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The Trump-Xi Summit

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Trump’s summit with his Chinese counterpart was a huge success — much bigger than what you will hear in the media.

For starters, Xi came to Trump — in South Korea. Yes, that’s the same South Korea that Chinese Communist troops invaded in October 1950 and occupied for nearly three years.

Next, Xi gave Trump three major wins he has been calling for: a serious crackdown on fentanyl exports, a resumption of rare earth mineral supplies to the US, and a pledge to honor the January 2020 trade agreement to purchase massive amounts of US soybeans, an agreement China had broken.

In exchange, Trump agreed to drop half the 20% extra tariff he had imposed on China because of their fentanyl exports, bringing overall tariff rates on Chinese imports to the US to 47%, down from 57%.

And just in case you think that is excessive, the Chinese continue to impose a 34% tariff on all US goods imported into China….!

Trump also agreed to ease export restrictions on certain high-end computer chips — but not NVDIA’s Blackwell chip, which is critical for AI applications.

“China is going to be talking to Nvidia and others about taking chips,” Trump said. “We’re not talking about the Blackwell.”

Some have tried to portray the summit as a coming out party for Xi, who claimed equal status to Trump in their public remarks.

But Trump was happy to compliment Xi and to play him up. That is part of his negotiating style. It’s not fakery, but an honest appreciation of his business partners.

As my father used to say, it’s easier to catch a fly with honey than vinegar.

In that vein, Trump probably didn’t embarrass Xi by bringing up leaked European intelligence reports that China has been violating UN  Security Council “snapback” sanctions by shipping thousands of tons of solid rocket fuel to Iran.

Satellite photos of Chinese ships loading sodium perchlorate in Gaolan, China, and unloading it in Bandar Abbas, Iran, appeared as if by magic on CNN . Oops.

Putin this week claimed that Russia had successfully tested a new nuclear-capable cruise missile, the Burevestnik, which reportedly flew for 8,700 miles, surely a world record.

The Kremlin also said it had tested a new nuclear-capable underwater drone, the Poseidon. Putin revealed that it was powered by a miniature nuclear reactor. In response, President Trump said he had instructed the Department of War “to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis.”

It remains unclear whether he means the US will resume nuclear testing, or will simply continue to test our long-range nuclear-capable missiles, something we have always done.

I visited our National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Laboratory many years ago. It was designed to model nuclear explosions of known and new weapons, to give our nuclear weapons designers and our nuclear war planners confidence that the weapons actually work.

When Trump ordered a modernization of our nuclear weapons during his first term, the tests were conducted at that facility. There is no reason why that should change.

But being Trump, the president likes to make liberals heads explode — and he succeeded.

I discuss this, as well as the massacre of Christians in Nigeria (which President Trump has just designated as a “country of concern” because of its persecution of Christians) on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live in the Jacksonville, Florida area at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 Am or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

Yours in freedom.

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The $15 Billion Pig-Butchering Scam That Enslaved Thousands

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Why America Needs a Federal Anti-Scam Bureau Now. 

Somewhere in Cambodia, men and women sit behind locked doors, beaten and starved—forced to type scripted messages that drain American families of their savings.

This week, the U.S. Justice Department announced the largest crypto forfeiture in American history—about $15 billion in bitcoin tied to a sprawling “pig-butchering” scam network.

Prosecutors say the operation used trafficked workers in violent compounds to run romance-and-investment cons on an industrial scale.

The alleged architect, Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodia’s Prince Group, has been indicted and remains at large.

This was not a handful of bad actors.

They paid for mansions, yachts, private jets, even fine art—bought with the life savings of ordinary people.

Here’s the hard truth: as long as scam syndicates can freely target Americans—and freely move their loot—the abuse continues.

The current patchwork of agencies is not built for this new kind of cross-border cyber-fraud fused with human trafficking.

What must change:

America needs a dedicated Federal Anti-Scam Bureau—with the mandate and tools to

coordinate international takedowns with Treasury, State, and allies.

If you haven’t done so already, add your name: Sign the Federal Anti-Scam Bureau petition

Every signature tells Congress this isn’t “online mischief.” It’s organized crime plus modern-day slavery—and it demands a focused, permanent response.

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The China Watchers Were Wrong

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The China watchers were all wrong.

Some had predicted that President Xi would be ousted from power at this week’s Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party, based on the recent purge of Xi’s top ally on the Central Military Commission, the Party organ that controls the People’s Liberation Army, the PLA.

