Recently revealed details of the relationship between a California council woman with Mike Sun, who has been accused of pursuing Chinese interests, has renewed concern about the relationship between the state’s Democratic Party and Beijing’s Communist leadership.
The Los Angeles politician is Sun’s fiancée. Sun has been accused of peddling political influence on behalf of the Chinese regime, court records show.
Published reports state that “Mike Sun, has allegedly worked with a recently sentenced Chinese agent to advance the Chinese regime’s political interests in Los Angeles. Court documents suggest the two have worked closely for years to align U.S. policy interests with Beijing on sensitive issues, with the Chinese agent Chen Jun telling Chinese officials that Sun—and the councilwoman—were part of a ‘basic team dedicated for us.’”
Sun is a former Chinese army member. Despite his record and ties, he served as the campaign manager for Eileen Wang in her 2022 bid for Los Angeles City Council 2022.
Chinese communists have already made extensive use of the California Democratic Party to play an outsized role in American political life.
Kamala Harris’ Vice Presidential running mate, Governor Walz has a history of being a devotee’ of Beijing. In 1993, according to the Star-Herald, as a teacher, he organized a trip to the PRC with Alliance High School students, where costs were paid by the Chinese government. In 1994, Mr. Walz set up a private company named “Educational Travel Adventures, Inc.,” which coordinated annual student trips to the PRC until 2003 and was led by Mr. Walz himself. The corporation was reportedly dissolved four days after he took congressional office in 2007. Since his first trip to China, Governor Walz has visited the PRC an estimated 30 times. While serving in Congress, Mr. Walz also served as a fellow at the Macau Polytechnic University, a Chinese institution that characterizes itself as having a “long held devotion to and love for the motherland.”
Governor Walz spoke alongside the President of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which, a year later, the Department of State exposed as “a Beijing-based organization tasked with co-opting subnational governments,” including efforts “to directly and malignly influence state and local leaders to promote the PRC’s global agenda.”
In a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray, Committee Chairman Comer requested information, documents, and communications related to the CCP-connected entities and officials Governor Walz has engaged and partnered with, as well as any warnings or advice the FBI may have given to Governor Walz about U.S. political figures being targeted by or recruited for CCP influence operations.
The Biden-Harris Administration’s relationship with China appears to have begun when Hunter Biden flew to China with then-Vice President Joe Biden aboard Air Force 2, and returned home with a vast financial gain, in return for no discernable commercial service.
Kamala Harris is a California Democrat.
The Biden-Harris Administration ties with China are just part of the Democratic Party’s concerning history with America’s most dangerous enemy.
The late Democrat Senator from California, Dianne Feinstein, employed a chauffeur, who according to CBS News, was a Chinese spy, reporting to the Chinese government about local California politics for 20 years.
The Chinese communist spy who compromised California Congressman Eric Swalwell, Fang Fang, also “socialized, networked with Rep. Judy Chu and then-Rep. Mike Honda, campaigned for now-Rep. Rho Khanna, volunteered for Bill Harrison, the mayor of Fremont, California at the time, and in some cases, developed romantic or sexual relationships with politicians to gain intelligence and send it back to her handlers, who were believed to be stationed in mainland China.”
Donald Trump’s first campaign for President was marked by substantive warnings about China’s military, political, and economic policies. That may have been the prompt for the California Democrat, then-Representative, now Senator, Adam Schiff’s vociferous (and, as subsequently revealed, wholly false) attacks on him.
The volume, intensity and consistency of the ties between significant members of the California Democratic Party and China require urgent and significant further examination.