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The scale of the donations alone is notable. But the deeper issue lies in who Zhu represents and whose interests he has openly advanced throughout his legal career.
DeHeng Law Offices was originally created in the early 1990s as China Law Office, a subsidiary established by the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Justice. The firm was later rebranded as DeHeng in 1995 and has since expanded across China with more than two dozen offices.
Despite claims of independence, numerous firm biographies show attorneys working directly with Chinese government departments and state-owned enterprises.
A Resume Built on Advancing Beijing’s Interests
Zhu’s own professional biography reads less like a standard Silicon Valley legal résumé and more like a case study in facilitating Communist China’s economic reach into the United States.
He openly boasts of representing “an investment fund of a major state-owned enterprise in acquiring majority shares in one data analytics software company in the Silicon Valley” in a deal valued at $100 million.
Another bio states he “has assisted Chinese companies and funds to complete more than $9 billion investments in the fields of chips, unmanned vehicles, new energy, artificial intelligence, industrial automation, and biopharmaceuticals in the United States.”
Zhu further claims, “On behalf of Chinese enterprises, he has negotiated with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Department of Treasury and other organizations for many times and achieved compliance plans, which greatly reduced the compliance risks for Chinese clients in the United States.”
He also advised “a governmental investment fund from Shenzhen for its compliance with CFIUS regulations in the U.S.”
The WeChat Lawsuit and Land-Grab Opposition
Zhu’s activism did not stop at corporate deals. He was also involved in the legal fight against President Trump’s attempted 2020 ban of WeChat, a platform widely viewed by national security experts as a CCP surveillance and propaganda tool.
According to his bio, Zhu represented “WeChat users in a historic lawsuit that sued President Trump and successfully stopped his WeChat ban in 2020.”
In recent years, Zhu has aggressively opposed state-level laws designed to prevent Chinese nationals from buying land near U.S. military bases.
After Texas enacted such legislation, Zhu called it “unfair, unconstitutional and un-American.”
He leveled similar criticism at Florida’s foreign adversary land-purchase ban, declaring in 2023, “**All Asian Americans will feel the stigma and the chilling effect created by this Florida law, just like the discriminatory laws did to our ancestors more than a hundred years
