CHINESE FIFTH COLUMN NEWS
© 2023 Lawrence Sellin All Rights Reserved
Introduction
August 29, 2023
I define a Fifth Column as a group of domestic actors, who support or work in cooperation with external rivals or enemies, like China, whose aims are contrary to or undermine the national interest of the United States. The activities of a Fifth Column can be overt or clandestine.
For over 40 years, the Chinese Communist Party has exploited bilateral agreements with the United States and pro-CCP Chinese have misused the legal immigration system to obtain permanent residency or U.S. citizenship, but having no intention of becoming loyal Americans.
Those pro-CCP Chinese now occupy prominent positions at every level of American society, including within the U.S. government. This extensive Chinese Fifth Column, many of whose leaders coordinate with Chinese officials in the United States and China, poses a significant national security threat to the United States.
Pro-CCP Chinese immigrants have established hundreds of Chinese-American professional, business, cultural and community-based organizations, which maintain close connections with the Chinese Communist Party and, specifically, with the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which gathers intelligence and conducts influence operations world-wide, but particularly in the United States.
The unrestricted opening of the U.S. southern border by the Biden Regime and its globalist Republican allies has created an unprecedented opportunity for China to infiltrate military, intelligence and other pro-CCP operatives, thereby supplementing the already-existing Chinese Fifth Column in every major American city.
For U.S. national security, it is a toxic combination.
Chinese migrants to the United States: A source of cash, political influence and intelligence for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
August 29, 2023
According to official figures, the Chinese diaspora in the United States is comprised of approximately 5.4 million individuals who were born in China. About 2 million of those legally immigrated since 1990 (1). The number of illegal Chinese migrants is not known, but that figure is increasing daily due to the open border policy of the Biden Regime.
The highest concentrations of Chinese immigrants are found in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles, followed by Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Seattle and Houston (1), roughly corresponding to the location of the Chinese embassy and consulates (the Chinese consulate in Houston was closed in 2020).
Remittances sent to China by Chinese in the U.S. via formal channels have amounted to approximately $850 billion since 2005 (1). It is also not entirely known how many billions of U.S. dollars are transferred to China illegally, for example through Chinese money laundering organizations linked to drug cartels (2), but that number is considered significant.
In addition to sending cash to China, pro-CCP Chinese immigrants provide a means for Beijing to exert political influence in the U.S. as well as being sources for intelligence gathering.
The United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party, also known as the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO), which operates through the Chinese embassy and consulates, is responsible for those tasks.
The UFWD focuses on people or entities outside the CCP, especially among the overseas Chinese diaspora, who hold political, commercial, or academic influence, or who represent interest groups, such as Chinese-American professional, business, cultural or Chinese community-based organizations (3,4). Through its efforts, the UFWD seeks to ensure that these individuals and groups are supportive of or useful to CCP interests and that potential critics are suppressed or remain divided (5,6).
Since the mid-1980s, penetration of traditional Chinese overseas organizations has been a priority for the Chinese Communist Party (7).
Not coincidentally, the increase in Chinese immigration to the United States was followed by a near exponential growth of Chinese-American organizations led by newly-arrived pro-CCP Chinese. In the New York City area alone, there are over 215 new Chinese-American organization, all prominently displaying the flag of the People’s Republic of China (7).
Below is one of the frequent conference calls between the Chinese Consul General in New York and the leaders of various Chinese-American organizations for the planning of activities and agreeing on joint narratives.
Wentian Yang from Arizona is typical of the pro-CCP Chinese, who have come to the U.S. over the last 30 years. He is a Director of China Overseas Friendship Association and President of Fujian Overseas Friendship Association. Wentian Yang has extensive connections to the CCP including participating in meetings of the United Front Work Department.
Pro-Chinese Communist Party Leaders of Chinese-American organizations
August 30, 2023
If you would like to get an idea of the extent of pro-Chinese Communist Party sentiment among the leaders of Chinese-American organizations, here are photos and a list of those leaders, who attended a 2019 military parade in Beijing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Note that they wave Chinese flags and wear a lapel pins of the National Emblem of the People’s Republic of China (8).
