House Passes "Malign Influence Fund"

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House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas

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The House passed HR 1157 , the “Countering the PRC Malign Influence Fund ” by a bipartisan 351 -36 majority.

The bill authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” Julian Zelizer says the bill would represent a large increase in federal spending on international influence operations.

Zelizer: It's possible that the program could in some cases be used to covertly funding covert anti-Chinese messaging.

Proposed legislation would make U.S. protests against similar foreign government activities look hypocritical.

Some operations funded to counter Chinese influence will be far more mundane and less cinematic, says Marcus Stanley .

Stanley: The overwhelming bipartisan majority for HR 1157 is a snapshot of a culture in Washington that seems not to see the risk of the same covert activities that we criticize in other countries.

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