger to America.”

Bass, Adam Ma and Ma Shurong did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Bass has risen to national prominence as a central figure in the Democratic Party’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s deportation policies as Los Angeles struggles to grapple with a series of riots opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that began in the city on June 6.

Although the Trump administration’s “targeted enforcement operations” in Los Angeles have apprehended illegal aliens previously convicted of homicide, drug trafficking and lewd acts with a minor, Bass called for ICE to “stop the raids” during a June 9 press conference, saying she felt her city was “part of an experiment that we did not ask to be a part of.”

‘Overseas United Front’

Ma Shurong, whose English name is Derek Ma, has extensive ties to high-ranking CCP leaders and has served as an official within multiple UFWD agencies, according to Chinese government reports.

The UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Among other positions, Ma Shurong is listed as an “overseas committee member” by the All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), which is a UFWD agency, according to the Department of Justice. Ma Shurong was one of 20 ACFROC officials who delivered speeches alongside that agency’s chief, Wan Lijun, during the group’s August 2018 conference within Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, according to the UFWD agency.

Over the last 10 years, Ma Shurong has met with leaders from at least 10 regional ACFROC branches including officials from Anji, Foshan, Jiangmen, Kaiping, Shantou, Taishan, Wuyi, Yunfu, Guangzhou and Guangdong, during which he repeatedly promised to strengthen cooperation with ACFROC, a DCNF translation of Chinese government documents found.

Image created by DCNF with pics from Chinese government, ACFROC and Sing Tao

In addition to his ACFROC positions, Ma Shurong is also listed as a “director” by the China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA), which is “an important platform through which the UFWD co-opts and interacts with overseas United Front figures,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), a legislative branch commission created by Congress to monitor and investigate the national security implications of the relationships between the U.S. and China.

Ma Shurong has attended COFA conferences in China as well, including in 2019, with Chinese state media footage showing him smiling as General Secretary Xi Jinping greeted the UFWD agency’s top operatives. Four years prior, Ma Shurong was also among a group of select overseas Chinese leaders invited to meet with Xi Jinping when he visited Seattle in September 2015. Ma Shurong clapped for the dictator during his speech, Chinese state media footage shows.

Other UFWD arms have also identified Ma Shurong as a director, including the related China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), which was an organization operating under the UFWD in its final years until it was subsumed by COFA in 2019, according to the Chinese government. As with ACFROC and COFA, Ma Shurong also attended COEA conferences in China, including one September 2017 meeting in Beijing, Chinese state media footage shows.

Image created by DCNF with pics from Huarenone

‘CCP Influence Campaigns’

Adam Ma and his parents, Ma Shurong and Daisy Ma, all supported Bass’ 2022 mayoral campaign through fundraising and other activities, according to Chinese language news reports.

Ma Shurong and Adam Ma held a press conference endorsing Bass’ mayoral campaign in Los Angeles at the Golden Dragon Restaurant on Sept. 10, 2022, Chinese language news outlet ChineseNewsUSA.com reported. Daisy Ma also attended.

Several Chinese American lawmakers, including California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, endorsed Bass during the event, footage shows. One photo from the event that Bass posted to X shows her standing beside Ma Shurong, Daisy Ma and other supporters.

The next month, Ma Shurong held a fundraiser for Bass at the Golden Dragon Restaurant on Oct. 13, 2022, which netted over $40,000 for her campaign, Chinese language news outlet Huarenone.com reported. Adam Ma and his mother both donated $1,000 to Bass around this time, according to records on the California Secretary of State’s website.

After Bass won the mayoral election, Ma Shurong and his wife attended her inauguration on Dec. 12, 2022, according to a Huarenone.com report. Bass was photographed at the event with both Ma Shurong and his wife, images accompanying the article show.

“From the start we decided to support her and feel happy that she will become the new mayor of Los Angeles,” Ma Shurong told reporters, before adding that he was also happy his son would be joining her team, according to a DCNF translation of the report.

Daisy Ma did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Image created by DCNF with pics from 52hrtt, Sing Tao, Chinese News USA and a screenshot from Ella Bee Media Group

Adam Ma joined Bass’ team in December 2022 as a director of both her transition office and commission appointments, according to his LinkedIn profile.The next month, Bass served as the grand marshal during the Los Angeles Chinese Lunar New Year parade in January 2023, ABC News reported. During the parade, Adam Ma rode with the mayor in the city‘s vehicle, photos Bass included in an X post reveal.

Ma Shurong also participated in the parade, footage from the event shows, and was photographed by Sing Tao in a group photo with Bass, Chu and a former Los Angeles Police Department reserve commander named Chester Chong, who has also held multiple positions within UFWD arms like COFA and COEA, the DCNF previously reported.

As a representative for Bass, Adam Ma also attended another Chinese Lunar New Year banquet in Los Angeles in February 2023 held by the Chinese American Unity Alliance, according to ChineseNewsUSA.com. The Chinese American Unity Alliance is a nonprofit that is run by Ma Shurong and his wife, according to business records filed with the California Secretary of State.

