Rep. Liz Cheney, who is being booted from office for her bizarre criticism of her own party and its leader, Trump, and her husband, Phillip Perry, have also been unearthed for their ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Perry was offered a position at the international law firm of Latham & Watkins after leaving office in the Bush Jr. administration. The National Pulse revealed on May 8 that the firm, which has offices in Shanghai and Beijing, not only represents several clients with ties to the Communist Party, but also companies associated with the Communist military. In addition, the law firm employs former Communist Party officials to support its massive operations in the Chinese (Communist) state.
The law firm claims to have “advised” Communist Party-linked Tencent on its investments in U.S. companies, yet the State Department’s Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation has described Tencent as a “tool of the Communist government.
The firm also boasts that it successfully “convinced” the U.S. government to lift Trump-era sanctions against China Ocean Shipping Co. The firm’s press release reads, “On January 31, the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed a COSCO subsidiary and one of its former executives from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDNPL).”
COSCO, a controversial Shanghai-based logistics company, was described by a U.S. House of Representatives task force as a “covert arm of the Communist Army.” On COSCO’s website, 11 of the 13 executives boast of their ties to top Communist Party officials.
In an effort to bolster the firm’s China practice, Risen has also hired former members of the Communist Party. Xu Hui, one of Cheney’s husband’s partners, says in his bio that he was a member of the legal department of the China Chamber of Commerce under the Ministry of Commerce, where he handled trade remedy, intellectual property and World Trade Organization matters.
The firm has published a booklet, “Doing Business in China,” which actively praises China’s Five-Year Plan. The firm actively follows the legislative process of the Chinese Communist Party and praises its environmental laws as a renewed effort to improve the political infrastructure of environmental governance in China.
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