Understanding the Chinese Communists’ Penetration of Hong Kong and the West
Written by Ching Cheong (Cheng Xiang)
Translated by Patrick May
August 25, 2023
Preventing the Chinese communist’s penetration into western society has become many nations’ major concern. In the past 25 years, Hong Kong provided the entire world a “near-perfect” case study, highlighting how not taking seriously this problem would turn an originally free society into an authoritarian one. We, as witnesses to Hong Kong’s downfall, have a responsibility to document the entire process and to spread this knowledge, so that the world does not has to revisit Hong Kong’s fate.
The story starts with the “Spirit of the Termites”
- What is the “Spirit of the Termites”?
Not long after the Chinese Communist Party (thereafter referred to as the CCP) seized power in China in 1949, they were already busy planning to “take the entire world”. In 1966, the CCP’s underground party in Hong Kong sent a delegation to Beijing, asking for the early “liberation of Hong Kong”. To placate the delegation, Premier Zhou Enlai dispatched his assistant Wu Dizhou, deputy head of the Hong Kong and Macao group of the Foreign Affairs Office, an arm under the State Council, to explain to them why the CCP was in no hurry to liberate Hong Kong. According to a “Top Secret” document entitled “Minutes of the Conversation between Wu Dizhou, deputy head of the Hong Kong and Macao group of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, and the Hong Kong and Macao workers”, Wu Dizhou said, “The British wants to remain in Hong Kong…to obtain benefit therefrom, but we also have our interests in Hong Kong, which is why we have common ground in preserving the status quo…Their goal is to skim the cream in Hong Kong, to get a few hundred thousand dollars. As for us, we aim to take the entire world.” This statement betrayed the CCP’s ambition to take the entire world from very early on.
How to take the entire world through Hong Kong? Wu Dizhou asked Hong Kong’s underground party to learn from the “spirit of the termites”. This so-called “spirit of the termites” was an invention of Zhou Enlai. According to Hong Kong Cable TV’s serial “Declassifying the Future after 30 years” (first episode, screened on August 11, 2014), with the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, there was much confusion in the nation’s foreign policy, as well as in its internal ones; but on the question of Hong Kong, there was never any deviation from their planned moves on this chessboard. Zhou Enlai proposed a “termite policy”. The TV serial cited an anonymous veteran CCP member thus: “This termite policy stemmed from an inspection visit Zhou Enlai made some years ago to Xishuangbanna. A member of a botanical research laboratory took him to observe a large tree, which fell with the mere flick of a finger. Premier Zhou was curious about this, and then he discovered that the insides of the entire tree had been completely hollowed out by termites, while looking completely normal on the outside. This prompted him to think of a “termite policy”, which meant that the underground CCP members should work like termites to penetrate a healthy structure, erode it until it fell. He termed this “termite policy”, and exhorted all CCP underground organizations to learn from this “spirit of the termites”.
According to the aforementioned “Top Secret” document, Wu Dizhou asked the underground party members, “to emulate the termites in their work, noiselessly hollowing the entire structure from within. To learn from the spirit of the termites…..To achieve this, we must study Chairman Mao Zedong’s thought. To be like termites is not something I come up with, but words from the comrades of the CCP’s Central Committee…Your lives must be completely normal, you must work closely with the masses, and you must live frugally. The difficulties you face in your daily life is for the sake of world revolution, this might continue for ten or twenty years, or even your entire lives.”
(Source: Minutes of the conversation between Wu Dizhou, deputy head of the Hong Kong and Macao group of the Foreign Affairs Office of the State Council, and the delegation of Hong Kong and Macao workers. Taken from the documentary Vanished Archives website: bit.ly/2KS8YuK])
2.What are the advantages of the “termites”?
The CCP proposed a “termites policy” to “take the entire world”, but what exactly are the advantages of the “termite policy”? From my understanding, Zhou Enlai’s analogy was based on the following unique characteristics of termites:
2.1.They are hidden: termites work in a hidden way, and a superficial look at a structure would not betray the fact that it had already been hollowed out.
2.2.They have large quantities: termites work in enormous numbers, like the Cantonese saying, “many ants can subdue an elephant”. Any object, no matter how large, would eventually fall prey to the attack from countless number of foes.
2.3.They work over a long time: termites do not work in a day, and that is why the underground party needs to have a long-term plan.
