Beijing Watches Closely as US Votes in Midterm Elections

Intelligence operations try to advance greater strategy of political subversion

Voters get an 'I VOTED TODAY' sticker after casting their ballots on election day in Red Oak, Iowa on November 4, 2014. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

In the lead-up to the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, the Chinese communist regime has been intensively gathering information about the political process, a Taiwanese news agency reports.

Feeling the pressure of the Sino-U.S. trade war, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has never paid so much attention to an American midterm election as now, a source close to a Chinese diplomatic think tank told Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA) on Nov. 4.