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As to boldness, as the [[Christopher Wray|FBI Director]] has recently pointed out, the [[PRC]] has been “engaged in a highly sophisticated malign foreign influence campaign,” using bribery, blackmail, and other malign tactics to influence our year-round policymaking, which certainly has implications for our elections.  [[Beijing]]’s corrupt methods are not always as blatant as its [[Chinagate|illegal campaign financing was in 1996]]; PRC tactics are more subtly pernicious and complex.  Beijing, for example, works relentlessly to co-opt seemingly independent middlemen who can influence members of Congress on a host of policies....  

As to boldness, as the [[Christopher Wray|FBI Director]] has recently pointed out, the [[PRC]] has been “engaged in a highly sophisticated malign foreign influence campaign,” using bribery, blackmail, and other malign tactics to influence our year-round policymaking, which certainly has implications for our elections.  [[Beijing]]’s corrupt methods are not always as blatant as its [[Chinagate|illegal campaign financing was in 1996]]; PRC tactics are more subtly pernicious and complex.  Beijing, for example, works relentlessly to co-opt seemingly independent middlemen who can influence members of Congress on a host of policies....  

I want to touch briefly on the current threat landscape as we head toward Election Day. ...As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ([[ODNI]]) recently made public on August 7, some foreign governments have preferences about our election — and have taken or planned malign activities in support of their preferences — including efforts by China and [[Iran]] to undermine President Trump and his Administration’s policies...<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-deputy-attorney-general-jeffrey-rosen-malign-foreign-influence-us-elections</ref>}}

I want to touch briefly on the current threat landscape as we head toward Election Day. ...As the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ([[DNI|ODNI]]) recently made public on August 7, some foreign governments have preferences about our election — and have taken or planned malign activities in support of their preferences — including efforts by China and [[Iran]] to undermine President Trump and his Administration’s policies...<ref>https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-deputy-attorney-general-jeffrey-rosen-malign-foreign-influence-us-elections</ref>}}

Between May 1, 2020 and October 31, 2020 the Chinese Communist Party paid $1,027,254.12 to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Bay Area Production Services, LLC (San Francisco), ''The Seattle Times'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Walton Press, Inc. (Atlanta), FNP Printing & Publishing (Washington D.C.), Stellar Printing, Inc. (New York City), ''The Houston Chronicle'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', Hawaii Hochi Ltd. and Sun Sentinel Company (Miami) to print the ''China Daily'' newspaper in the United States.<ref>https://erbn.online/1009</ref>

Between May 1, 2020 and October 31, 2020 the Chinese Communist Party paid $1,027,254.12 to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', Bay Area Production Services, LLC (San Francisco), ''The Seattle Times'', ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', Walton Press, Inc. (Atlanta), FNP Printing & Publishing (Washington D.C.), Stellar Printing, Inc. (New York City), ''The Houston Chronicle'', ''[[The Boston Globe]]'', Hawaii Hochi Ltd. and Sun Sentinel Company (Miami) to print the ''China Daily'' newspaper in the United States.<ref>https://erbn.online/1009</ref>