Liang Guanjun, a Chinese-American community leader highly valued by the Chinese Communist Party
The United Front Work Department
September 3, 2023
There may not be a more prominent leader in the Chinese-American community or one so highly valued by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) than Liang Guanjun.
According to reports, Liang Guanjun was born in 1961 in Guangzhou, China and emigrated to the United States around 1982. Although initially of modest financial means, he began investing in real estate in 1987, eventually accumulating ten properties by 2003, although the source of the capital or the real owners of the properties are not clear. When Liang Guanjun became politically active on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, his financial fortunes improved dramatically (7).
In September 1999, Liang Guanjun appeared on the radar screen the CCP when he was elected or selected President of the New York Federation of Chinese Associations (7). In 2003, the name was changed to the Federation of Chinese Associations in the Eastern U.S., now composed of over 200 Chinese-American associations, including Cantonese, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai Chinese-American organizations (9).
Among the activities of the Federation of Chinese Associations in the Eastern U.S. are: promoting the reunification of Taiwan with China; safeguarding the unity and territorial integrity of the motherland [China]; actively communicating the demands of the Chinese people to the United States; and conducting a raising of the Chinese flag in New York City on each anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (9).
In December 1999, Liang Guanjun was invited to participate in the Beijing celebrations of Macau's reunification with China, a distinction often viewed as a reward for key people working for the CCP overseas (7).
On June 25, 2003, Liang Guanjun was arrested and taken into custody for allegedly directing and participating in an assault against members of Falun Gong, which took place on June 23, 2003 in New York’s Chinatown (12). Falun Gong is a Chinese religious movement denounced and persecuted by the CCP. The day after the June 23, 2003 incident, the Chinese Consulate in New York issued a statement strongly praising the Liang Guanjun-led assault on Falun Gong and condoning the violence (10).
At about the same time, Liang Guanjun's net worth rapidly and substantially increased (7). He is now believed to be a billionaire.
It is a fair question to ask if some of the financial successes of recent Chinese immigrants to the U.S. are actually products of Chinese Communist Party subsidies?
The United Front Work Department (UFWD), which reports directly to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, focuses on people or entities outside of the CCP, especially among the overseas Chinese diaspora, who hold significant political, commercial, or academic positions or represent interest groups, such as Chinese-American professional, business, cultural and Chinese community-based organizations (3,4) for the purpose of gathering intelligence and exerting political influence. UFWD activities in the United States are managed through the Chinese embassy and its consulates.
On the UFWD’s official Chinese-language webpage (www.zytzb.gov.cn), the “Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China” (CCPRC) is identified on a list of prominent organizations that fall within the UFWD’s “system of united front work units” (11).
As of 2019, There were 36 CCPRC chapters within the United States, located across ten states (California, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington), as well as Washington D.C. and the territories of Puerto Rico and Guam (12).
Liang Guanjun clearly has very close links to the leaders of the UFWD’s CCPRC.
It is likely no accident that Liang Guanjun has been very active both in China and the U.S. supporting the Chinese Communist Party’s position on the reunification of Taiwan (13, 14, 15).
On September 12, 2023, Liang Guanjun had an emotional interview in China, in which he stated that he was returning to China after 40 years living and working in the United States because he loved his home country of China so much. The whole interview in Chinese can be viewed at https://www.chinaqw.com/m/sp/2023/09-13/364400.shtml
Is the most prominent and influential Chinese-American organization in the United States, the Committee of 100, working with the Chinese Communist Party?
September 11, 2023
According to its website (16), the Committee of 100, allegedly composed of the most distinguished Chinese-Americans, was founded in 1990 as:
“an influential group of Chinese Americans to address domestic issues of importance in the U.S. and international concern between the United States and Greater China.”
One could ask is whether that “influence” is coming from the United Front Work Department and designed to benefit the Chinese Communist Party at the expense of U.S. strategic interests?
