{"id":1995573,"date":"2023-08-09T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-asks-doj-to-investigate-chinese-funding-of-left-wing-activists\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:36:40","slug":"rubio-asks-doj-to-investigate-chinese-funding-of-left-wing-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-asks-doj-to-investigate-chinese-funding-of-left-wing-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio urges DOJ to probe Chinese funding of left-wing activists."},"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\">20<\/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%2Frubio-asks-doj-to-investigate-chinese-funding-of-left-wing-activists%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=1995573&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Rubio Asks DOJ To Investigate Chinese Funding of Left-Wing Activists\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/known-foreign-payments-to-biden-family-soar-past-20-million-house-oversight-committee-reveals\" data-post-url id=\"print-1780191\">\n<div>\n<p><h2 class=\"engaging-heading\">&#8216;Combatting Beijing\u2019s Malign Influence Must Be a Key\u2062 Objective for the DOJ,&#8217; Says Rubio<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n          <strong>Image: \u200d <\/strong>Sen. Marco Rubio \/ Getty Images<br \/>\n        \u2064<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. Marco Rubio \u2064(R., Fla.) is\u200b urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an\u200c investigation into\u2064 U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fox-news-is-a-uniquely-destructive-force-leftists-call-for-boycott-of-fnc\/\" title=\"\u2018Fox News Is A Uniquely Destructive Force\u2019: Leftists Call For Boycott Of FNC\">left-wing activist groups<\/a> that\u200b have ties to an\u200b international Chinese Communist Party funding network. He also criticized the \u2062Biden administration for its lack of awareness or indifference\u2062 towards this\u2064 growing \u200bthreat.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio, a prominent China hawk in Congress, expressed concern that &#8220;far-left organizations reportedly\u200d linked to the \u2064Chinese Communist Party&#8221; are\u200b operating freely in the United States. \u200bIn a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, which was obtained\u2063 by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, Rubio called for\u2064 an investigation into whether these \u200dgroups violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act by failing to register as agents of China.<\/p>\n<p>This call for action comes after a groundbreaking report by the <em>New York Times<\/em> exposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rubio-asks-doj-to-investigate-chinese-funding-of-left-wing-activists\/\" title=\"Rubio urges DOJ to probe Chinese funding of left-wing activists.\">dark-money network run<\/a> by American tech\u200c mogul Neville Roy \u2064Singham. This\u2063 network promotes pro-Chinese government propaganda through various U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-joe-biden-used-taxpayer-money-to-buy-young-voters-in-the-2022-midterms\/\" title=\"How Joe Biden Used Taxpayer Money To Buy Young Voters In The 2022 Midterms\">left-wing nonprofit groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the \u2064organizations receiving \u2064funding from this network are Code Pink, No\u2062 Cold \u2064War,\u200c the United\u2062 Community Fund,\u2064 and the Justice \u200dand \u2063Education Fund, according to the <em>Times<\/em>. These groups have advocated for progressive policies while downplaying China&#8217;s genocide against the Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Foreign \u2064Agents \u2063Registration Act mandates that groups and individuals engaged in political activities or lobbying on behalf\u2062 of foreign interests must \u2062register as \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">foreign agents<\/a>. In recent\u200d years, the \u200bDOJ has\u2064 intensified its enforcement of this\u200b law, bringing \u2062high-profile cases against \u2062individuals like former\u200b professor Gal \u200bLuft, who allegedly failed to register his work for \u200ca Chinese think tank that also \u2062paid Hunter Biden, and former Trump \u200dcampaign \u200dchairman Paul Manafort, who pleaded guilty for not disclosing his work for\u2062 a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Combatting Beijing\u2019s malign \u2063influence must be a key objective for the U.S. Department of Justice,&#8221; wrote Rubio. &#8220;Unfortunately, it appears the DOJ is either unaware \u200dor ambivalent to this\u200c growing threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio urged \u200bthe attorney general \u200bto &#8220;immediately investigate&#8221; Code Pink and seven other groups for potential violations of the Foreign \u200cAgents Registration\u200d Act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CCP \u200bis our greatest adversary, and we cannot allow\u200d it to abuse our \u200bopen \u2062system to\u2064 promote its\u2064 malign influence any \u200blonger,&#8221; emphasized Rubio.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) urges the DOJ to prioritize countering Beijing&#8217;s harmful influence. He calls for an investigation into U.S. left-wing activist groups connected to a Chinese Communist Party funding network. 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