2.4.They work silently: termites work noiselessly, undetectably, and would not be easily noticed.
2.5.They are aggressive: termites work gradually, they would not cause the host structure to collapse overnight (this would attract attention) but would weaken it to the point that a slight breeze would lead to its collapse (no visible difference on the outside, but easily destroyable at the right time).
Zhou Enlai was the forefather of the CCP’s spy architecture. Long before the CCP seized power he had already devised the policy of “placing sleeping pawns on the chessboard” (in chess games, sleeping pawns are moves that seem unimportant initially but prove to be strategic later). The “Spirit of the Termite” tallied with his policy of “planting sleeping pawns”. Knowing how he “plant sleeping pawns” helps us understand his termite policy.
One famous sleeping pawn successfully planted by Zhou was Xiong Xianhui, who was instrumental in saving the CCP from military crackdown. As an insurgent force, the CCP posed a threat to the central government, then led by the Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang sent a military junta Hu Zongnan to wipe out the CCP stronghold in Yanan. Xiang, a CCP mole planted by Zhou Enlai in Hu’s army, revealed the plan to the CCP, saving it from annihilation.
According to the recollections of Xiong Xianghui, a senior CCP leader Dong Biwu told him:
“Zhou Enlai has a wealth of experience, he always planned for rainy days, he always looked one step ahead and took all the initiatives. You are the sleeping pawn on Zhou Enlai’s grand plan”.
“Never mind If you remain seemingly cool and idle, in this state you would do no harm to the entire situation. Once you are activated, it means the overall situation is beneficial to us. This is a very special mission, one that would be determined by the development of the overall situation”, Dong said.
“Accordingly, Zhou Enlai wants you to pay special attention to these three points: Firstly, do not be too eager to look for the party (i.e., maintaining close party relations). For now, only Zhou Enlai, Jiang Nanxiang and myself know about your special mission. We will be observing the movement of Hu Zongnan, and find ways to contact you. This would require some time. However long it takes, you must patiently wait, and not be anxious. Until contact is made, you must not leave Hu Zongnan’s troop, you must work around this special mission, and address any problem independently. Even once contact is made, you might not have to do anything nor take any effective action. You must not be anxious, and you must willingly be an idle pawn.”
“Secondly, conceal your true identity, try not to develop new party members, try not to take part in any leadership work. Do not be right- or left-leaning, just give people an impression of you as a patriot seeking to better the motherland. Be ready to join the KMT, and to echo the central government’s motto that “Dr. Sun Yat-Sen’s Three People’s Principles is paramount to the needs of China today”. Try to use this motto to direct Hu Zongnan and his forces to counter the Japanese army (and not against the CCP). Any action you take must come out naturally, and you must not be impatient to expect results. If Hu Zongnan act against the communists, you must stand with him, at lease on the surface – like a Tianjin radish, white on the outside, but red inside. Even if you face misunderstanding and harsh words from your progressive friends, do not feel losing face and reveal your true identity; be patient, be tough”.
“Thirdly, within the KMT, you can show a bit of arrogance toward others, do not be overly humble, as undue humility would only invite disrespect, making it difficult for you to be effective, but do not be too overbearing. The situation within the KMT is complex, join them but do not carry out their actions, and you must remain spotless even when mired in dirt. Wherever and whenever, do not attract attention in you, because arrogance would lead to carelessness and therefore problems, you must be prudent in whatever you do. To be prudent is not to be cringing in a corner. A revolutionary must be courageous, but never be careless in thoughts or actions. This would require you to draw on your intellect, your attention to details, and your adaptability”, said Dong.
In the summer of 1941, as a sleep pawn laid down by Zhou Enlai two and a half year ago, I have not been idle, because Hu Zongnan had already followed Chiang Kai Shek in his anti-communist campaign. My “special assignment” now gradually becomes clear, and that is: to collect intelligence. Zhou Enlai is indeed the pioneer and founder of the CCP’s intelligence work.
(See Xiong Xianghui’s Zhou Enlai’s Charisma and Zhou Enlai’s Career as Prime Minister, Secret History of Today’s China series 2, Hong Kong Wen Wei Publishing Company Limited, page 35).
