Cuomo Aide Resigns Over CCP Ties

An aide to May­oral can­di­date Andrew Cuo­mo has resigned over high-lev­el ties to the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP).  On June 14, 2025, The New York Post report­ed that Dr. Lin­ing “Lar­ry” stepped down as Andrew Cuo­mo’s Asian out­reach direc­tor after inves­ti­ga­tions revealed his exten­sive busi­ness ties to Chi­nese state-owned enter­pris­es with embed­ded Com­mu­nist Par­ty of Chi­na (CCP) cells and his asso­ci­a­tions with Bei­jing-linked polit­i­cal oper­a­tives in New York. The arti­cle begins:

A may­oral cam­paign aide to Andrew Cuo­mo resigned after The Post ques­tioned the years he spent work­ing for com­pa­nies tied to the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty and his mete­oric rise through the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, which alarmed local politi­cos and nation­al secu­ri­ty experts alike. Dr. Lin­ing “Lar­ry” He stepped down from his role as Cuo­mo’s Asian out­reach direc­tor Fri­day, a week after The Post reached out to him and the Cuo­mo cam­paign about his exten­sive busi­ness ties to his native Chi­na. He had served as an exec­u­tive for a pow­er­ful state-owned con­glom­er­ate that has CCP cells embed­ded in its cor­po­rate hier­ar­chy, records and news reports obtained by The Post showed.

Read more: https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/andrew-cuomo-campaign-aide-worked-for-companies-tied-to-ccp/

Key Points

• He served as the asset man­age­ment direc­tor for state-owned Guangxi Beibu Gulf Invest­ment and as the board chair­man of Guangxi Beitou Petro­chem­i­cal, a joint ven­ture with the Chi­nese oil giant Sinopec.
• The cam­paign aide was pho­tographed attend­ing Chi­na’s 75th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion along­side John Chan, iden­ti­fied as a key fig­ure in the CCP’s New York influ­ence network.
• He failed to dis­close his Chi­nese busi­ness rela­tion­ships on manda­to­ry Assem­bly fil­ings while serv­ing as chief-of-staff to Brook­lyn Assem­bly­man William Colton.
• His rapid rise from first-time vot­er in Novem­ber 2024 to Demo­c­ra­t­ic dis­trict leader by Decem­ber alarmed com­mu­ni­ty activists who ques­tioned his mys­te­ri­ous back­ground and connections.

Cuomo, Chinese CCP Ties & Influence: Unpacking Global Business Networks & Tactics

China’s glob­al influ­ence strat­e­gy increas­ing­ly lever­ages busi­ness ties through net­works of think tanks, lob­by­ists, and con­sul­tan­cies across Europe, with orga­ni­za­tions like Chi­naEU, the Silk Road Think Tank Net­work, and the France Chi­na Foun­da­tion serv­ing as con­duits for cul­ti­vat­ing elite rela­tion­ships and shap­ing pol­i­cy in favor of Bei­jing. These efforts are part of a broad­er cam­paign that com­bines eco­nom­ic pres­sure—rang­ing from infor­mal trade restric­tions to legal­ized countermeasures—with sophis­ti­cat­ed infor­ma­tion oper­a­tions, includ­ing the use of fake social media accounts and influ­encer net­works to ampli­fy pro-Chi­na nar­ra­tives and exploit soci­etal divisions.

The Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment orches­trates many of these activ­i­ties, deploy­ing elite cap­ture tac­tics and lever­ag­ing busi­ness coun­cils, cul­tur­al groups, and media part­ner­ships to embed Chi­nese inter­ests with­in for­eign polit­i­cal and eco­nom­ic insti­tu­tions, a pat­tern that has been doc­u­ment­ed in coun­tries from France to Ger­many and beyond. This mul­ti-pronged approach not only secures favor­able busi­ness con­di­tions but also pro­motes ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment and under­mines demo­c­ra­t­ic dis­course, as seen in recent inves­ti­ga­tions by the French Min­istry of Armed Forces, the Cor­po­rate Europe Obser­va­to­ry, and inde­pen­dent researchers track­ing Chi­nese influ­ence in West­ern media and politics.

Exter­nal References:

1. Cor­po­rate Europe Obser­va­to­ry: Fol­low the New Silk Road

2. French Min­istry of Armed Forces: Chi­nese Influ­ence Oper­a­tions Report (IRSEM)

3. BBC: Unit­ed Front: Chi­na’s ‘mag­ic weapon’ caught in a spy con­tro­ver­sy2

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