Two officials from the Los Angeles Chinese Consulate also attended that banquet, including An Mingshuan, according to ChineseNewsUSA.com, whom the UFWD identifies as its consul. On behalf of Bass, Adam Ma presented his father and the nonprofit with a framed congratulatory award during the banquet, according to the ChineseNewsUSA.com report and accompanying photos.

Several months later, Adam Ma began working as Bass’ liaison for Asian Americans and the “LGBTQIA+” community in May 2023, his LinkedIn profile states. Adam Ma again rode with the mayor in the city’s vehicle during the June 2024 Los Angeles gay pride parade, footage Bass posted to X shows.

Adam Ma remains active in the Los Angeles mayor’s office and was recently photographed with Bass and others commemorating “Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month” on May 2, 2025.

The City of Los Angeles paid Adam Ma $129,534.10 in 2024, according to the California State Controller’s Office.

“CCP influence campaigns target local elected officials just like our national leaders,” New York Times bestselling author of “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” Peter Schweizer, told the DCNF. “In many ways they can be even more effective there. Mayor Bass needs to come clean about her ties to these funders.”

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Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter.

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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-ICE Org Backing National Protests Led By Member Of CCP-Tied Group

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The leader of a Chinese American political action committee involved in organizing upcoming protests against federal immigration enforcement under the “No Kings” banner is also a director of a taxpayer-funded group with extensive ties to Beijing’s intelligence network, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has discovered.

Asian Americans For Progressive America (AAPA) is a California-based political action committee promoting an upcoming national protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) targeted enforcement operations, according to announcements and flyers. AAPA’s president, Elaine Peng, also serves as an executive for United Chinese Americans (UCA), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that has received U.S. government grants worth roughly $370,000 for a mental health program it runs called WAVES, for which Peng is the “director of training.”

UCA claims to be focused on “enriching and empowering Chinese American communities through civic engagement” and has often invoked racial discrimination as the reason it holds protests against U.S. national security initiatives and immigration enforcement. However, translated Chinese government and state media reports reveal a significant number of the nonprofit’s leaders have also served as members of the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and/or Beijing’s intelligence arms, raising concerns among analysts about foreign influence.

Michael Lucci, founder and CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the DCNF he believes UCA is “associated with the CCP’s sprawling worldwide network of CCP loyalists.”

UCA president Haipei Shue denied his organization has Chinese government ties, telling the DCNF “UCA’s work has always been fully compliant with U.S. laws and policies, and our efforts are aligned with the national interest of the United States.”

“I am proud of [UCA], an organization made up of Chinese Americans who love this country and contribute to it in countless ways — through scientific achievement, military service, healthcare, entrepreneurship, and more,” said Shue, who has worked for the Chinese government and state-run media outlets, according to UCA’s website and state media reports.

AAPA and Peng did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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‘NO KINGS’

AAPA is sponsoring and organizing planned protests in Oakland, California, on June 14 against the Trump administration, as Los Angeles and other cities across the nation struggle to grapple with riots opposing ICE deportation raids, according to a mobilize.us announcement.

“[W]e rise up to say NO KINGS!!” the announcement reads.

A website for the “No Kings” protests states: “They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.”

Peng is also promoting the upcoming Oakland protest on social media.

ICE’s “targeted enforcement operations,” which began in Los Angeles on June 6, have apprehended illegal aliens previously convicted of homicide, drug trafficking and lewd acts with a minor. Several of the arrested have been apprehended while looting or assaulting law enforcement officers. In one case, the Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of Emiliano Garduno-Galvez — an illegal alien from Mexico — for attempted murder after he threw a Molotov cocktail at law enforcement during the Los Angeles riots.

‘CCP Loyalists’

The DCNF identified more than 10 individuals listed as UCA personnel who have been members of the CCP, Chinese government and/or Chinese intelligence front groups, according to Chinese government and state media reports.

UCA’s founding honorary advisory board included two individuals who are CCP members, as well as officials within fronts for both the intelligence arm of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and China’s premier civilian intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), Chinese government reports reveal.

One of those former advisors, Wang Jisi, has belonged to four MSS front groups, the DCNF previously discovered, and is also listed as a director by the China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies (CFISS), which is controlled by the “Intelligence Bureau within the PLA’s Joint Staff Department,” according to ex-CIA officer Peter Mattis.

UCA’s president, Shue, told the DCNF that Wang has “no affiliation” with UCA, but refused to discuss an archived UCA website link listing Wang as an honorary advisory board member. Wang could not be reached for comment.

Six UCA personnel have also held positions with arms of the United Front Work Department (UFWD), a Chinese influence and intelligence service, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC). The USSC is a legislative branch commission created by the United States Congress in October 2000 to monitor, investigate and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the relationships between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

One UCA board member, who also heads the nonprofit’s Utah chapter, serves as the deputy director of the Salt Lake City Overseas Chinese Service Center (OCSC), according to the Utah Chinese Civic Center, which hosts that OCSC. The UFWD runs 60 OCSC branches worldwide, all of which have met with China’s Ministry of Public Security to learn how to operate unsanctioned, overseas courts, the DCNF previously reported.

