Oakley City Councilmember Anissa Williams’s junket to China continues to disturb me. Leaving Oakley under the cloak of darkness and failing to inform the community of the trip violates all tenets of transparency and truth in my perception. The City Hall staff of Oakley, especially City Manager Joshua McMurray, failed to communicate with the City residents about the trip, which was a translucent act in my mind.
As mentioned previously, China is a hostile nation to the United States. The United States Department of State continues to report the Chinese Communist Government violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United States daily. China has a totalitarian government seriously oppressing and marginalizing its population. The Chinese Communist Government is not a symbol of democracy for the world to emulate.
Councilmember Williams reports the China–United States Exchange Foundation funded the trip. Williams further reports that the CUSEF is a non-profit organization out of Hong Kong. The Jamestown Foundation reports that this is false. The CUSEF is a Communist Government Organization that operates under the guise of a non-profit to beguile American Government members into thinking it operates independently of the Chinese Government solely for the sketchy purpose of promoting trade between the countries. The CUSEF weaves a treacherous web to entangle American government officials for the CUSEF purposes.
I have provided three links below describing the China Silicon Valley organization, which Williams states coordinated the trip, the Jamestown report on the CSUEF (look at pages two and three where I highlighted the deceitful practices of the organization), and the U. S. Department of State Human Rights assessment of China in the year 2023.
George Fuller, Ed.D.
City Citycouncilmember, City of Oakley, CA