From this revelation of Xiong Xianghui, by placing sleeping pawns, the CCP eventually seized power. After 1949, Zhou’s “sleeping pawn” strategy morphed into his “termite policy” as part of the CCPs’ ambition and conspiracy to “take the entire world”.
3.Where are the “termites” from?
For the “termite policy” to be successful, the number of “termites” must be sufficiently large. Where does the CCP get all these “termites” to carry out their infiltration? The CCP has a tradition of “waging the people’s war”. In a battlefield fought with real firearms, they were able to mobilize the crowds to take part in actions, not to mention a cold war of intelligence gathering. According to my understanding, the CCPs’ intelligence gathering has a tradition of “combining the experts and the masses” – the “experts” are the professionals with special training in tradecraft, and the “masses” are those amateur intelligence workers without any professional training. Their differences are summarized below.
Professional versus Non-Professional Intelligence Workers
Comparison | Professionals | Non-professionals (mass) |
Tradecraft training | Yes | No |
Establishment | Formal paid staff of an intelligence organization. Many of them have military ranks. | Non-member of any formal organization, no pay, no rank. Main incentive comes from patriotism and United Front benefits |
Assignment(s) | To obtain by any means highly classified intelligence, including government decisions & policies, information on officials, military intelligence, and crucial technological information | To collect general political, economic, social information, latest movements of celebrities, significant social and economic trends. They are not meant for classified info but not ruling out those who were capable of obtaining classified info. |
Operation | Hidden | Open |
Legality | Illegal (from host nations’ point of view) because the info was classified | Legal (most activities are within bounds of law), making it difficult for the host country to arrest or prosecute them |
Secrecy | Highly secretive, assets worked in single-line communications. Some are deep-seated moles in host government | Operates openly, many recruits are from pro-CCP organizations in the host countries |
I heard about the principle of integrating the Professional and the Mass in intelligence work when I worked for Wen Wei Po, Beijing’s mouthpiece in Hong Kong in 1974. Wen Wei Po’s Chief Editor Liao Aiwen was a division chief of Guangdong province’s Public Security Bureau, charged with collecting intelligence on Hongkong. To facilitate his work, he was transferred to Hong Kong and took up Chief Editorship of Wen Wei Po. To conceal his identity, he was pretty much hands-on in the newspaper, including inspecting the final version of the newspaper before it went to print. He told me that “our (meaning the CCP) intelligence work adopted the strategy of ‘integrating experts and the masses”, with ‘experts’ being the specially trained professional intelligence workers, while the ‘masses’ being those ordinary people. He stressed that this was the “implementation of the party’s mass line in its intelligence work”.
This tradition of “integrating the experts with the masses” in “fighting the people’s war”, was recently emphasized further. On August 1, 2023, the National Security Ministry said in a piece in WeChat that, “Anti-espionage requires mobilization of the masses!”, highlighting that work in anti-espionage, “Requires not only national security bureaus carrying out their specialized functions, but also participation and support from the people within society, to join in preventing spying and espionage, thereby upholding national security.”
The same piece emphasizes that “anti-espionage requires ‘an amalgamation of those who work in the open as well as those who work in secret’, ‘a collaboration between the experts and the masses’; …… it is clear that, “All national administrative and military personnel, people from all political parties and community organizations, business and professional organizations, as well as other social organizations, have the duty to prevent and curb any espionage activity, and to uphold national security”. At the same time, it states that, “national security bodies, in their anti-espionage work, must rely on the support and mobilization of the people, to build up a resistance to prevent and to arrest any espionage activity.”
Although the piece only stress anti-espionage work, it is obvious that infiltration and espionage work against other countries also operates on the same principle of “experts – masses integration”.
With this understanding of “experts —- masses” integration in China’s intelligence work, we can now understand the sources of the “termites”. From my own contacts, the “termites”, or “intelligence workers from the masses” come from these general categories of people:
- Businessmen (from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, as well as other countries)
- Chinese going overseas for various reasons
- Overseas students from Mainland China
- Media personnel dispatched by the CCP
- Local pro-China media outlets
- Upper social class of target nations
- Business owners and employees in target nations
- White collar workers in target nations
- Socially active figures in target nations
- Figures from the underworld of target nations
From my own social contacts, I can identify these various sources. Naturally, there could still be others that I am not aware of.
