Sam Cooper/The Bureau: The Bureau has previously reported on Barton’s extensive network ties to Jin Liqun and to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney — relationships forged across decades of elite financial and diplomatic engagement with Beijing, including through the World Economic Forum. Barton’s role at the November 24 event was not peripheral.
He opened the session at which Taylor hosted the outgoing president of a Chinese institution that, as The Bureau has reported, a growing number of experts regard as a vehicle for Chinese Communist Party influence projection…