The Center for American Rights is renewing its call for the Federal Communications Commission to look into Skydance Media’s relationship with China’s Tencent Holdings as the agency’s review of the David Ellison-owned studio’s pending $8 billion merger with Paramount Global continues.

In a petition filed last month, the non-profit, which describes itself as a “non-partisan, public-interest law firm,” said Tencent’s investment in Skydance raises “troubling questions about undue foreign influence from China.”

Skydance and Paramount proceeded to ask the FCC to dismiss the firm’s objections to the merger, arguing that the allegations of Chinese influence have “no factual foundation and are legally unavailing” and that Tencent’s “entirely passive, non-attributable, minority interests present no basis for concern about undue influence.”

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