'I love you': Longtime Harris ally has been friends with CCP group's top exec for over a decade

FIRST ON FOX: A decades-long person and mentee of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is moving for Congress successful California, has been friends with a apical enforcement of a CCP beforehand radical for implicit a decade, a Fox News Digital reappraisal found.

In aboriginal 2022, a twelvemonth earlier James Chau became the president of the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), helium wrote connected Twitter, "Belated champion wishes to my person and sister [Lateefah Simon] arsenic she builds connected her years is [sic] work [Akonadi Foundation] to pb Meadow Fund."

"These are analyzable times — yet besides times successful which accomplishment and compassion number adjacent more," helium continued. "Looking guardant to seeing the heavy interaction of your work."

Simon, who is presently moving for Rep. Barbara Lee’s House spot and was a cardinal talker astatine the 2024 DNC normal connected behalf of Harris, responded, "I emotion you James. Hong Kong this summer!"

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Lateefah Simon (Center), a longtime person and mentee of Vice President Kamala Harris (Right), has been friends with James Chau (Left), the president of a CCP group, for implicit a decade. (Fox News)

"You person the freehold connected my heart," helium responded.

In different societal media post, Chau posted a representation of what appears to beryllium an creation grounds of a histrion with dozens of leaves and a caption that reads, "What are you THANKFUL for?" Chau said the histrion is "not ample enough" and tagged Simon, prompting her to respond with a reddish bosom emoji.

The 2 Twitter exchanges, on with respective different societal media posts from Chau, came astatine a clip erstwhile Chau was already actively moving for CUSEF. Chau "joined CUSEF successful 2018" and was "working with its laminitis The Hon. Tung Chee-hwa" earlier helium became the group’s president successful 2023, according to his CUSEF bio.

Fox News Digital has extensively reported connected Tung Chee-hwa, who served arsenic a vice president of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a cardinal portion of the CCP’s agreed beforehand system, which operates to beforehand the CCP's interests astatine location and abroad.

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One study details however Julia Wilson, a Black nationalist relations consultant, was paid implicit $1 cardinal by Chee-hwa's CUSEF to assistance the Chinese authorities larn astir Black Americans and summation power with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Black leaders. 

"In 2009, the erstwhile main enforcement of Hong Kong [Tung Chee-hwa] visited maine successful my bureau with his unit from the China-United States Exchange Foundation, and they wanted to cognize however we got a Black president," Wilson, whose bureau is crossed the thoroughfare from the White House, told assemblage students during a 2017 presentation. "They were saying, 'We don't cognize thing astir Black people. So tin you constitute america a achromatic insubstantial and stock it with us? How did Black radical get capable powerfulness to ballot a Black antheral into office?' So they truly needed an overview of our history. Who are we? Who are African Americans?"

Tung Chee-hwa is the vice president of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). (YouTube/Screenshot)

CUSEF's astir caller yearly report, which was published successful July, reveals however the "independent, non-profit and non-governmental foundation" is heavy influenced by the CCP, ranging from advisers and partners to donors. One of the apical partners of CUSEF is the People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, which was antecedently labeled arsenic a "Beijing-based enactment tasked with co-opting subnational governments" and seeking to "directly and malignly power authorities and section leaders to beforehand the PRC’s planetary agenda," according to a 2022 study from the Biden administration’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI).

Another spouse connected CUSEF's yearly study is the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an instrumental portion of the CCP's apparatus that regularly coordinates with apical CCP branches and leaders, according to its website. Other partners see apical Chinese and American universities similar Princeton, Georgetown, Harvard and Columbia. Sidwell Friends School, the elite boarding schoolhouse wherever erstwhile President Obama's daughters and President Biden's grandchildren attended, was besides connected the list.

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Several of CUSEF's donors, which see Chinese billionaires, besides person CCP ties. Wang Jianlin, the billionaire president of the Wanda Group, is simply a CCP member, and served successful the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. He is besides a longtime subordinate of the CPPCC. Bernard Chan, different donor listed successful CUSEF's yearly report, appears to beryllium the aforesaid Bernard Chan who served arsenic the Hong Kong Deputy to the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China, the highest organ of authorities powerfulness successful the CCP, for 15 years.

Multiple members of CUSEF's governing committee besides person CCP ties, including Peter Woo, who is presently a subordinate of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC. Liu Changle, the laminitis of the Chinese state-owned Phoenix Satellite Television, besides has respective CCP ties, according to CUSEF's website.

Chau, who was antecedently an anchor for China's state-owned China Central Television (CCTV), has posted astir Tung respective times connected his X relationship and has interviewed him aggregate times. In 2017, portion serving arsenic a contributor for China's state-owned CGTN, Chau sat down for an interrogation with Tung and discussed U.S.-China relations. A twelvemonth later, helium started moving with Tung astatine CUSEF.

BART Board President Lateefah Simon speaks during a property league astir the BART ambassadors connected Monday, February 10, 2020 successful Oakland, Calif.  (Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Earlier this summertime astatine the DNC, Simon reflected connected her longtime relationship with Harris, including her acquisition moving alongside her successful the aboriginal 2000s.

"When she sees you, she genuinely sees you," Simon said successful August astatine the 2024 DNC. "She is the champion among us. After moving with Kamala Harris time successful and time retired for 5 years to make programs that supported young radical to get retired of the transgression justness strategy erstwhile and for each with bully jobs, with opportunity, she wanted to get to the basal origin of a breached transgression justness system."

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Chau and Simon met successful San Francisco successful 2008 portion moving to combat HIV and person been friends implicit the years, including connecting implicit her hubby and Chau's begetter some passing distant weeks apart, according to the opening conception of a 2020 interrogation betwixt them, which was portion of CUSEF's "The China Current" integer platform. At the extremity of the interview, which revolved astir the pandemic and the "inequities successful a healthcare system" for radical of color, Simon said, "I emotion you dearly, Mr. James. Let's speech more."

Months later, Chau called Simon "brilliant" successful a Twitter post, saying helium was "watching this important treatment connected the past of achromatic organising [sic] successful Oakland—one of the centers of planetary civilian rights."

In 2019, CUSEF published a post connected their website, highlighting however they person engaged with Black Americans "in practice with the Congressional Black Caucus and different civilian nine organizations focusing connected the [B]lack assemblage successful the U.S."

Fox News Digital reached retired to CUSEF, the Simon run and the Harris campaign, but did not person immoderate responses.