The intelligence they gather are largely non-classified, for instance:
- Political, economic, and commercial trends,
- Social affairs, public opinions,
- Important personnel changes or appointments in governments and significant organizations,
- The latest news of key figures in society, their family, social and professional backgrounds,
- Significant social movements, their specific demands, details of their leaders or instigators,
- Significant technological advancements or innovations in various countries/sectors
The advantages of making use of the mass in gathering intelligence are manifold: firstly the mass are numerous spreading all over the host country; secondly, different people has different professions or jobs so that almost all sectors of the host country are adequately covered. These two factors made for a wide network covering the host country both in geographical and sectoral sense, leaving no blind spot. Moreover, they are well concealed, as they are not required to get classified information, and safe (in the sense that it would be difficult for the host country to prosecute them in case of untoward incidents).
4. Where are the hideouts for these “termites”?
The horde of “termites” must have their hideouts, so were they? From Hong kong’s example, I’ll try to locate these hideouts.
4.1 Hidden underground party organizations
After the CCP seized power in 1949, it developed a “four lines” approach to infiltrate Hong Kong, then a British colony. According to the plans laid down by Ye Jianying, then governor of Guangdong province, these “four lines” are:
- First line: also called “red line”, these are organizations openly pro-CCP like trade unions, schools, newspapers, bookstores, movie studios, Chinese emporiums, banks, businesses, and transportation bodies;
- Second line: also called “grey lines”, these are organizations which, though not openly pro-CCP, served as fronts of the CCP;
- Third line: these are individuals hidden in different non-CCP organizations in various sectors and government departments. On the surface, these people have no political affiliations but pro-CCP at heart. To borrow the CCP jargon, these are people who were “white on the outside, but red inside”; they could be secretive CCP party members disguised as “non-party members”;
- Fourth line: highly concealed, deeply hidden within key organizations or bodies, with only single-line communication with the CCP. These individuals are few in numbers and are precisely the “sleeping pawns” referred to by Zhou Enlai.
(Source: Lu Di, “Ye Jianying’s affection for Hong Kong and Macao”, Guangdong Ye Jianying Research Society, cited in the author’s Beginning and End of Hong Kong’s 1967 Riots, page 11 – the original essay can no longer be found on the internet).
I must stress that when Lu’s essay was published, it only referred to “four lines”, without clearly explaining details of each line. The interpretation of each of the lines is solely my own, based on my own contact and knowledge. That said, I am not making unfounded guesses but based on some solid facts. These four lines, laid down in Hong Kong from as early as 1949 became exposed with the outbreak of the 1967 leftist riots, thanks to the ultra-leftist influence at the time. This exposure of the CCP’s secret operation in Hong Kong forced Zhou Enlai to order a stop to all such activities.
According to Wu Dizhou, Premier Zhou’s aid in Hongkong affairs, Zhou issued three directives:
- This (anti-British) struggle must be carried out over the long term, do not expose all your strengths, and do not expose or utilize the strengths of the third front.
- We have already penetrated the vulnerable parts of British-Hong Kong, do not involved those already placed, for example, within the airport or around the governor.
- Those who are already placed within American organizations or ships, we do not mobilize them………
(see “Hong Kong 1967, supplementary information, June 7, 1967” compiled by Wu Hui, daughter of Wu Dizhou, cited in my book The Beginning and End of Hong Kong’s 1967 Riots, page 335).
From this supplementary information, Zhou urged not to expose the Third Line, and not to mobilize those already taking up key positions in the government as well as the American establishments in Hongkong, which presumably referred to the Fourth Line moles already deployed deep inside the enemy.
From this “four lines” architecture in intelligence network aimed at infiltrating Hong Kong, it would not be surprising that the CCP would have constructed within the United States and other western nations multi-layered infiltration structures.
Following the “four lines” experience in Hong Kong, one could infer on China’s infiltration structure within the United States of America:
- First line: overtly pro-CCP organizations (directly organized by the CCP and its sympathizers, organizations or media outlets brazenly flying the red flag).
- Second line: various “Sino-American” friendship societies, using its “American identity” to dilute its pro-CCP colorations (equivalent to Hong Kong’s “grey line” organizations).
- Third line: “China-friendly” politicians within the corridors of power (senators and congressmen from both federal and state governments), pro-China think tanks, leaders and administrators of colleges and universities, “China-friendly” businesspersons and business organizations of Wall Street, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Boeing, and so forth.