The United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (UFWD) gathers intelligence and conducts influence operations world-wide, but particularly in the United States.
When making public statements and dealing with the outside world, the UFWD is called the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) (17).
The Committee of 100 has a long and extensive history of interactions with high-level Chinese Communist Party officials, including those responsible for CCP influence operations in the United States, whether they are called UFWD or OCAO (18).
In 2005, the Committee of 100 established a scholarship for university students in China (19) to:
“support China's efforts to cultivate a new generation of elites who are well educated and talented.”
Held annually in Beijing, the 2017 Committee of 100 scholarship awards ceremony for Chinese students featured the UFWD Deputy Director, Tan Tianxing, as the keynote speaker. In his speech, Tan recognized the contributions of the members of the Committee of 100 in promoting the economic, trade, scientific and technological advantages of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (19).
But the apparent collaboration between the Committee of 100 and the CCP’s UFWD appears to be far deeper than a single keynote speaker.
The UFWD held an exclusive meeting with "overseas Chinese representatives" in December 2018 (20). The attendees first met UFWD Director You Quan, accompanied by Tan Tianxing, the UFWD deputy director, who is responsible for international UFWD operations (21).
After their meeting with UFWD Director You Quan, the attendees met with Deputy Director Tan Tianxing (center, far table) and senior UFWD staff, all of whom specialize in international UFWD influence operations and intelligence gathering (22).
Committee of 100 member, Howard Li, known in China as Li Xuehai (李学海), attended the December 2018 meeting with UFWD Deputy Director Tan Tianxing and his senior UFWD staff (23).
Howard Li is a typical example of thousands of Chinese, who came, or were sent, to the United States over the last forty years and benefitted enormously from American economic opportunities and freedom unavailable in China. Despite decades living in the U.S. and becoming U.S. citizens, however, many Chinese immigrants have remained loyal to the Chinese Communist Party.
The Committee of 100 provides a brief biography of Howard Li (24):
“Howard H. Li is founder, solo owner, Chairman, and CEO of Waitex Group of Companies since 1981. Waitex provides logistics, warehouse distribution, e-commerce and supply chain services through three million square feet of U.S. facilities processing $5 billion in consumer products annually for its clients. Mr. Li is the founding partner of U.S. apparel wholesaler Eternal Fortune Fashion LLC and six Florentia Village Luxury Out-lets in China.”
“In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Li to the White House President’s Advisory Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Forbes Asia selected Mr. Li in 2008 as one of the 25 notable Chinese Americans in U.S. Business. In 2010, President Barack Obama awarded Mr. Li the President’s Service Award. Mr. Li previously served as an Advisory Council member of the New York State Retirement System and was a director of the United Way of New York City. Currently, he is Vice Chair of China General Chamber of Commerce in USA. Mr. Li emigrated to the U.S. in 1976 from Hong Kong.”
Yet, in 2021, Committee of 100 member and President of Tianjin Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Howard Li said in Chinese, not in any English language publication:
“that 2021 is the first year to implement the [Chinese Communist Party’s] "14th Five-Year Plan" and to start a new journey to build a socialist modernized country in an all-round way. Tianjin Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, as an important link connecting the government and enterprises, will fully integrate the resources of entrepreneurs under the guidance and leadership of the United Front Work Department of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and the Overseas Chinese Federation of Tianjin, and give full play to the patriotism and dedication [to China] of overseas Chinese enterprises” (25).
Howard Li was also a member of a December 2017 Committee of 100 delegation led by Frank Wu, known in China as Wu Huayang 吳華揚, that met with Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Yang Jiechi, Director of the Office of Central Foreign Affairs Commission and Tan Tianxing, Deputy Director of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (26).
According to its website (27), on July 8, 2016, the Committee of 100 hosted a high-level Global Chinese Philanthropy Symposium in Beijing convening one hundred leading Chinese philanthropists across Greater China in honor of His Excellency United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Committee of 100 website does not mention that on July 7, 2016, the Committee of 100 delegation to the Global Chinese Philanthropy Symposium in Beijing, led by Frank Wu, known in China as Wu Huayang 吳華揚, also had a separate meeting with Qiu Yuanping, Director of Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) and her Deputy Director, Tan Tianxing. OCAO is also known as the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (28). The meeting was not publicized by the Committee of 100.
