Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) criticized Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision as being “very malicious and malevolent” for attempting to manipulate the U.S. government protocols and silence dissenting voices. “It is really just no business of a foreign Chinese-backed company to be interfering and trying to use and exploit our Ethics Committee to try to spy on and try to cause sanctions, or even fining or any other penalties, to be weighed in on a U.S. company that is actually exposing them in the media,” Tenney told NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media, during a Jan. 26 program. Washington has blacklisted China’s Hikvision, a leading video surveillance gear maker both at home and abroad, since 2019 under Trump-era orders over cybersecurity and human rights concerns. The company, with a market value of over $70 billion, was deemed to associate with the Chinese military and support the Chinese Communist Party’s human rights abuses …