Instead, Xi emerged victorious from the four-day meeting on Thursday, with a Party spokesperson saying that the major theme of the Plenum — and of the upcoming Five Year Plan — will be the fight against corruption.

By the way, Xi’s ally, who goes by the name He (as opposed to Xi, which is pronounced She), was just one of 22 generals on the Central Committee who failed to show at the big powwow this week. The other 21 also appear to have been purged because of corruption.

In Xi’s China, corruption is often a byword for incompetence. The PLA is notorious for operating enormous Mega factories to feed US export markets with everything from bicycles to ninja turtles and Christmas lights.

With President Trump’s new punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, many of those factories are shutting down, creating massive unemployment. And that is a social time bomb not just for Xi but for the communists in general.

But you won’t learn that from The NY Times.

I haven’t read the Grey Lady regularly for at least a decade — and I used to work for the NY Times in the late 1980’s when it was still an actual newspaper. (You can read about that in the “Damavand” chapters of my book, And the Rest Is History).

But it so happened that as Christina and I were heading into the airport to fly to Budapest for the weekend, we picked up a baggage cart with — you guessed it — the front section of Friday’s NY Times.

There on page one, masquerading as objective analysis, were two anti-Trump screeds. The first claimed that Trump was loosing the trade war with China because President Xi had a “secret weapon,” his massive manufacturing capability. (See above).

The second claimed that Trump was upsetting the post-WWII order — an order that benefited the US but also our allies — with chaos and irrational and impulsive policies.

No mention at all of the real nature of the post-WWII order, which was this: the United States pledged to maintain the peace worldwide by deploying the US Navy to keep shipping lanes open and 300,000 US troops to Europe.

And all of this while allowing the Europeans to flood our markets with tariff free imports, on the pretext that they were recovering from the devastation of the war.

That devastation apparently continued until January 2025 when Trump returned to office and said no. You guys have now got to pay your fair share of the common defense. Oh, and if you want to help Ukraine, you can buy our weapons and send them to Kyiv.

And here’s the rub: this isn’t my original interpretation of recent history but that of left-leaning geopolitical analyst Peter Zeehan.

Much nonsense is also said about Trump’s so called love affair with Turkish autocrat Erdogan. He came to the Oval Office on Sept 25 desperate to get Trump to reverse his decision to block Turkeys purchase of F-35 fighters, which Trump made after Turkey welcomed in Russian military advisors to service the S-400 air defense systems they had just bought. The S-400s were designed to shoot down the F-35.

Trumo said, well, maybe. But shown is the troops in Gaza.

Turkey like Qatar and even the UAE has said we don’t want to be the ones to disarm Hamas. But that’s what they signed up for by joining Trump’s 10-point peace plan.

Now it looks like the Indonesians will be the ones to send troops into Gaza. Muslims, for sure. But not Arabs or former imperial rulers, like Turkey.

This could get interesting.

I discuss all this, as well as why the Trump-Putin summit in Budapest got pushed back, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida area or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

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Japan Elects Conservative Politician With Interesting History And Road Ahead

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She used to play drums in college and loves Iron Maiden. She’s conservative and her country’s first female prime minister. She made history in a political party dominated by men.

The Japanese parliament elected “ultraconservative” 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi as the country’s prime minister Tuesday. A member of the Liberal Democratic Party, Takaichi has already drawn comparisons to Margaret Thatcher, the famous conservative prime minister who led the United Kingdom during the 1980s.

Don’t be fooled by the name: the Liberal Democratic Party may sound like a home for illiberal liberals you might find in the U.S., but it is actually one of Japan’s biggest conservative, nationalist parties.

Dubbed Japan’s “Iron Lady,” Takaichi was born to humble origins in 1961 in Nara, a smaller city home to numerous historic temples and shrines. Her mother reportedly worked for a local police department, while her father worked at a car parts store. Takaichi would go on to attend Kobe University as a commuter and, after graduation, the prestigious Matsushita Institute of Government and Management. In the 1980s, she interned for Democratic Colorado Rep. Patricia Schroeder, who, interestingly enough, was considered an ardent feminist.

“She was very smiley and very reserved,” a childhood friend, Motoko Shimada, told The New York Times. “She didn’t have this strong-woman image. But she was able to notice when someone was not blending in well or struggling, and she was able to help them.”

