Experts recommended a structural and comprehensive U.S. response to the influence and interference of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
A Transnational Rights Protection office to connect “the national security, civil liberties, and academic freedom risks presented by PRC [People’s Republic of China] overseas political activities” was recommended at a hearing with the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), an influential congressional advisory body, on Thursday by Andrew Chubb, director of Lancaster University China Centre in the United Kingdom and a fellow at the Asia Society.
At the same hearing, Peter Mattis, director for intelligence at the Special Competitive Studies Project, suggested a new “open source information and intelligence organization” to address the need to “bridge the intelligence community, the rest of the U.S. government, and outside partners in business, academic, and civil society.” His organization is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening America’s competitiveness in artificial intelligence and other technologies….