Lagstiftare undersöker hotet från Kinas kommunistparti i USA | NTD NYHETER

Next, lawmakers on Capitol Hill sound the alarm on the Chinese regime's growing threat inside America, from silencing critics to flooding our streets with fentanyl. NDD's Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more. Even though I was on the land of the free, I am not free. On the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, lawmakers on Capitol Hill examining the threats the Chinese regime poses inside America today. China is the world's worst perpetrator of transnational repression. Stealing from U.S. citizens, fentanyl poisoning of our cities and our young people, PRC-linked land purchases near military installations, effort to corrupt politicians and elections. The bipartisan Congressional Executive Commission on China looking at the Chinese Communist Party's efforts to silence its critics in the U.S. As a father, I was terrified for the safety of Alisa when she goes to Beijing to compete. For the United States of America. Arthur Liu, the father of Olympic gold medalist Alisa Liu, came to the U.S. as a political refugee in 1989, just after the Tiananmen Square massacre. While living in San Francisco, his family was targeted by agents working for the Chinese regime. That's after his daughter Alisa posted news on social media about China's human rights violations. I guess the Chinese government never forgot about that. This led him to take extra precautions when his daughter went to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Additional security for Alisa when she was in Beijing. She was accompanied at all times by two adults from venues to venues throughout the Olympic Games. The Hong Kong government, which is handpicked by the Chinese Communist Party, placed a bounty on dissident Anna Kwok after she testified in Congress in 2023 on the fall of democracy in Hong Kong. Freezing her assets, revoking her passport, and just last month, arresting her 70-year-old father. The CCP weaponized my love for my family in an attempt to silence me forever. Over at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lawmakers examining China's role in the fentanyl crisis. The deadly supply chain starts and is engineered in China. China is the world's primary source of fentanyl precursor chemicals, which are mainly sent to Mexican cartels to process them into the U.S. Drug overdoses mainly caused by fentanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, killing around 70,000 every year. And many of the victims are unaware that the drug they're taking is laced with a lethal dose of fentanyl. Never did I imagine that one of these policy challenges would strike my own family so directly. Steve Yates is a father of a fentanyl poisoning victim. Our daughter, Christina Marie, was just shy of her 25th birthday when she ingested an off-market Xanax laced with fentanyl. Saying that China, being an authoritarian state, will be able to crack down on this, but chooses not to. That's as the House Select Committee on the CCP found in a recent report that the CCP was subsidizing the manufacture and export of these fentanyl chemicals. When you have the actual government writing code that gives tax rebates to the companies that are involved in something that is illegal in China and illegal to export, it gets back to that fundamental question, are you negotiating with a government counterpart in good faith? And my answer is no. These hearings highlight bipartisan concern over the Chinese regime's activities in the U.S., from silencing dissent to causing the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. For NTD News Washington, I'm Jack Bradley.