There is reason to believe that the Committee of 100 is, at least in some regard, coordinating its actions with the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
How Chinese scientists in the United States serve the interests of the Chinese Communist Party
September 26, 2023
U.S. taxpayers are unaware that they are subsidizing China’s research and development programs, likely amounting to billions of dollars.
Today, U.S. research laboratories are de facto extensions of the Chinese Communist Party’s fused military-civilian research program, in which Chinese scientists working in the United States train students from China and actively collaborate with scientists in China, including those of the People’s Liberation Army.
Beginning in the 1980s, in a process I call “scientific chain migration,” successive waves of Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army scientists came to the United States for training, gaining access American knowledge, skills, technologies and U.S. government funding. Some returned to China feeding their newly acquired American knowledge, skills, technologies into China’s research and development programs. Other Chinese scientists remained, becoming permanent residents or U.S. citizens, and acting as “anchors” for new waves of Chinese Communist Party -loyal Chinese scientists to join Chinese-controlled laboratories in the United States.
Those Chinese “anchor” scientists in the U.S. have created Chinese-only professional organizations such as the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA), which was founded in 1984 and now has approximately 2,000 members from various American universities, academies, medical institutions, industrial and biotechnology companies (29).
It is important to note that, although the SCBA is composed of Chinese who have lived and worked in the United States for many years, they do not consider themselves Americans, but “Chinese in America.”
The activities of SCBA members provide a snapshot of how Chinese scientists in the U.S. support research and development programs in China, which, in my opinion, presents a significant national security problem.
Shan-Lu Liu
September 26, 2023
According to its website (29), Shan-Lu Liu, Professor and Program Director for Viruses and Emerging Pathogens Program at Ohio State University, is the SCBA’s current President. He came to the U.S. in the early 1990s, received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is a U.S. citizen.
Since 2013, Shan-Lu Liu has received more than $4 million in direct support from the National Institutes of Health (30), plus additional funding via other U.S. research grants and from a private anonymous donor (31), the last of which may or may not be linked to the Chinese Communist Party, but it is something certainly worth investigating.
In 2016 (32), 2017 (33) and 2018 (34), Shan-Lu Liu conducted collaborative research with scientists from the People’s Liberation Army, studies which were partially funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
The 2018 study focused on the potential biowarfare agent Japanese encephalitis virus, which was done together with prominent People’s Liberation Army scientist Cheng-Feng Qin, suspected of being a key figure in China’s biowarfare program.
A 2022 research project on the COVID-19 virus, led by Shan-Lu Liu and funded by U.S. taxpayers (35), included the training of two Chinese students, Cong Zeng and Panke Qu.
Cong Zeng graduated from Wuhan University and worked with Deyin Guo (36), who has been an active collaborator in viral research with the People’s Liberation Army (37,38) and the “batwoman” Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (39).
Panke Qu came from the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (40), where he studied under Xia Jin, who was also trained in the United States (41). Xia Jin is a research collaborator with scientists from the People’s Liberation Army working on potential biowarfare agents (42).
On an unknown date before February 11, 2020, a time when there was no conclusive evidence regarding the origin of COVID-19, SCBA member Shan Lu, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Editor of the Chinese journal “Emerging Microbes and Infections” based in Shanghai, asked Shan-Lu Liu and another SCBA member Lishan Su, then at the University of North Carolina, now at the University of Maryland, to write an opinion article mirroring the Chinese Communist Party’s contention that COVID-19 came from nature, not created in a laboratory in China as is now known (43,44).
After emigrating to the United States from the China, all three, Shan Lu, Shan-Lu Liu and Lishan Su maintained active research collaboration with scientists in China including those from the People’s Liberation Army, while also being funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Between February 11, 2020 and February 13, 2020, the title of the article changed, becoming more favorable to the narrative promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, evolving from “Is 2019-nCoV of laboratory origin?” to “SARVS-CoV-2: no evidence of a laboratory origin” to the more definitive final title “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2.”
