U.S. officials have discovered that the Chinese Communist Party‘s United Front Group think tank has reached out to traditional black universities and the Congressional Black Caucus since 2014 and established close ties with its members, U.S. media outlet The Daily Caller reported Sunday, March 28.
Traditional black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher Education in the United States that were exclusively for blacks prior to 1964. There are 105 such universities in the United States, including public and private, two- and four-year, medical and community colleges.
CIA Director William Burns testified at his Senate confirmation hearing in February that he was suspicious of the activities of the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) during his Time at the helm of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the report said. He severed ties with CUSEF out of concern for “Chinese Communist Influence operations” because of the foundation’s ties to Chinese Communist organizations.
CUSEF is considered a Communist think tank based in Hong Kong and is also suspected of being a Communist front organization. Its outreach program to the black community is part of its larger plan.
Most of the foundation’s contacts with traditionally black universities and members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are arranged by Wilson Global Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm, the report said.
CUSEF has paid the company $89,844 in the past six months to hold virtual meetings with leaders and students at traditionally black colleges and universities, according to the company’s latest FARA filing on March 22.
Since January 2017, CUSEF has paid Wilson $667,641 to provide “communications and public relations services, including outreach to U.S. elected officials,” to CUSEF. The firm also coordinated CUSEF-funded trips to China for college students and traditional black college leaders and arranged contacts between CUSEF and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
According to documents filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI provided security briefings to the heads of traditionally black colleges and universities before they traveled to China.
Burns said the Chinese Communist Party deployed such organizations to contact U.S. institutions as “part of a government-wide program …… to try to influence the political, economic and cultural development of the United States to the benefit of the Chinese Communist Party.”
And former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, referring to the activities of Chinese Communist Party agencies in the United States, has said that the CCP may engage with U.S. agencies in the name of “friendship,” but the CCP is not so “friendly” in terms of U.S. interests. “.
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