Tag: Foreign Agent

Chinese State-Run News Agency Xinhua Registers as Foreign Agent in US

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has registered as a foreign agent under U.S. law, more than two years after the Justice Department (DOJ) reportedly ordered it to do so. Xinhua’s U.S. division was registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) on May 5, according (pdf) to the department’s online FARA database. This makes Xinhua…


Former Sen. Barbara Boxer Cancels Plan to Lobby for a Sanctioned Chinese Company

Former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) registered to lobby for a Chinese firm last week. Now she decided to deregister hours after her registration was reported. “Due to the intense response to my registration I have determined that my continued work has become a negative distraction from my effort to preserve American jobs and make the company…