An investigation by the Australian newspaper has found that members of the Chinese Communist Party have infiltrated the consulates of at least 10 countries in Shanghai, including Australia, the United States and Britain. Experts said the Communist Party members were working at the consulate as part of a “state-sponsored spy ring.”
The Australian reported today that at least 10 consulates in Shanghai have or now employ Communist Party members as senior political and government commissioners, clerical staff, economic advisers and administrative assistants. These countries include Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, India, New Zealand, Italy, South Africa and so on.
Foreign affairs experts warned that some communist Party members who had worked at the consulate for 16 years could be part of a “state-sponsored spy ring,” the report said. Intelligence sources also say it endangers national security.
In June this year, according to the report, the establishment of international organizations “policy toward China international Parliamentary Alliance” (Intel – Parliamentary Alliance on China, IPAC) September received leakage from Shanghai communist party database information, including 1.95 million registered party members name, date of birth, ethnicity, identity card number and phone number etc, also contains more than 70000, 9000 of the communist party of China party branch of detailed information.
The report said The material was then provided to The Australian, Britain’s The Mail on Sunday, Belgium’s De Standaard and The Swedish media. The Australian obtained a more complete version of the same database from a confidential source, allowing the data to be analysed and validated.
The report said the database, which was first obtained from a server in Shanghai on April 16, 2016 and may have been accessed by dissidents at risk of their lives, was the first time official data on 1.95 million Party members had been disclosed globally.
According to data released by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee on June 30, there were 91,914 party members by the end of 2019.
The Database shows CPC members working at multinational companies, including Boeing and Pfizer (PFE) and AstraZeneca (AstraZeneca), which are developing vaccines against COVID-19 (COVID-19, Wuhan pneumonia), as well as working at universities in western countries, the Australian noted.
The report says the database reveals how the Communist Party under President Xi Jinping operates by setting up party branches within companies and government agencies. According to the database, the Shanghai Office for Foreign Institutions has at least 12 active Communist Party branches, with 249 Party members.
According to the database, a Chinese Communist Party member once worked as a senior administrative assistant at the Australian Consulate in Shanghai.
Andrew Hastie, chairman of the Australian Parliament’s intelligence and security committee, said not every Member of the Communist Party was concerned, but there was “a huge conflict of interest” among its members for jobs of importance to Australia. One intelligence official noted that members of the Communist Party working in consulates, even in lower-level jobs, had serious security concerns and that “anyone who is allowed to work in a foreign embassy or consulate is a potential spy”.
Clive Hamilton, a China expert at Charles Sturt University in Australia, said the list could be an important source of insight into the Communist Party’s spying activities in Australia and elsewhere, and that “Shanghai is the main hub of the Communist Party’s espionage against western countries.”
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