China Silenced Its Critics by Buying Off America’s Elites

China procures political compliance among American elites — including those within academia, entertainment, media, politics, and think tanks — through development of financial relationships, explained Robert Spalding, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Stealth War: How China Took Over While America’s Elite Slept, in a Friday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rick Manning.

Spalding recalled how Chinese political influence blocked a transparency initiative he was developing as a joint enterprise to examine and uncover the single-party state’s degree of control over large American corporations.

“I reached out to a think tank — a major think tank — to run a program to essentially provide information so people can see all of the influence that the Chinese Communist Party had on corporate America, and we worked on this project for a year — scoping it out, trying to figure out how [many] resources this would take, how much money, how many people — and the think tank had basically agreed to do the study. It was actually going to be more than a study. It was going to be a continuing effort to portray the kind of influence that the Communist Party had over U.S. corporations, and provide that [information and data] in a way that could be accessible to the public, like a transparency initiative.”

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Spalding continued, “After about a year, I had also recruited some funders for this, and so when it got down to the very end — at the very end — the think tank basically decided not to pursue the project, and quite frankly, it was because many of their donors had relationships with the Chinese Community Party. It was not just think tanks. It was also law firms that I reached out to, very high-end top law firms in New York and in DC that essentially said, ‘We can’t help. We talked to our partners, and we don’t want to anger our Chinese clients,’ and so it was pervasive. I already knew that corporations had been influenced, and that’s why I wanted to...

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