FIRST ON FOX: An established best friend of California Gov. Gavin Newsom many times helped a now-former CCP legitimate whilst she was once serving because the Chinese language consul in San Francisco, in line with a LinkedIn submit unearthed through Fox Information Virtual.
Ying He, who served because the Chinese language consul normal in San Francisco between 2012 and 2016, lavished reward on Darlene Chiu-Bryant in a 2017 LinkedIn advice, calling the previous Newsom aide and longtime best friend of the governor a “Tremendous woman.”
“Darlene is the best particular person when you wish to have to expand trade (sic) in both California or Beijing,” stated He, who was once serving because the department director for the Ministry of Trade, a CCP executive arm, on the time of the 2017 LinkedIn post. “She is a wonderful PR skilled and in a position to satisfy essentially the most difficult duties. She helped me so much when I used to be consul in SF, selling US-Sino funding and industry. In all, she is a chum in want and a Tremendous Woman certainly.”
He’s LinkedIn finds that she has served in a couple of roles on the Ministry of Trade for over a decade and her profile boasts that she has “intensive connections with Chinese language and U.S. governments” and “15+ years with a Chinese language central executive company and four years as a diplomat in San Francisco.”
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Darlene Chiu-Bryant known as Gov. Newsom a “visionary chief” in a social media submit. (Getty/ GlobalSF Fb Screenshot)
On the time of the LinkedIn submit, Bryant was once serving as the manager director of ChinaSF, which is dealing with renewed scrutiny for its ties to the CCP and recruiting over 100 Chinese language corporations into San Francisco, in line with a brand new ebook Fox Information Virtual solely reported on Monday. Within the ebook, there’s a bankruptcy devoted to how Newsom helped release a nonprofit group nearly a decade previous, in 2008.
Probably the most a number of corporations mentioned within the ebook was once Suntech, a Chinese language sun corporate advanced through the CCP that was once in my view recruited through Newsom into america, and he publicly praised the corporate’s CEO, Dr. Zhengrong Shi, a couple of instances, and made him an advisory board member for ChinaSF.
Along with inexperienced power corporations that streamed thru ChinaSF, actual property corporations have been additionally concerned, and the ebook alleges that Newsom gained over $23,000 in nameless contributions from Chinese language actual property corporate Z&L, whose billionaire proprietor was once criminally sentenced for bribing a San Francisco executive legitimate. In 2017, ChinaSF posted a photo of Bryant, Newsom and others in entrance of a wall that stated Z&L Houses.
“ChinaSF was once began through our Lt Governor Gavin Newsom when he was once Mayor of San Francisco in 2008,” the picture caption stated. “Proud to paintings with our companions and corporations recruited to the SF Bay House.”
Consistent with China Day-to-day, a Chinese language state media outlet, Newsom introduced the gang whilst visiting Shanghai.
“The 2 maximum vital issues for us are power independence and setting up a more potent courting with China,” Newsom stated forward of the shuttle.
Chinese language President Xi Jinping waves at an match on the Nice Corridor of the Other folks in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photograph/Andy Wong, Report)
Bryant, who traveled with Newsom to China in 2005 when she was once serving as his deputy communications director and would later be tapped to run ChinaSF, was once many times discussed in a bankruptcy within the new ebook, “Idiot’s Gold: The Radicals, Con Artists, and Traitors Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All.”
Within the ebook, authors Susan Crabtree and Jedd McFatter make the case that ChinaSF served as a gateway for CCP officers and Chinese language criminals to milk California. Along with the ebook exposing how Bryant was once referred to in the neighborhood as “the Fixer” for any Chinese language companies “short of to make hay in San Francisco,” her non-public Fb profile and different Fb pages are affected by pictures appearing her involvement with ChinaSF. There also are a number of pictures of her and Newsom, along with different California politicians.
In 2019, GlobalSF posted a photo of Newsom and Bryant at an match. The picture caption, which seems to be written through Bryant, known as Newsom a “visionary chief.”
“So excellent to look my ex boss now Governor of our Golden State of [California], [Gavin Newsom],” the submit stated. “As a visionary chief, he began [ChinaSF] in 2008 to be the China Table for town and county of [San Francisco] to facilitate inbound funding.”
Every other picture on Fb displays Bryant attending Newsom’s inauguration in early 2019.
California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom showing on “Past due Evening with Seth Meyers.” (Past due Evening with Seth Meyers/Screenshot)
Fox Information Virtual has previously reported on every other outstanding Chinese language consul normal, Huang Ping, who oversaw the place of work in New York Town for a number of years and ceaselessly promoted CCP propaganda whilst publicly denying the alleged Uyghur genocide in China.
Along with his arguable public statements, Ping would ceaselessly commute to U.S. universities and different occasions, assembly with trade leaders and elected officers, sparking considerations from some about attainable affect peddling for the CCP.
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“The Chinese language Communist Celebration is taking part in for helps to keep on the nuclear degree and each layer underneath that,” Michael Sobolik, creator of “Countering China’s Nice Sport: A Technique for American Dominance,” advised Fox Information Virtual final 12 months. “And it is not simply the colleges. The Chinese language Communist Celebration is taking a look to infiltrate each side of American society.”
“If we attempt to edit undo our approach out of this complete listing of infiltrations and threats that the CCP sends our course that is excellent coverage paintings. We wish to insulate ourselves. However excellent house responsibilities is the naked minimal of waging a chilly warfare and profitable a chilly warfare,” Sobolik added.
Fox Information Virtual reached out to Newsom’s place of work for remark and gained a reaction pointing to an article about conspiracy theories with the headline, “Conspiracy theorists truly do see the arena in a different way, new find out about displays.”
Fox Information Virtual reached out to Bryant, however didn’t obtain a reaction through press time.
