The UK government has largely failed in preventing the Chinese regime from its “creeping capture” of multilateral organizations, a cross-party committee of MPs has said. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said that the Chinese Communist regime has been using both aggressive and subtle means to gain control in multilateral organizations, such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), and using them to shift policies. In a report published on June 17, the committee said that although the UK Government has “successfully countered malign interference in multilateral organizations” at times, the committee believes that “it has failed to adequately respond to the creeping capture of organizations by China,” warning of a “very real risk” that democratic states will lose these organizations to authoritarian states. The committee said the Chinese regime has been using economic leverage and other aggressive means to coerce countries to back its position or candidates within multilateral organizations, as well as steadily acquiring key official …