The Justice Department\u2019s top national-security prosecutor warned that China aims to influence U.S. congressional races, days after federal prosecutors brought charges against a former aide to New York governors who allegedly acted on Beijing\u2019s behalf.</p>\n

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\u201cWe know that the PRC is focused on influencing down-ballot races \u2014 congressional races in particular \u2014 focusing on candidates that it views as particularly threatening to core PRC security interests,\u201d Matthew Olsen, an assistant attorney general, said this afternoon, referring to the People\u2019s Republic of China.</p>\n

Olsen, who runs the department\u2019s national-security division, addressed a range of foreign election-interference threats during an event hosted at Columbia Law School by the National Security Law Program.</p>\n

He warned specifically about efforts directed by Russia, Iran, and China and said these countries view U.S. elections as a \u201cmoment of vulnerability for the United States.\u201d Olsen also reiterated the intelligence community\u2019s previous assessment that Russia \u201cposes the most active foreign-influence threat to this year\u2019s elections\u201d and seeks to influence the presidential race. \u201cThose are the three main countries that we\u2019re concerned about, Russia \u2014 pretty much in that order \u2014 Russia, Iran, and China,\u201d he said.</p>\n</Connatix>\n

While Olsen hewed closely to the written remarks that were prepared in advance and later posted online, his comment about Beijing\u2019s specific interest in congressional races was not included in the pre-delivery text of the speech later distributed to media. His remarks on China\u2019s political interference generally followed a September 6 election-security update published by the office of the director of national intelligence, which identified China\u2019s focus on \u201cinfluencing down-ballot races,” though not the specific focus on Congress.</p>\n

The September 6 update also said that China is \u201cnot attempting to influence the presidential race.\u201d A U.S. intelligence assessment</a> regarding the 2022 midterms, declassified in December 2023, previously found that Chinese leaders ordered officials to focus on Congress \u201cbecause Beijing is convinced that Congress is a locus of anti-China activity.\u201d</p>\n</AdUnit></MoreInTag>\n</AdUnit></TopStories>\n

Olsen did not identify specific races in which Beijing-backed actors have demonstrated an interest in influencing this year, but he did refer to a previous Chinese attempt to intervene in a 2022 U.S. congressional race and said that a range of malign Chinese-government actions and \u201cparticularly, the transnational repression activities of the PRC, can influence or impact our elections.\u201d</p>\n

The Justice Department alleged in that case that Qiming Lin, an individual affiliated with China\u2019s Ministry of State Security (MSS) espionage agency, attempted to hire a private investigator to sabotage the congressional-primary campaign of a man later identified in the media as Xiong Yan, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was a student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests. At one point, Lin asked the investigator, who collaborated with federal law enforcement, to manufacture a car accident that would \u201cwreck\u201d the candidate. Yan, who ran in a Democratic primary on Long Island, was not harmed, but he later told</a> National Review</span> that he believes the Chinese government \u201csuccessfully\u201d tanked his candidacy.</p>\n</AdUnit></MoreFromAuthor>\n</AdUnit></MoreInTag>\n

Olsen also noted numerous recent law-enforcement actions and intelligence disclosures involving foreign regimes\u2019 efforts to subvert the American political system. These include the indictments of individuals charged with acting as foreign agents for Russian propaganda outlet RT without registration, the conviction today of four Florida residents on charges that they worked on behalf of Russia\u2019s FSB espionage agency, an intelligence disclosure in July stating that the Iranian government ran an online influence campaign to exploit the anti-Israel protest movement, and the indictment of a former aide to the New York governor on allegations that she acted as an unregistered agent for China.</p>\n

During a subsequent conversation with Columbia Law professor Matthew Waxman, the national-security-law program\u2019s director, Olsen said the department was pursuing \u201caggressive\u201d transparency this year by issuing regular updates about foreign countries\u2019 election-interference efforts, as a response to previous foreign-influence controversies surrounding the 2016 and 2020 elections. \u201cWhat we\u2019re able to do, I think, is to shine a very bright light on this activity, and to do so in a way that\u2019s nonpartisan and nonpolitical but that does arm our citizens with the information that we need to know when we\u2019re dealing with foreign influences, particularly those that are covert,\u201d Olsen said.</p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The Justice Department\u2019s top national-security prosecutor warned that China aims to influence U.S. congressional races, days after federal prosecutors brought charges against a former aide to New York governors who allegedly acted on Beijing\u2019s behalf.</p>\n