UCA has also promoted UFWD initiatives, nonprofit announcements show, including one food-drive program run by a UFWD agency called the All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), according to ACFROC.

Counting Shue, six UCA executives and advisors have also worked for the Chinese government, the DCNF determined after a review of publicly-available documents.

UCA board member Stephanie Sun previously held Chinese “government roles,” local news outlet City & State Pennsylvania reported, including working for the China Cultural Center in Seoul, which is run by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, according to the Chinese government.

Shue told the DCNF it was “simply incorrect” Sun had worked for China’s diplomatic system, but refused to answer questions about her ties after being sent links to multiple posts, such as one University of Pennsylvania announcement, stating she “worked for government diplomatic agencies in both China and South Korea.”

However, Sun’s profile was subsequently scrubbed from UCA’s website sometime between May 25 and May 27 after the DCNF sent Shue a link to Sun’s UCA profile stating she “worked for both governments and 3 Fortune 100 international corporations in 3 countries, China, South Korea, and the U.S.” Shue did not respond to questions about why the profile was deleted and Sun did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Image created by DCNF with screenshots from UCA and University of Pennsylvania

‘Talking Points’

UCA and its subsidiaries, UCA Action and UCA Political Action Committee (UCA PAC), have repeatedly protested U.S. national security initiatives, claiming such policies will foment racial discrimination, according to announcements from the nonprofits.

In one instance, UCA published an open letter in December 2020 demanding the removal of a “paranoid and xenophobic” section within the Senate’s “Fairness For High-Skilled Immigrants Act” that would have blocked “any alien affiliated with the military forces of [China] or the [CCP]” from “ever becoming permanent residents or citizens.”

In another instance, UCA filed an amicus brief on July 13, 2020 supporting a lawsuit brought by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology against an ICE directive that would have stripped visas from foreign students enrolled in fully-online programs. The directive was rescinded the following day, court records show.

More recently, UCA sent a June 1 newsletter condemning the U.S. State Department’s May 2025 decision to revoke visas for Chinese students with “connections to the [CCP] or studying in critical fields.”

“Haipei Shue, President of UCA, expresses deep concern over rising discrimination against Chinese students and communities in the U.S., including visa revocations,” the letter states. “Warning of a resurgence of Cold War-style bias, UCA urges Chinese Americans to unite, engage civically, and defend their rights and the American dream.”

UCA has also organized several other demonstrations against U.S. national security programs, including a January 2022 protest opposing a Department of Justice (DOJ) initiative to counter Chinese espionage, which the nonprofit alleged was aligned with “racist and xenophobic tropes.” That DOJ program, known as the “China Initiative,” was terminated in February 2022.

The nonprofit has also held protests against state bills in Florida and Texas prohibiting citizens from “countries of concern,” like China, from purchasing land, for the sake of securing critical infrastructure and U.S. military sites, according to UCA announcements.

AAPA was among 71 organizations, including UCA, which sent a joint letter to the Texas legislature opposing two such bills: HB 17 and its companion SB 1. UCA likewise organized multi-city protests in March 2025 against the bills, which they characterized as “discriminatory,” UCA announcements reveal.

The nonprofit’s members also testified at hearings against the legislation that month and the next, a review of witness lists found.

Chuck DeVore, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel now serving as the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s chief national initiatives officer, testified in support of the legislation in March and told the DCNF that during the hearing opponents submitted “remarkably consistent talking points that focused on racism.”

“I quickly found on my phone a statement from the Chinese Embassy in 2023 that appeared in the Washington Post in opposition to Texas’ 2023 version of the measure,” DeVore said. “The claims in this statement were echoed by those testifying that day. It was pretty apparent to me what was going on.”

A Chinese Embassy spokesperson had claimed that prohibiting Chinese nationals from purchasing land in the U.S. “may also fuel Asian hatred in the U.S. and racial discrimination, thus running counter to American values,” in the Aug. 21, 2023 Washington Post article cited by DeVore.

Beijing tasks its operatives with opposing policies deemed hostile to its objectives, Dr. Lawrence Sellin, a national security and United Front expert, told the DCNF.

“It is an indisputable fact that China, through its proxies, has been trying to acquire property near U.S. military bases and critical infrastructure,” Sellin said. “It was thus necessary for UCA to frame [opposition to] those state laws as ‘Asian discrimination.’”

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter, political journalist, and China watcher. Twitter: @LenczyckiPhilip.

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EXCLUSIVE: Chinese Communist Party Intel Officials Have Keys To Trump’s Alma Mater

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President Donald Trump’s alma mater was recently sold from one individual with extensive ties to China’s intelligence arms to another, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

“Allen” Lu Yuzong, CEO of Guanghua Education Group, recently purchased the New York Military Academy (NYMA), which Trump attended between 1959 and 1964, from the CEO of SouFun Holdings, “Vincent” Mo Tianquan, for an undisclosed amount, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Mo initially acquired the bankrupt academy in 2015 for approximately $16 million dollars using a nonprofit he controls called the Research Center on Natural Conservation, Chinese state media reported at the time.

