Recently, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued Order No. 4, announcing the "Decision on Taking Counter-Sanctions Measures against Yu Maochun and Todd Stein" in response to the earlier illegal sanctions imposed by the United States on two Chinese officials over the so-called "Tibetan human rights" issue.
Among them, American Todd Stein is the current deputy director of the Office of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China;
And this Yu Maochun has a good background. During the Trump administration, he once served as China affairs adviser to the Office of the US Secretary of State. He currently works as the director of the China Strategy Center of the think tank Hudson Institute. He also serves as a visiting professor at many universities in the United States.
Obviously, today Yu Maochun is still following his "boss", the extremely anti-China former US Secretary of State Pompeo , who also works at the think tank Hudson Institute.
Yu Maochun, who follows Fatty Peng
To be honest, over the years, there has always been a very clear pattern in the American political arena. Although in many aspects, the conflicts between the donkey and the elephant in the United States are very sharp, and have even reached a situation where they are irreconcilable. However, when it comes to the issue of China, both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party have always had the same attitude - being tough on China and advocating the China threat theory.
This has led to the fact that in the American political circle, whether you are white, black, or Asian, if you want to enter the cabinet or the White House, you must adhere to a tough stance against China. Even Chinese politicians with black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin cannot escape this curse.
Even, to a certain extent, in order to show their loyalty, Chinese-American politicians tend to have a tougher attitude towards China and jump more seriously on anti-China issues.
For example, the person in the picture below is Katherine Tai, the 19th U.S. Trade Representative and chief trade counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. During the China-U.S. trade war, she performed very fiercely. With her understanding of Chinese culture, she used all her firepower to suppress our country in various ways, and her attacks were quite ruthless.
In an interview, Dai Qi once praised President Biden , saying that his speech was "a clear assessment of China's challenges and threats." At the same time, he also proudly said - "I sued China on behalf of the United States, and the United States can win the case. I'm very happy."
Behind Dai Qi sat Biden and Vice President Harris
However, from another perspective, although Dai Qi is originally from Funing, Yancheng, Jiangsu and is 100% Chinese, she is a native American.
Dai Qi was born in Connecticut, USA, and grew up in Washington, D.C.. She holds a master's degree in law from Yale University and a doctorate in law from Harvard University. Even though she can speak good Chinese, the country in her heart that recognizes has long been the United States.
In March 2021, Dai Qi was sworn in as the United States Trade Representative in Washington, D.C.
So, let’s look back at Yu Maochun. His experience and life experience are quite different compared with Dai Qi.
Yu Maochun was born in New China and grew up under the red flag. Before becoming an American citizen, he had been a Chinese for more than 40 years.
Yu Maochun was born in Anhui, China, in 1962 and grew up in Chongqing. In 1979, he was admitted to the History Department of Nankai University as the top liberal arts scholar in Chongqing.
During his time at Nankai University , Yu Maochun performed very well and was given the opportunity to stay at the school to teach.
However, at this time, Yu Maochun was determined to go abroad.
In the end, he won the opportunity to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley, at public expense.
Generally speaking, according to our understanding, universities with the words "xx branch" in their names may be relatively marginalized. But the University of California, Berkeley, is a very powerful world-famous school, ranking 20th in the 2021 QS World University Rankings.
The University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1868. Many buildings have a strong classical style.
So, looking at it this way, Yu Maochun does have something extraordinary and is not mediocre.
However, after arriving in the United States, Yu Maochun gradually went astray.
After completing his studies with the tuition and living allowance provided by China, he abandoned the country where he was raised and studied abroad, and tried every means to stay in the United States. After receiving his Ph.D., Yu Maochun became a history teacher at the U.S. Naval Academy.
To be honest, this kind of choice was not uncommon in the 1980s and 1990s, when the gap between China and the West was large. After being "shocked" by the advanced Western life, many people couldn't help but sigh that "the moon in foreign countries is round."
Chinese college students applying for overseas visas in the 1980s
However, unlike those Chinese who stayed abroad and focused on professional skills, Yu Maochun obviously wanted more besides successfully becoming an American citizen and having a decent job in the United States.
In those years, in college classes in the United States, Yu Maochun relied on slandering China and the ruling party of the Chinese government, promoting the China threat theory, and advocating the words and deeds of splitting the motherland. He rose through the ranks, and attracted the attention of Washington, . He took the initiative to join the anti-communist conservative group in the United States.
In this way, relying on anti-China related "scientific research results", around 2016, Yu Maochun successfully entered the political circle from the academic circle, and embraced the "thigh" of the anti-China pioneer, the then new director of the CIA, Pompeo.
Yu Maochun regarded Pompeo as his "bole"
Later, as Pompeo was promoted to the US Secretary of State in 2018, Yu Maochun was immediately recruited by Pompeo into the core team of the US State Department that formulates China policy. His title is "Chief Advisor of the Office of China Policy Planning, Policies and Regulations", and he is regarded as a "treasure" by Fatty Peng. He is placed in an office just a few steps away from him, and has become a key figure in the regular strategic meetings of the US State Department.
