KEK. Nice bread title.

CHINA’S LONG ARM REACHES INTO AMERICAN CAMPUSES

MARCH 7, 2018

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Washington on Sept. 24, 2015 on a state visit, hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets for hours, carrying banners and flags to welcome him. It was a remarkable display of seemingly spontaneous patriotism.

Except it wasn’t entirely spontaneous. The Chinese Embassy paid students to attend and helped organize the event. Working with Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSAs) at local universities — a Chinese student organization with branches at dozens of schools around the country — government officials from the office of educational affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Washington collected the contact information of about 700 students who had signed up to attend. Embassy officials communicated with students via WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, during the event and into the night, responding to messages as late as 3 a.m.

According to a Chinese student at George Washington University who attended the event, participants each received about $20 for their effort, distributed through the CSSA a few months later.

This wasn’t an isolated example of paid political mobilization. A similar arrangement had occurred in February 2012, when Xi visited Washington as vice chairman. In that case, it took almost a year for the embassy to transfer the promised funds to the George Washington CSSA. In January 2013, the student group sent a message, recently reviewed by Foreign Policy, to its members saying the compensation from Xi’s welcome the previous year was finally available, and they could come pick up the cash at the campus community center if they brought a photo ID. The George Washington CSSA did not respond to a request for comment.

And when then-President Hu Jintao visited Chicago in 2011, the University of Wisconsin-Madison CSSA bused in Chinese students, excited about a free trip to the city and a chance to glimpse the president. The association also surprised the students at the conclusion of the trip with a small cash payment. The CSSA president told students not to speak to the media about the money, according to one student who attended. The association did not respond to a request for comment.

• https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/

>>8086524

10 iconic American companies owned by Chinese investors

Chinese conglomerates have been buying stakes in U.S. companies and real estate for several years. But that still didn’t mute the shock in March when word spread that the country’s HNA Group was in talks to buy a controlling stake in the publisher of Forbes magazine.

In fact, HNA was one of two Chinese companies reportedly mulling a bid. But the idea of a company from a communist country owning a U.S. news organization caught many people off guard.

Chinese companies, though, own part or all of a number of companies that impact American lives on a daily basis, and many people aren’t aware of it. Whether you’re going to the movies, washing your clothes or preparing dinner, there’s a good chance some of the money you spent to do so eventually found its way to China.

Here’s a look at some of the bigger business names that are owned by Chinese companies.

• https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/11/10-iconic-american-companies-owned-by-chinese-investors.html

>>8086524

The geopolitics of China’s rise in Latin America

November 2016

In the past 15 years, China has become the most significant new economic actor in Latin America and the Caribbean. China-Latin America trade increased from almost negligible in 1990, to $10 billion in 2000, to $270 billion in 2012, although the largest portion of this exchange takes place between South America and China. This raises important and legitimate questions about what kind of influence China has had on the region’s economic and political development.

Some analysts have expressed alarm at the growing level of Chinese trade, loans, and investment in Latin America, often on favorable terms with less conditionality than traditional Western powers. At best, China’s economic behavior may enable bad policy choices by Latin American states; at worst, it may represent a concerted strategy by China to achieve political influence in Latin America, challenging or supplanting U.S. hegemony. A more benign interpretation suggests that China’s role in the region has been positive. Chinese demand for Latin America’s commodities undeniably has helped drive the economic boom of the past decade that doubled the size of Latin America’s middle class and dramatically reduced poverty. Some even speculate that China’s growing interests in positive, stable returns may lead it to converge on Western models of rules-based investment and development.

• https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-geopolitics-of-chinas-rise-in-latin-america/

>>8086524

The rise of ‘Made by China’ in America

Later this year along the banks of the James River outside Richmond, Virginia, a paper products maker based in northeastern China will begin construction on a new U.S. manufacturing plant. The factory will churn the region’s straw and corn stalks into household products including napkins, tissue and organic fertilizer—all marked “Made in the USA.”

Shandong Tranlin Paper’s new U.S. factory is forecast to generate about 2,000 new jobs by 2020, and is the latest Chinese company to invest in American manufacturing.

Chinese foreign direct investment in the U.S. totaled $12 billion last year, topping $10 billion for the second year in a row, according to the Rhodium Group, which tracks Chinese money flows into the U.S. It was three years ago in 2012, when—for the first time ever—Chinese foreign investment in America lapped investment flows in the other direction to China.

• https://www.cnbc.com/2015/02/05/the-rise-of-made-by-china-in-america.html

>>8086524

Rising Dragon? The Chinese Mafia Threat in Latin America

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Chinese mafia operations in Latin America are little understood, but a recent report on these groups in Argentina illustrates how they make their presence felt via extortion, human smuggling rings, and the occasional murder. As China deepens its economic relationship with Latin America, it’s possible these mafias may become ever more prominent.

