China Censors Boast About Influence on Biden, Wall Street After It Goes Viral
A Chinese professor’s speech boasting about Beijing’s influence over President-elect Joe Biden was removed from the country’s social media platforms after going viral in the U.S., underscoring how sensitive ties between the world’s two biggest economies are after strife under Donald Trump.
The speech by Di Dongsheng, a professor of international relations at Renmin University, was delivered in November, and boosted Monday after Fox News host Tucker Carlson talked about the remarks and Trump tweeted a clip. Di, who was speaking at an annual event hosted by the nationalistic Chinese website Guan Video, bragged about Beijing’s sway over Wall Street and Biden’s son Hunter and said: “Biden is back! Our old game is back.”
Carlson seized on the comments on his Monday broadcast as proof that U.S. elites have been working on behalf of China. By Thursday, video of the talk had been removed from Chinese social media and video platforms.
Di said that China “used to know people at the top” in the U.S. financial world. “We have a network of ‘China’s old friends’ on Wall Street, who had access and control over the D.C. politicians,” Di said, adding that those connections failed to help during the trade war because “Wall Street can’t control Trump.”
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