The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) relies to a large degree on a strategy of luring powerful figures in American politics and business to extend its influence and avoid the consequences of its misdeeds, according to Peter Schweizer, author of the book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China.” “The strategy is to buy off the elites in the United States by giving them lucrative deals and special access to the Chinese market,” Schweizer told NTD’s “China in Focus” program on March 21. NTD is an affiliate of The Epoch Times. “It involves political figures, but it also involves corporate executives. And it’s a very effective strategy, and it hamstrings our ability to deal with the threat posed by the Beijing regime,” The breadth and depth of the cross-section of American policymakers and businesspeople caught up in this web of influence is “scary,” he said. It encompasses the president’s family and …