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A screenshot of Aaron Shens LinkedIn account before he deleted it. Image source: LinkedIn A person on LinkedIn claiming to work for a think tank run by a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party department recently offered financial compensation for the names of my sources and for reports about the incoming Bidens administrations views on China. Why it matters: It was a surprisingly clumsy attempt to gain insider information about the U.S. governments China policy, suggesting that amid a chill in U...

 | Print this article A person claiming to be a Chinese Communist Party think tank official reportedly offered to pay for a journalists sources if it led to information on policy decisions. Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, an Axios reporter who covers China, reported that someone named Aaron Shen, who claimed to be the assistant director of international liaison at the China Center for Contemporary World Studies, which is the in-house think tank of the International Department of the Chi...