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Did you know that during the Chinese Cultural Revolution a Jewish man headed the Chinese Broadcast Administration?

https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2012/the-jewish-chinese-revolutionary

JTA
Jewish Telegraph Agency

"I mistakenly thought that China during the revolutionary period was one country that had not felt the Jewish embrace. In fact, 85 to 90% of the foreigners helping the Chinese at the time of the Communist takeover were Jewish"

https://forward.com/schmooze/159051/a-jew-in-maos-china/

The Forward
THE SCHMOOZE
A Jew in Mao’s China

https://jewishcontributions.com/infotables/communist-china/

Jewish Contributions

Info Table

Communist China

During the nineteenth century, both antisemites and those opposed to Freemasonry argued that Jews manipulated Masonic ideology and international connections for nefarious purposes.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/freemasonry

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Masonic_conspiracy_theory

Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory

While in China, he served all around the country as a surgeon and Minister of Health in the Provisional Communist Military Government of China under Mao Zedong

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Rosenfeld

Wikipedia

Rosenfeld was born to a Jewish family

Jewish Advisors in the Roosevelt Administration

Adding to the situation was Roosevelt’s attitude toward Jews, which “was complicated,” Morgan asserted. He surrounded himself with Jewish advisors

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/the-jews-and-roosevelt/2021/11/14/

Jewish Press

Joe Biden's A-Team of Jewish advisers, cabinet members and staff

https://m.jpost.com/opinion/joe-bidens-a-team-of-jewish-advisers-cabinet-members-and-staff-658350

The Jerusalem Post

JPost

My husband, Charles, was related to the only Jew, probably the only Westerner, to become a general in the Chinese Army – known as “Two-Gun Cohen” – who played a historic part in China’s abstention and the UN’s recognition of a Jewish state in 1947.

https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/two-gun-cohen-the-chinese-general-who-swung-the-un-vote-665125

JPost

Mao’s Jews
Rosenfeld isn’t the only one of his kind — more than a handful of Jews played roles the rise in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and are largely neglected by history.

“[M]any of the foreigners who went to China and worked with either the CCP or the left wing of the [Chinese Nationalist Party] were Jewish,” says Grunfeld.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-jewish-doctor-helped-form-backbone-of-revolutionary-chinas-medical-system/

Times of Israel

The Jews Who Fought With Mao
They weren't many, but Jakob Rosenfeld was one of them; China later honored him by putting his picture on a stamp.

https://www.haaretz.com/2012-07-27/ty-article/the-jews-who-fought-with-mao/0000017f-f082-d8a1-a5ff-f08aa3230000

Haaretz

In the summer of 2012, Israeli writer Tom Segev published an article entitled “The Jews who fought with Mao.” He of course named some names:

“Not many Jews fought on Mao’s side, but Ianto Kaneti wasn’t the only one – there was also the Viennese-born urologist Jakob Rosenfeld, whose aid to Mao earned him the rank of general and a job as health minister in the Manchurian government.

https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/11/14/the-jews-who-fought-with-mao/