Documents, including what appears to be an FBI summary of an interview with Chinese-Australian businessman Chau Chak Wing in 2016, have been tabled in the Australian parliament just hours after Chau won a defamation case against the ABC and Nine. The documents reveal Chau told FBI investigators he would never have made a $200,000 payment to the then president of the UN general assembly if he had known it was not an official account. Chau has.
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Chinese-Australian billionaire and prolific political donor Chau Chak Wing told the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2016 that $200,000 his company wired to an allegedly corrupt United Nations chief was a donation to âalleviate povertyâ, Parliament has heard.
FBI documents tabled in Federal Parliament on Tuesday afternoon reveal how the US domestic intelligence service used emails and financial records to trace $200,000 sent by Mr Chauâs company, Kingold Investments, to a personal bank account set up by John Ashe, the now deceased former president of the UN General Assembly.
Chau Chak Wing outside the Federal Court in 2018.
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The tabling of the FBI case file by Liberal MP Tim Wilson with the backing of Labor MP Julian Hill is the second time Australian politicians have used parliamentary privilege to accuse Mr Chau of involvement in a bribery scandal and the Chinese Communist Partyâs overseas influence activities.
Video display program City Charms opens online A video display program “City Charms” opens online today. It is one of the serial events of the 9th China-South Asia International Cultural Forum (CSAICF), co-organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the People’s Government of Yunnan Province. Ambassador Lin Songtian, President of the CPAFFC, sends a congratulatory message to the event.
Episode of China (province of Yunnan, cities of Kunming, Yuxi, Baoshan and Lincang, and autonomous prefectures of Honghe, Dali and Dehong) In his message, Lin Songtian says that cities are important places for people’s life and production, and they are also the embodiment of human civilizations. As a significant part of bilateral relations between China and other countries, the friendship city relations facilitate the multi-tiered and all-sectoral cooperations between China and other countries, and enhance the mutual understanding an
ICAP s contribution to boost China-Cuba ties highlighted
ICAP s contribution to boost China-Cuba ties highlighted
Beijing, Dec 23 (Prensa Latina) Chinese institutions on Wednesday highlighted the contribution from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) to the development of relations between both countries, on the occasion of the institution s 60th anniversary.
During an event, the Chinese People s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) pointed out that the ICAP has worked to gain solidarity and support from the international community, promote Cuba s reality, defend its national interests and boost cooperation.
In a congratulatory letter, the Association referred to the close contacts and collaboration between the organizations and their support in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
While American local governments value such exchanges for financial and cultural reasons, exchange (交流) has always been viewed as a practical political tool by Beijing, and all of China s exchange organizations have been assigned political missions .
China s Influence & American Interests, Report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States, by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York, 2019. We will keep connecting schools in the U.S. and China one at a time . USA-China Sister Schools Association.
China has used its sister cities to boost its mask diplomacy , in which it plays both the arsonist and the firefighter, and has written about this new initiative in state media with quotes from grateful US sister cities thanking China for sending them masks.