Groups helping Communist China
More than 2,000 groups across the United States, Canada, Germany, and the UK are helping the Chinese Communist Party advance its agenda by exercising influence in democratic nations, according to a report published on Wednesday.
They are advancing its agenda by exercising influence in democratic nations, according to a Jamestown Foundation report published on Feb. 11.
The report maps these organizations, which, by some counts, mobilize tens of thousands of actors on behalf of CCP interests. These are groups that fall under the CCP’s United Front Work Department, which came to the spotlight only a few years ago when a human rights group exposed the “secret police stations” run by Chinese officials on foreign soil.
The report’s author identified 347 groups in Germany, 405 in the UK, 575 in Canada, and 967 in the United States, which it says are likely only the tip of the iceberg.
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Based on Department of Justice reports and a December 2024 guilty plea, China operated at least one secret police station in New York City. While U.S. authorities shut down this Manhattan location in 2022 after an FBI investigation, these operations, which target the Chinese diaspora for transnational repression, remain a major security concern.
