The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that it is working on fulfilling a directive from Congress to produce a public report exposing the corruption and wealth of senior Chinese Communist Party officials following the Biden administration’s failure to release it. 

In the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress directed the Director of National Intelligence in cooperation with the State Department to produce the report on senior CCP officials, including Chairman Xi Jinping, but the Biden administration officials failed to meet the deadline established by lawmakers, Just the News reported last week. 

The ODNI, now under the leadership of DNI Tulsi Gabbard, says that it is currently working to fulfill the directive from Congress in response to an inquiry from Just the News and renewed congressional pressure last week. 

"ODNI is working to fulfill this requirement,” an ODNI spokesperson told Just the News on Wednesday. 

The report would serve as a powerful tool to confront the communist regime, experts say. 

“This is an existential threat to the Chinese regime, because you have leaders with tens of millions—billions, in some cases—of funds outside of China. And if the Chinese people knew the extent of this, there probably would be a revolution,” Gordon Chang, a lawyer and China commentator who lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for decades, previously told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

In the past, efforts to expose the finances of senior CCP officials have been met with quick censorship and stern denials by the Chinese regime, Just the News previously reported. The reactions suggest that such a report could provide significant leverage to the United States in negotiations with the Chinese. 

“While reporting requirements from Congress to federal agencies are standard fare, the eventual release of this report will carry far greater implications; it will probably highlight that General Secretary Xi Jinping and his top cadres are not ‘scrapping by’ on legally prescribed nominal salaries–indeed, they are more than likely bona fide billionaires,” four lawmakers wrote to DNI Gabbard last week.

“Conversely, there are about 600 million People’s Republic of China (PRC) citizens living on $5 a day. So much, it would seem, for the supposed benefits of Communism,” they continued.