Top Biden Allies Worked for Group With Close Ties to Chinese Communist Party

Top Biden allies including former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew and National Security Council official Kurt Campbell have done work for a nonprofit funded by companies like Facebook and Disney that is known for working closely with Chinese officials and Communist Party front groups.

One intelligence analyst who studies China's influence efforts in the West said that the National Committee's "Soft-on-China" position helps open Chinese markets to the National Committee's corporate donors, a group of more than 50 companies that includes firms like BlackRock, Blackstone, Citigroup, and Mastercard.

The National Committee is also likely to have access to the Biden administration, where it could advocate for closer economic ties to China.

Another National Committee official, former U.S. trade representative Carla Hills, criticized the Trump administration's China trade policy at a Jan. 26 event convened by the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a think tank suspected of working as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party.

Another Biden administration official, Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, has close ties to the National Committee.

China watchers have long asserted that American companies must toe the Chinese Communist Party line in order to do business in China.

The National Committee hosted the events with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Aspen Institute, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which has also cultivated ties with the Chinese government.

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