Mo and Lu have both worked for the Chinese government as well as agencies within an intelligence and influence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to Chinese government and state media reports translated by the DCNF, raising concerns among analysts that NYMA might be used as a staging ground for covert operations, especially given its close proximity and relationship with West Point Military Academy.

West Point denied that it had any relationship with NYMA.

NYMA, Lu and Mo did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

‘Jackpot’

China’s military and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence networks may view NYMA’s acquisition as a way to forge ties with individuals who will “have interaction, perhaps by proximity or otherwise, with West Point,” Steve Yates, senior research fellow for China and national security policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the DCNF. The acquisition could also be seen as a means to connect with influential alumni, which include filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, composer Stephen Sondheim and now the president of the United States, according to NYMA.

“I have no question that Chinese intelligence and military entities would see that as high value,” said Yates, who previously served as a Chinese language analyst for the National Security Agency and deputy national security adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. “Here is a way to try to cultivate connections that may lead to either influence or a potential encounter with the president at some point.”

“They have a lot of people, and they can play the odds, so they can be wrong 999 times, but, if one of these people ends up being the president of the United States one day, that’s jackpot,” Yates said.

Lu and Mo have both held numerous positions with Chinese government and UFWD agencies, according to Chinese government and state media reports.

The UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

Among other roles, both Lu and Mo have served as officials for a UFWD subordinate called the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA), which is one of the two “most important” organizations involved in China’s technology transfer efforts, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

NYMA’s former owner-turned-board member, Mo, is listed as a “director” by WRSA, according to a DCNF translation of the association’s website. NYMA’s new board chairman, Lu, serves as the deputy chairman of WRSA’s “global liaison work committee,” according to a DCNF translation of a UFWD announcement.

Lu met with high-ranking CCP and UFWD officials at a WRSA branch in Zhejiang province in November 2022 to discuss talent recruitment operations for the region, according to a UFWD announcement. Several years prior, Zhejiang’s city of Rui’an held a conference for the Thousand Talents Plan, during which Lu was appointed to serve as a “talent ambassador,” Chinese state media reported. The Thousand Talents Plan is one of the Chinese government’s many “talent recruitment plans,” all of which incentivize participants to “steal foreign technologies needed to advance China’s national, military, and economic goals,” according to the FBI.

Both Lu and Mo have also served as delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to the Chinese government. CPPCC “delegates attend a high-profile annual meeting to receive direction from the CCP regarding the ways its policies should be characterized” and “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to USCC.

Chinese government announcements include photos showing both Lu and Mo wearing the CPPCC’s distinctive red, clip-on delegate’s badge during related press events.

‘Bad Deal’

NYMA has taken students to visit the West Point Museum and Chapel, it has held events at West Point’s Eisenhower Hall and Hudson Room, and has used West Point’s campus to “enhance” leadership training programs in recent years, according to NYMA announcements. The academy has also brought visitors from China to tour West Point, NYMA announcements state.

“West Point has no affiliation with the New York Military Academy,” a West Point spokesman told the DCNF. “Entrance to the United States Military Academy grounds is governed by rigorous security protocols. For security reasons, we will not provide further details about security measures.”

Trump appears to have a soft spot for his alma mater, whose cadets marched during his inauguration ceremonies in 2017 and 2025, footage shows.

Trump entered NYMA as a private in 1959, served as a company commander, and ultimately achieved the rank of “Captain, S-4, Senior Staff” by his graduation in 1964, according to NYMA photos and records. While attending NYMA, Trump played a variety of team sports including football, wrestling and baseball, and was named “ladies’ man” by a “popularity poll,” photos show.

“President Trump is proud of his time at the New York Military Academy. He learned important virtues that helped him become one of the greatest businessmen in the world and ultimately President of the United States twice,” Steven Cheung, White House communications director, told the DCNF.

NYMA’s sale to individuals connected to the Chinese government and UFWD is a “bad deal” for the U.S. and presents a national security threat, Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the DCNF.

“The CCP and its members should not own property within the U.S., nor should they be involved in our education system. And most importantly, the CCP should be kept as far as possible from any of our key military assets such as West Point,” Lucci said. “The NYMA should be removed from Chinese ownership as soon as possible.”

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include comment from the White House.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter.

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EXCLUSIVE: Harvard Commencement Speaker Worked For Org Tied To China’s Military

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Harvard’s 2025 commencement speaker, “Luanna” Yurong Jiang, worked for a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) entity with extensive ties to Beijing’s military and intelligence networks, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.

Jiang, who graduated from the Kennedy School on May 29 and appeared to take a swipe at the Trump administration during her speech, was a volunteer for the International Department of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF) prior to attending Harvard between at least 2018 and 2022, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese state media. The organization is controlled by the CCP and has signed a cooperative agreement with a Chinese military arm, according to CBCGDF announcements.

