You won’t read about it in the dominant media, but there was a Bay Area political scene in the 1990s and early 2000s that was influenced to a startling degree by China. What you also won’t read in the pages of most news outlets is that 2024 Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris and likely 2028 White House hopeful California Gov. Gavin Newsom are both products of it.
Harris and Newsom owe their career ascensions to the mentorship of Willie Brown, former mayor of San Francisco and a longtime icon of Democrat machine politics in the Golden State. Brown in turn was unusually close to Chinese kingmakers in the Bay Area who have been tied to espionage activity by the red Beijing regime.
Let’s take one example. Rose Pak was a towering figure in San Francisco’s Chinese-American community. In 2018, Zach Dorfman, senior fellow at the Carnegie…
