New Group Aims to Shield US States From Chinese Influence Operations

Published on February 6, 2024

A new group was launched on Jan. 31 to fend off Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence at the state level. State Armor, a nonprofit with an advocacy branch, will focus on passing legislation in about 15 states in 2024, according to founder and CEO Michael Lucci. “I think that [the CCP] view our decentralized system—our Federalist system—as a vulnerability to exploit, and so we want to turn it into an asset for protecting the country that we have all these nimble, fast-acting states that can speed policy solutions that are needed very quickly,” Mr. Lucci told The Epoch Times about the premise of his organization’s founding....

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