Nominee to lead Export-Import Bank is second Biden pick advising pro-China group

President Joe Biden’s nominee to run the Export-Import Bank is the second official he has picked to help compete with China who also serves as a strategic adviser for a group that advocates for more U.S.-China investment and has repeatedly partnered with organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

Reta Jo Lewis, Biden’s pick to run EXIM who is awaiting a full Senate vote, is listed as a “strategic adviser” for the United States Heartland China Association, an organization “committed to building stronger ties” with China that regularly partners with organizations tied to the CCP’s United Front Work Department — China’s foreign influence arm, which Xi Jinping described as a “magic weapon.”