During a Wednesday appearance on Fox News, the Daily Caller News Foundation’s investigative reporter, Phillip Lenczycki, reported President Biden appointed a CEO to an advisory council with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
The appointment of Dominic Ng, CEO of East-West Bank, to an advisory council occurred in April 2022 seemingly without any background check beforehand. In 2013-2017 Ng served as the executive director of China Overseas Exchange Association (COEA) and in 2019 was the director of the China Overseas Friendship Association (COFA).
In an interview with Fox News host Jesse Watters, DCNF investigative reporter said, “This is incredible. It’s really hard to imagine how this came to be. If there had been any type of due diligence looking into this gentleman’s background, I believe this would have been found.”
Both organizations that Ng worked for have ties to the United Front Work Department (UFWD), which intelligence agencies have identified as a clear front group for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Republican Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas has demanded the FBI launch an investigation into the appointment of Ng in a letter with numerous other House Republicans. In an interview with Fox News, Gooden said “I do believe the FBI is aware, yes, I hope it’s not news and I hope the FBI is working despite what my Democratic colleagues are saying, I think it is just typical of Democrats in this town there in Washington, rather. This is the American Democratic Party. They say you’re racist if you call into question any appointments by this administration. We’re standing up to communist China and these Democrats’ first reaction is to come to their defense and call us all racist.”
Investigative reporter Lenczycki further explained, “I think we want to be clear that there are, most Chinese Americans are patriotic, I have no doubt about that, and yet there are forces at work here as you mentioned in the segment that the United Front Work Department is actively targeting Chinese Americans.”
“They are working through front groups that they have either created or co-opted and thus we need to be careful because they have actively targeted what we are calling sub-national leaders, going after folks through donations to their campaigns and also helping just drum up support through votes,” he said. “This is a very enticing proposition … for too many politicians and it’s not just those who are of Asian extraction.”