New Book Provides Details on Newsom’s Junket to Communist China

Commentary Last fall I wrote three articles in the Epoch Times exposing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s adventure in communist China: “Chinese State-Owned Media Uses Gov. Newsom in Massive Propaganda Blast,” “Gov. Newsom Embarrasses California in Meeting Dictator Xi in China,” and “Newsom Junket Appeases Communist China.” A heavily footnoted new book reveals more on that propaganda trip as well as other connections the governor enjoys with the Beijing regime. It’s “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” by veteran investigative journalist Peter Schweizer. “Since Newsom is not a U.S. federal official and simply a state governor, the trip was organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, an ‘affiliate’ of Chinese intelligence,” Mr. Schweizer writes....