Gallagher Says Beijing’s Spies Are Probably Targeting Congress

The chairman of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition with China said that Beijing’s spies are likely targeting Congress.

“I think it’s reasonable to assume that all of us in Congress, and our staffs, by the way, are targets for the MSS or targets of United Front work, and we need to be aware of that fact and cognizant of it,” Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), the panel’s chairman, said today, referring to China’s Ministry of State Security spy agency and the United Front Work Department. This powerful Chinese Communist Party bureau works to influence non-party members in China and across the world.