A few years ago the Financial Times wrote a story about charities and China’s biggest businesses that named a mysterious man about which they could find very little. That man has shown resilience by staying in the US even after the President said he should be removed. That is because the Chinese are deep into US politics in ways the Russians have never been, and nobody seems inclined to discuss it or investigate it.
A Wall Street Journal article today illustrates the point. It reads like a Cold War spy drama, with denials and counter-claims galore. The Chinese want Guo back in China and seem to go to lengths that endanger their own personnel to achieve their objective.
Most of my previous examples of Chinese involvement in the US national election were favoring the Democrats, but it seems the Chinese are like any other country trying to buy influence - they are not discriminatory. How does a man who manages to be named in a personal letter from the Chinese government, hand delivered to the White House, read by President Trump, after which the President said he should be deported back to China, remain in the country? The answers are here somewhere.
Over the past five years, (not 3 as the article suggests) the Chinese have sent agents to the US to harass and cajole Chinese nationals into returning to China. They use tourist visas which do not allow them to conduct official business. In Guo’s case, they said they would unfreeze assets frozen by the government, which would do him little good if he were in jail waiting to get them. He declined. They persisted, even after a visit by the FBI which told them they were operating outside their visas and should exit the country. They ignored those warnings. Had they been in China, they would have been arrested.
The Democrats are not anxious to investigate the Chinese involvement in the US national election because they benefited from the largess of several Chinese businessmen who came to the US - and became resident aliens- due to a little known visa program, the EB-5. Resident aliens can legally donate to political parties and are not representatives of a foreign interest, even though they retain dual citizenship with China. Both major political parties are up to their necks in this one, but California, Texas, and New York are in deeper than the rest. Go to the Hill and mention this one to any lobbies or staffers and they look away or talk about how nice the weather is today.
It should be no secret how a man who donates to both political parties can remain in the US.
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