Bill Gertz
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China is subverting the United States through multibillion-dollar influence campaigns and U.S. political warfare operations inside China are needed to counter the activities, a panel of experts told Congress on Thursday.
Four specialists in Chinese influence and intelligence activities told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the operations range from recruiting university professors and corrupting American officials to cyber and internet influence operations, technology theft and coercive political activities.
The Senate hearing was one of the first of its kind by Congress to examine in detail the activities of Beijing’s United Front Work Department, a Chinese Communist Party organization engaged in aggressive political influence operations targeting a wide range of American institutions.
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