China’s new US ambassador urges Chinese students and compatriots to serve their country.

China’s new ambassador to the United States, Xie Feng, has published open letters on the embassy’s official website, calling on Chinese Americans and Chinese students in the US to work with the Chinese Embassy to serve communist China. In one letter titled “To Fellow Compatriots in the United States,” Xie directly addressed Chinese Americans and Chinese expats in the United States on behalf of the motherland, trying to invoke nationalistic or ethnic sentiment with phrases such as “blood is thicker than water.”

“Your support, involvement, and contribution would be most valuable,” Xie wrote.

Xie called on the Chinese community in the United States to help the regime improve US-Sino relations as defined by Xi Jinping, leader of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and to serve as “a bridge that connects the two countries” because that community has “a stake in China-U.S. relations.”

“A China marching toward modernity is a boon to the Chinese people and to countries across the world,” he wrote. “You are most welcome to visit China often to experience the progress of the country and find opportunities there for self-fulfillment.”

Xie also extended an invitation for them to visit China and expressed his desire to expand his connections in the Chinese community in the United States.

Chinese Students in the US

Xie told Chinese students in the United States to “stay united” in “loving [China] and studying abroad to serve the motherland,” and to work with the Chinese Embassy. He told them, “Tell China’s story well to your American friends.” “Tell China’s Story Well” is the Chinese communist regime’s overseas propaganda slogan to push the CCP’s narrative of its rule in China to the world.

Infiltrating the US

Xie’s open letters were published right after a series of arrests of Chinese Americans who served the Chinese communist regime’s interests and agenda in the United States, in violation of US laws.

Litang Liang, a Chinese community leader and US citizen living in Boston, was arrested earlier this month for secretly providing the Chinese communist regime with a “blacklist” of US-based pro-democracy dissidents from 2018 to 2022. This week, two men in California were charged by federal prosecutors for helping the CCP to persecute practitioners of Falun Gong—a faith group teaching the values of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance that has been illegally persecuted in mainland China since 1999.

Protecting CCP’s Interests

Although Xie has been viewed by many in the diplomatic world as a relatively low-key figure, compared with his predecessor Qin Gang and other “wolf warrior” diplomats of the CCP, he made it very clear on the day he arrived in the United States for his new post that he has “come here to safeguard the interests of China.”

Xie is known for his behind-the-scenes work in striking deals with politicians in the United States. He has extensive contacts in strategic and business circles in the United States, which seem to be his main focus.