Virginia Democrat Spanberger received $ 50,000 from the Chinese businessman
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The candidate for the Democratic Governor of Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, took $ 50,000 to a Chinese businessman linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CPC), according to the campaign financing registers.
The donations came into two payments of $ 25,000 in April and May of Pin Ni, president of Wanxiang America, the American branch of the Chinese automotive conglomerate group Wanxiang, which has profound links with the PCC.
Wanxiang Group posthumously awarded the founder of the company, Lu Guanqiu, the title of “national member of the exceptional Communist Party” in a Press release 2021 And congratulated Guanqiu for his “pursuit of communism as an ideal and practice for life”. The press release also said that Guanqiu, the late Pin’s stepfather Ni, “has always listened to the Party (Chinese Communist) and followed the party,” found a digital journal of Fox News.
The press release continued by citing the praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping de Guanqiu, saying that he was “in accordance with the central party committee. He always actively does what our committees and party governments at all levels defend”.
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Abigail Spanberger, nominated from the Democratic Party of Virginia for the Governor, is addressed to the crowd during an event in support of his candidacy for the Eastern Henrico Recreation Center in Richmond, Virginia, April 8, 2025. (Max Posner / The Washington Post / Getty Images)
The founder’s biography on the Wanxiang website says it was elected the 13th and 14th representatives of the CCP, and a delegate for the 9th, 10th and 11th National Congress of the Chinese people, a high level of the Hierarchy of the PCC.
Don’s revelations intervened under the name of Spanberger, a former American representative of Virginia, champions of credits and taxes of electric vehicles – which could directly benefit from Wanxiang EV operations.
“Virginians know that Abigail Spanberger has demonstrated a record for defense of American national security, by providing results for the families of Virginia through parties of the parties and never withdrawing from keeping the American people safe,” a spanberger spokesperson in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“His campaign will remain focused on what Virginians care about, ensuring our communities in safety, reducing costs, protecting Virginia jobs and ensuring that Virginia public schools are the best in America,” added the spokesperson.
While accepting the $ 50,000 in contributions to the pine campaign, Spanberger continued to highlight its national security titles on the campaign path.
“At the CIA, she had a mission: to protect and serve the United States of America,” said her campaign website. “She worked under cover to identify national security threats, prevent terrorist attacks, stop the spread of nuclear weapons and follow transnational criminal networks.”
The legislators of the two parties have long raised fears that the Chinese government has exploited educational exchanges, research partnerships and commercial investments in the United States as coverage of spy activities. These warnings have intensified in recent years in the midst of an in -depth examination of Beijing influence operations on American soil.
Former President Joe Biden poses with the time. Abigail Spanberger, D-VA., While he left after having pronounced the address of the union state in March 2024. (Reuters / Elizabeth Frantz)
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A spokesperson for the WinSome Earle-Sears campaign told Fox News that Spanberger “felt international interests again.”
“Take $ 50,000 to a person with clear bonds from the Chinese Communist Party tells us everything we need to know,” said the spokesperson. “You cannot claim to resist foreign threats while pocketing someone’s money celebrated by the CCP.”
According to financing files of the campaign of the Federal Electoral Commission, Pin nor has a long history of political gifts to democratic and republican candidates across the country. His contributions cover several electoral cycles and include candidates at the levels of the state and the federal government. In October 2024, Pin donated to the National Republican National Committee and the “Pac Purpure” of the Democratic Senator of New Jersey Cory Booker.