Authorities in Argentina have attributed 31 murders over the last five years, and four in 2014 alone, to seven Chinese mafias operating in the country, reported La Nacion. These mafias reportedly earn revenue by extorting businesses within the Chinese community, and resort to violence when owners do not comply with their demands.

In at least three of the 2014 cases, the victim did not appear to have been robbed, leading authorities to believe they were killed after running afoul of criminal groups in the Chinese community. According to La Nacion, the Chinese mafias (also known throughout Latin America under the umbrella term Red Dragon) often hire Argentine nationals to commit the murders.

The most recent Chinese victim — who was shot and killed in Buenos Aires in August — was found carrying a large sum of US and Argentine currency at the time of his death, and was under investigation by police for human trafficking.

Red Dragon Touts Diverse Criminal Portfolio

As exemplified in Argentina, extortion is one of the most common sources of revenue for Chinese mafias in Latin America. In one typical strategy, mafias will send Chinese business owners letters in their native dialect, demanding money in return for “protection” services. A 2011 investigation in San Martin, Argentina, revealed that one Chinese criminal group required local owners who had paid a protection fee of $50,000 to hang a drawing of a Chinese dragon over their door as a sign that they had paid their dues.

Chinese mafia activity in Latin America isn’t limited to the extortion of businesses. These small-scale extortion operations are generally run by loosely affiliated groups, while larger gangs run more complex illicit enterprises such as human smuggling rings, which can bring in much higher profits.

Human smuggling is an especially lucrative business for Chinese mafias in Argentina and beyond, as Latin America is an important transit point for Chinese nationals seeking to enter the United States without visas. Chinese mafias reportedly charge up to $60,000 per person and can potentially earn as much as $750 million per year bringing Chinese immigrants to countries along Latin America’s Pacific coast, including Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. Once in Latin America, many Chinese continue their journey north using overland routes, traveling through Central America and Mexico before entering the United States.

>>8086617

Forgot sauce.

• https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/rising-dragon-the-chinese-mafia-threat-in-latin-america/

>>8086524

U.S. Relations With China

1949 – 2020

• https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-relations-china

On an interesting note, I forgot about this:

In 1999, America Destroyed China's Embassy in Belgrade (And Many Chinese Think It Was on Purpose)

During NATO’s 1999 air war over Yugoslavia, the Atlantic alliance struck hundreds of targets over Serbia and Kosovo. Most were uncontroversial: air-defense sites, army headquarters and other military targets. The destruction of one target in particular, however, set off a wave of anti-Western—and anti-American in particular—protests half a world away. That target was the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

NATO’s bombing campaign began on March 24, 1999, after peace talks meant to stop the persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo collapsed. Targets in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo were struck—first the Serb air defense network that opposed NATO planes, then a broader target array including Yugoslav army forces said to be directly involved in the persecution of Kosovars. The target list also included political-military targets inside the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade itself.

Overall, twenty-eight thousand bombs and other munitions were exploded over Yugoslavia, a country the size of Ohio. William Cohen, then secretary of defense, characterized Allied Force as “the most precise application of airpower in history.” Some five hundred civilians died in the bombing, a remarkably low number for such a high number of munitions expended. In its own account of the campaign, NATO stresses that targets were “carefully selected” and that “massive effort was made to minimise the impact of the air campaign on the Serb civilian population.”

Despite the seemingly extensive target vetting, on May 7 the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was struck by five Joint Directed Attack Munition satellite-guided bombs, delivered by U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bombers. Three Chinese journalists—Shao Yunhuan of Xinhua, and Xu Xinghu and his wife Zhu Ying of the Guangming Daily—were killed in the attack. Twenty other Chinese nationals were injured, five seriously.

>>8086524

==CHINESE TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME:

THE FUK CHING ==

Organizational Structure

The organizational structure of Chinese organized crime in the United States is quite complex. Broadly defined,

there is a great variety of Chinese criminal organizations. These include gangs, secret societies, triads, tongs,

Taiwanese organized crime groups, and strictly US-based tongs and gangs. According to Ko-lin Chin, the foremost

academic expert in the U.S. on Chinese organized crime, there is no empirical support for the belief that there is a

well-organized, monolithic, hierarchical criminal cartel called the “Chinese Mafia.” Chin says: “My findings…do not

support the notion that a chain of command exists among these various crime groups or that they coordinate with

one another routinely in international crimes such as heroin trafficking, money laundering, and the smuggling of

aliens” (1996:123)

• https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/218463.pdf

>>8086524

Tons more. Just do a search for Chinese organizations in America. I find it rather interesting that nearly all of them, at least the ones I saw, were ALL democrats and push the leftist narratives.

Who is leading who? Are the dems leading the Chinese organizations or are the Chinese leading the dems?

>>8086870

The Grey Lady

The Gray Lady, a nickname for The New York Times

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grey_Lady

>>8086718

Have you ever considered the possibility that he may not have jurisdiction on that particular aspect?