Trump administration could produce a potent tool against the CCP that Biden’s team delayed
A report on the wealth and corrupt activities of senior Chinese Communist Party officials could generate leverage over Beijing.
New Trump administration officials have the opportunity to spearhead the release of a powerful tool to confront the Chinese Communist Party: a report that would expose the corrupt practices of its senior members. Despite orders from Congress the Biden administration failed to release the report.
In 2022, Congress tasked the Director of National Intelligence and State Department to produce a report on the wealth and corrupt practices of senior Chinese Communist Party officials in the National Defense Authorization Act, but the Biden administration officials failed to publicly release that report by the deadline established by lawmakers.
"If the Chinese people knew"
The act, which was passed by lawmakers in 2022 for the 2023 fiscal year, directed then-DNI Avril Haines, in consultation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to compile the report on the senior officials, including General Secretary Xi Jinping and members of the elite Politburo Committee, and release the information publicly.
“This is an existential threat to the Chinese regime, because you have leaders with tens of millions—billions, in some cases—of funds outside of China. And if the Chinese people knew the extent of this, there probably would be a revolution,” Gordon Chang, a lawyer and China commentator who lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for decades, told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.
“Now I think that that actually did make it into US law, but they haven't enforced it, right? It hasn't started yet, right?” Chang said. “And so really, this is something where China is, I'm sure, lobbying the Trump administration, just as they lobbied the Biden administration over this.”
Neither the Office of the DNI nor the State Department responded to requests for comment from Just the News about whether the new leadership planned to move forward with the report. [more]
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