EXC: China’s “Citizen External Propaganda” Pipeline Put Chinese Nationals Inside Congress. They Wrote Lawmaker Speeches, Researched Policy and Responded to American Constituents.

EXC: China’s “Citizen External Propaganda” Pipeline Put Chinese Nationals Inside Congress. They Wrote Lawmaker Speeches, Researched Policy and Responded to American Constituents. Some interns later became Beijing’s experts on Congress. ... Chinese students were placed inside U.S. congressional offices through a years-long program where they were entrusted with work ranging from constituent correspondence to congressional briefings on sensitive U.S.-China matters to drafting speeches for congressmen, according to Chinese-language university records reviewed for this investigation. ...Xin Qiang, now a prominent Fudan University expert on Taiwan, U.S.-China relations and American politics. Fudan’s official biography says Xin served from November 2001 until May...