How China Can ‘Hack’ US Elections Without Hackers
The declassified election documents reveal that china’s Communist Party (CCP) has been actively manipulating U.S. election infrastructure and voter data to influence outcomes, particularly in the 2020 election. Allegations include the theft of voter data from tiktok accounts to produce fraudulent IDs and facilitate noncitizen voting. The report warns that China might exploit the U.S. birth tourism industry-where Chinese nationals use surrogacy and birthright citizenship to secure American IDs for children-to influence future elections illegally. The CCP is already heavily involved in birth tourism, with a significant percentage of surrogacy contracts involving Chinese nationals, possibly allowing them to “harvest” votes through U.S.-born children eligible to vote. Additionally, China has infiltrated American universities and research institutions, stealing sensitive information and encouraging political unrest via social media and media manipulation.The recent Supreme Court ruling granting citizenship based on birthplace further enables China to entrench influence, as children born in the U.S. to Chinese nationals can be raised abroad but retain voting rights, potentially serving Beijing’s geopolitical goals.
One of the biggest revelations from President Donald Trump’s declassified election document dump on Thursday night was a report indicating the Chinese Communist Party acquired and exploited American voter data to influence the 2020 election.
One FBI information report released alleged China manufactured tens of thousands of fraudulent drivers’ licenses using data harvested “from millions of TikTok accounts” to ensure noncitizen “Chinese students and immigrants sympathetic” to the authoritarian regime could send mail-in votes for Joe Biden in 2020.
The allegation is alarming, but not as alarming as the fact that, over the next few decades, China could hack U.S. elections without ever breaking a law, risking punishment, or even raising the eyebrows of the intelligence community.
Thanks to the Supreme Court’s recent birthplace citizenship ruling, the CCP doesn’t need to manufacture fake IDs to sway votes in favor of Democrats. All China has to do to take advantage of America’s elections is to use the birth tourism industry to manufacture babies who are entitled to real American IDs as soon as they are born in the U.S.
China is already a known top exploiter of the U.S. birth tourism industry. One 2024 report claimed Chinese nationals made up 41.7 percent of the surrogacy contracts between foreigners and American women between 2014 and 2020. During that same time period, foreigners’ use of the American birthplace citizenship surrogacy scheme increased by 78 percent.
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At that rate, the CCP could ballot-harvest an entire generation of Americans who are sold to any foreigner rich enough to rent a U.S. woman’s womb, get that baby’s U.S. paperwork, and whisk the child back to be raised in China. Because the Supreme Court ruled that if an infant is born on magic U.S. dirt, that child will be entitled to all of the rights of an American child, including the right to cast a ballot as an overseas citizen voter, even though he is susceptible to indoctrination and weaponization by Xi Jinping’s communist regime.
The CCP has already proved it can infiltrate American universities, installing spies posing as students and professors to steal U.S. research and trade secrets. According to a series of declassified memos from an unnamed “sensitive government agency,” China also “had developed capabilities” ahead of the 2020 election to “encourage,” among other hot-button issues, violent demonstrations such as Black Lives Matter riots on both social media and in corporate media.
Birthplace citizenship promises China the opportunity to prime political interference in children even younger than college students and online-addicted teens. For the CCP, violating America’s sovereignty starts in the cradle — no TikTok user data harvesting required.
Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of “The Federalist Radio Hour.” Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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