The five cabinet appointees assigned to monitor federal elections for foreign interference could not read Chinese and largely dismissed Chinese Communist Party election interference that had been written in the language.
Allen Sutherland, assistant secretary to the cabinet, testified before the foreign interference inquiry that monitors did not spend a significant amount of time looking at Chinese-language media because none of the appointees could read or speak the language and they felt it was only targeting the Chinese diaspora, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.
