Commentary Sing Tao, Beijing’s most influential propaganda outlet in the overseas Chinese communities, has been required by the U.S. Department of Justice to register its U.S. subsidiary as a “foreign agent.” This is the first Hong Kong-based news outlet to be thus labeled. Sing Tao’s parent company is Sing Tao News Corporation Limited (STNC). According to the document filed by Sing Tao U.S. on Aug. 23 under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the company is “owned by a foreign government, foreign political party, or other foreign client.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) “determined the newspaper’s U.S. operations qualified as foreign influence efforts,” according to a report by Axios. STNC, listed in the Hong Kong Exchange, is the oldest and second largest newspaper in the city. It has branches and operations all over the Western world. Apart from the flagship Sing Tao Daily, it also publishes several tabloids and an English …