Takaichi returned to Japan and worked as an author and television personality before launching her political career in 1993. She won her first election to the Japanese parliament running as an independent, and soon developed a close relationship with former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whom she considered a mentor. During his first stint as prime minister in 2006, Abe appointed Takaichi to his cabinet, making her the most high-profile woman in Japanese politics. He did so again in 2012 for his second term, which lasted eight years. When Takaichi ran for prime minister in 2021, Abe offered his support and called her “the true star of the conservatives.” The pair have longed shared similar views about economics, defense spending, and the effort to re-militarize Japan.

And like Abe, Takaichi will probably have a warm relationship with President Donald Trump.

Trump

In her first major news conference Tuesday night, Takaichi said she will “build a strong Japanese economy and protect Japan’s national interests at all costs through diplomacy and security.” She also suggested that her government will be friendly to Trump, saying, “The alliance with the United States is the cornerstone of Japan’s foreign and security policy.” Trump and Takaichi will meet next later in October in Tokyo, for what will be Trump’s first visit to the country since his reelection. Takaichi is already working on an investment plan for the meeting, which includes a purchase of U.S. pickup trucks, soybeans, and gas, according to Reuters. Famously, Trump enjoyed a close relationship with Abe. After Abe was shot in 2022, Trump called him a “true friend” and said his assassination was “a tremendous blow to the wonderful people of Japan.”

Social Issues

Although Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister, she is by no stretch of the imagination a feminist. She has long advocated for traditional gender roles and programs to help couples start families, and does not believe in same-sex marriage. She also reportedly does not believe that women should keep their maiden name after marrying.

Economic

Takaichi is not as fiscally conservative as her fellow party members and seems to support modern monetary theory, the theory that a government can simply print money as needed without being constrained by tax revenue or debt. She has called for much higher public spending in the defense sector, combined with tax cuts to stimulate growth. Her proposed economic policies are similar to those of the late Abe, who attempted to transform Japan’s stalling economy with more stimulus money and negative short-term interest rates that made it easier for consumers and companies to spend and borrow money.

China

Takaichi is considered a China hawk. As part of her agenda, she will likely attempt to achieve a longtime policy goal of staunch Japanese conservatives: an anti-espionage law that would presumably target Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies working within the country. She has also advocated for more defense spending and re-militarization, revising Japan’s pacifist, post-WWII constitution, and has expressed support for a security partnership with Taiwan — what amounts to a slap in the face to the “One China” policy of the CCP. Her visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors the spirits of Japan’s dead soldiers, have sparked diplomatic protests in China and South Korea.

Immigration

Throughout her campaign, Takaichi has called for a crack down on illegal immigration and a ban on foreigners buying property in Japan. Her new cabinet official overseeing foreign nationals, Kim Onoda, has already vowed to tackle crimes committed by foreigners and illegal immigrants.

“Crimes and disruptive behavior by some foreign nationals, as well as inappropriate use of public systems, are causing anxiety and a sense of unfairness among Japanese citizens,” she said Wednesday at her first news conference. “I want to work in close coordination with relevant agencies and advance comprehensive discussions as a unified government on various issues, including strict measures against those who do not follow the rules and the revision of systems and policies that are currently inadequate for the present circumstances.”

Hiroshi Hiraguchi, Japan’s new justice minister, also revealed Wednesday that he and Onoda will be working together to “strengthen measures against illegal stayers” and “enforce strict immigration control.”

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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.

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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.

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8 Times Chinese Nationals Got Arrested Around U.S. College Campuses

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Several Chinese nationals with ties to U.S. colleges and universities have been arrested over the past five years, sparking national security concerns.

President Donald Trump announced on August 25 that 600,000 students from China will be permitted to study in the United States. In an August interview with Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese, Trump said that allowing Chinese students to study in America is the “right thing to do.”

He said in June that Chinese students could benefit U.S. schools, so long as they do not pose security risks.

Trump’s remarks mark a sharp shift from Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s May 28 announcement that the U.S. would begin revoking visas for certain Chinese nationals, including students linked to the Chinese Communist Party or studying sensitive fields.

Yet, even as the president has defended allowing Chinese international students at American universities, multiple cases over the last five years reflect a broader pattern of Chinese nationals being arrested, charged or detained in the U.S. over alleged national security risks and violations.

In recent months, several incidents have involved Chinese students and researchers in the U.S. allegedly attempting to smuggle biologically hazardous materials from China.

Chengxuan Han, a Chinese citizen and Ph.D. student at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, was arrested and charged with smuggling goods into the U.S. and making false statements, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Prosecutors alleged Han sent four packages from China in 2024 and 2025 containing concealed biological materials addressed to individuals linked to a laboratory at the University of Michigan. When Han arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on June 8, Han allegedly lied to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers about the shipments and investigators later discovered she wiped her electronic devices just days earlier.

