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30 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#China's communists fund Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party: What the #US Congress was told

"One of the major fundraisers for Jacinda Ardern's party" is linked to the #Chinese Communist Party & it showed China had penetrated #NewZealand's political networks.
nzherald.co.nz/nz/chinas-comm…
2) As a result, US lawmakers needed to consider whether New Zealand should be kicked out of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance because of problems at its "political core".
3) The bombshell testimony included claims from a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst that "anything on China that was briefed to Bill English was briefed to Mr Yang Jian", the National MP revealed last year as having trained spies for China.
4) The hearing heard testimony from former CIA analyst Peter Mattis who said the Chinese Communist Party had worked "very close to or inside the political core" of Australia and New Zealand and "one of the major fundraisers for Jacinda Ardern's party has United Front links".

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