Michelle Wu, the hate-Trump mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, might well be an agent of influence of Red China.
A Chinese spy who doubled as a fundraiser, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported, gave “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to Wu’s 2021 campaign.
Frighteningly, a person called Gary Yu — the rainmaker who showered Wu’s campaign with big bucks — is a “recruiter” for the Chinese government, the website revealed.
The link raises the obvious question of Wu’s loyalties, particularly given her support for Boston’s unlawful sanctuary policies. They could shield illegal-alien Chinese spies from deportation.
Chinese Intelligence
Yu, the man who funded Wu, is “the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads,” the Caller reported:
However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media and civic associations led by Yu.
“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” author and China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”
Chang also told the website that Wu’s “ultra-leftism makes her the perfect candidate for CCP recruitment and capture.”
“Or do we have it backward?” he continued. “Is her ultra-leftism the result of CCP recruitment and capture? More than just the people of Boston would like to know.”
Understandably Wu and Yu declined to answer DCNF’s myriad calls for comment.
Yu: Possible Spy?
Whatever Wu’s real loyalties, Yu’s are not in question, DCNF disclosed. He’s tight with top Chinese intelligence officials, which would, it seems, make him a spy.
“Yu has repeatedly met with high-ranking CCP intelligence leaders in China and is listed as an official by two regional branches of a UFWD arm, according to Chinese government announcements, state media reports and records from Chinese civic associations led by Yu,” DCNF continued:
The UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the House Select Committee on the CCP.
Yu is identified as an “overseas committee member” by the Hangzhou municipal All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC) branch in Zhejiang province and has met with their officials in China multiple times, according to the website of the North American Hangzhou Association (NAHAUS), where Yu serves as chairman.
ACFROC is a UFWD agency specializing in overseas influence operations, including allegedly directing Chinese community leaders to illegally establish a secret Chinese police station in New York City.
“China’s strategy to influence state and local policymakers is executed, in part, through hundreds of ostensibly ‘civil society’ organizations that are actually affiliated with the CCP’s UFWD,” Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the DCNF. “Xi Jinping considers United Front work a critical tool to undermine democracies. It involves influence peddling, intelligence collection, and intellectual property theft, all for the end goal of aligning U.S. subnational governments with China’s foreign policy and exploiting weaknesses they find.”
Indeed, the DCNF continued, on November 29, 2018, the NAHAUS website says Yu met with the Hangzhou ACFROC Communist Party secretary. A social media post said NAHAUS would “work tirelessly to support the construction of Hangzhou and continue to serve the function of uniting and leading overseas Chinese.”
More concerning, however, is that Yu, again, recruits personnel for a foreign power. He “agreed to headhunt U.S. talent for at least half a dozen Chinese regional governments, including the cities of Hangzhou and Guangzhou, according to Chinese government and ACFROC announcements,” the website revealed:
For instance, in November 2019, the CCP announced that Yu agreed to establish an “Overseas Talent Recruitment Work Station” in North America for the party’s Organization Department in Nanning, a city located in the Guangxi Autonomous Region.
The Organization Department oversees China’s malign talent recruitment programs, like the Thousand Talents Plan, which incentivizes participants to “return to China to augment its scientific and military capabilities,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Yu has also agreed to help recruit U.S. talent to support China’s high-tech development, including in the field of artificial intelligence.
Local Organizing
Which returns the story to Wu, and more broadly the city and state Democratic powers, for whom Yu is a major Democrat fundraiser, and even more importantly, a major donor. Records show that he has donated “$45,515 to various Massachusetts Democratic politicians since 2018, including $3,200 to Wu and $2,175 to Gov. Maura Healey,” DCNF reported.
Yu is co-chairman of the New England Chinese American Alliance (NECCA), which has raised money for at least nine Massachusetts politicians. Indeed, NECCA has raised more than $300,000 from Chinese Americans for Wu, the website revealed.
Yu and his gang, apparently, are major powerbrokers in state and local and national politics. Their fundraising operation is nationwide, DCNF reported.
“Public officials need to thoroughly vet any organization and individual that has ties to China’s government, and interface with state and federal law enforcement when there is any uncertainty,” Lucci told DCNF. “It is well-known that China’s government seeks to influence U.S. politics and place agents within our governance systems to further the CCP’s agenda. We need to stop letting them get away with it.”
For her part, Wu, again, is adamant on blocking the enforcement of federal immigration law. The city will not help ICE arrest and deport illegal alien criminals, she says, despite the threat of prosecution for harboring from Border Czar Tom Homan and other federal officials. Lawsuits to overturn sanctuary laws have begun. Wu’s stance, and the latest revelations of a possible connection to Chinese intelligence, are particularly concerning. Last fiscal year, as The New American reported, more than 30,000 illegals landed at the border.
