Sec. 2. Findings
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Congress finds the following: On February 18, 2020, the Department of State designated the China Daily as a foreign mission for the purposes of the Foreign Missions Act ( 22 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.). Under its most recent registration statement required under section 2 of the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, the China Daily reported receiving $4,775,792.81 from its foreign principal between November 1, 2019, and April 30, 2020, for the purpose of disseminating informational materials.
Between November 2016 and October 2020, the Washington Post received more than $4,600,000, and the Wall Street Journal received more than $6,000,000, for services, including advertising and printing, as disclosed to the Department of Justice. Beijing’s Global Megaphone, a special report by Freedom House, states that Beijing is gaining influence over crucial parts of some countries’ information infrastructure, as Chinese technology firms with close ties to the CCP build or acquire content-dissemination platforms used by tens of millions of foreign news consumers. .
On January 15, 2020, the Washington Post noted, Aware that the audience for the China Daily might be limited, Beijing has adopted a practice it calls . borrowing the boat to reach the sea to place its content in advertorial China Watch supplements in respected newspapers … A 2019 report published by the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University details how China uses information campaigns to communicate its capabilities, undermine the credibility of foreign political systems, and correct misperceptions by addressing negative reporting.
The 2018 annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommends that Congress direct the Department of Justice to clarify labels required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938, as amended, on informational materials disseminated on behalf of foreign principals, such as the China Daily, so that those labels must appear prominently at the top of the first page of such materials.
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