CCP Continues to Interfere With US Election: Chinese-American Congressional Candidate

Following the U.S. State Department’s offer of a $10 million reward for information on foreign election interference, Xiong Yan, who is currently running for Congress in the 10th District of New York, told The Epoch Times that the Chinese communist regime has continued to interfere with his campaign due to his dissident background.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged five men on March 16 for acting as agents of the Chinese regime, collecting information on dissidents, harassing, smearing, and even planning violent attacks targeting a candidate running for congress.

In 1989 he had been a student leader on Tiananmen Square before the movement was violently crushed by the Chinese regime.

One of the men, Qiming Lin, worked for the Ministry of State Security (MSS). The MSS is the Chinese regime’s “civilian intelligence and secret police agency.”

In September 2021, Lin hired a private investigator (PI) in New York to “to disrupt the campaign of a Brooklyn resident currently running for U.S. Congress (the Victim), including by physically attacking the Victim.”

In December 2021, Lin allegedly left a voicemail for the PI where he said, “in the end, violence would be fine too. … Beat him until he cannot run for election. … Car accident, [he] will be completely wrecked, right?”

On July 13, Rev. Xiong Yan, a retired major who served in the U.S. Army for 27 years, revealed to The Epoch Times that he was the unnamed congressional candidate that was targeted by the Chinese regime.

He said that fortunately the U.S. government prevented the attacks.

Xiong Yan is running for Congress in New York’s 10th congressional district in July 2022. (Cai Rong/The Epoch Times)

Yan said that after the indictment of the Department of Justice was released, the Chinese regime did not stop interfering with his campaign. His campaign office

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