The namesake of the Brookings Institution's China Center chairs a company that facilitates investments in China's global infrastructure initiative and has served on the board of an alleged Chinese propaganda agency, facts that were not disclosed in Brookings literature on those topics.
John L. Thornton, the chairman emeritus of the Brookings board of trustees, has served since 2016 as chairman of the Silk Road Finance Corporation, a Communist Party-backed fund that develops projects for the Belt and Road Initiative, which the U.S. government considers a national security threat.
Former Brookings China fellow Rush Doshi serves as director of the National Security Council's China portfolio.
While Brookings scholars have at times criticized China for its human rights abuses, scholars with the China Center have defended the institutions linked to Thornton.
Cui has expressed gratitude to Brookings for the work the institution has done on U.S.-China relations.
"I also want to thank the Brookings Institution for its long-term support for the development of the China-U.S. relationship," he said at a webinar hosted by Brookings in August 2020.
Rea Risotto, a Brookings spokeswoman, said that the Brookings China forums were held to bring "Together stakeholders from the United States and China to foster greater understanding on pressing issues of the day and to develop pragmatic and innovative ideas on how to solve problems facing society."
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