During questioning, Han admitted to sending the packages, confirmed they contained roundworm-related biological material and acknowledged making false statements to U.S. authorities, according to the press release.

Zaosong Zheng, a 31-year-old Chinese national, was sentenced in January in Boston, Massachusetts, to time served, three years of supervised release and removal from the U.S. after pleading guilty to making false statements, according to the USAO of the District of Massachusetts’ press release.

Zheng, who came to the U.S. on a J-1 visa to conduct cancer research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was arrested in December 2019 at Logan Airport with 19 stolen vials of biological material hidden in his luggage, the press release stated. He admitted he planned to take the samples to China to conduct research and publish under his own name.

The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is affiliated with Harvard University, according to the Harvard Crimson.

More recently Gu, a 22-year-old Chinese philosophy student headed to the University of Houston on a scholarship, was detained upon arrival in Texas in August, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.

Despite allegedly having the proper paperwork and prior study experience in the U.S., he was interrogated for 10 hours about ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the China Scholarship Council.

CBP officers questioned Gu about his parents’ membership in the Chinese Communist Party, his own involvement in the Communist Youth League and mentions of the China Scholarship Council in his chats — although he claimed he never received government funding, the AP reported. After three rounds of questioning, he was deported 36 hours later, with the removal paperwork indicating inadequate documentation, according to the outlet.

Similarly, five Chinese nationals studying at the University of Michigan were charged with lying to investigators and conspiring to delete photos after being confronted near Camp Grayling, a Michigan military training site that hosted drills with Taiwanese forces in 2023, The Detroit News reported.

The students were reportedly in the U.S. through a joint program between the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. A member of the Utah National Guard allegedly spotted the group within roughly 15 feet of military equipment in a clearly marked restricted area, and they allegedly fled shortly after being discovered.

Camp Grayling, located about 90 miles north of the planned U.S. facility for the China-linked battery company Gotion, underscores concerns over the company’s connections to its Chinese parent, Gotion High-Tech. Although Gotion had previously asserted the Chinese government was not involved in the American company, its U.S. subsidiary recently disclosed receiving Chinese state subsidies in FARA filings.

Ji Chaoqun, a 31-year-old Chinese national, was a student visa holder who had enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves through a special recruitment program for foreign nationals with skills critical for national interest. He was convicted in September 2022 of acting as an agent for the Chinese government and lying to the U.S. Army, according to a press release for the USAO of the Northern District of Illinois.

He was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2023 for acting as an agent of China.

Chaoqun came to the United States in 2013 to study electrical engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology, according to a 2018 press release.

Prosecutors said Chaoqun was working under the direction of Xu, a Deputy Division Director for the Jiangsu Province Ministry of State Security (JSSD).

Xu was previously convicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in October 2018 on espionage charges after allegedly attempting to steal trade secrets from major U.S. aviation and aerospace companies.

Chaoqun, Xu and another Chinese national, Shanlin Jin, were among a group of individuals granted clemency by former President Joe Biden as part of a November 2024 prisoner swap with China. The exchange followed years of diplomatic negotiations, according to a Reuters report.

Xiaolei Wu, a Chinese national and former Berklee College of Music student, was arrested and charged after allegedly threatening to cut off the hands of the individual who posted a pro-democracy flyer on campus and reported the individual’s family to Chinese authorities in October 2022.

A federal jury later convicted Wu of cyberstalking, stalking and interstate transmission of threatening communications, according to a DOJ press release.

A Chinese University of Texas professor, Bo Mao, was accused of stealing American technology from a Silicon Valley start-up and passing it to a Chinese company, according to a 2020 Reuters report. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of making a false statement to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the outlet reported.

Mao initially pleaded not guilty when first charged on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, according to a 2019 Law.com report.

He is among several recent defendants in U.S. cases tied to alleged Chinese espionage in academia. Around the same time, Charles Lieber, chair of Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was charged over alleged ties to a Chinese recruitment program. The DOJ did not say Lieber was a Chinese national.

Additionally, a Boston University student and Chinese national was accused of concealing her role as a lieutenant in China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), according to the DOJ.

