Saturday, June 7, 2025

Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner

 Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Trump Crypto Dinner
The warm welcome for a technology executive whose purchases of the president’s digital coin won him a White House tour illustrates inconsistencies in the administration’s views toward visitors from China.

He Tianying outside the White House on May 23. Mr. He is a member of an advisory body that seeks to broaden the Communist Party’s influence and solicit support from influential people in Chinese society.Credit...Jason Andrew for The New York Times