- Fourth line: those who have penetrated the highest echelons of power in the United States, with only single-line communication with the CCP.
As for the fourth line, please pay attention to the revelation of an academic from China who obviously got carried away with his success. According to Di Dongsheng, Vice Dean and Professor of the Renmin University of China, in a public address on November 28, 2020, Chinese officials have, in the past decades, made use of “old friends from the highest corridors of power within the United States” to influence American politics as well as its stance toward China. Di’s own words prove that the CCP have planted within the United States very powerful figures that belong to this fourth line. Di’s speech is available in the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcR-ykPkJhU
4.2 Social Organizations, Scholarly or Artistic Organizations
While the four–lines could well be the nests for the termites, the majority of the termites are really hidden within various social organizations. According to Hong Kong’s experience, the CCP has been using social organizations as the lethal weapon of infiltration into Hong Kong.
4.2.1 Proliferation of pro-CCP social organizations.
According to figures from the Hong Kong government, on the eve of the handover in 1997, the number of societies registered with the government was 8695. In 2017, this figure exploded to 52386, a sixfold increase. In other words, in Hong Kong’s 150 years under British administration, there were less than 9000 social organizations, whereupon since the “handover”, with only 20 years under communist rule, there was such a steep increase in the number of social organizations. They were mostly pro-CCP and helped the CCP to secure a firm foundation in Hong Kong.
How can we tell that almost all of these new social organizations are pro-China? We can compare the rate of growth of such social organizations before and after 1997. The real boom in social organizations began after World War II, in 1945. Within the fifty years from 1945 to 1995, there were 8695 social organizations, an average rate of 174 per year, indicating that this was a natural trend as Hong Kong society naturally evolved. However, from 1997 to 2017, within a period of 20 years, the yearly growth in number of social organizations ballooned to an average of 2200 per year, far exceeding the natural rate of evolution of the decades before 1997, and this novel augmentation in number must be a result of “assistance” from the CCP.
4.2.2 They cover every aspect of life
These social organizations are very diverse but cover almost all aspect of life. I have tried to categorize them into “six commonalities”: common place of origin, common surname and family origin, common alma mater, common profession, common interest, common area of residence, along with those that defy categorization. Please see the following table:
Association of people having some common features | |
Place of Origin in China | There are national, provincial, district, county and village level organizations linking up people with the same place of origin |
Surnames & ancestors | These are societies that bound those sharing a common family name (surname) |
Alma Mater | These are societies that bound graduates from various Universities in China |
Profession & Trades | These are bodies that reached out to those in the same trade or profession |
Interest, hobbies, sports | Interest groups for those sharing the same interests |
Residential Neighborhood | Neighborhood organizations that provide very localized service to its residents |
Others | Think tanks, research institutes, cadets, clubs |
4.2.3 The CCP aims to foster these social organizations into an extra-institutional political battle group that can “response when summoned, fights upon arriving, and fights for sure victory”. These groups are expected to fight on behalf of the CCP its enemy in Hong Kong, namely the pan-Democrats.
As a non-institutional force of the CCP, these social organizations helped the CCP in various ways:
- Under normal circumstances, they would give away free meals or other benefits to help the CCP to sink its roots deeper in society, and to compete with opposition parties in clamoring public support;
- When it comes time to policy issues, they would either support or oppose a policy according to the decision of the CCP;
- In election times, they would mobilize all the resources to support CCP-preferred candidates;
- When there is political dispute or turmoil, they would declare unequivocal support for a pro-CCP stance;
- When there is violent struggle, they would act on behalf of the CCP, using threats, intimidation, or outright violence, like taking part in street fights on behalf on the CCP.
These experiences of Hong Kong also manifest themselves in the United States. One witnesses also a proliferation of pro-CCP social organizations in recent years, encompassing people from all walks of life, each with a strong readiness to work at the behest of the CCP. These organizations are perfect breeding grounds for the termites as well as their hide-outs, wherefrom they carry out their work to erode the mainstream society.
When speaking of the termites’ infiltration strategies, we must also bear in mind the CCP’s underground party structure.
