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It's odd that @supchinanews focuses on Trump/FG rather than this Chinese professor's admission of Chinese influence at the highest levels of US government. https://twitter.com/supchinanews/status/1336692557930065920
The author, @tianyuf, covers a lot of what is sometimes highly partisan news by Epoch Times, but ignores its other good coverage, and other evidence of Chinese political influence in the US, for example reporting on Scwharzman by WaPo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-china-whisperer-how-billionaire-stephen-schwarzman-has-sought-to-keep-the-president-close-to-beijing/2018/03/11/67e369a8-0c2f-11e8-95a5-c396801049ef_story.html
I link to a lot of other evidence of Chinese political influence in the US in this article. Has @tianyuf @supchinanews covered this material? Nope. https://www.jpolrisk.com/how-china-interferes-in-u-s-elections/
The author seeks to normalize and minimize CCP influence in the US, and explain away the professor's statement. "Yes, foreign governments lobby in Washington ... but it is also highly possible that he was merely posturing for a nationalistic video channel."
In this tweet, the author (a self-described "storyteller") works hard to debunk another supposed piece of fake news that reflects badly on the CSSA, a global CCP-linked student group.
The author has written for the @SCMPNews, owned by the Alibaba Group (in China), and another article against "US nationalism". A lot of other good writers have written for SCMP, and they too should stop in solidarity with Hong Kong and the Uyghurs.
The author falsely paraphrases @SenTomCotton when he says: "The likes of Cotton aren’t just concerned about national security threats—they think scientific knowledge needs to be nationalized and kept secret from anyone who is Chinese. " https://lausan.hk/2020/us-nationalisms-next-casualty-chinese-international-students/
Actually @SenTomCotton said, "It’s a scandal to me that we have trained so many of the Chinese Communist Party’s brightest minds to go back to China, to compete for our jobs, to take our business and ultimately to steal our property and design weapons and other devices ..."
"...that can be used against the American people.” @SenTomCotton is clearly trying to deny technology to the CCP, not to "Chinese" generally, which would include Chinese-Americans. The latter would be racist. But cutting off the CCP is not. Big difference.
Bottom line: @tianyuf is a highly sophisticated and motivated spin-doctor from "Stanford via Massachusetts and Beijing" who is subtly (and sometimes not-so-subtly) pushing the CCP party line. Those who publish him are useful idiots or worse.
Here is where @tianyuf uses expletives to attack an excellent journalist on China's political influence, @BethanyAllenEbr. https://twitter.com/tianyuf/status/1271394386312495104
Unlike Tian's recent work, which owes a correction or apology to @SenTomCotton, Bethany's latest on China's political influence in the US is excellent: https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html