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An Asymmetrical War is Going on

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When President Trump said that “under Biden America was dead.” He was right and as a former Soviet attorney I completely agree with him—Biden implemented familiar to me Soviet Socialism in America, which was killing the country. I have lived under Stalin’s ideology and system of Soviet Socialism for fifty years. That is for me, the tragic shooting in the Catholic Church of Minneapolis has its history. It is the history of Evil ideology and system of Soviet Socialism, I have been writing and warning you for four decades. All three words are the Evil’s target—children, Catholic, Church. I was following the news about the shooter for several days and I heard that he hated Jews and Catholics; and I recalled my life…

​The Soviet lives comprised many negative things: censorship, the empty shelves in the public stores, reign of the KGB, and absolute absence of religions and independence—we live in a one-party society. All religions have been forbidden in the Soviet Union: The Churches were used for storage. The first target were Jews, the second—Catholics. The Catholic Churches had been eliminated in the country, maybe only some survived in Ukraine. I didn’t know anything about Judaism, but my parents were telling me that soon we will go to live in another city, they were preparing me for Stalin’s plan to deport all Jews to Siberia of the Far East in 1952. Stalin died on March 5, 1953—God saved us…

​There however were events under Soviet Socialism that Americans had never heard. To achieve the agenda of destroying Western civilization, the KGB used all human weaknesses, especially sex. That department of the KGB called the Romeo Department. Eastern Europe was under the Warsaw Pact in the 1950th and the Soviet Union practically occupied all those countries implementing the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism there. The KGB was in charge there and young blond girls from Poland, Chechia and Slovakia have been sold to the Muslim countries… Human trafficking started then in Europe under the Warsaw Pact. Knowing that, I was very suspicious of the first transgender people in America. I knew their agenda and where they came from… My suspicion came true very soon, one after the other American children had been killed by them in School’s shorting.

America has only 1% of transgenders, Minnesota had 4% of transgender people, as a result of Dems’ failed leadership. Doctors considered transness as a mental illness. History also reminded us The George Floyd unrest, in Minnesota which has rocked America. ”Mar 26, 2025-The murder of George Floyd in May 2020 sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in many cities throughout the United States. Protesters’ demands ranged from constraints on police use of force to defunding and disbanding the police altogether.” I remember the participants of the protests. There was not only BLM, but Antifa as well. Five years later, please, pay attention to the agenda of a new communist-Stalinist Dem—Zohran Mamdani! We are dealing with Stalinists in our midst! Until America learns Stalinism, Republicans will be unable to expose in treason the Dems and Mamdani. …and…Asymmetrical war is going on.

The leader of Reform Party, Nigel Farage is warning us from the UK: “30+ people are arrested for ‘speech crime’ daily in the UK—UK becoming an authoritarian state.” In Europe the free speech is in crises and ‘speech crime’ is going on. In America the Dems party has become an Anty-Trump party—the Trump derangement in full display. The Dems don’t want to fight crime and to fight foreign migrant-criminals, they are defending Cartels. They are on the wrong side on all issues. They were supporting the invasion of 120 countries to America and don’t want to find three hundred thousand an unaccompanied children, who have disappeared in America under Biden’s administration. Everything above mentioned can be explained by Stalin’s aggressive policy of Soviet Socialism implemented globally… Yes, Trump was right, Soviet Socialism was killing America. And… Asymmetrical war is going on…

The Dems defend narco-terrorist Mexican Cartels. But there are no Mexican Cartels. Those are the Russian narco-terrorist Cartels in Mexico established by Stalin in the 20th century. Read my column: Global Stability is Shaken as a Result of The Russian/Chinese Subversion of America December 15,  2024. Read also a Soviet document dated 1955 about Global War. “Soviet strategy for revolutionary war is a global strategy… narcotics strategy is a sub-component of this global strategy…” American Carnage February 11, 2017.

As you can see the enemy was destroying us with impunity for 70 years. President Trump is the first American President who waged war against foreign Cartels and defended America. Those Russian Cartels were established by Stalin in 1950-1960. Stalin used Spanish-speaking orphans, he brought them from Spain after the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. For details, please, read my column: Stalin’s Cult of Personality in Biden’s White House March 11, 2024

Talking about the Democrats, we can’t miss Joe Biden, he was destroying the American constitutional republic for all four years of his presidency. Each of his executive orders is the testament to that, each of them had been directed against our successful capitalist system to implement the system of Soviet Socialism, which was killing America. Check them and you will grasp why President Trump was so busy and prompt to end all of them to revive the American successful capitalism. We are still in this process. I have been writing about Joe Biden collusion with Elena Baturina, the wife of Moscow’s Mayor and his connection with pro-Russian Burisma in Ukraine for years. The damage and harm perpetrated by Dem Biden against the American republic costs us trillions. Only by learning Stalinism, you can understand how dangerous Mamdani is!