At this time, Yu Maochun, who had been rising through the ranks by smearing, slandering and attacking China, actually designed an incredible "life experience" in order to step down from this "traitor" behavior.
He said that although he was originally from Anhui Province, China, and grew up in Chongqing, his ancestors were not Han Chinese, but descendants of Genghis Khan. He became Chinese at that time, but it was due to a combination of circumstances and he couldn't help it...
Throughout the Trump administration, the slander and attacks on China, as well as many groundless accusations, more or less have the shadow of Yu Maochun behind them.
For example, the trade war and technology war with China, the motion to hinder the use of software such as , WeChat, and ByteDance, the restrictions and framing of , Huawei, , etc., as well as the subsequent issue of tracing the origin of the new coronavirus, as well as divisive remarks related to Xinjiang and Taiwan, etc.
According to foreign media, around 2020, restricted cultural exchanges between China and the United States, restricted Chinese students from going to the United States, fabricated rumors that Chinese people were "stealing secrets" in the United States, carried out discriminatory investigations and even persecution of Chinese scientists in the United States, imposed restrictions on Chinese Communist Party members and their relatives from traveling to the United States, etc., which are also related to Yu Maochun's "positive suggestions."
The time of success
After the Biden administration came to power in 2021, with the defeat of his "boss" Pompeo, Yu Maochun had to temporarily withdraw from the political arena and continue to teach in the classroom of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Back then, my country announced sanctions on 28 senior US officials, led by Pompeo and Bannon.
As a result, after leaving office, Pompeo was forced to look for jobs everywhere and encountered obstacles many times.
Originally, Pompeo planned to serve as vice president of the Koch Group, one of the largest financial backers behind the US Republican Party , which has long funded him.
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But with the rapid implementation of Chinese sanctions, the Koch Group finally gave in and shut it out - if hired Pompeo, who is sanctioned by China, will be implicated in a series of projects related to the company and China. For the same reason, Pompeo has been rejected by many well-known companies such as DuPont, Mobil, and Boeing, and they are afraid to avoid him.
Even Pompeo’s son was fired early by his investment company on the grounds that “the company will not risk losing the Chinese market for one person, that would be suicide.”
Therefore, when he just left office, Pompeo, who was unemployed one after another because he could not find a job, had a very difficult time. So much so that in just a few months, the former "puffy fat man" suddenly lost weight and lost his appearance.
Of course, he himself said that this is the result of insisting on fitness, but who knows what he has experienced specifically.
Pompeo, who had a fat head, a red face, and talked about running the train, turned into a haggard old man with gray hair and wrinkles.
Finally, after half a year of hard work, in July 2021, Pompeo finally successfully "re-employed" and found a job at the Hudson Institute, a think tank that gathers American conservatives.
Pompeo came to the think tank Hudson Institute with his old partner, Yu Maochun.
The one in the middle is Pompeo after losing weight, and the one on the right is Yu Maochun
Gradually, through various extreme anti-China remarks and suggestions, Yu Maochun, who was originally very close to the Republican Party and served as an aide in the Trump administration, still maintained close ties with Washington and a certain degree of media influence during the Biden administration.
After entering 2022, he sensed the opportunity for the Republican Party to gain an advantage in the mid-term elections, so he wanted to show off his "anti-China" achievements and began to make a fuss about the Taiwan issue.
Yu Maochun publicly published an article urging Taiwan to learn and Israel , claiming that Israel, which is only 2/3 of Taiwan in area, has been able to defeat its far larger opponents three times in 40 years... And Taiwan, like Israel, has the backing of the powerful United States. If Israel can do it, Taiwan can certainly do it. To this end, he also boasted about Tsai Ing-wen, saying that Tsai Ing-wen is "comparable to former Israeli Prime Minister Mrs. Meir."
This is really a big pot of ecstasy soup for Taiwan. I guess even the Taiwanese themselves can’t believe it.
For such a rare traitor in the world, Yu Maochun's alma mater, Chongqing Yongchuan Middle School, has announced that he will be expelled from the school, and the Anhui clan's Yu family also took the initiative to expel him from the family tree.
It has been circulated on the Internet that four generations of the Yu family ancestral hall met to remove it.
So, how can Yu Maochun's crazy, absurd and extremely destructive "China suggestions" easily win the trust and recognition of high-level US officials?
A large part of the reason is that political opportunists like Yu Maochun just cater to the mentality of American politicians of "seeking medical treatment in case of illness". In the current situation where the economy continues to decline, the unemployment rate continues to soar, and racism issues arise one after another, the most common method used by American politicians is to use the contradictions between China and the United States to divert the attention of the domestic public and use more extreme China policies to boost the election.
At this time, Yu Maochun, who had great political ambitions, immediately started to flatter him, and his policy propositions were exactly what the anti-China faction wanted. As a result, the two sides had the same affinity and hit it off immediately.
I can only say that the rise of Yu Maochun and his likes just shows that American politics has become "ill-organized and will become worse if left unchecked."....
