1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Countering China’s Political Warfare Act of 2024 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has noted that China uses what it calls United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) . (2) In 1939, Chinese leader Mao Zedong hailed the United Front Work Department as a magic weapon in the victory of the communist revolution along with armed struggle . (3) Chinese President Xi Jinping has also referred to the United Front Work Department with those words and given it a key role in what he calls achieving the People’s Republic of China’s national rejuvenation. (4) According to a report by Alex Joske formerly of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, the United Front Work Department has doubled in size since 2015. (5) The United Front Work Department is involved in espionage campaigns, political warfare efforts, utilizing the Chinese diaspora abroad, and infiltration of educational institutions all with the goal of softening opposition to the Chinese Communist Party and its policies throughout the world. (6) The United Front Work Department played a seminal role in coordinating multifaceted political warfare campaigns to blame the United States for the spread of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (commonly referred to as COVID–19 ) pandemic and coverup the People's Republic of China’s negligent response to the pandemic. (7) An investigation by ProPublica released on March 26, 2020, found that the United Front Work Department was connected to a network of fake and hijacked Twitter accounts that were covertly spreading Chinese Government propaganda about COVID–19 to global audiences. (8) The United Front Work Department utilized Chinese diaspora community associations under its control to purchase personal protective equipment as the COVID–19 outbreak troubled the