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WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) released the following statement in response to reports of the opening of the first Confucius Institute in Honduras and the awarding of a massive grid expansion project in Honduras to a CCP-owned power company.

“The CCP is ramping up its influence in the Western Hemisphere. In one day’s worth of reporting, we have seen the CCP dig its claws into the Honduran power grid and education system. The current leadership of Honduras is playing a dangerous game with the Honduran people’s future by partnering with the corrupt CCP’s exploitative foreign policy.”

“The CCP is playing the long game, and right now the U.S is falling behind in offering our neighbors another option as a preferred partner. This is a fight for the security and prosperity of our Western Hemisphere neighborhood with too much on the line to sit back and admire the problem.”