Joe Biden's CIA Director Told Congress He Terminated a Relationship With a Chinese Communist Influence Group

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - formerly led by Joe Biden's Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns - has continued its relationship with Chinese Communist Party influence groups despite Burns claiming otherwise during sworn testimony to the U.S. Senate, The National Pulse can reveal.

Purporting to be "Increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations," Burns - who currently leads the Central Intelligence Agency - was adamant he cut Carnegie's ties with CUSEF "Not long after" he began his tenure while answering questions from Senator Marco Rubio.

Rubio explained that CUSEF is part of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department, which seeks "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 U.S. government.

In response, Burns claimed that "On the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, this is a relationship that I inherited when I became president of Carnegie and that I ended not long after I became president precisely for the concerns that you just described because we were increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations. Shortly after I ended that relationship, we began a program at the Carnegie Endowment on countering foreign influence operations which was aimed mostly at China and Russia and was supported in part from a grant from the Global Engagement Center at the State Department in the last administration."

SASS - which the FBI explicitly labels a "Front group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment" - was a key player in a 2019 criminal case involving a retired Central Intelligence Agency operative selling classified U.S. defense documents to the Chinese Communist Party.

The paper explains in great detail the U.S. government's approach to responding - both publicly and privately - to cyberattacks conducted by China, effectively granting the Chinese Communist Party America's playbook on the issue.

"Yet so long as the United States is making accusations outside of the international legal system and without sufficient evidence to hold the Chinese government accountable, Chinese observers will question the United States' intention in launching unilateral accusations: Are they to warn against cyber operations? To simply point fingers at China? Or to ease domestic pressure? This further highlights the need for both states to strengthen communication and cooperation in public attribution."
 

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