Election Monitors Tasked With Detecting Chinese Interference Could Not Read Chinese

The five cabinet appointees assigned to monitor federal elections for foreign interference could not read Chinese and largely dismissed Chinese Communist Party election interference that had been written in the language. Allen Sutherland, assistant secretary to the cabinet, testified in front of the foreign interference inquiry and said that monitors did not spend a significant amount of time looking at Chinese-language media because they felt it was only targeting the Chinese diaspora and that none of the appointees could read or speak the language, reported Blacklock’s Reporter. A Chinese translator was later hired. A report said experts identified the lack of a Mandarin speaker as a “gap.”...