UBC-educated researcher, Canadian MP testify to U.S. politicians on Chinese interference

The United States' Congressional-Executive Commission on China heard testimony on how China interferes in the affairs of foreign states The People's Republic of China (PRC) government has conducted operations to target people in at least 36 foreign countries, according to a University of B.C.-educated researcher who testified Tuesday to senators and congressmen in Washington, D.C. Yana Gorokhovskaia of Freedom House, who earned a doctorate in political science at UBC in 2016, told the Congressional-Executive Commission on China that China accounts for almost a third of the 854 cases of foreign interference recorded in her organization's database from 2014 to 2022….