Tue Oct 11, 2022 – 1:34 pm EDT
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(WND News Center) — U.S. President Joe Biden’s new State Department special representative for subnational diplomacy, who has urged Americans to “embrace China,” has worked with two prominent Chinese Communist Party front groups regarded as influence organs to promote relations with Beijing.
While working as deputy mayor of Los Angeles, Biden’s new appointee, Nina Hachigian, met with the president of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a major Communist Party influence group, to discuss “exchanges and cooperation,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.
Additionally, while at liberal-leaning think tank, the Center for American Progress, Hachigian was part of a delegation with officials from the CCP-backed China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a group that CIA director William Burns said during a hearing last year was engaged in covert influence activities and has proposed “exchanges of military personnel” between the U.S. military and the People’s Liberation Army.
During her tenure with the Center for American Progress, she also collaborated with an official from a government think tank overseen by China’s main intelligence agency, called the China Institutes of Contemporary International
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