Ji purchased the golf courses to provide a “networking opportunity for Chinese and American business people,” and to create a “platform” for “people-to-people diplomacy” with U.S. lawmakers, according to Chinese state media reports and a DCNF translation of Ji’s 2014 autobiography “New Circle.” Over the next seven years, the Chinese government dispatched Ji on a series of trade missions to Guangzhou, Europe, Japan and the U.S., until he quit his post in June 1989 and moved to America to pursue his graduate degree in economics at New York University, according to DCNF translations of the 2024 interview and his autobiography. “After a Chinese grain-buying delegation’s interpreter fell ill in New York, a friend introduced me to fill in, so I led the delegation to Louisiana where we met the governor, the agriculture commissioner, and the commerce secretary,” Ji said, according to a DCNF translation of the interview.
Author: Daily Caller News Foundation
Published at: 2026-01-05 22:04:05
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