Chinese Communist Party-run media is the Democratic Party’s newest ally in the push for widespread absentee ballot usage in the 2020 election. Branding Republican opposition to the practice as “a denial of American democracy” after President Trump criticized it on Twitter, analysis from CCP-funded, Beijing-based University of International Business and Economics Professor John Gong in China Global Television Network (CGTN) – a registered “foreign agent” in the U.S. – questions “the big difference between exercising one’s democratic right by physically going to a polling station versus exercising the same right by mailing” and why President Trump is “scared” of the
