Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Gordon Chang: the CCP is running influence operations inside US politics—and he says Washington still isn't moving hard enough to stop it.
Chang points to the federal foreign-agent case against Linda Sun in New York—a former senior aide charged with secretly acting on behalf of the Chinese government—as a sign of how deep Beijing's reach into American political institutions now runs.
And he argues it goes well beyond politics. On US soil, Chang notes, investigators uncovered an unlicensed lab in Reedley, California, and raided a storage depot in Las Vegas—and he's almost certain a third facility, likely a full lab, is still out there.
His core frustration: we know what Beijing is doing, he says, yet neither major party is willing to confront the operations head-on.
"This is just gonna continue until we move forcefully on this."
Gordon Chang: the CCP is running influence operations inside US politics—and he says Washington still isn't moving hard enough to stop it.
Chang points to the federal foreign-agent case against Linda Sun in New York—a former senior aide charged with secretly acting on behalf of the Chinese government—as a sign of how deep Beijing's reach into American political institutions now runs.
And he argues it goes well beyond politics. On US soil, Chang notes, investigators uncovered an unlicensed lab in Reedley, California, and raided a storage depot in Las Vegas—and he's almost certain a third facility, likely a full lab, is still out there.
His core frustration: we know what Beijing is doing, he says, yet neither major party is willing to confront the operations head-on.
"This is just gonna continue until we move forcefully on this."