​Stalinism is alive and well managed around the globe by the KGB. Writing about the agency for four decades and watching its tremendous growth, I gave it a new name—The KGB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer. For four years that agency was organizing migrant invasions to America from 120-140 countries of the world. What do you think, how could three hundred thousand unaccompanied children from 120 countries enter our border without organized help from the smugglers? It’s impossible! If you read my columns, you will know the activity of Evil Doer across the globe in Europe, Middle East, Africa and America… Biden’s collusion with Russian Intel was that criminal connection that had been destroying our country for four years… I am still insisting on my view of the shameful withdrawal from Afghanistan: it was designed by Putin and executed by the Evil Doer and the White House’ team.

Yes, Stalin’s legacy is alive and well across the world. Stalin married Islam to his ideology of Soviet Socialism, which I called Soviet Fascism, and we have Islamic Jihad… He bequeathed to all socialists and communists his Socialist modus operandi: lies, deception, fabrication and fraud. You will find all of those executed by Biden’s team for four years and the Dems using them for the last thirty years. They have never read my books or columns, because the FBI submitted my name to the FISA court and the Court made me a Foreign Agent in 2002. The weaponized FBI didn’t want you to know the truth and having probable cause banned and sabotaged my writings. I had constant problems with my computer; my books had not sold well. I was devastated, but didn’t know what to do…

I found out about the weaponized FBI only many years later. Sending my columns to Jim Jordan, I asked him to find out the name of the FBI man, he ignored my request. I was disappointed, because I thought that man was a Russian agent, only the Russian individual could grasp the danger to the KGB by the value of my description of it. The FBI man didn’t want America to know the truth about the Russian Intel. The KB’s Mafia/Army—Evil Doer was saved… Had we found the name of that FBI agent we could’ve exposed a network of foreign agents within our government… Alas! We missed the opportunity…

Meanwhile, there is a Soviet Style parade in Beijing where three leaders are bringing back the history of the 20th century. Putin and Kim join Xi in show of strength as China unveils new weapons at huge military parade. China’s President Xi Jinping unveils laser weapons, nuclear ballistic missiles and giant underwater drones. The was no mentioned of name Stalin, but to refresh your memory, I would suggest you to read my column: Failed American Intelligence: North Korea, Syria, Putin, and the Obama Connection November 15, 2024.

​You know that I called Stalin’s ideology of Soviet Socialism—Soviet Fascism. To prove my point, let me give you the recent example. Living in Florida, I was a witness of several storms and tornadoes, the damage and harm had been deadly. I was told that the latest storms and tornadoes have occurred more often and are much more deadly. That became my concern and when the flood started in Texas, I watched it closely on TV.

​The tragic flooding in Texas killed over hundred people and devastated peaceful land so viciously that my heart was bleeding, when I watched fifty-years old trees uprooted from the soil laying down like the corps of soldiers brutally killed defending humanity. The video of the boiling river stunned me! It wasn’t a normal natural flow of river; it was bubbling as if an outside force weaponized the river with abnormal energy to kill people and devastate the land… I have never seen anything like that! An idea from my past came to my mind…

It happened in 1980, when I was in the process of getting immigration documents. I had an interview in the American Embassy in Moscow. It was 1980 and the Olympic Games took place in The Soviet Union; the opening of the Games was supposed to be in Moscow. In the morning the sky was covered by dark clouds promising rain. But there was no rain and when I went out in a couple of hours I was surprised by the clear sky and the shining Sun. Returning to Tallinn, my friend explained what happened that day in Moscow. A member of the Politburo called the KGB and ordered them to clean the sky. The KGB did it by dispersing clouds with sophisticated mighty Lasers. The KGB had the ability to do both: to disperse clouds and put them together to manufacture rain…

​Meteorologists and climate scientists are primarily responsible for dealing with national weather systems, but they were unable to prevent those tragic events–seething water was unstoppable. That boiling water of the Guadalupe River stays in my mind, demanding objective analyses to expose the cause of the Texas’ tragedy. I knew how it was committed and I knew who did it! A couple of days ago, a woman from a flooding area called the Will Cain Show and talked about strange clouds seeding. My adrenalin went up; I was afraid to have a heart attack—a victim of the flood in Texas was talking about “strange clouds seeding.”  And… asymmetrical war is going on…

My fellow Americans!