During those two days, two other authors enthusiastically joined the effort, Linda Saif, also of Ohio State University, and Susan R. Weiss of the University of Pennsylvania, both long-established research collaborators with scientists in China.
The article was submitted to the Chinese journal “Emerging Microbes and Infections” at 10:58 PM U.S. Eastern Time on February 12, 2020.
It was accepted for publication the next morning on February 13, 2020 at 9:49 AM U.S. Eastern Time, no doubt the fastest manuscript acceptance in the history of science (43,44).
Publication of the article “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2” was obviously politically-motivated to parrot China’s false narrative about the natural origin of COVID-19.
Months later, there were continuing discussions on a private Chinese language WeChat group to encourage Chinese scientists to publish articles supporting the Chinese Communist Party’s contention that COVID-19 originated from nature, not from a laboratory, chats which included Shan-Lu Liu, Shan Lu and the “batwoman” Zheng-Li Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Lishan Su
October 3, 2023
Lishan Su, Professor of Pharmacology and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is the incoming President of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) (29).
Lishan Su is from Qingdao, China. He completed a Bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Shandong University, a Ph.D. in virology from Harvard University in 1989 and received postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He then worked as a senior scientist in a biotech company SyStemix/Sandoz (Novartis) in California until obtaining a faculty position at the University of North Carolina in 1996.
Lishan Su is a U.S. citizen and a registered Democrat (45).
Like many Chinese scientists who were trained in the United States and remained, Lishan Su maintained active research collaboration with scientists in China, including with those of the People’s Liberation Army, while, at the same time, receiving millions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer-funded research grants.
At least by 2011, if not earlier, Lishan Su was collaborating with People’s Liberation Army scientist Fu-Sheng Wang (46), who himself had been trained in the United States at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Lishan Su’s work with scientists from the People’s Liberation Army continued over many years, which included the use of Lishan Su’s U.S. research funding to support that collaboration and to train People’s Liberation Army scientists in his laboratory in North Carolina, Zheng Zhang from the People’s Liberation Army No. 302 Hospital in Beijing, being one example (47, 48, 49).
In 2013 (50), 2016 (51) and 2017 (52), Lishan Su was directly funded by the Chinese Ministry of Health for research conducted with scientists in China for which funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health was also being used.
Despite receiving millions in U.S. taxpayer funding, Lishan Su has frequently stated that his research center affiliations are in China, both Jilin University in Changchun, Jilin, China and the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China (46, 47, 49, 52, 53, 54).
Lishan Su was also a co-author on the now infamous politically-contaminated scientific publication “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2,” obviously written to support the Chinese Communist Party’s narrative that COVID-19 was a naturally-occurring disease outbreak, not the result of a lab-created virus made in China as is now known.
Xiao-fan Wang
October 6, 2023
Xiao-fan Wang is a past President of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (29). He and his wife, Xin-nian Dong, are graduates of Wuhan University, who migrated to the United States in the 1980s, became U.S. citizens and now are both professors at Duke University.
Xiao-fan Wang proves the contention that many Chinese, who have lived and worked in the U.S. for 30 or more years, became U.S. citizens and enjoyed all the benefits of life in the United States, but, nevertheless, remain loyal to the Chinese Communist Party and engage in collaborative research with China’s People’s Liberation Army and train PLA scientists, thus contributing to the success of the Chinese military.
Xiao-fan Wang is a “foreign” member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xin-nian Dong is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Qi-Jing Li is a research collaborator of Xiao-fan Wang, who was part of the “scientific chain migration” from China and is now an Associate Professor at Duke University.
Both Xiao-fan Wang and Qi-Jing Li have received more than $22.5 million (55) and $7.4 million (56), respectively, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, including Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID.
Both Xiao-fan Wang and Qi-Jing Li have also maintained an active research collaboration with the Chinese military for at least the last ten years involving dozens of PLA scientists.
