On February 4, 2012, Freedom House released a report entitled “Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach” (hereinafter referred to as “A”), stating that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “implemented the most sophisticated, comprehensive and globalized transnational repression campaign” against The report, entitled “Out of Sight, Not Out of Reach,” states that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “implemented the most complex, comprehensive, and global campaign of transnational repression” against religious figures and dissidents.
The scope and global scale of the campaign is unparalleled,” the A report said. These shocking and dramatic cases are just the tip of a much broader system of surveillance, harassment and intimidation,” the report said. The CCP persecutes ethnic and religious minority groups, including Uighurs, Tibetans, Inner Mongolians and Falun Gong practitioners, by the hundreds of thousands overseas alone. These transnational crackdowns are carried out through “WeChat,” which monitors discussions among expatriates and infiltrates cultural associations, expatriate groups, and organized crime networks.
Forms of transnational repression include espionage, cyber attacks, threats and physical attacks from the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the military (PLA), among others. “Since 2014, there have been 214 ‘direct physical attacks’ involving the Chinese Communist Party.” “The scale and violence of these attacks underscore the dangers people face even when fleeing repression in their Home countries,” said Michael J. Abramowitz, president of Freedom House. Ending transnational repression is critical to protecting democracy and reducing the impact of authoritarianism.”
On the same day, the Associated Press and other media outlets reported on another study (hereafter referred to as B) confirming that a large number of fake and impostor accounts on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter systematically speak favorably of the CCP while denigrating American democracy, and that CCP diplomats have been promoting the online dissemination of this disinformation.
The B Report shows that in addition to the disinformation posted by the CCP regarding “Wuhan pneumonia” (COVID-19 virus), it also covers areas such as arms control, China’s economic development, and U.S. political conflicts. These fake accounts glorified the CCP’s fight against the Epidemic by posting crudely edited videos that insinuated that the U.S. was urgently approving the use of the vaccine despite the safety of the population. On January 6, as the U.S. Congress certified the election results, the fake accounts called for riots in Washington.
YouTube announced last month that it had removed more than 3,000 channel accounts last December after a B Report investigation determined that they had ties to the Chinese Communist Party, and other fake Facebook and Twitter accounts were also removed. In addition, reports from the European Union and the Stanford Internet Observatory have documented the spread of disinformation by the Chinese Communist Party.
Over the past decades, the CCP has infiltrated all corners of global politics, economics, finance, media, and Culture, spreading lies and attacking foreign companies and governments; manipulating international organizations and introducing proxies of all kinds in an attempt to eat them up; suppressing critical voices abroad under the guise of freedom of expression; and buying, stealing, or forcibly transferring high technology, putting the security of Western democracies at risk. The security of Western democracies is under serious threat.
In mid-August 2020, a list of the CCP’s 1.95 million members was revealed, and an investigation by the International Policy Alliance on China (IPAC) found that CCP members had infiltrated all corners of Western society, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Under the myth of “economic globalization,” the Western world has fostered the CCP, which is tantamount to nurturing a tiger, and is now suffering the consequences.
On December 14, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Chinese Communist Party is the greatest threat to the United States and the free world, using business activities to establish hegemony and expand its power of influence, including the theft of millions of American jobs. Chinese Communist Spies have infiltrated U.S. educational institutions, and Chinese Communist funds have bought U.S. universities. He said the CCP has infiltrated U.S. politics, including at the level of mayors and state and city legislators, and possibly the executive branch.
Europe and the United States’ half-century-long policy of appeasement toward the CCP has now proven to be nothing more than appeasement. The weakness of the free world and the indecisiveness of the democracies have allowed the CCP to do whatever it wants. The Chinese Communist Party has been suppressing across borders, extending its persecution overseas, exploiting technological loopholes, and confusing the international public with false information. This is a battle between good and evil, and democratic countries must take concrete actions to counter the serious threat of the CCP. Eliminating Chinese Communist infiltration has become an urgent task for the free world.
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