Organized crime/Chinese gov't angle is BFD & a huge scandal for Trump & the GOP. (Cindy Yang)

[MelissaB]

Cindy (Li) Yang story has a long way to run yet. If she is indeed connected to PRC's United Front, then she is working directly for Beijing. Running "Day Spas" in Florida may be the least of her activities

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This is the photo being quoted by various journalists. Cindy (Li) Yang is at the far left in the blue dress. If she was / is Deputy Director of this Association, then she is a full blown Chinese asset, with a Mar a lago membership

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Here is an article that explains the relationship between CCP UFWD (ie Beijing) and various fronts worldwide, including Associations for the Peaceful Reunification of China.

China’s United Front Work: Propaganda as Policy

https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/chinas-united-front-work-propaganda-as-policy/

[MelissaB]

1. I wonder how many foreign agents running through MarALago?

Easy access there.

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

[Zoonart]

3. I have heard that they do not keep visitors logs at Mar-a-Lago, but...

I find it hard to believe that there is no intelligence surveillance of the place.

Let's see the footage of who comes and goes at this hive of criminality.

[2naSalit]

4. K&R!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Amazing...a massage parlor at Mar a Lago ... why am I NOT surprised? rump is a sleezebag. NT

[shanti]

14. And the idea

of someone giving Chump a full body massage (not to mention a happy ending) makes me want to hurl.

[mr_lebowski]

6. I've always seen it reported she's been a guest at Mar a Lago, not a member

It'd be good to get the details right if you want to be taken seriously. Just sayin' ...

BTW of course all our enemies are trying to get into Trumps circle, they know he's stupid, totally corrupt, and totally compromised, without a Patriotic bone in his body. His only allegiance is power and money. He's an easy target, and our Intel/LE agencies should be keeping a very close eye on him and everyone around him. He's a HUGE national security liability.

[MelissaB]

7. Really? I thought she was a member the the people she brought w/ her were guests.

[mr_lebowski]

10. I've only ever seen her referred to as a 'guest' but obviously I don't know for sure :)

Also to be clear I was referring to Pete Evans when I made my comment, not yourself ...

[MelissaB]

9. I went back and skimmed several articles

I don't think any say she had a membership there, but that she sold access.

I'm not sure how she could do that unless it's the “Presidential Fundraising Committee”.

I'm still looking and reading. Have you come across an article that says she's not a member?

[MelissaB]

8. This article lists all of China's organizations in the United States working against US interests.

Almost none of them are registered under FARA.

China’s ‘United Front’ Seeks to Undermine U.S. Support for Taiwan

China has never relied on official diplomatic means to exert influence abroad. Instead, it operates a vast, “shadowy” network of “united front” organizations in countries around the world including the United States. This network forms an integral part of China’s overseas propaganda apparatus, cooperating closely with Chinese government agencies in Beijing and with Chinese embassies and consulates abroad. Its chief aim is asserting mainland Chinese territorial claims, particularly on Taiwan, under the deceptive banner of China’s “peaceful reunification.” Other aims include controlling Chinese citizens overseas and suppressing international criticism of China’s poor human rights record.

China’s “united front” activities in the United States are likely illegal under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Enacted in 1938, FARA requires all persons or groups acting on behalf of a foreign government or other “foreign principal” in the United States to register as such in advance and regularly report their activities, particularly lobbying or propaganda activities aimed at influencing the U.S. political process or public opinion, so that any such activities are carried out openly and transparently. The bipartisan Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, is aimed at countering such activities globally. Under international law, Chinese consular involvement in these activities is a likely violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which obliges foreign consular officials to respect the laws of the receiving state and forbids foreign consular interference in the internal affairs of the receiving state.

Unfortunately, these laws are rarely enforced, owing either to institutional negligence or to the influence of powerful multinational business interests that prefer not to disclose their activities on behalf of shady overseas interests. Former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn have become prominent multinational poster-children for FARA non-enforcement. In the case of China, powerful multinational business interests rest on not doing anything to irritate the dictators in Beijing or to upset the apple cart for U.S.-China business operations. Powerful U.S.-China business interests depend a lot more on friendly U.S. relations with Beijing than on a free and autonomous Taiwan, not to mention human rights or the integrity of the U.S. political process.

Three primary Chinese government agencies oversee its “united front” activities abroad: The Communist Party Central Committee’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), the State Council’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO), and the State Council’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO). Nominally “non-governmental” front organizations for these agencies include the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (CCPPNR), the China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA), and the China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA), all led entirely by Chinese Communist Party officials.

More: https://intpolicydigest.org/2017/09/11/china-s-united-front-seeks-to-undermine-u-s-support-for-taiwan/

[Leghorn21]

11. KICK, thank you MelissaB

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Sure hope it becomes a BFD

KnR

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Manafort, China, tRump: from the Steele Dossier

Suggestion from source close to TRUMP and MANAFORT that Republican campaign team happy to have Russia as media bogeyman to mask more extensive corrupt business ties to China and other emerging countries.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211906102

[roamer65]

15. Sounds about right.

The ChiComs and Russians are utter shit on human rights.

They are largest human traffickers.

[erronis]

18. The USofA has joined that group.

Given our history of slavery and indentured servitude, share-cropping, company stores, etc. this is where we came from.

Given our present situation we have enslaved immigrants and their children and we apparently allow and encourage sex worker slavery.

[Tetrachloride]

16. The old ways of thinking include: the "massage parlor" is a blight on one's neighborhood.

Law enforcement communities should look upon this as international warfare, no matter the country of origin. The money crosses borders either for the purpose of money ...... OR something worse.

[fascisthunter]

17. GOP Fascist Party is Aligned with Foreign Enemies of Democracy

Gee... I wonder why? Welcome to WWIII.

[japple]

19. Yet the security threat to this country is poor, terrorized brown people pouring

over our southern border!!!!

Insert just to be on the safe side.

[Mr.Bill]

20. I have noticed there are no Russian Cabinet members,

but there is a Chinese one.

[Kurt V.]

21. There is sign in front of mar a lago that says : U.S. For Sale.

but not everyone can see it.