Those activities include training PLA scientists at Duke University (57), over twenty joint publications with the PLA, much of which was at least partially funded by the U.S. government (58).
Qi-Jing Li, for example, is listed as affiliated simultaneously with Duke University and the PLA Third Military Medical University (59).
Xiao-fan Wang and Qi-Jing Li conducted research with the PLA’s Second (Shanghai) (60), Third (Chongqing) (61,62) and Fourth (Xi’an) (62) Military Medical Universities and with the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing (62).
Xiao-fan Wang and Qi-Jing Li are also involved with a present or former PLA officer, Haiyang Wu (63), in a Chinese company, TCRCure (64), which is also operating with them at Duke University (65).
Qi-Jing Li is a co-founder (66) of TCRCure and Xiao-fan Wang is the co-chair (67) of the advisory team. According to the website, TCRCure is developing clinical translational research and conducting human clinical trials with the PLA Cancer Research Institute at the Third Military Medical University (68). This company has locations in Los Angeles and Durham, North Carolina and two in China, Guangzhou and Chongqing (69), where the Third Military Medical University is situated.
Xiao-fan Wang is also Director of the International Executive Committee of Performance Evaluation for the Wuhan Institute of Virology (70), a fact that was purged (71) from the Wuhan Institute of Virology website in 2020.
In a 2010 Chinese language article (72), Xiao-fan Wang said “I will do more to promote the education and science of the motherland,“ meaning China.
Xiao-fan Wang has done so.
In 2017, Xiao-fan Wang made recommendations for the further development of China’s Talents programs, like “Thousands Talents Plan” and The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (73).
Lastly, having contributed to it, in 2021, Xiao-fan Wang remarked about the future supremacy of China (74):
“Influenced by the domestic political and economic situation in the U.S. and the new cooperative and competitive relationship between China and the U.S. in the field of science and technology, one foreseeable change is that the channels for doctoral studies and postdoctoral research training in the U.S. are likely to be gradually narrowed, and the number of young talents who have received rigorous research training from top U.S. academic institutions will likely decline significantly after a few years.””…leading to talents ‘Made in China’.”
How China’s People’s Liberation Army infiltrated U.S. research centers
November 20, 2023
The growth of China’s biotechnology sector and biowarfare program was dependent on accessing knowledge, skills and technologies from outside China (75, 76), particularly from universities in the United States, which, reciprocally, would be eager to collaborate with China and accept Chinese Communist Party (CCP) money.
To achieve that end, in 1979, then CCP leader, Deng Xiaoping together with a perhaps naïve U.S. President Jimmy Carter (77), signed (78) an agreement for science and technology exchange.
Soon afterwards thousands of Chinese students and scientists, including those from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) began flooding into the United States, many later obtaining permanent positions and becoming U.S. citizens, but maintaining allegiance to the CCP.
The China-United States Biochemistry Examination and Application (CUSBEA) program was a part (79) of that agreement. Two Chinese scientists mentioned in a previous section, Lishan Su and Xiao-fan Wang were participants in the CUSBEA program.
President Bill Clinton openly inviting Chinese military scientists into U.S. Department of Defense research centers including the virus laboratories of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (80).
Some of those invited into U.S. military facilities, like Liang-Ming Liu and Dai-Zhi Peng were clearly identified as PLA officers, others hid their backgrounds.
Jing-Ning Huan, for example, lists his educational institution as the Shanghai Second Medical University, which is actually the Second Military Medical University of the PLA.
Jing-Ning Huan eventually landed in the laboratory of Dr. Allan Z. Zhou at the University of Pittsburgh (81). We do not know the full background of Dr. Zhou, but he has since returned to China at the School of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangdong University of Technology (82).
The educational background of Guo-Ping Li is unclear, but she held a permanent position with Bell-Northern Research Ltd. in Canada before accepting a temporary research position studying advanced laser technologies under the same U.S. Army program that brought the PLA officers to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (80).
