Nearly 90% of Canadians Want Ottawa to Set Up a Foreign-Influence Registry

In the U.S., the Foreign Agent Registry Act has been in place since 1938. In recent years, new legislation, such as the “Countering the Chinese Government and Communist Party’s Political Influence Operations Act of 2018,” has been introduced in response to Beijing’s growing interference in the country.

FBI Investigating Chinese ‘Police Station’ In New York

“We’ve seen a clear pattern of the Chinese government, of the Chinese Communist Party exporting their repression right here into the U.S.,” Wray said. “We’ve had a number of indictments … of the Chinese engaging in ‘law enforcement action’ right here in the United States, harassing, stalking, surveilling, and blackmailing people who they don’t like or disagree with the [Chinese President] Xi Jinping regime.” 

European Lawmakers Visit Taiwan, Taking Different Path from Scholz

Speaking to VOA in September, legislator Gyde Jensen, a member of the FDP who participated in the IPAC delegation, said China’s treatment of Hong Kong and the Muslim minorities in Xinjiang have “disqualified” Beijing as a “trusted member of our rules-based order, which should alarm [every]one, especially those who conduct business there.”

Uyghur Rights Groups Support Request to Debate China’s Xinjiang Record

Just before Michelle Bachelet’s term ended as U.N. high commissioner for human rights, she released a much-anticipated report on China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, including the arbitrary detention of Muslim groups including Uyghurs in so-called vocational education training centers, forced sterilization, coerced labor, family separation, and religious repression.

MI5 Warns of Chinese Infiltration in UK Parliament

Tobias Ellwood, who presently chairs the Commons Defense Committee, stated that such “grey-zone interference” is to be anticipated from China. However, he wants the government to approach the matter with a “sense of urgency.”

China Condemns Australia’s Boycott of Winter Olympics

“It is not surprising that Australian government officials would therefore not be going to China for those Games,” said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “Australian athletes will, though. Australia is a great sporting nation. I very much separate the issues of sport and these other political issues, and I would like to see those issues resolved, but they are not resolved, and Australia will not step back from the strong position we have standing up for Australia’s interests.”