Foreign countries paying for public officials’ trips cause concern
After running our article last week about the borough’s relations with the People’s Republic (“Brooklyn’s Mixed Message to China?“) we heard from Dr. Ming Xia, Professor of Political Science at the Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island, the City University of New York.
Our dialogue resulted in a short Q & A with Dr. Xia, touching upon the Borough President’s recent trip to China, the source of funding for such a trip (and other trips by public officials), potential conflicts of interest, and the state of Chinese-American relations generally.