Furthermore, CBCGDF also hosts a branch of a Chinese influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), to which many of its leaders belong, including its secretary-general who reportedly wrote a recommendation letter for Jiang to Harvard, according to a DCNF translation of Chinese state media.

“Harvard is one of the world’s greatest institutions, but we will have no choice but to end its existence if it continues to allow itself to be used by those seeking the destruction of our country,” Gordon Chang, author and China expert, told the DCNF.

Harvard and CBCGDF did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. Luanna Jiang could not be reached for comment.

‘The Fate Of Students From Abroad’

“Humanity rises and falls as one,” said Luanna Jiang, the first Chinese woman to deliver Harvard’s commencement speech. “But today, that promise of a connected world is giving way to division, fear and conflict.”

“If we still believe in a shared future let us not forget those who we label as enemies, they too are human,” Jiang continued. “In the end, we do not rise by proving each other wrong, we rise by refusing to let one another go.”

The Harvard Crimson characterized Jiang’s speech as a “full-throated defense of the importance of international diversity as the Trump administration threatens the fate of students from abroad at Harvard.”

Harvard’s suspected ties to the Chinese government have come under intense scrutiny in recent years. In December 2021, Charles Lieber, a former Harvard University chemistry professor, was convicted of crimes related to concealing his participation in a Chinese government technology transfer program from U.S. government agencies funding his research.

The House Select Committee sent a letter to Harvard on May 19 alleging it had “repeatedly hosted and trained members of a CCP paramilitary organization” implementing “the CCP’s genocide against the Uyghurs.” Citing this and other examples, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked Harvard’s right to host foreign students on May 22, claiming the university has been facilitating and engaging “in coordinated activity with the CCP.”

However, a federal judge has blocked the ban prohibiting Harvard from enrolling international students.

“If Harvard insists on posing a threat to America, then the Trump administration must find a way to revoke its charter. Other schools can then take over its assets and functions,” Chang said. “A revocation is constitutional in a national emergency, such as the one we are now in.”

‘Proxies For CCP Interests’

Although the website for CBCGDF claims the organization is a “nationwide nonprofit public foundation and a social legal entity dedicated to biodiversity conservation and green development,” a DCNF review of its website and announcements found that CBCGDF is actually controlled by the CCP and Chinese government agencies, and has deep ties to China’s military and intelligence networks.

CBCGDF’s website states the organization was founded in 1985 by Lu Zhengcao, who was a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general, according to Chinese state media. Lu also served as the deputy chairman of a Chinese influence arm called the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), according to CBCGDF.

CPPCC “delegates attend a high-profile annual meeting to receive direction from the CCP regarding the ways its policies should be characterized” and “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

The China Association For Science And Technology (CAST), which is part of the CPPCC, and one of the two “most important” organizations involved in China’s technology transfer efforts, according to the USCC, supervises CBCGDF, its website states.

The CBCGDF organizational diagram likewise reveals the group is under the control of its internal CCP committee, which was established in April 2017, according to CBCGDF. Xie Boyang, CBCGDF’s current chairman, is a counselor committee member to China’s State Council, according to the Chinese government.

The organization also works closely with the UFWD, which is a Chinese influence and intelligence service, according to the USCC.

The 4th chairman of CBCGDF, Hu Deping, previously served as the UFWD’s deputy director before joining the group and held CPPCC and other UFWD roles while leading CBCGDF, a review of the organization’s announcements found. Hu was still active within CBCGDF until at least 2024, CBCGDF announcements show.

A roster of CBCGDF directors from 2018 lists other UFWD personnel, and the group has sent staff to attend UFWD training camps, such as in September 2023, when staff members participated in a “UFWD theoretical research class” to study CCP ideology, according to CBCGDF.

Moreover, CBCGDF also announced in May 2024 that it had established an internal branch of the All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC), which is a UFWD agency, according to the Department of Justice.

‘The Call Of Chairman Xi Jinping’

CBCGDF’s secretary-general, Zhou Jinfeng, wrote a recommendation letter for Luanna Jiang to attend Harvard, and has extensive ties to the Chinese government, according to Chinese government and state media reports.

Jiang volunteered with CBCGDF for at least four years, Chinese state media reported, and went with the group to participate in the London High-Level Meeting on Combating Illicit Wildlife Trade in October 2018. During the event, CBCGDF stated it wished to protect pangolins, according to the British government. The nonprofit’s researchers were later sent to study pangolins in Taiwan with the stated goal of promoting the nation’s “reunification with the motherland,” according to a CBCGDF staff member’s report given at a UFWD theoretical research class in 2023.

Zhou’s CBCGDF profile indicates that he has repeatedly served as a CPPCC delegate, and Chinese government sources identify him as having held several leadership positions within UFWD organizations.

Among others, Zhou is listed as the chairman of a U.S. branch of the Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA), which is a UFWD subordinate, according to USCC. As with the aforementioned CAST that oversees CBCGDF, WRSA is the other “most important” organization involved in China’s technology transfer efforts, according to the commission. Zhou did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

Zhou has also attended at least three events hosted by the Chinese People’s Association For Friendship With Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which is a UFWD “affiliate,” according to the U.S. State Department. In November 2019, Chinese state media reported Zhou attended one such CPAFFC event in China’s Hebei province with the executive director of CBCGDF’s Green Future Science and Technology Development Special Fund, Jiang Zhiming, who is Luanna Jiang’s father, according to Sing Tao Daily.

