Senior employees of a firm under fire for allegedly working to facilitate the “capture of critical standards organizations to advance Beijing’s vision for authoritarian internet control” have histories of making donations to prominent Democrats.
On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of legislators sent a letter to Futurewei vice president Jason Chao demanding answers following a slew of public reports detailing how his company had worked to place pro-Chinese Communist Party individuals on the boards of important nonprofit groups responsible for setting industry standards in fields related to technology. Chao himself has donated nearly $30,000 to Democratic political committees since 2020, according to Federal Election Commission records. Futurewei, according to the House Select Committee on the CCP, has diligently “expanded its footprint in policy and industry circles” in
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