United front

That, that's what you call civil society, right? Like, ver- uh, uh, is to summarize.

He said, "This existence, Americans are u- uniquely, you know, sort of strong in doing this, and this is what's gonna make America flourish." And gosh, gosh, was he ever right, okay? In Communist China, there's a department where you, in Europe you'd call it a ministry, here we call them, in the US we call them departments of the go- government of sorts of the, uh, under the auspices of the Communist Party called the United Front Work Department.

Mao famously called it, it, the, it's his magic weapon, one of three, okay? That he u- that the Communist Party used to gain and maintain power, okay? What does the United Front do?

Oh, on that high note-

Yeah

That doesn't even include its tentacles around the world.

So yes, Jan, let's talk about the secret weapon.

So the secret weapon, or magic weapon, as Mao would call it, uh, is the United Front.

By the way, a one-time professional associate of Fang through an organization that he himself, Yin, founded.

and national security experts tasked with protecting U.S. institutions from such infiltration by the communist Chinese, say there have been documented alleged interactions between C.C. Yan's brother Henry Yan and the foreign influence wing of the Chinese government, the United Front.

Now, interactions between wealthy business leaders with direct ties to China have come under heavier scrutiny in recent years as a series of scandals have erupted over alleged Chinese influence agents gaining access to elected officials from very, very small town communities to members of Congress and the governor of New York.

Those relationships have often been facilitated with political donations.

Could you imagine the reverse happening? I don't think so, or you certainly would not live to tell about it.

Um, but this exchange, it's sponsored by the US Asia Institute, which in and of itself is similarly a, you know, pro-China, United Front group, much like QCEF.

It was founded in 2008 between two very interesting characters.

One, actually a Communist Party secretary in Shanghai, um, Sun Chao.