Jiang Zhiming donated approximately $140,000 to establish CBCGDF’s special fund in 2015, according to the group. He could not be reached for comment.

Zhou has ties to Harvard and the Chinese military, according to multiple reports.

On May 23, 2018, Zhou met with Harvard Fairbanks Director Michael Szonyi to discuss the promotion of cultural exchanges, education and business between the U.S. and China, according to China Poly Group, which hosted the meeting at its headquarters in Beijing. China Poly Group is a state-owned Chinese defense contractor founded by the Central Military Commission and PLA, according to its archived website. The U.S. government sanctioned China Poly Group’s subsidiary Poly Technologies in 2013, 2022, and 2024, for missile proliferation and other activities.

Zhou and Szonyi did not respond to the DCNF’s request for comment. China Poly Group could not be reached for comment.

Chinese media outlet Sohu reported that during the 2018 meeting between Zhou, Szonyi, and China Poly Group’s chairman Xu Niansha, the parties also discussed the promotion of the Belt And Road Initiative, which is a Chinese government “infrastructure development and economic integration strategy” that China uses to gain intelligence and “political, military and economic leverage over participating countries through the accrual and manipulation of debt,” according to the U.S. State Department.

The year before Zhou’s meeting with Szonyi, CBCGDF’s secretary-general attended a January 2017 meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, during which CBCGDF signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation with China Poly Group, Chinese state media reported.

“China Poly Group follows the call of Chairman Xi Jinping, adhering to the aim of ‘protecting the country and benefiting the people,’ in order to build a harmonious China and green development, work together and dedicate ourselves to our responsibilities,” China Poly Group’s chairman, Xu Niansha, said during a speech at the 2017 meeting, according to a DCNF translation.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter. Daily Caller News Foundation senior investigative reporter, political journalist, and China watcher. Twitter: @LenczyckiPhilip

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EXCLUSIVE: Cash Flowing Into Anti-ICE Group’s Coffers Came From Chinese Gov’t-Linked Sources

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Numerous Chinese government-linked entities have bankrolled a nonprofit accused of offering tips on how to evade federal immigration authorities, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.

House Republicans recently launched an investigation into the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) — a New York-based nonprofit that’s been awarded over $1.4 million in tax-payer dollars since 2022 — after an undercover video surfaced purportedly showing CPC staff coaching illegal immigrants on how to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehension. A review of CPC’s financial records discovered Chinese government-linked sources have been pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into the nonprofit in recent years, raising concerns of potential foreign obstruction of U.S. immigration enforcement.

“I’m deeply concerned that Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars were potentially used by an NGO [non-governmental organization] to help illegal aliens subvert our nation’s laws,” Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green, a Republican from Tennessee, told the DCNF.

“Even more troubling is the Chinese-American Planning Council’s alleged ties to the [CCP] — a regime we know is committed to undermining U.S. sovereignty,” Green continued. “This Committee will continue investigating suspicious activities by NGOs to protect taxpayer dollars from supporting those who make a mockery of our laws.”

CPC has received as much as $445,969 in donations from sources with ties to the Chinese government since 2018, according to financial records reviewed by the DCNF. State-run enterprises such as Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Bank of China as well as other entities connected to the Chinese Community Party (CCP) have provided financial assistance to CPC in recent years, records show.

Additionally, CPC also appears to have significant financial and personnel links to a New York-based nonprofit, which, in turn, has extensive ties to Beijing and a CCP influence and intelligence arm.

CPC did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

‘If ICE Comes To The Door…’

Founded in 1965, CPC serves to promote the interests of Chinese-American, immigrant and low income communities across New York City, according to its website. The organization bills itself as the country’s largest Asian American social services group and claims to provide more than 50 “high-quality” programs at numerous sites across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

The House Homeland Security Committee announced on April 16 that it would begin investigating CPC for potentially using federal funds to facilitate illegal immigration. In an April letter first obtained by the DCNF, Green and Oklahoma GOP Rep. Josh Brecheen demanded CPC president Wayne Ho hand over documentation related to his group’s immigration seminars, funding grants and other related material.

The investigation is in response to undercover footage obtained by Muckraker.com, which allegedly shows CPC’s chief policy and public affairs officer, Carlyn Cower, and other staff  directing audience members on best practices to avoid ICE apprehension during a March 8th CPC seminar in New York City.

To avoid ICE, Cowen recommended “hardening your physical space,” “identifying a list of individuals authorized to respond if ICE comes to the door” and “training everybody who’s going to be involved,” footage shows. Another speaker at the event directed individuals to “not open the door at all.”