\u201cWe know that the PRC is focused on influencing down-ballot races \u2014 congressional races in particular \u2014 focusing on candidates that it views as particularly threatening to core PRC security interests,\u201d Matthew Olsen, an assistant attorney general, said this afternoon, referring to the People\u2019s Republic of China.</p>\n

Olsen, who runs the department\u2019s national-security division, addressed a range of foreign election-interference threats during an event hosted at Columbia </a> ...</p>\n","right_rail_widget":{"widget_type":"more-from-author","slideshow_widget_title":"Latest Photos","slideshow_widget_post":null,"slideshow_widget_post_title":"","slideshow_widget_categories_exclude":[6068]},"amp_enabled":true,"type":"post"},"request":{"type":"singular","object_type":"blog-post","is_premium_content":true,"is_magazine_article":false,"is_metered":true},"schema_ld":"{\n "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org",\n "@type": "NewsArticle",\n "headline": "Top DOJ Official Warns That China Seeks to Influence Congressional Races",\n "url": "https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/top-doj-official-warns-that-china-seeks-to-influence-congressional-races\/",\n "thumbnailUrl": "https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/matthew-olsen-doj.jpg?fit=789%2C460&ssl=1",\n "dateCreated": "2024-09-12T20:38:58-04:00",\n "datePublished": "2024-09-12T20:38:58-04:00",\n "dateModified": "2024-09-12T20:38:58-04:00",\n "articleSection": [\n "corner"\n ],\n "creator": [\n "Jimmy Quinn"\n ],\n "author": [\n "Jimmy Quinn"\n ],\n "keywords": [\n "topic: Elections",\n "topic: National Security & Defense",\n "China",\n "Congress",\n "Department of Justice",\n "NRPLUS Member Articles",\n "section: The Corner",\n "Premium Content"\n ],\n "metadata": {\n "wordcount": 699,\n "postType": "blog-post",\n "post_id": 1701221,\n "hide_from_widgets": false\n },\n "isAccessibleForFree": "",\n "hasPart": [],\n "publisher": {\n "@context": "http:\/\/schema.org",\n "@type": "Organization",\n "name": "National Review",\n "logo": {\n "@type": "ImageObject",\n "name": "National Review",\n "width": "360",\n "height": "180",\n "url": "https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/themes\/national-review\/static\/images\/logo.png"\n },\n "url": "https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com"\n },\n "image": {\n "@type": "ImageObject",\n "url": "https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nationalreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/matthew-olsen-doj.jpg?fit=2057%2C1200&ssl=1",\n "width": 2057,\n "height": 1200\n },\n "mainEntityOfPage": "https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/top-doj-official-warns-that-china-seeks-to-influence-congressional-races\/"\n}","site_social_links":{"facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/nationalreview","twitter":"https://twitter.com/NRO","instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/nationalreview/","youtube":"https://www.youtube.com/nationalreview","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-review","flipboard":"https://flipboard.com/@NationalReview"},"search_ignored_terms":["the","of","at","to","as","in","on","to","for","and","a","an"],"template_items":{"hero":{"layout":"","items":[],"settings":{},"recirculation":{"enabled":false,"items":[]},"news_widget":{"enabled":false,"title":"","link":"","position":"","number_to_display":0,"number_to_display_mobile":0,"items":[]}},"items":[],"has_next_page":true},"issue_archive":[],"home_featured_videos":[],"home_hero_module":[],"home_magazine_cta":[],"home_breaking_news":{"enabled":false,"breaking_term":"","breaking_utm_param":"","breaking_text":""},"revcontent":[]},"headers":{"X-Is-Subscriber":"false"}},"/nr/v1/social":{"body":{"facebook":"https://www.facebook.com/nationalreview","twitter":"https://twitter.com/NRO","instagram":"https://www.instagram.com/nationalreview/","youtube":"https://www.youtube.com/nationalreview","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-review","flipboard":"https://flipboard.com/@NationalReview"},"headers":{"Cache-Control":"public, max-age=86400"}},"/nr/v1/menus/footer-1":{"body":{"items":[{"title":"Magazine","url":"/magazine/?utm_source=footer&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=sections&utm_term=first&utm_content=magazine","order":1,"children":[],"visibility":""