by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2025 Real World News
A top funder of leftist, anti-Trump Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is listed as an official with a Chinese intelligence agency, a report said.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Gary YuGary Yu, who helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads, is Yu Guoliang, an official with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), The Daily Caller News Foundation reported on Monday.
“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” author and China expert Gordon Chang told the Daily Caller. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”
“Wu’s ultra-leftism makes her the perfect candidate for CCP recruitment and capture,” Chang said. “Or do we have it backward? Is her ultra-leftism the result of CCP recruitment and capture? More than just the people of Boston would like to know.”
Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, also operates as a recruiter for the communist government in Beijing, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media, and civic associations led by Yu.
Wu is seen as a leader in the Democrat Party’s resistance to President Donald Trump’s border and deportation policies.
During her March 19, “State of the City” address, Wu criticized “presidents who think they are kings,” prompting the White House to fire back the next day with a press release labeling Wu a “radical mayor” who “puts violent criminal illegal aliens first.”
Yu is identified as an “overseas committee member” by the Hangzhou municipal All-China Federation Of Returned Overseas Chinese (ACFROC) branch in Zhejiang province and has met with their officials in China multiple times, according to the website of the North American Hangzhou Association (NAHAUS), where Yu serves as chairman.
ACFROC is a UFWD agency specializing in overseas influence operations, including allegedly directing Chinese community leaders to illegally establish a secret Chinese police station in New York City.
“China’s strategy to influence state and local policymakers is executed, in part, through hundreds of ostensibly ‘civil society’ organizations that are actually affiliated with the CCP’s UFWD,” Michael Lucci, CEO of State Armor, a nonprofit focused on countering the CCP, told the Daily Caller. “Xi Jinping considers United Front work a critical tool to undermine democracies. It involves influence peddling, intelligence collection, and intellectual property theft, all for the end goal of aligning U.S. subnational governments with China’s foreign policy and exploiting weaknesses they find.”
Yu has agreed to recruit U.S. talent for at least half a dozen Chinese regional governments, including the cities of Hangzhou and Guangzhou, according to Chinese government and ACFROC announcements.
According to the House Select Committee on the CCP, the UFWD’s operations are a “unique blend of engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations that the [CCP] uses to shape its political environment, including to influence other countries’ policy toward the [People’s Republic of China] and to gain access to advanced foreign technology.”
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