{"id":1542670,"date":"2022-07-07T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542670"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T13:04:26","slug":"u-s-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-foreign-election-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-foreign-election-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department Offers $10 Million Reward for Info on Foreign Election Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-state-department-offers-10-million-reward-for-info-on-foreign-election-interference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542670&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of State has recently rolled out an incentive to reward individuals up to $10 million for providing any information on foreign inference in U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>In the past five decades, foreign election interference has been reported in the United States, such as in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2016\/07\/russia-dnc-hack-donald-trump-foreign-governments-hacking-vietnam-richard-nixon-214111\/\">1968 presidential election<\/a>. In the past seven years, it has become one of the hottest topics in the country, particularly about alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2018\/11\/04\/foreign-powers-interfered-election-why-didnt-lbj-stop-them\/\">Russian and Chinese interference<\/a> in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of State\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rewardsforjustice.net\/rewards\/foreign-interference-in-us-elections\/\">announced<\/a> on June 30 that its Rewards for Justice program \u201cseeks information leading to the identification or location of any foreign person or entity who knowingly engaged or is engaging in foreign election interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the reward offer \u201cseeks information leading to the prevention, frustration, or favorable resolution of an act of foreign election interference, including by dismantling, in whole or significant part, an organization engaged in such activity,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese regime\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/infographic-chinas-2020-election-interference_3645973.html\">interference in the U.S. elections<\/a> has been publicly acknowledged by its own economist.<\/p>\n<p>In his July 2016 speech on \u201cSino-U.S. Strategic Philosophy,\u201d Jin Canrong, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing\u2019s Renmin University of China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_breakingnews\/xi-jinpings-adviser-outlines-plan-for-ccp-to-defeat-us-including-manipulating-elections_3748196.html\">explained<\/a> how the regime interferes in U.S. elections to bring pro-Beijing candidates to power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government wants to arrange Chinese investments in every single congressional district to control thousands of voters in each district,\u201d Jin said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that with the U.S. population standing at about 312 million across 435 congressional districts at the time, there were roughly 750,000 residents living in each district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voting rate in the United States is about 30 percent, which means around 200,000 residents in each congressional district vote for the representative in that district,\u201d Jin said. \u201cNormally, the difference of votes between two candidates is 10,000 or less. If China has thousands of votes on hand, China will be the boss of the candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jin said Beijing\u2019s ambition is to control at least the House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3748218\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/03\/24\/Jin-Canrong-1200x760.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3748218 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/03\/24\/Jin-Canrong-1200x760.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Jin Canrong, professor and deputy director of the Studies Center of the U.S. at Renmin University, comments on the U.S.-China talks in Beijing, China, on March 19, 2021. (Screenshot\/Jin Canrong\u2019s channel\/YouTube)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe best scenario is China can buy the United States and change the U.S. House of Representatives into the second Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress,\u201d he said, referring to the committee that oversees the CCP\u2019s rubber-stamp legislature.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Beijing did more than Jin mentioned to interfere in the U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2020, documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice showed that since November 2016, the Chinese propaganda outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinese-propaganda-outlet-paid-millions-to-washington-post-wall-street-journal_3381900.html\">China Daily<\/a> paid more than $4.6 million to the Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal to run advertisements that look to some like news reports.<\/p>\n<p>To influence U.S. public opinion against Republicans during the 2018 midterm elections, Chinese state media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/beijing-uses-iowa-newspaper-supplement-to-bring-trade-war-propaganda-to-us-heartland_2670814.html\">China Daily<\/a> ran a four-page advertorial in the Des Moines Register\u2014one of Iowa\u2019s top newspapers\u2014with content about the Sino-U.S. trade war impacting the exporting of soybeans to China. Iowa was a swing state, with multiple state and federal political offices up for election. Soybeans have been Beijing\u2019s main weapon in the trade dispute.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the CCP\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/infographic-chinas-2020-election-interference_3645973.html\">made clear through<\/a> its state-run media that it favored a presidency under then-Democratic Party candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0because he would be \u201csmoother\u201d to deal with than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-nicole-hao\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/15f5846635a68b74_ttl7dayOyw_WEB_NicoleHao_4.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Hao\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nicole Hao is a Washington-based reporter focused on China-related topics. Before joining the Epoch Media Group in July 2009, she worked as a global product manager for a railway business in Paris, France.\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News AnalysisThe U.S. Department of State has recently rolled out an incentive to reward individuals up to $10 million for providing any information on foreign inference in U.S. elections. 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