We are living in a very dangerous time of An Asymmetrical War.

Educate yourself by reading my columns for free and don’t allow the Democrats and Mamdani to implement Soviet Fascism in America.

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The ‘New’ New World Order

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China’s President Xi took center stage this past week, hosting leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries to an economic summit that many have touted as the model for a “new” New World Order.

Notable among those attending was Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of the first world leaders to visit the White House after Trump’s re-election. Trump called Modi “a great friend of mine,” and said there was “a special bond” between the US and India.

That was then. After the China summit, Trump posted on Truth Social, “Looks like we’ve lost India and Russia to deepest, darkest, China. May they have a long and prosperous future together.”

What happened? For starters, of course, was Trump’s effort to pressure Putin by imposing an additional 25% tariff on Indian exports to the United States, bringing total tariffs on Indian goods to 50%.

As I have mentioned previously in this space, Trump, Putin, Xi, and Modi are playing geopolitical chess. Modi could have responded by cutting off his imports of Russian oil. Or he could have doubled down on his alliance with Putin.

It certainly looks like he chose Putin.

But has he also chosen China?

Remember, the two fought a brief but fierce border war as recently as 2020 that plunged relations between them into a deep freeze. It wasn’t until October 2024 that the Modi and Xi spoke again face to face, agreeing to disengage troops along their mutual border in the Himalayas.

Count me as skeptical that Modi has bought into the Russia-China-Iran axis. My guess is, he is trying to get a better deal from Trump.

After the economic summit, Xi donned a Mao suit and walked the red carpet side by side with Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to oversea China’s annual military parade.

This year they commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, which Xi said had been won by the heroic efforts of China and the USSR.

He seemed to forget that China, at the time, was led by the Nationalist Party of Chang Kai-shek, and that the United States airlifted massive amounts of military supplies to Chang’s forces to help them expel the Japanese occupiers. Or that we did the same for the USSR, opening an air and land resupply corridor through Iran.

Both Xi and Putin have selective views of history. And they also share a very different view of the future.

For many years, they have been exploring the possibility of launching a new gold-backed currency to replace the dollar. China, Russia, and Iran have all been buying massive quantities of gold on world markets, a significant factor in driving up the price of gold.

But Mr. Market doesn’t believe in an alternative BRICS economy. Not even the Euro, which has the merit of being relatively transparent, has succeeded in supplanting the dollar. No one trusts that a BRICS yuanble would be fully convertible.

I see the summit and the military parade as more aspirational than reality. Would Xi, Putin, and Little Rocket Man like to see themselves as the alternative to the United States? Sure. Do they have the capabilities to supplant us? No way.

Trump was asked at the White House summit with US tech leaders if he feared a new “axis of evil” of China, Russia and North Korea when it came to developing Artificial Intelligence.

“I have no concerns,” he said. “We have the most brilliant people at this table, and nobody’s close.”

And the Russians and the Chinese know it.

Under Trump, the Pentagon is developing the first sixth generational fighter, the F-47, as well as a new supersonic stealth bomber, the B-21. We are also developing new generations of missile interceptors, drones, and battlespace management systems incorporating AI. Some truly scary stuff.

It was no accident that Trump staged that flyover of a B2 bomber in Alaska when Putin walked toward him on the red carpet.

The US has weapons that far outclass those of our rivals in current inventory and under development.

That doesn’t mean that we don’t face threats.

EU President Ursula von der Leyden claimed this week that Russia attempted to bring down her aircraft with a cyber attack on GPS satellites during a recent flight to Bulgaria.

She said that the pilots had to land the jet by reading from a map — you know, the paper kind you used to keep in the glove compartment of your car. (The technical term is a “sectional aeronautical chart.” Thank goodness we still have pilots who can read them).

Russia denied the allegation, as did the Bulgarian government. If true, it shows that Putin is very serious about his threats to the EU not to station troops in Ukraine. It also shows he is one very bad and ruthless головорез (golovorez). (No, I’m not a Russian linguist, but that’s the AI translation of “bad hombre.”)

I discuss all this, as well as the consequences of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorrist organization, on this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 104.9 FM or 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida area, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss it, you can tune into the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

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Report: CCP-Linked Orgs Hold Vast Sway over Local Elections in NYC

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A new report has revealed that dozens of Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-backed nonprofit organizations in New York City are illegally undermining local candidates for public office who support Taiwan and Hong Kong democracy and endorsing others who hold pro-CCP views. Experts say the Trump administration should take action to dissolve any organizations based in the U.S. that are linked to the communist regime.

