The National Pulse reported on December 17 that Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who is currently obstructing the investigation into Michigan’s election results, has established ties with Chinese government-run universities and trained lawyers for the Chinese Communist Party, even giving a speech at Xi Jinping‘s alma mater.
Benson took on the job of assisting the Chinese Communist Party while serving as dean of Wayne Law School in Detroit, Michigan.
Benson, a secretary of state who ran a state rife with election fraud, visited China in June 2013 while serving as dean of Wayne Law School. A 2013 press release maintained on Wayne State’s website describes Benson’s efforts to reach out to the Chinese Communist Party as “robust.”
“An increasing number of students from China are expected to attend Wayne State University Law School in 2014 – a result of the university’s decision to offer a master’s degree in American law and to promote it vigorously.”
Benson hopes to provide legal training from her Detroit institution to those who can work in China “in government ministries involved in negotiations with the U.S.”
Benson described the nearly week-long trip to China as “very productive” and visited several Chinese law schools, one of which – China University of Political Science and Law – has a partnership with Wayne Law School that “includes an exchange of professors and new law students coming to Detroit to study U.S. law.”
Benson also appears to have lectured at Tsinghua University, Xi’s alma mater.
According to Nicholas Eftimiades, a former senior intelligence official at the Defense Intelligence Agency and a State Department official, Tsinghua University also has “clear links to the nation’s science, technology and industrial administration.
The university has even launched cyberattacks against the U.S. government and collaborated with Western institutions such as CNN and the New York Times on “Marxist journalism” projects.
Benson also visited Northwestern University of Political Science and Law and Central University of Finance and Economics to examine students.
About six months later, Benson’s employee, Paul Dubinsky, an associate professor at Wayne State University Law School, likewise visited China to promote relations between the two countries. He visited five Chinese government-run institutions before signing a memorandum of understanding with Beijing Normal University. In addition to promoting Chinese enrollment at Wayne University, the MOU laid the groundwork for professors hired by the Chinese Communist Party to teach at Wayne Law School.
“The Chinese law schools I visited were very interested in having one or more Wayne Law School faculty members teach courses there. There is also a good chance that some of the faculty there will come here and perhaps co-teach courses with Wayne faculty.”
Dubinsky’s trip was “coordinated” by the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University, a Communist state-sponsored propaganda organization targeted by the Trump administration.
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