National Pulse reported Friday, April 23, that Noah Feldman, a witness in the Trump impeachment trial, had met with a Chinese Communist Party think tank. The Harvard law professor was called to testify by the Democratic Party in former President Trump’s first impeachment trial and claimed that what Trump did was sufficient to constitute impeachment.
An undisclosed press release shows that Professor Feldman visited the Shanghai Institutes of International Studies (SIIS) in March 2016 and met with the leaders of the Communist Party’s state-run think tank.
“On March 21, Shanghai Institutes of International Studies (SIIS) President Yang Jiexian, met with Professor Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School (HLS). Dr. Shao Yuqun, Executive Director of the Center for American Studies, also attended the meeting. The two sides talked about the relationship between China’s domestic governance reforms and foreign policy, as well as the U.S.-China relationship. Afterwards, Professor Feldman shared his thoughts on trends in international politics with the young fellows and graduate students of the Institute.”
The Shanghai Institute of International Studies has extensive ties to the United Front Work of the Chinese Communist Party. The “highest-level body” overseeing the CCP’s United Front is the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), whose vice chairman at the time, Dong Jianhua, was on the board of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies. Not only did Dong attend many of the Institute’s events, but he also hosted the Institute’s leaders at his own events and even funded the Institute’s research.
According to the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission (the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission), the purpose of the CCP’s united front is to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to CCP policies and authority” and to “allow foreign governments and other actors to take actions or positions that support Beijing’s preferred policies. actions or positions” in support of Beijing’s preferred policies.
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