Communist Party members have infiltrated several corners of Western countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
The leaking of a list of nearly two million Communist Party members, which exposed the Communist Party’s vigorous development of party branches in foreign companies, has raised alarms in the Western world about Communist infiltration.
An investigation by the “Transnational Parliamentary Alliance on China Policy (IPAC)” found that after the leaking of a list of 1.95 million Shanghai-based CCP members in August this year, it was discovered that these Communist Party members had infiltrated several corners of Western countries such as the United States, Britain and Australia. In the case of the United States, companies ranging from IBM to PepsiCo and 3M have been infiltrated.
For example, New York-based IBM has at least two dozen party branches and 808 members in its China branch; 3M, a major manufacturer of N95 masks and other medical products, has at least 230 CCP members within its five party branches; Pepsi Co. has 45 members on its party committee; and Dow Chemical, one of the world’s top three chemical manufacturers, lists 337 CCP members in its four party committees.
The list includes other major U.S. companies with party branches, including Marriott International’s Westin Hotel & Resorts (23 members); analyst firm Nielsen Holdings (94 members); Mars Food, a leading food company (14 members); and Met Life (31 members).
Yet these are just the tip of the iceberg; as of 2016, some 75,000 foreign-funded enterprises (more than 70 percent of mainland China’s 106,000 foreign-funded enterprises) had established party branches, according to the People’s Daily, an official Communist Party media outlet.
Since 2002, the CCP has accelerated the establishment of party branches in foreign enterprises, and the so-called “16th National Congress” of the CCP included for the first time the duties and tasks of party organizations in non-public enterprises in the party constitution, and several plenary sessions of the 16th Congress put forward clear requirements for “party building work” in non-public enterprises. The party committees at all levels consciously put the party building work of non-public enterprises in a prominent and important position, and continuously promote the party building work of non-public enterprises to make new progress.”
Official Chinese media report that there are nearly 92 million CCP members, and Bill Gertz, national security correspondent for The Washington Times, said that while the leaked database of CCP members in Shanghai represents a small fraction of all members, it is an important basis for the regime’s infiltration of international companies.
“Joining the Chinese Communist Party makes these people dedicated not to the Chinese nation or the Chinese people, but to the CCP party.” He said.
“They [CCP members] think they are surrounded by the capitalist world and are basically engaged in an ideological struggle with the non-communist world,” Getz said in an interview. “Now the free world of the West needs to be awakened and start rebelling against the Chinese Communist Party.”
U.S. Senator James Lankford (D-MA) told the Epoch Times that the U.S. needs to be more vigilant and scrutinize visas and that “we need to be more vigilant about the relationship between people coming to the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, whether they are on student or work visas.”
On December 3, the U.S. State Department confirmed new restrictions on visas for Communist Party members traveling to the United States. Under the new rules, the non-immigrant visa (B1/B2) for CCP members and their immediate family members will be reduced from ten years to one month and will be a single-entry visa.
More than two weeks later (Dec. 21) Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the State Department had issued additional visa restrictions for CCP officials suspected of human rights violations, and that their family members may also be subject to additional visa restrictions. Pompeo said the move underscores the U.S. determination to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for its repression of the Chinese people.
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