The Chinese Communist Party's Infiltration into the U.S.

 


Infiltration into the U.S. Media

  • Most Chinese language media in the U.S. are controlled or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). (1)
  • China Global Television Network broadcast in the U.S. via six channels. (2)
  • Paid insertion "China Watch" carried by mainstream media like Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times. (3)(4)(41)
  • Beijing has been actively buying or building up financial ties with mainstream English media. (22)(5)(6)
  • Internet "Five Dime Party" sponsored by Beijing. (7)(8)
  • Counteract the CCP's Media Infiltration
    • Sept. 2018: DOJ ordered two Chinese state-run media organizations to register as foreign agents: Xinhua News Agency (China's largest news outlet) and China Global Television Network. (9)
    • Feb. 2020: U.S. State Department identified five Chinese Media as Foreign Missions: Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily, People's Daily. (10)


Infiltration into the U.S. Education System (11)

  • China barred American scholars and journalists who support human rights from entering the country for research. (12)(13)
  • China offers red carpet treatments to pro-Communist Party scholars and naive researchers. (3)(14)(15)(17)
  • China pressured publishers to remove research articles that Beijing does not like. (16)
  • Confucius Institute (17)(18)(19)
    • A free program operated by the Chinese government (23)
    • A 2019 U.S. Senate report estimated that China directly provided over $158 million in funding to U.S. schools for Confucius Institutes since 2006. (23)
    • 2018: 106 Confucius Institutes, 538 Confucius Classrooms in the U.S. (21)
    • Distort history (20)
    • Avoid human rights topics (20)
    • Block human rights speakers from coming to the university. (20)
    • Teachers are not allowed to practice Falun Gong. (24)
  • Counteract Confucius Institute
    • 2014: Chicago Univ. & Penn State Univ. closed Confucius Institutes after the American Association of University Professors urged to Stop Confucius Institutes to protect Academic Freedom. (25)
    • 2018: Texas A&M & Prairie A&M closed Confucius Institutes at Texas Congressmen's Request. (26)
    • 2019: National Defense Authorization Act
      • No federal funding on programs offered by Confucius Institutes. (27)
    • ~40% Confucius Institutes closed in 2020 (28)
    • 2018 & 2019: Sen. Ted Cruz introduced Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act. (29)


Infiltration into the U.S. Government

  • Support pro-Beijing candidates to run for election. (30)
    • Chinese American organizations function as agents for China. (17)
  • China hired top public relations firms and retired U.S. officials to lobby the U.S. elected officials. (31)
  • Invite officials to China with red carpet treatments. (32)
  • Chinese spies working for elected officials (33)
  • 2017: block C.A. Senate SJR-10
    • SJR-10 condemns the forced organ harvesting in China. (34)
    • California Senator Joel Andersen (R-San Diego) introduced SJR-10. (34)
    • Senator Kevin de Leon blocked SJR-10 after receiving an email from the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. (35)


Infiltration into Hollywood

  • May 2012: Dalian Wanda Group bought AMC. (36)
  • December 2016: Dalian Wanda, through AMC, bought Carmike Cinemas. (36)
  • January 2016: Dalian Wanda Group bought Legendary Entertainment filmmaking company. (37)
  • Nov. 7, 2016: China passed a new film law that bans content that could harm the "dignity, honor, and interests" of the Chinese Communist Party. It also says films should promote "socialist core values." (38) (39) (40)


References:

  1. https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-influence-american-interests-media
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20190331213111/https://www.cgtn.com/home/info/about_us.do
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping
  4. https://efile.fara.gov/docs/3457-Amendment-20200601-2.pdf
  5. https://www.newswire.com/news/i-have-two-mothers-china-and-the-us-florence-fang-tells-peoples-daily-21086316
  6. http://www.chinaconsulatesf.org/eng/lqyw/t1821719.htm
  7. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/1947376/revealed-digital-army-making-hundreds-millions-social
  8. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/19/meet-the-chinese-internet-trolls-pumping-488-million-posts-harvard-stanford-ucsd-research/
  9. https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-has-ordered-key-chinese-state-media-firms-to-register-as-foreign-agents-1537296756
  10. https://fara.us/2020/02/state-department-designates-chinese-media-outlets-as-foreign-missions/
  11. https://www.hoover.org/research/chinas-influence-american-interests-universities
  12. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/01/04/in-china-librarian-relives-revolution/1bb47334-994e-4376-88e9-f55adb331e26/
  13. https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/eugene-perry-link-jr
  14. https://sistercities.org/people/cindy-elliott/
  15. https://theprint.in/opinion/china-is-paying-foreign-journalists-including-from-india-to-report-from-beijing/154013/
  16. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/19/cambridge-university-press-accused-of-selling-its-soul-over-chinese-censorship
  17. https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China's%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf
  18. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/16/how-china-infiltrated-us-classrooms-216327
  19. https://www.theepochtimes.com/chinese-history-according-to-the-confucius-institute_1484249.html
  20. https://apjjf.org/2014/12/46/Marshall-Sahlins/4220.html
  21. https://www.ciuscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2018-CIUS-Annual-Report-en.pdf
  22. https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/has-china-compromised-every-major-mainstream-media-entity/
  23. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/PSI%20Report%20China's%20Impact%20on%20the%20US%20Education%20System.pdf
  24. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/mcmaster-closing-confucius-institute-over-hiring-issues/article8372894/
  25. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-confucius-institute-hearing-met-20141204-story.html
  26. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/09/texas-am-cuts-ties-confucius-institutes-response-congressmens-concerns
  27. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/08/14/pentagon-barred-from-funding-confucius-institutes-on-american-campuses/
  28. https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/how_many_confucius_institutes_are_in_the_united_states
  29. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1701
  30. https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html
  31. https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-us-officials-who-now-lobby-for-china
  32. https://business.utah.gov/news/china-rolls-red-carpet-utah-delegation/
  33. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Sen-Feinstein-had-a-Chinese-connection-she-13121441.php
  34. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SJR10
  35. https://apnews.com/article/756cce5721d246a2af452fc49fab14c6
  36. https://qz.com/631320/chinas-richest-man-is-now-the-biggest-owner-of-us-movie-theaters/
  37. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/official-chinas-wanda-acquires-legendary-854827
  38. https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/film-industry-promotion-law-2016/
  39. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-adopts-film-law-mixed-implications-hollywood-945214
  40. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/09/hollywoods-great-leap-backward-free-expression/598045/
  41. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/official-chinese-propaganda-now-online-from-the-wapo/70690/

 

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