[Source](https://thenewamerican.com/us/ccp-in-the-heartland/) > Representative John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, has sent a letter to the United States Heartland China Association (USHCA) requesting verifiable assurances that the organization is not acting as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China or facilitating covert foreign influence in the United States. Moolenaar’s letter, addressed to Robert Lee Holden, Jr., chairman and president of USHCA, also expresses concern that the organization is an instrument of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) United Front Work Department, which directs CCP influence operations worldwide. He refers Holden to the Select Committee’s 2023 report on the United Front Work Department (UFWD) titled United Front 101.