David Salvo says the Alliance for Securing Democracy has been mapping and cataloguing Russian and Chinese interference since 2000. Salvo was speaking to the procedure and House affairs committee, which is studying foreign interference in response to allegations that China tried to meddle in the last two federal elections. Chiu told the committee he did not experience foreign interference in either the 2015 or the 2019 elections but the most recent vote was different. Salvo says his group aims to show that the tools used by Beijing are not partisan or politically motivated, for the most part. Asked whether he thinks the government ought to call a public inquiry into foreign interference, Chiu said yes.

Source: thestar May 10, 2023 04:08 UTC