The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the agency that arranged it alongside Mandelson’s Global Counsel consultancy, is believed by experts to be a longstanding Chinese Communist party influence operation with a covert mission to co-opt western businesspeople.
After the 2021 meeting, a Global Counsel representative wrote to Valdis Dombrovskis, who holds Mandelson’s old post of trade commissioner in Brussels, to tell him about it, according to partly redacted documents released by the European Commission in response to a freedom of information request by the Guardian.
In a 2018 post on Global Counsel’s website, Mandelson recounted one of his many visits to China, to meet the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
So either Lord Mandelson has a shallow knowledge of China – which is dangerous given the work he has done for Chinese companies, thus promoting China’s interests.
Questions raised over Lord Mandelson’s work with Chinese ‘influence operation’ New ambassador to US and his consultancy firm under spotlight over links to agency said to have aim of co-opting western businesspeople.
