DNC Chair Secretly Addressed Chinese Communist Party Conference

At the conference, a CCP official urged America to drop the “enemy narrative” about China. DNC Chairman Emeritus Howard Dean delivered the American welcome address at a China dialogue involving the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, a think tank identified in congressional commission testimony as “run by Chinese intelligence.” The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, which co-organized the event⁠, has an equally explicit allegiance. Its charter⁠ says it: “upholds the comprehensive leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.” According to the American organizer’s account⁠, Dean delivered his welcome virtually on June 23, 2026. The meeting took place in...