Washington, D.C – The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China recently released a new research report titled, “Report on the PRC's Transnational Repression and Malign Influence in 2025,” which details how the Chinese Communist Party continues to impose censorship and coercion on Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, and former Chinese government officials living in free countries such as the United States.
The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) released a new research report titled “Report on the PRC's Transnational Repression and Malign Influence in 2025,” on June 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C, USA.
The report stated, "In 2025, PRC authorities and their proxies targeted critics of the CCP, members of diaspora communities, human rights advocates, elected officials, researchers, artists, and civil society organisations outside China. While tactics varied, all cases appeared to be attempts to silence criticism, isolate victims, shape public narratives, and/or deter others from challenging the CCP's authority."
"The PRC's transnational repression and malign influence operations pose significant threats to human rights and sovereignty, intimidating and censoring legal residents on U.S. soil and others around the world. The PRC targets Hong Kongers, Uyghurs, Tibetans, former Chinese government officials, and others through a global coercive toolkit that includes physical attacks, AI-enabled sexual harassment, threats to family members in China, pressure to return to China, censorship, and law fare," the report added.
The CECC's report said, "PRC transnational repression aims to silence criticism, isolate victims, shape public narratives, and/or deter others from challenging the CCP's authority, even outside of China. PRC malign influence operations use covert and coercive tactics to skew public debate, and influence decision-making in the U.S. and allied democracies, undermining democratic governance, institutional integrity, and effective U.S. responses to autocratic interference."
"The PRC's malign influence and transnational repression operations violate rights protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, and may contribute to violations by other governments when those governments assist, enable, tolerate, or fail to prevent PRC-linked coercion within their territory or return victims to places where they face a credible risk of persecution or abuse," the report explained.
The Congressional-Executive Commission on China recommended the Congress that, it should pass the Transnational Repression Policy Act (S. 2525 / H.R. 4829) to expand authorities for U.S. law enforcement and the U.S. State Department to counter acts of transnational repression on U.S. soil.
The CECC further recommended that it require a Transnational Repression Threat Report from the Secretary of State, Attorney General, and other relevant federal agencies to evaluate U.S. efforts to thwart transnational repression.
The CECC report also urged the Trump Administration that it should shut down CCP Covert Networks by terminating any U.S. operations of the United Front Work Department, PRC Ministry of Public Security “police stations” (a.k.a. “service stations”), and affiliated entities, by sanctioning those complicit in facilitating these networks, including freezing assets or revoking visas.
