A group of 35 U.S. lawmakers has urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate the Chinese state-run newspaper China Daily for alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
China Daily, an English-language newspaper, is overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Publicity Department, the governmental agency in charge of disseminating propaganda. Over the past few years, it has spent millions running supplements—called “China Watch”—containing propaganda disguised as news, in major U.S. newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
