U.S. Officials: China Waging An Unprecedented Campaign To Influence American Public Opinion In Next Month's Congressional Elections

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Russell Travers, Acting Director of National Counterterrorism Center, testify before a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing on "Threats to the Homeland" at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., October 10, 2018. REUTERS/Alex Wroblewski

Reuters: China trying to sway U.S. vote, poses threat: officials

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China is waging an unprecedented campaign to influence American public opinion as November congressional elections approach and presents the greatest long-term counterintelligence threat to the United States, U.S. security officials said on Wednesday.

Senators on the Homeland Security Committee questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI Director Christopher Wray about President Donald Trump’s assertion that China is interfering in U.S. elections and asked whether Beijing poses a larger threat to the country than Moscow.

Nielsen told the panel there were two types of threats to American election security from other nations: hacking or disruption of election infrastructure, which includes voter registration lists or voting machines, and influence campaigns.

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WNU Editor: This story deserves far more coverage than what it is receiving. FBI Director Christopher Wray's comments are on the money ....

.... “China in many ways represents the broadest, most complicated, most long-term counterintelligence threat we face,” affecting every sector of the U.S. economy, Wray said.

“Russia is in many ways fighting to stay relevant after the fall of the Soviet Union. They’re fighting today’s fight. China’s is fighting tomorrow’s fight.”