33 Congressmen involved with organization linked to the Chinese Communist Party
The Washington Examiner recently broke a story claiming DOZENS of Members of Congress advise nonprofit group with ties to a CCP-linked think tank
A new report should raise serious national security and economic concerns.
The report claims that The Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI), a New York-based organization that focuses on international diplomacy and humanitarian work, is tied to the CCP. Shockingly, its website boasts 33 members of Congress as members of their “congressional advisory board.
The list includes 7 House Republicans and 26 House Democrats.
The Washington Examiner reported:
Dozens of House Democrats and Republicans are listed as advisers to a New York-based nonprofit group that counts a Chinese Communist Party-affiliated think tank as its partner.
The Humpty Dumpty Institute has since 2017 touted its partnership with the Beijing-based Taihe Institute think tank, which employs over a dozen current and former members of the CCP and People's Liberation Army as senior fellows. The Taihe Institute was one of three Chinese think tanks behind an August report that deemed the United States a "failed country" for its pandemic response and claimed that COVID-19 leaked from a military base in Maryland.
Since 2017, HDI has had a partnership with the Taihe Institute, a Beijing-based think tank that employs more than a dozen members of the CCP.
Several Republican members of Congress have condemned HDI after learning of their ties to the Taihe Institute.
“Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris said Tuesday he wasn't even aware he was a member of the HDI's Congressional Advisory Board and was looking to have his name removed from the board.”
Further, conservative Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) submitted his resignation from the board in a letter addressed to HDI on Saturday:
It is particularly abhorrent to me to be associated with an organization that has ties to a government widely known to actively support infanticide, engage in forced sterilization, exploit slave labor, and persecute religious minorities and political dissidents
Therefore, I renounce any participation in HDI’s Congressional Advisory Board and seek the removal of my name from any promotional materials, documents, letterhead, and website references of your organization.
Additionally, I implore you to reconsider your associations with the CP and to rethink what this connection has to your stated humanitarian mission.
Just two Republican lawmakers that joined the HDI Congressional Advisory Board in November will remain: Rep Don Bacon (NE) and Rep August Pfluger (TX).
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