President Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has repeatedly spoken at the U.S.-China Business Council – a lobbying group that “serves the interests” of Chinese and American companies – even defending a controversial Chinese state-funded project flagged as a “national security risk” by the U.S. intelligence community. In 2013, Vilsack headlined a U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) event, “Dinner in Honor of the US-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue.” Celebrating that relations between the U.S and the Chinese Communist Party have grown “stronger and deeper,” Vilsack also lobbied for the China Garden Project – a $100 million, 12-acre arboretum paid for by
