While media hysteria continues over alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign, overt, provable Chinese Communist financial support of leftist Washington think tanks gets virtually no notice outside the independent, alternative press.
Bill Gertz, the distinguished reporter for the Washington Free Beacon broke the story Friday that the Chinese Communist Party is intensifying its influence operations in America that include the funding of Washington think tanks such as the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, the Center for American Progress, the EastWest Institute, the Carter Center and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
All of them are receiving funds from the United Front Work Department, a Communist Party Central Committee organ used to promote the party’s agenda in the U.S., according to a...