Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are urging nine U.S. media companies to stop working with or accepting money from China Daily, a publication that targets Americans with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda. In their letter, the senators expressed serious concerns about the CCP’s efforts to infiltrate U.S. institutions, which include subverting domestic news outlets to amplify its malign talking points.
“Despite mounting evidence of the CCP’s attempts to harass and intimidate American citizens, spy on sites of national security importance to the U.S., and influence our elections, your outlet has chosen not to cut ties with China Daily,” the senators wrote.
“By continuing to do business with China Daily, your outlet is disseminating CCP propaganda to an American audience. No company based in the United States, including news outlets, should be complicit in legitimizing the CCP’s heinous acts or promoting the regime’s outright lies,” the senators continued.
Read the full letters to The Seattle Times, the Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, TIME, USA Today, the Financial Times, the Sun Sentinel, and the Chicago Tribune.
