It was late February 2020, as the pandemic was heating up in the United States, when a request from China caught Wisconsin state senator Roger Roth’s attention.
It was an email from Wu Ting, wife of the Chinese consul general in Chicago.
Wu wanted Roth to help pass a resolution “in support of China’s fight against the novel coronavirus.”
The “Chinese government has taken unprecedentedly rigorous measures to bring [the coronavirus] under control, including locking down Wuhan,” she wrote in a Feb. 26 email that has been viewed by The Epoch Times.
“We have drawn up a draft resolution just for your reference,” she wrote, adding that the Chinese consulate in Chicago was committed to promote China-Wisconsin relations, “particularly mutually beneficial cooperation in trade, agriculture, and other fields and people-to-people links.”…