NGOs, activists press Barr to declare Chinese Communist Party a 'transnational criminal organization'
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Pressure mounting on Chinese Communist Party

Hundreds of U.S. and international religious and human rights groups and activists are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to declare the Chinese Communist Party a “transnational criminal organization," or TCO. The letter addressed to Attorney General William Barr and dated July 23 claims that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s "lethality and criminal sophistication demonstrates that this lawless CCP poses a clear and present danger to America's security

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