The pro-China business group that counts two key Biden administration picks as strategic advisers likened the Justice Department’s crackdown on Chinese economic espionage to “McCarthyism” in a shocking panel discussion last month.

Reta Jo Lewis, Biden’s nominee to run the Export-Import Bank, and Mitch Landrieu, the new infrastructure czar, are both listed as “strategic advisers” for the U.S. Heartland China Association, which regularly works with Chinese organizations tied to the CCP’s United Front — which Xi Jinping has described as a “magic weapon.”