In 1949, the CCP placed within Hong Kong two unrelated organizations, one is the semi-open CCP Hong Kong Working Group (CCP-HKWG, which exists as the Hongkong Bureau of Xinhua News Agency), and another CCP-Hong Kong City Working Goup (CCP-HKCWG, totally secretive). As a semi-open organization, the CCP-HKWG directs the CCP’s many organizations in Hong Kong, and run China’s “external activities” in Hong Kong (mainly liaising with the British-Hong Kong government as well as the consulates of various countries in Hong Kong), but the role of the CCP-HKCWG is to lay the groundwork in preparation for any sudden takeover of Hong Kong (even though the CCP had in 1949 decided not to take back Hong Kong yet, they nevertheless made all the necessary preparations in case such a need suddenly arises, forcing them to take over Hong Kong prematurely). Because of the utter secrecy of the latter body, outsiders only know of the CCP-HKWG, but none of the CCP-HKCWG. I leant of it only after I dug into the notes jotted down by Wu Dizhou (see my book Beginning and End of Hong Kong’s 1967 Riots, page 300, where there was a first mention of the two bodies; for a detailed analysis please see Chapter 4 of the book that provide a detailed analysis of both organizations.
According to the recollections of Martin Lee, leader of the Democratic Party, after the June 4 massacre in Beijing, he worried that the British would withdraw from Hongkong before 1997 and there would be chaos in Hong Kong. Xu Jiatun, then Director of the Xinhua News Agency, China’s number one man in Hongkong, asked him not to worry because the CCP could take over Hongkong at any time (and preserve law and order). According to Lee,
“Once, we were having lunch, and he (Xu) told me not to worry too much. Beijing had already planted about 50,000 in Hong Kong, within government departments as well as different profession bodies. If the British do leave before the handover date, he said that these 50,000 individuals would immediately take up positions left by the British.”
Xu’s disclosure proved that the CCP-HKCWG had actually been preparing for a sudden take-over if conditions called for. It also suggested that the CCP-HKCWG would exist right up to 1997. Whether or not this body continues to exist after 1997 is something I have no knowledge of.
Drawing experience from Hongkong, has the CCP built an underground party structure in the United States? I can confidently say “yes”, although I don’t have much knowledge of it. In fact, some of the CCP’s “party cells” within American university campuses have already been exposed. So, how many such “party cells” exist in American campuses? Let us make an educated guess.
The total number of CCP, close to 100 million in a nation of 1.4 billion means that the CCP makes up 7 percent of the total population. The CCP has 300,000 overseas students in the United States, if we assume the same ratio of 7% holds for party member/total student population, then there should be roughly 21,000 CCP members residing in the US. According to the CCP’s party constitution, every 3 members could form a party cell, then 21,000 party members could potentially form 7000 party cells. Assuming a more reasonable size of 10 members per cell, the total number of 21,000 party members could still yield about 2000 party cells.
This is a logical approximation of the number of party cells within the United States campus,
there are other party cells outside the campus that I have no way of knowing, for instance, many of the state-owned enterprises had branches in the US, there could also be party cells there, and the number of CCP party cells in the US would be much larger. All such party cells would become the nests of the termites.
In conclusion, to prevent China’s infiltration tactics toward the United States of America or other western nations, we must be highly vigilant against these ubiquitous termites.
Appendix:
Full text of Zhai Dongsheng’s speech in “The Fourth Line”
Full text of Zhai Dongsheng’s speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcR-ykPkJhU
[The Epoch Times, December 02, 2020] (The Epoch Times Lingyun Comprehensive Report) The Chinese Communist Party, which was severely damaged by the Trump administration, thought that after Biden was set as the “president-elect” by the American left-wing media, it thought it was after its heart. In addition, the pro-China faction in the United States took the opportunity to call for Biden to “restore the communication channels between China and the United States.” Scholars and experts within the CCP are also planning to return to the era before Trump came to power. In a recent speech, a CCP expert blew up the insider information of how the CCP has used Wall Street to control the United States in the past few decades. The video of his speech spread widely on the Internet.
The speaker is Zhai Dongsheng, who serves as deputy dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China, deputy director and secretary-general of the Center for Foreign Strategic Studies of the Communist Party of China, and a distinguished researcher at the Institute of International Monetary Affairs.
Zhai Dongsheng delivered the above speech in a live broadcast on the 28th by the Shanghai-based “Guan Video Studio”. Also participating in the discussion were Zhang Zhixiang, the former president of the Asian Development Bank, the former director of the International Department of the Central Bank of China; Ding Yifan, deputy director of the Center’s World Development Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council of the Communist Party of China; and Yao Yang, dean of the National Development School at Peking University.
