Huawei’s surprising ties to the Brookings Institution -

In Oct 2017, Brookings publishes a report :“Benefits and Best Practices of Safe City Innovation”, praising the Kenyan capital Nairobi & China’s Lijiang for implementing Huawei’s new tech in policing https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/08/chinese-companys-surprising-ties-brookings-institution/
Between Jul 2016 & Jun 2018, Huawei gave at least $300,000 to Brookings, via its US-based subsidiary FutureWei Technologies, Inc.

Before that, Huawei also gave Brookings between $100K to $249K from Jul 2012 to Jun 2013.
The person who wrote the Safe Cities report is Darrell M.West, Brookings Vice President & founding director of its Center for Technology Innovation.

West joined Brookings in 2008, spoke af a Huawei conference in 2012, met Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei In 2013.
Chinazi Xitler’s nephew interned for Cheng Li, Director of John L. Thornton China Center & a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings.

Li is also a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations.

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/cheng-li/
Xi Mingzheng , thé boy in the center is son of Chinazi Xitler’s brother Xi Yuanping, he later would intern at the Brookings.

Xi Yuanping’s family holds Australian passports.
Xitler’s cousin Ming Tsai who’s been suspected of drug/human trafficking & money laundering also holds Australian passport: 😒

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