It is also unclear why Guo-Ping Li is wearing a U.S. Army uniform while studying advanced laser technologies at the U.S. Army Medical Research Detachment in San Antonio, Texas, or what happened to her afterward.
There is a Guo-Ping Li now working for the Chinese space program using laser technologies (83) for radio telescopes (84).
Under the same Pentagon program, the Clinton Administration recruited Chunyuan Luo and Chunsheng Xiang (80).
Immediately prior to becoming an employee of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Chunyuan Luo worked at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing, an element of China’s chemical warfare program (85).
For more than ten years at Walter Reed, Chunyuan Luo studied issues related to chemical warfare including direct collaboration with the US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland (86).
After leaving Walter Reed in 2012, Chunyuan Luo became a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering the areas of his expertise.
Chunyuan Luo appears on a talent database some consider as an indication of the CCP’s interest or friendship (87).
Chunsheng Xiang, a citizen of the People’s Republic of China and a CCP member, lied about his nationality being Canadian.
Nevertheless, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, where he studied the highly pathogenic and potential biological warfare agent, the Ebola virus under Kevin Anderson (88).
Chunsheng Xiang is now a professor at Zhejiang University and well-connected to the higher echelons of the CCP and the PLA.
How China uses U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund its biowarfare program
February 19, 2024
There are many examples of Chinese scientists working in the United States, who have received U.S. taxpayer-funded research grants, collectively worth billions of dollars, but have maintained active collaboration with People’s Liberation Army (PLA) scientists.
Through clever manipulation of scientific exchange programs with the U.S. and exploitation of the legal U.S. immigration, China has successfully “colonized” U.S. research centers and made them de facto extensions of its fused military-civilian research and development programs.
What follows is one example. It involves three key PLA-trained Chinese scientists and their associates in a partnership that started thirty years ago, which eventually contributed to the laboratory synthesis of the COVID-19 virus.
In a process I call “scientific chain migration,” a Chinese scientist, loyal to the Chinese Communist Party, establishes himself in a U.S. research center, obtains millions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer-funded research grants, all while maintaining scientific collaboration with PLA institutions and training other PLA-linked scientists in his U.S. laboratory.
Yusen Zhou, who was the Beijing anchor of the PLA partnership and now deceased under mysterious circumstances (89), worked in the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Shibo Jiang, who was the U.S. anchor of the PLA partnership, obtained his M.S. and M.D. degrees from the PLA’s First and Fourth Medical University, respectively. From 1987 to 1990, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology at the Rockefeller University in New York. From 1990 to 2010, he worked in the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Center as Assistant Member, Associate Member, Member, and then Head of the Viral Immunology Laboratory (90). According to his published biography, Shibo Jiang became a professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University in 2010 (91), but maintained an unclear affiliation with the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, seemingly to obtain additional U.S. government funding. Shibo Jiang also trained numerous PLA-linked and other Chinese scientists in his New York laboratory.
Between 1997 and 2018, Shibo Jiang was awarded U.S. research grants amounting to more than $17 million, the vast majority of which came from Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) (92). During that time, he was also receiving funding from the Chinese government and actively collaborating with Chinese research institutions including those of the PLA.
Lanying Du, allegedly Yusen Zhou’s wife (93), represented the second wave of PLA-trained scientists in the process of “scientific chain migration.” She was trained at the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences (94) and in 2007 (95) joined Shibo Jiang’s laboratory at Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute in New York. While Shibo Jiang eventually returned to China, Lanying Du remained in the U.S. training the third and fourth wave of Chinese scientists. In 2021, she was appointed Distinguished University Professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, which houses one of the few high containment Biosafety Level-4 facilities in the U.S. capable of handling the world’s most dangerous viruses.
Between 2011 and 2023, Lanying Du received over $18 million in U.S. research grants all of which came from Anthony Fauci’s NIAID (92). During that time, she was actively collaborating with Chinese research institutions including those of the PLA.
Although disturbing in themselves, the following describes only some of the collaborative research activities of PLA scientist Yusen Zhou and PLA-trained scientists Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du, while the latter two were funded by U.S. taxpayers.