Although it is an open secret that the CCP uses blood transfusions to Wall Street bosses to influence U.S. policy, it was still refreshing to read through the mouths of CCP experts and was quickly reprinted.
Zhai Dongsheng explained in the video that the Chinese Communist Party authorities are now pushing for the opening of financial markets, and there may be political and tactical considerations in timing. One of the factors is that making Biden come to power.
Zhai Dongsheng mentioned in his speech that the reason why the CCP has been able to take over the United States in the past decades is because the CCP’s core power circle in the United States, that is, Wall Street has their old friends who speak for them. But all came to an abrupt end when Trump took office.
Zhai Dongsheng said: “Trump administration is fighting a trade war with China. Why can’t we deal with Trump? In the past, from 1992 to 2016, various issues between China and the United States could be resolved. All issues Crisis, whether the Galaxy incident, the bombing of the embassy, or the collision of a plane, everything is a relationship between husband and wife– quarrel at the head of the bed and get back together at the end of the bed. All can be resolved within two months.”
Zhai asked himself and answered: “What is the reason? We have people at the top above us, and we have our old friends in the core power circle in the United States!”
Zhai Dongsheng, deputy dean of the School of International Relations at Renmin University of China, blew himself up in a speech recently, how the CCP has used Wall Street to control the United States in the past few decades. (Synthesis of video screenshots)
Zhai also said that since the 1970s, Wall Street has had a very strong influence on the domestic and foreign affairs of the United States. “So we have a path dependence.” But the problem is that the status of Wall Street has declined after 2008. More importantly, after 2016, Wall Street cannot handle Trump.
He also said that during the Sino-US trade war, he learned that Wall Street also tried to help, but “were unable to do so.”
In the video, Zhai Dongsheng said with a sly expression, “But now we see Biden coming to power… The traditional elites, political elites, and the establishment have a very close relationship with Wall Street. As you can see: Biden’s son was told by Trump, ‘You have fund companies around the world'”.
Zhai said: “Who helped him build the fund companies? Do you understand? There are businesses inside.” This implied that the CCP helped Biden’s son build fund companies.
In the live speech, Zhai Dongsheng also cited an example. Before Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States in 2015, various systems of the CCP had to help “warm up the show.” The way for a certain system of CCP to warm up the show in the United States was to create public opinion and arrange for a new book “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” launch meeting in the United States. Zhai was in charge of coordinating the book launch.
The location of this new book launch is set at the well-known American bookstore “Politics and Prose Bookstore”, which is located on Kennedy Street in Washington DC. But because of a temporary decision, the bookstore has already arranged the launch time to someone else. The other person had worked as a reporter stationed in Asia and had his views on the CCP ,he was unwilling to change the time. But later, the CCP still held this new book launch in the bookstore as planned. The reason was that an old Jewish lady put pressure on the bookstore owner and gave the time to the Chinese Communist Party.
According to him, this old lady is the president of the Asian region of a top financial institution on Wall Street. She not only has Chinese nationality, but also has a Beijing household registration and owns a courtyard house in Dongcheng District.
According to official reports from the Communist Party of China, on September 17, 2015, National Radio and Television Administration of the Communist Party of China held a launch ceremony for the sales month of “Xi Jinping: The Governance of China” at the “Politics and Prose Bookstore” in Washington.
However, the case was deleted from the video of his own speech and the video released on the official website of “Guan Video Studio”.
Regarding the intertwined interests between China and Wall Street for decades, Chinese economist Zhi Qing once wrote that Wall Street has made huge profits through the listing of Chinese concept stocks in the United States. Under the temptation of huge profits, they acquiesced to the fraud of Chinese concept stocks, ignored the rights and interests of investors, and allowed Chinese concept stocks to make money in the United States.
In addition, Wall Street opened up international capital markets for the CCP and helped China’s state-owned banks survive the crisis. With the help of Wall Street, the CCP has introduced a large amount of foreign capital from the international financial market.
In this year’s U.S. election year, other Wall Street financial giants such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs have successively increased their holdings in mainland China, running counter to the Trump administration’s plan to decouple the industrial chain from the CCP.
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