{"id":19271,"date":"2025-08-31T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19271"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T19:38:42","slug":"threats-and-cash-how-china-meddles-in-u-s-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19271","title":{"rendered":"Threats and Cash: How China Meddles in U.S. Local Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Chinese government didn&#8217;t like that a New York state resident had a meeting with Taiwanese officials. They&nbsp; found someone to run against her, supported the opponent, and she lost the election. The Chinese government intervened in this election and successfully changed who represents&nbsp;Americans. The Chinese government has done this to multiple people in multiple elections in&nbsp;multiple countries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese groups in America have people pledge to achieving Chinese Communist Party specific goals. Chinese Americans in these groups have business interest in China, and the Chinese government&nbsp;can control them by threatening these business interests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Threats and Cash: How China Meddles in U.S. Local Elections\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lISewNerBlA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese government didn&#8217;t like that a New York state resident had a meeting with Taiwanese officials. They  found someone to run against her, supported the opponent, and she lost the election. The Chinese government intervened in this election and successfully changed who represents Americans. The Chinese government has done this to multiple people in multiple elections in multiple countries. <\/p>\n<p>Chinese groups in America have people pledge to achieving Chinese Communist Party specific goals. Chinese Americans in these groups have business interest in China, and the Chinese government can control them by threatening these business interests. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lISewNerBlA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,655,431,198,272,355,314,1033,619],"class_list":["post-19271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-lobbying","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19272,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19271\/revisions\/19272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}