Senators Martha McSally (R., Ariz.) and Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) introduced a resolution Thursday that would demand China repay $1.6 trillion in sovereign debt with interest, compounding on debt existent since 1912, before the creation of the Chinese Communist Party regime, Fox News reported.
The Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington, D.C., think tank, partnered with a Shanghai policy center that the FBI has described as a front for China’s intelligence and spy recruitment operations, according to public records and federal court documents. 
Touring Eastern Europe this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphasized the threat of Chinese and Russian anti-democratic aggression in a series of speeches and visits. 
The Trump administration on Thursday designated one of China’s central propaganda hubs in the United States as a Communist Party outpost, a move meant to limit its influence and crack down on the spread of Chinese disinformation on America’s college campuses. 
Taylor Lorenz, the New York Times‘s resident expert on teen culture, recently highlighted an “excellent piece” by former Times editorial board member Sarah Jeong. The piece, published in The Verge, criticized the Trump administration’s efforts to ban TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media app popular with sexy teens who like to dance.
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen extolled the progress of the Taiwanese-American relationship and sharply criticized China's treatment of Hong Kong in a speech Wednesday, at a video event cohosted by the Center for American Progress and the Hudson Institute.
Republican lawmakers launched a probe into U.S. reliance on Chinese-made drones, which have become standard in many state and local law enforcement agencies and are used as espionage tools by the Communist regime. 
The U.K. Parliament's China Research Group (CRG)—a caucus of Conservative Party China hawks—has increased both its membership and operations significantly since January, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. 
Department of Health and Human Services secretary Alex Azar concluded his trip to Taiwan Tuesday with a speech criticizing China, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A report released last Friday by the Director of National Intelligence indicates that Russia, China, and Iran are engaged in sabotage efforts to influence the 2020 presidential election.