While state and local officials are not required to assist ICE with its mission, individuals are prohibited by law from getting in the way or otherwise impeding immigration enforcement actions. Immediately upon being sworn into office, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered funding to be pulled from sanctuary cities — and called for the Department of Justice to investigate NGOs receiving federal grant money.

The Trump administration has made clear it will not tolerate any obstruction of justice, and followed through on this position with the recent arrest and indictment of a Wisconsin judge for allegedly helping an illegal migrant in her courtroom evade an ICE agent.

A main concern for House Republicans is whether CPC has been facilitating illegal immigration all while raking in thousands of dollars in federal grants.

Around 55% of CPC’s total revenue comes from federal and state government grants, according to the House Homeland Security Committee. The New York City-based group has been awarded more than $1.4 million in direct federal grants from the Department of Health and Human Services since 2022, and may have received more federal funding awarded through New York State.

‘The CCP Orbit’

A review of CPC’s annual reports show it not only received U.S. federal tax dollars, but also large sums of cash from Chinese government sources.

The Bank of China, a state-owned banking corporation based in Beijing, gave CPC as much as $9,999 in 2020 and up to that same amount in 2024, the nonprofit’s annual reports show. CPC also received donations from Chinese state-run Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in 2018, 2019 and 2023, amounting to as much as $19,997, the nonprofit’s annual reports show.

The Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia has also donated to CPC every year since at least 2018, having possibly doled out as much as $45,000, according to CPC’s financial records. Top executives for the bank, such as co-chief executives Adrian David Li Man-kiu and Brian David Li Man Bun, have both served as delegates to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at either regional or national levels, according to their English language profiles on the bank’s website.

CPPCC “delegates attend a high-profile annual meeting to receive direction from the CCP regarding the ways its policies should be characterized” and “serve as proxies for CCP interests,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

The Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, a NYC-based health services provider catering to the local Asian-American community, has likewise donated large sums to CPC in recent years, according to a review of CPC’s annual reports. Since 2018, the health center contributed as much as $229,993 in donations to CPC, its records show.

However, Charles B. Wang — a Chinese-American billionaire and major donor to the health center — frequently met with CCP influence and intel leaders in China, state-run media reports reveal. A DCNF translation of Chinese government records reveal Wang served as an “executive director” of the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), an organization that operated under the CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) in its final years until it was subsumed by a similarly-named and purposed UFWD agency called the China Overseas Friendship Association in 2019.

The UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.

A spokesperson for the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, which adopted its present name in 1999, told the DCNF it was not connected to Wang’s “associations with his other philanthropic efforts across the world.” However, the health center’s annual reports show it has received as much as $699,993 from the Charles B. Wang International Foundation since 2009.

CPC is also closely linked with a nonprofit called the Committee of 100 (C100) through donations and shared leadership. While C100 claims merely to seek “constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples of the United States and Greater China,” the nonprofit has been repeatedly accused of promoting CCP interests, with one joint report by the Hoover Institution and Asia Society alleging that the Chinese Consulate tasks C100 with co-opting prominent Chinese-Americans.

“It’s a cover organization for the CCP,” Shawn Steel, a California Republican National Committee member, told the DCNF. “So, any issue that would infringe or hurt the CCP, [C100] seems to be out there saying, ‘no, no, no, we can’t do this, it’s bad for Chinese-American relations.’”

Steel — who is married to former California GOP Rep. Michelle Steel — said he began looking into the C100 after the group attacked his wife for opposing China’s Confucius Institute program. While a member of Congress, Michelle Steel voted in favor of a resolution restricting funding to universities with ties to the Confucius Institute, which itself receives funding from the Chinese government under UFWD guidance, according to the State Department.

“C100 has morphed into the CCP orbit with its close connection to the CCP’s [UFWD],” Shawn Steel said.

C100’s members have included numerous individuals serving as Chinese government and United Front officials, the DCNF previously reported, such as Dominic Ng, CEO of East West Bank. Ng ultimately admitted membership in the aforementioned United Front group COEA after a DCNF investigation revealed that the CPPCC and several UFWD organizations identified him as a member.

Ng’s East West Bank — a California-based bank with at least one branch in China that was launched with a top United Front official present — donated as much as $9,999 to CPC in 2018, according to the nonprofit’s annual reports.

Charles P. Wang, who bears no relation to the aforementioned Charles B. Wang, has been a C100 member since 1989, and held multiple CPC leadership roles between 1968 and 1989, including executive director, according to his C100 website profile. Wang still remains active with the nonprofit, whose staff and board members came together to help honor him in October 2024 at an event in Flushing, New York.

Wang has also served as a Chinese government advisor and China Overseas Friendship Association director, according to Chinese government records and an Epoch Times report.

One C100 co-founder, Henry S. Tang, also served as a CPC chair from the 1970s to 1990, according to state-owned China Daily. Both Charles P. Wang and Tang are listed as “overseas advisors” to an anti-Taiwan independence front group, which operates as a subchapter of a CCP entity “directly subordinate” to the UFWD, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Several other C100 members have also made substantial and recurring donations to CPC since 2018, such as Shau-wai Lam, who, together with the company he founded, have donated as much as $69,992 to CPC, the nonprofit’s annual reports show. C100 itself also donated as much as $999 to CPC in 2023, according to its annual report.

