Revelations this week that thousands of Communist Chinese Party members had infiltrated major institutions worldwide brought renewed scrutiny to the country's ties with the state of California.
Besides the bombshell that CCP spy Fang Fang had a curiously close relationship with Bay Area Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, another development that requires reexamination of California's world diplomacy is Sacramento's commitment to China's Belt and Road program.
Beijing, for its part, launched an aggressive propaganda effort promoting Belt and Road through Chinese media, touting California as a primary partner.
"Although the US Federal Government has snubbed the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, representatives from America's most populous State are attending to drum up support for international efforts to tackle climate change."
While Kounalakis praised Beijing so-called climate remediation efforts, it has been noted that China's rhetoric on curbing pollutants hasn't been matched by reality.
In her speech, the lieutenant governor praised the communist nation and spoke highly of its student exchange with California.
"In fact," she noted in her remarks, "Nine percent of the students studying in our University of California system are from China. That is nearly one in ten of our students at UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC San Francisco and the all the other UC campuses combined."
https://presscalifornia.com/2020/12/17/california-willing-dupe-in-china-propaganda-ploy/
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