Article snippet: Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) wants to end the circulation of the state-run China Daily to members of Congress, a vehicle used to spread propaganda about the country’s communist regime and its ongoing human rights abuses. “Xi Jinping hopes China Daily will muddy American lawmakers’ understanding of his policies,” Banks told Breitbart News. “All of Congress must fully grasp the way the Chinese Communist Party’s brutalizes its own citizens and subverts the U.S.” “We certainly must not tolerate the presence of China’s agitprop in our own offices,” Banks said via email. Banks sent a letter to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), chairwoman of the Committee on House Administration, asking for a hearing on China Daily, which said in part: He said a hearing would also provide the opportunity to “consider legislative responses to China’s foreign disinformation campaign,” including prohibiting the distribution ofForeign Agent Registration Act (FARA-registered publications to federal buildings, including China Daily and Russia Today.” Banks’ effort to ban China Daily comes after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the deceptive content of the publication and how China “routinely broke federal law by not disclosing how much it spent to publish regime propaganda in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers, an expert review of foreign agent registration filings concluded.” The Free Beacon documented how China Daily as a proxy of the Chinese communist government, has repea... Link to the full article to read more