Xi-den pick for US Ambassador to India – Eric Garcetti (Mayor of Los Angeles) – has collaborated with Chinese Communist Party influence groups and praised Chairman Xi Jinping
Posted by freedomforall 2 years, 11 months ago to Politics
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"Joe Biden is expected to nominate current Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for the role of Ambassador to India despite Garcetti’s long history of collaboration with groups tied to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD).
The billion-dollar Chinese effort aims to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to the federal U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. G
Garcetti has collaborated with them.
The Mayor visited China in 2014 at the invitation of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), dubbed the “public face” of the United Front influence group. It is described as “avowedly an arm of the party-state.”
The U.S. State Department has described the CPAFFC as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.
Deputy Secretary-General of CPAFFC, Zhang Heqiang, authored an article for the group’s magazine entitled “Saying Farewell to Mayor Garcetti at Beijing Airport” where he reveals that Garcetti praised Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping as “remarkable”:
“He spoke of President Xi Jinping as a remarkable Chinese leader, whose foreign policy succeeded in helping China build an image of responsible major country in the international community.”"
"Joe Biden is expected to nominate current Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for the role of Ambassador to India despite Garcetti’s long history of collaboration with groups tied to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD).
The billion-dollar Chinese effort aims to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to the federal U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission. G
Garcetti has collaborated with them.
The Mayor visited China in 2014 at the invitation of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), dubbed the “public face” of the United Front influence group. It is described as “avowedly an arm of the party-state.”
The U.S. State Department has described the CPAFFC as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.
Deputy Secretary-General of CPAFFC, Zhang Heqiang, authored an article for the group’s magazine entitled “Saying Farewell to Mayor Garcetti at Beijing Airport” where he reveals that Garcetti praised Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping as “remarkable”:
“He spoke of President Xi Jinping as a remarkable Chinese leader, whose foreign policy succeeded in helping China build an image of responsible major country in the international community.”"