In 2004, while working at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute in New York and being funded by Fauci’s NIAID for HIV research (92), Shibo Jiang, nevertheless, began an intensive 16-year research collaboration on coronaviruses, influenza and other viruses with Yusen Zhou of the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, studies which included the participation of Lanying Du, who was also funded by NIAID (92).
Coronavirus research described in 2004-2007 scientific articles (96-100) published by Shibo Jiang together with Yusen Zhou and Lanying Du, both of whom were working at the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences at the time, was done in parallel with research funded by NIAID, the results from which were not reported to NIAID (92).
In 2007, at the same time Shibo Jiang was conducting collaborative research on coronaviruses with PLA scientists, he was working with the Virology Department at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland (101), research that was also unreported to NIAID.
Also in 2007, Shibo Jiang was awarded a four-year $1,453,903 grant, R01AI068002, from NIAID to study coronavirus vaccines (92).
According to the National Institutes of Health database (92), Shibo Jiang reported 13 scientific publications resulting from the R01AI068002 grant. All the studies were conducted with Langyin Du and 9 of which involved collaborations between Shibo Jiang and PLA institutions for projects that were jointly funded by both NIAID and the PLA.
During the four years the R01AI068002 grant was active, Shibo Jiang published at least 8 scientific articles with PLA institutions, funded by China, that were not reported to NIAID.
Six of those scientific publications were co-authored by Lanying Du and Yusen Zhou (102-107), while two of the studies were done with PLA-trained Shuwen Liu from the First Medical University of the PLA in Guangzhou, now known as Southern Medical University (108,109).
Shibo Jiang and Shuwen Liu first worked together at the PLA’s First Military Medical University, where they published an article on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1986 (110).
By 2002, Shuwen Liu from the PLA’s First Military Medical University, joined Shibo Jiang at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute. Together, they published a scientific article with PLA scientists at the First Military Medical University that was funded by NIAID grant R01AI46221 (111).
In 2010, Shibo Jiang was appointed a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, but maintained an unclear relationship with the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute in New York. It was through that relationship that Shibo Jiang, from 2012 to 2018, became a Principal Investigator on two additional NIAID research grants with Peter J. Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, R01AI098775 “RBD recombinant protein-based SARS vaccine for biodefense” for $6,057,973, and with Sara Lustigman of the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute, U01AI124260 “Enhancing potency of the MERS vaccine by a novel ASP-1+alum adjuvant combination” for $1,413,272 (92).
In 2011, Lanying Du, who had joined Shibo Jiang at the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute on 2007 and remained there when he became a professor at Fudan University in 2010, received her first of many NIAID research grants, which, as of today, amounts to over $18 million. In 2021, Lanying Du moved to Georgia State University, where she continues to receive NIAID funding (92).
Between 2012 and 2018, when both were funded by NIAID, Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du published over 30 articles with PLA scientist Yusen Zhou studying variety of viruses including coronaviruses, influenza, Zika virus, Hepatitis B Virus and Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Coronavirus (112-142). Collaborative research was also conducted with other PLA or PLA-linked scientists like Guangyu Zhao (142), Wanbo Tai (142), Chengfeng Qin (143) and the “bat woman” Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (144,145).
Many of the studies done by Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du with PLA institutions occurred outside of the parameters of their NIAID grants and were unreported to NIAID.
For example, in 2015, while receiving funding from NIAID, Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du published an article with Yusen Zhou and other PLA scientists related to what could be described as race-based therapeutics, developing vaccines specifically designed to benefit Chinese populations (146).
The collaboration between PLA scientist Yusen Zhou and PLA-trained scientists Shibo Jiang and Lanying Du ended with Zhou’s mysterious death in May, 2020.
Nevertheless, the manipulation of scientific exchange programs, the exploitation of legal U.S. immigration and the misuse of U.S. taxpayer-funded research funds, both by Chinese scientists working in the United States and by American scientists collaborating with scientists in China, continues.
TO BE CONTINUED…
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Incredible work!