The New York Times published an exposé Monday detailing how organizations known as “hometown associations,” which outwardly claim to serve as a kind of “heritage club” in cities with large populations of immigrants in order to “welcome newcomers, organize parades and foster social connections,” in reality have deep connections to the CCP via China’s consulate located in Midtown Manhattan. Some of these associations include the American Fujian Houyu Association, the American Jin Feng Federation, the Fujian Foundation in USA, the Wenshang Association, and the American Lianjiang Association, among many others.

CCP officials that work for the consulate have such an iron grip on the hometown associations that they have led dozens of ceremonies hosted by the associations, in which the members pledge oaths of loyalty to the “motherland,” recite vows to promote “reunification” with Taiwan, and sing “My Chinese Heart,” which the NYT notes is “a popular patriotic ballad in China.”

As the NYT discovered, consulate officials have also enlisted many of the hometown associations to undermine the political campaigns of multiple local candidates running for public office who hold views that are disfavored by the CCP, including supporting Taiwan’s independence, supporting democracy in Hong Kong, or criticizing the Xi Jinping regime.

In one instance, a hometown association leader helped to sabotage the congressional campaign of Yan Xiong, a U.S. citizen and retired Army chaplain, who planned to run in a district that included Chinatown, Manhattan, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Xiong had helped to lead the student protests in 1989 that led to the Tiananmen Square massacre, and had spent two years in a Beijing prison. Jimmy Cheng, who led the United Fujianese of America Association in New York City and claimed that he could deliver 3,000 votes to Xiong, “duped him into being photographed in front of a backdrop claiming he opposed the creation of a museum honoring Tiananmen Square victims.” CCP operatives then spread the photo on the internet, and Xiong ended up losing the primary.

In other instances, hometown associations helped to unseat a state senator as retribution for attending a banquet in honor of the president of Taiwan, and also spread photos on social media of a New York City Council candidate at a 2023 rally supporting the democracy movement in Hong Kong, which led to the candidate’s eventual loss after numerous hometown groups threw their support behind a pro-CCP candidate.

Meanwhile, at least nine hometown associations in NYC are also endorsing the reelection campaign of Mayor Eric Adams (D). As the NYT discovered, at least 19 out of 53 associations that have direct ties to the CCP are registered as charities and classify themselves as tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, while at the same time endorsing political candidates and hosting fundraisers for them. But experts like Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor at Notre Dame, say that this is “a clear violation of the limits that Congress has put on their tax-exempt status.”

The hometown groups even hold influence over New York’s top elected official, Governor Kathy Hochul (D). As the NYT reported, the Asian American Community Empowerment nonprofit held a fundraiser for Hochul in December 2021. Two months later, Hochul “announced that $10 million in pandemic aid would be distributed to dozens of Asian groups,” including $45,000 for Asian American Community Empowerment.

Experts like Gordon Chang, who is an author and serves as a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, say that the Trump administration should take direct action to shut down any entity with clear ties to Xi Jinping’s communist regime.

“The Communist Party’s United Front Work Department has thoroughly infiltrated the Chinese-American community in New York,” he told The Washington Stand. “The CCP has, among other things, been illegally interfering in elections, corrupting politicians and others. This is the poisoning of our country.”

Chang continued, “The solution is clear: Close China’s New York consulate for continually violating our sovereignty, expel the diplomats stationed there, disband the ‘hometown associations’ and similar organizations, investigate the officers and employees of these groups, deport communist sympathizers who are not citizens, and break up the networks of China’s operatives and agents operating in our country.”

“Our enemies are here and operating openly,” he added. “We need, to borrow a CCP phrase, to ‘strike hard.’ This is our country. Why do we put up with this?”

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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.

AUTHOR

Philip Lenczycki

Senior Investigative Reporter

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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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PODCAST: Two Chinese Nationals Arrested for Spying on U.S. Navy Personnel and Bases

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Two People’s Republic of China nationals arrested after allegedly recruiting service members and conducting clandestine operations for China’s Ministry of State Security! Two Chinese nationals face serious charges after they allegedly acted as agents of the People’s Republic of China’s government to collect intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases, while also recruiting other military members to carry out tasks for the country’s main foreign intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS).

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Chinese national Yuance Chen, who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on Friday. Both individuals face charges of overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence tasks in the U.S. on behalf of the Ministry of State Security.

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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

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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.

Image created by DCNF with pics from UCA and AAPA

‘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.’”

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Philip Lenczycki

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

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