Do you have a Chinese neighbour? Learn some basic facts about the Chinese Diaspora.

https://vibesmagazine.blog/a-world-of-connections-unravelling-the-story-of-the-chinese-diaspora/

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〝The content, posted by users with fake identities, has appeared in replies to Mr. Deng’s posts on X, the social platform, as well as the accounts of public schools in their community, where the daughter, who is 16, has been falsely portrayed as a drug user, an arsonist and a prostitute.〞

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/business/china-disinformation-critics-harassment.html

#disinformation #inauthentic #astroturfing #China #PRC #propaganda #overseasChinese #dissidents #platforms

🇺🇸💥🇨🇳☭ 📜 China-Watching Committee Warns US Congress About Beijing's 'Magic Weapon'

「The United Front Work Department, which answers to the Communist Party's Central Committee, oversees the broad spectrum of the party's institutionalized influence operations and intelligence activities targeting groups inside and outside of China.

Known collectively as united front work, its task is to coordinate favorable narratives and organize events to promote them; identify and nullify challenges to the CCP's rules; and ultimately advance the party's ideological, political, economic and security interests globally.

"Through its united front work strategy, which Xi Jinping has called a 'magic weapon,' the Chinese Communist Party uses every tool at its disposal, whether legal or illicit, to influence the American people and interfere in democratic societies," Gallagher, the committee chair, told Newsweek.」

「The committee's memo will inform members of Congress, their staff and their constituents to help them understand the CCP's targeting of Chinese nationals, overseas Chinese, as well as ethnic Chinese who are not Chinese citizens, according to Cheryl Yu, a senior researcher at the Common Sense Society, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit.

"They need to be aware of how the CCP operates and the risks that come from engaging the party's proxies," Yu told Newsweek.」

「"The CCP deliberately tries to mobilize overseas Chinese groups—and many others—to support Beijing's goals and to pressure their governments. Because the CCP singles out Chinese people for influence, any response needs to address overseas Chinese organizations," Yu said.

"Calling out united front groups, unfortunately usually overseas Chinese organizations, has nothing to do with racial discrimination. Overseas Chinese a lot of times are victims of the CCP's propaganda without knowing themselves," she said.」

https://www.newsweek.com/united-front-select-committee-us-congress-memo-1846974

#CCP #中国 #UnitedFront #UFWD #China #overseasChinese

🇨🇦💥🇨🇳☭ 📜 Transnational Crime and Foreign Interference networks in Canada:

「The network of an elite Chinese Mafia suspect with significant industrial assets in British Columbia has been implicated “in recent RCMP investigations of CCP police stations in Canada, and other countries,” according to a sweeping new report from a United States anti-corruption NGO.

The report cites a collection of stunning cases and statistics to argue that transnational criminal networks with ties to China, Iran and Russia are using Canada to launder tens of billions annually, and related economic and political operations are undermining safety and democracy in the West.」

「Canada is currently a hub of illicit trade and crime convergence [and] a weak link within the international financial system for bad actors and threat networks to make illicit profits and launder and hide their dirty money,” the report says.

No longer is profit the sole motivator for these criminals,” it adds. “These threat convergence activities are now being weaponized against rule of law institutions and democratic states for generating more political power, building illicit empires, and financing greater insecurity globally.」

「Operatives affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army, Ministry of State Security, and Ministry of Public Security live in several Canadian cities and liaise locally, and nationally, with Asian Organized Crime networks,” the report says.

China’s political warfare arm, the united front, is believed to be supported, in part, by proceeds from a variety of criminal enterprises and receive guidance and direction through the Chinese Embassy and consulates in Canada.」

https://www.thebureau.news/p/canada-a-safe-zone-for-transnational?r=l2dv4

#CCP #中国 #PLA #UnitedFront #UFWD #China #overseasChinese #Iran #russia #Canada

New York Times: 🆘 The never-elected CCP dictatorship orchestrating Canadian elections... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But why are so many Canadians of #Chinese background collaborating with CCP's foreign election manipulation schemes? 🤨

(comparison: In the final partially free #Hongkong elections in 2019 with pro-democracy candicacy restricted, democrats won popular vote in *all* 18 districts... winners were disqualifed and or jailed and next time only *certified* CCP stooges were allowed to participate in the charade.)

Standard CCP quote:
「A spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa did not reply to questions about the consulate’s alleged actions in Vancouver, saying only that “China never interferes in other countries’ internal affairs” and that accusations of interference were an “out-and-out smear of China.”」

Canadian Politicians Who Criticize China Become Its Targets

As China increases its reach in diaspora communities, Chinese Canadian politicians in Vancouver are the focus of Chinese state interference in Canadian politics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/world/americas/canada-china-election-interference.html?referringSource=articleShare

#WeChat #CCP #UnitedFront #UFWD "#overseaschinese" #Canada "#WholeProcessDemocracy"