Di Dongsheng

In a public speech on November 28, 2020, Di allegedly boasted before a live audience about China's influence in America's "core inner circle of power", especially in relation to the incoming administration of president-elect Joe Biden, saying "Biden is back! Our old friend is back!" Di, who was speaking at an event hosted by the Chinese nationalistic video channel Guan Video (官视频), bragged about Beijing's sway over Wall Street and Biden's son Hunter, whose previous business dealings in China had recently come under scrutiny.

Di's research interests include the international political economy of money and financial systems, China's economic foreign relations, and the political economy of the United States. Since 1999, he has published a number of scholarly articles in both Chinese and English.

Since 1994, he has been a student and later a professor at Renmin University of China. He has also been a visiting scholar or a part-time lecturer at Sciences Po, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Boston University Brussels, and Georgetown University.

Di Dongsheng (Chinese: 翟东升; pinyin: Dí Dōngshēng, born 1976) is an associate dean and professor of international political economy and international relations at the School of International Studies (SIS) of the Renmin University of China (RUC). Di is also a senior research fellow at the International Monetary Institute of RUC and a member of the Centre for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University, a think tank closely affiliated with the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party (IDCPC), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), and the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.