The UK government has largely failed in preventing the Chinese regime from its “creeping capture” of multilateral organisations, 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 organisations such as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and then using them to shift policies. In a report published on Thursday, the committee said that although the UK Government has “successfully countered malign interference in multilateral organisations” at times, the committee believes that “it has failed to adequately respond to the creeping capture of organisations by China,” warning of a “very real risk” that democratic states will lose these organisations to authoritarian states. The committee said the Chinese regime has been using economic leverage and other aggressive means to coerce counties to back its position or candidates, as well as steadily acquiring key official positions to expand …