Gov. Gavin Newsom partnered with a Chinese Communist Party-tied businessman - allegedly connected to the triads - on an endeavor that brought Chinese mafia-linked businesses to California's Bay Area when Newsom served as San Francisco's mayor, Peter Schweizer reveals in his new book Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
Schweizer reveals in Blood Money that Newsom has had links to Chinese organized crime through his connections to known triad members and that these connections go beyond the ChinaSF initiative that Newsom launched in 2008 to bring Chinese businesses to San Francisco.
Newsom touted the arrival of offices for the Chinese-government-controlled newspaper China Daily in San Francisco through ChinaSF. Notably, the ChinaSF initiative was being launched at the same time then-mayor Newsom ran a "Fake-out" in San Francisco during the passing of the torch relay in the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics after protests in major European cities had "Deeply embarrassed" China, Schweizer explains.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom re-routed the torch relay at the last minute to avoid embarrassing the Chinese Communist regime.
Months later, in October 2023, Newsom trekked to China for an eight-day, six-city tour organized by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries rather than the United States because Newsom is only a state official, not a federal official.
Newsom received "Superlative treatment" from Beijing during the trip, according to Blood Money, evidenced by his meeting with Chinese Communist Leader Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People, the optics of which were starkly different from Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's visit months before.
"In an unusual move, Newsom was allowed to sit side-by-side with the Chinese leader, a sign of respect. When US Secretary of State Tony Blinken had visited earlier in the year, Blinken sat opposite Chinese officials while Xi was in the center-a position of superiority," Schweizer writes.
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