My comment:
(a) I read it, but was puzzled how FARA applies to the situation. I had been under the impression that FARA applies to foreign governments.
(b) Nine hours before VOA publishes the above, South China Morning Post (SCMP) has published a similar report (so far the only English-language report). So I consult it.
Nectar Gan and Zhuang Pinghui, Why a Chinese Communist Party Branch at the University of California, Davis, Was Disbanded. SCMP, Nov 20, 2017 www.scmp.com/news/china/policies ... y-branch-university
("The US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires all individuals and groups acting under the direction or control of a foreign government or political party to register with the Department of Justice in advance and regularly report their activities")
(c) FARA. US Department of Justice, undated https://www.fara.gov
, whose bottom supplies law ("22 USC § 611 et seq") and regulation (Code of Federal Regulations; CFR for short)/ The former includes § 611 Definitions: "(b) The term 'foreign principal' includes— (1) a government of a foreign country and a foreign political party * * * ")
So it is not that federal law bans a CCP branch in US. Instead the Chinese scholars who founded it had to register themselves as foreign agents. 作者: choi 时间: 11-20-2017 17:48
DPP has branches in US, eg 民主進步黨美西黨部 民進黨矽谷支部. (A female DPP party officer in US even got involved in the spying case of Lt. Cmdr Edward C Lin.) So does KMT.