NEW from me, @DavidCornDC and @dfriedman33: Meet “Prince Charles,” the Chinese mystery man who has emerged as a key figure in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago security debacle motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Charles Lee (Li Weitian) ran a group called the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association that has ties to China’s United Front Work Department. That will be significant to counterintelligence investigators examining the Mar-a-Lago situation
The United Front Work Department oversees what is in effect a global influence operation (to dumb down what is a very complex system). This report gives a good overview of the United Front strategy uscc.gov/sites/default/… 
This morning, I spoke to a former CIA counterterrorism official who studies the United Front about the recent Chinese activity at Mar-a-Lago. “The feeling of it looks like United Front work,” he told me.
typo: *counterintelligence*
