Trump’s White House has repeatedly sounded an alarm concerning visitors with links with the Chinese Communist Party coming to the United States, arguing that they are a threat of potential security.
But the administration seems to have literally left the door open to a member of a group of Chinese government when he followed a plan to give the greatest buyers to access the digital currency of President Trump to the President and the White House.
Mr. Trump launched a so-called same, a type of cryptocurrency, a few days before its inauguration. To strengthen sales, the president’s business partners created a competition in April, offering the best buyers of the room a visit to the White House and a private dinner with Mr. Trump in his Virginia Golf Club.
One of these buyers was that he Tianying, who is a member of the Political advisory conference of the Chinese peopleaccording to Government documents in China examined by the New York Times.
This government group, called CPPCC, is an advisory body that seeks to expand the influence of the Communist Party and to request the support of influential people in Chinese society.
Mr. He, who was registered at the Trump event as a Hong Kong resident, advises the Chinese government by his role as a delegate From the Fangshan CPPCC, a district of Beijing. He is listed As a member of the organization Science and Technology Committee. Times could not find any indication that Mr. He is a member of the Communist Party, and the government organization to which it serves is quite low.
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