{"id":996419,"date":"2021-11-10T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=996419"},"modified":"2021-11-10T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T03:28:33","slug":"exclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-congress-take-action-to-stop-chinese-propaganda-from-infiltrating-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-congress-take-action-to-stop-chinese-propaganda-from-infiltrating-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Rep. Jim Banks Demands Congress Take Action to Stop Chinese Propaganda from Infiltrating Congress"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fexclusive-rep-jim-banks-demands-congress-take-action-to-stop-chinese-propaganda-from-infiltrating-congress%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=996419&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chinese-Communist-Party-children-flag-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) on Wednesday called out the Democrats\u2019 hypocrisy on China and demanded Congress take action on the Chinese propaganda that is delivered to Congress\u2019s doorsteps daily, according to a letter exclusively obtained by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the rhetoric in Congress is loud about \u2018combatting Chinese influence\u2019 and the need to be \u2018tough on China,\u2019 Americans will not take our claims seriously if we do not take action to prevent China from running propaganda in our own legislature,\u201d Banks said in a letter sent to House Administration Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese party-state has successfully infiltrated our free press and even our governing legislature to spread its propaganda. This is unacceptable and the Congress has a duty to respond,\u201d said Banks.<\/p>\n<p>Banks\u2019 letter follows his December 2019 request to the Committee on House Administration to hold a hearing on the growing dissemination of&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>&nbsp;in the halls of Congress.&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>&nbsp;is an English-language newspaper published by the Chinese Communist Party that gets delivered to each Congressional office at no charge:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>A registered foreign agent in the United States,&nbsp;<em>China Daily&nbsp;<\/em>is owned and bankrolled by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China \u2013 the agency responsible for monitoring and controlling all media in the one-party state. In recent years, China has increased its media outreach globally through outlets such as&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>. According to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) receipts, the Chinese party-state has invested over $20 million on&nbsp;<em>China Daily&nbsp;<\/em>between 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Banks\u2019 letter also called out the National News Agency for distributing&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>&nbsp;to congressional offices, writing that \u201cit openly advertises to its client: \u2018We will work directly with you to achieve any congressional objective.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<em>China Daily&nbsp;<\/em>arrives in offices alongside newspapers like&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em>, which Banks fears would lend the newspaper credibility regarding China-U.S. relations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Banks called on Congress to ban the unsolicited delivery of registered foreign agent publications to federal buildings:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>It would also present an opportunity for the Committee to consider legislative responses to China\u2019s foreign disinformation campaign. I recommend prohibiting unsolicited delivery of FARA-registered publications to federal buildings. This include&nbsp;<em>China Daily&nbsp;<\/em>and other state- owned propaganda outlets like&nbsp;<em>Russia Today<\/em>. I also recommend that the Committee consider legislation mandating the inclusion of a Disclaimer on all state-owned newspapers delivered to congressional offices. Such a Disclaimer should identify the newspaper as a propaganda and name the foreign government that produces and finances it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/32321-2__;!!Bg5easoyC-OII2vlEqY8mTBrtW-N4OJKAQ!dqYQH1AqMS9pHTayCPeg7wdG9EKLfbPsIvzqQ3SsTP0EtrJX4o4mK-PtunlV8T6fC1sd9KX87NLm$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claim<\/a>&nbsp;to support sanctions on China for \u201ccrimes against humanity targeting Uighurs,\u201d in practice, it is a different story. According to the National Review, the Democrats stripped out a&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/latest-reconciliation-bill-draft-omits-uyghur-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provision<\/a>&nbsp;of their reconciliation bill prohibiting funding for entities implicated in the Uighur genocide.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.304347826087\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Dems new reconciliation bill removes funding prohibitions going to entities which utilize Uyghur forced labor in China. <\/p>\n<p>Why in the world would Democrats want to give taxpayer dollars to corporations using Uyghur Muslim slaves???<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jim_Banks\/status\/1456353065716621319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Banks\u2019 letter comes five days after urging his Republican Study Committee (RSC) colleagues to vote against the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill because the climate change provisions would flow taxpayer dollars directly to the Chinese market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats\u2019 push for \u2018building back better\u2019 will do exactly the opposite by making the US economy more intertwined with and dependent on communist China,\u201d Banks said in an RSC memo. In the memo, Banks also addressed how the country \u201crelies almost entirely on Chinese manufacturers for low-cost solar modules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Further, he noted that as Democrats included a provision to make U.S. Postal Service trucks electric vehicles, it is \u201csure to boost the Chinese economy at the expense of American taxpayers\u201d because China produces close to half of the world\u2019s electric vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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