US: Bruno Wu’s 吴征 Global Partnership Against Coronavirus Alliance (GPACA) 全球合作抗击冠状病毒联盟 joins with US State Legislative Leaders Foundation to “secure the supply of PPE for U.S. hospitals"

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-state-legislative-leaders-foundation-sllf-and-the-global-partnership-against-coronavirus-alliance-gpaca-enter-into-a-partnership-to-secure-the-supplies-for-us-hospitals-in-the-battle-against-covid-19-301030155.html
US: For more on US united front figure Bruno Wu 吴征 and his “Global Partnership Against Coronavirus Alliance" 全球合作抗击冠状病毒联盟, see:

https://twitter.com/search?q=Bruno%20wu%20%40geoff_p_wade&src=typd

https://twitter.com/search?q=Global%20Partnership%20Against%20Coronavirus%20Alliance%20(GPACA)%20&src=typd
President of SLLF, Stephen Lakis: "I am proud of our partnership with GPACA and I am equally proud of our long-standing partnership with the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries."
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-state-legislative-leaders-foundation-sllf-and-the-global-partnership-against-coronavirus-alliance-gpaca-enter-into-a-partnership-to-secure-the-supplies-for-us-hospitals-in-the-battle-against-covid-19-301030155.html
The State Legislative Leaders Foundation has long been tied with CCP united front bodies. Here Vice President of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries Xie Yuan meets with President Lakis of State Legislative Leaders Foundation
https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/news/detail/id/5322/lang/2.html
US: Stephen Lakis and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation have been key in the PRC-initiated China-U.S. Sub-national Legislature Exchange Mechanism and other sub-national united front initiatives
http://archive.is/ON8WR 

and
https://www.cpaffc.org.cn/index/search/list.html?key=lakis&lang=2
US: For further on Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries efforts to influence US through subnational bodies, see

https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Dotson_Presentation.pdf?x28725

https://jamestown.org/program/china-explores-economic-outreach-to-u-s-states-via-united-front-entities/
On broader global efforts by the PRC-CCP to exert influence through subnational bodies, see various works by @jichanglulu , including "Confined discourse management and the PRC’s localised interactions in the Nordics"

https://sinopsis.cz/en/confined-discourse-management-and-the-prcs-localised-interactions-in-the-nordics/

and

https://twitter.com/jichanglulu/status/1055792170869895168
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