“The Committee of 100 — and I’m granting grace — may have started with innocent and good intent, but it’s very clear that’s just not the case anymore,” Col. John Mills, Ret., a senior fellow at the Center For Security Policy, told the DCNF. “It’s absurd to not be concerned with this group in the current era, and anybody who is a part of it needs to do soul searching on why they are really part of this.”

“At this point in time, it’s like having a group during the Cold War that was advocating for the Soviet Union,” Mills said.

“Committee of 100 is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of distinguished Chinese Americans committed to the full inclusion of Chinese Americans across U.S. society and helping to ensure constructive dialogue between the U.S. and Greater China,” a C100 spokesperson told the DCNF. “Our members are American citizens who serve as leaders in business, government, academia, and the arts. Committee of 100 operates independently of any government and we share a commitment to core American values.”

However, the spokesperson refused to answer specific questions about Charles P. Wang, Tang, Lam or C100’s relationship with the UFWD, Chinese Consulate and CPC.

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Students Reportedly Uncover Chinese Espionage At Top California University

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Students at Stanford University have allegedly uncovered a pattern of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attempting to gain sensitive information about American research.

CCP agents reportedly impersonate students at the university to gain trust from students and staff and steal information as part of a “nontraditional collection effort,” while others are already connected with Chinese nationals studying in the U.S., according to The Stanford Review. The report states that several Chinese students studying at Stanford are currently acting as spies for the CCP.

Those affiliated with the CCP attempt to gain access to sensitive STEM research, particularly AI, as well as gather intel into U.S. research on China, the Review reported.

In one instance, a Chinese agent impersonated a student at the university and attempted to pressure a Stanford student, who was involved in “sensitive research on China,” into flying to Beijing, the Review found. The man advised the student to limit her trip to between 24 to 144 hours “to avoid visa scrutiny by authorities” and tried to keep communications solely on a CCP-monitored app.

After the student tipped off authorities, it was revealed the man had apparently been impersonating a Stanford student for years and had targeted multiple students, mainly women focused on China-related research, the Review said.

One “China expert” who spoke to the Stanford Review claimed that several of the university’s Chinese students are actively reporting information back to the CCP. More than 1,000 Chinese nationals study at Stanford.

“Many Chinese [nationals] have handlers; they [CCP] want to know everything that’s going on at Stanford,” one unnamed Chinese national attending Stanford told the Review. “This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information they have.”

In 2020, Stanford student researcher and Chinese national Chen Song was indicted for attempting to conceal her affiliation with the Chinese military. During her time in the U.S., the student allegedly sent multiple updates on her research in medical science to Chinese government officials.

Despite her crime carrying the penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, Song’s charges were dropped under the Biden administration over technicalities stemming from a visa application question.

Suspicions of Chinese spying at Stanford, a top research university, have been widespread for years, with the Select Committee on the CCP (SCCCP) warning the school in March of its need for transparency on the issue in March.

“Our nation’s universities, long regarded as the global standard for excellence and innovation, are increasingly used as conduits for foreign adversaries to illegally gain access to critical research and advanced technology,” the SCCCP wrote to Stanford president Jonathan Levin in March. “America’s student visa system has become a Trojan horse for Beijing, providing unrestricted access to our top research institutions and posing a direct threat to our national security. If left unaddressed, this trend will continue to displace American talent, compromise research integrity, and fuel China’s technological ambitions at our expense.

According to the committee, a “large influx of Chinese national students” flooding American universities has created “a growing national security challenge,” especially at schools such as Stanford. Despite about one third of all foreign STEM students studying in the U.S. being Chinese nationals, only about one quarter intend to remain in America post-graduation, with many immediately returning to China.

“The brain drain of critical expertise is not a coincidence but a reflection of Beijing’s explicit strategy to leverage academia for technological advancement,” the committee wrote.

Some Chinese students feel pressured to comply with CCP requests for information collection in order to maintain good standing with the government or because their education is being funded by CCP scholarships, the Review stated. About 15% of Chinese nationals attending American universities are reportedly funded by China. These funds can often be used to direct “students’ research priorities to align with state-sponsored research activities at Stanford.”

“The Chinese government spends a lot of time collecting data on its overseas students; it has a pretty good understanding of who is doing what and if someone is working in an area of interest [frontier technology],” Matthew Turpin, an American security analyst specializing in U.S.-China relations, told the Review. “If students have access to things the government would like access to, it is relatively easy to reach out to an individual. They use carrots and sticks. If you turn over information, you may get a reward; if you don’t, there is a punishment.”

When asked to comment, Stanford referred the Daily Caller News Foundation to a public statement released by the university in response to the Review’s article.

“Stanford takes its commitment to national security with the utmost seriousness, and we are acutely aware of the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party to all research universities,” the university wrote. “We are looking into the reports in the Stanford Review article, and have reached out to federal law enforcement to consult on appropriate actions.”

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