#unitedfront — Public Fediverse posts
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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Oh my God, look at these SHITLIBS! They aren't REAL leftists smgdh 😔
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If transparency is a cornerstone of democracy why is China meeting our leaders in secret?
We investigate in “The Transparency Trap.” Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy.Listen here 👉
https://on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekboTah1TS#humanrights #uyghur #Chinainfluence #CCP #Geopolitics #Xinjiang #transparency #UnitedFront
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If transparency is a cornerstone of democracy why is China meeting our leaders in secret?
We investigate in “The Transparency Trap.” Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy.Listen here 👉
https://on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekboTah1TS#humanrights #uyghur #Chinainfluence #CCP #Geopolitics #Xinjiang #transparency #UnitedFront
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If transparency is a cornerstone of democracy why is China meeting our leaders in secret?
We investigate in “The Transparency Trap.” Dr. David O’Brien helps us pull back the curtain on China’s hidden diplomacy.Listen here 👉
https://on.soundcloud.com/WhXgCsx2ekboTah1TS#humanrights #uyghur #Chinainfluence #CCP #Geopolitics #Xinjiang #transparency #UnitedFront
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Finally united by their quest for moar treats!
Dexter: ohhai.
Manneke: we see you are eating something tasty.
Dexter: we too like the tasty things.
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WaPo: 🇨🇳 Chinese organized crime front serves Beijing's interests, investigation shows
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/china-hongmen-organized-crime-geopolitics/
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@VOANews And only in Taiwan, right?
Nowhere else?
Not everywhere else....?
#Taiwan #CCP #china #MSS #UnitedFront #UFWD #sabotage #espionage #helloWorld
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Join us for our review of 2024 with acclaimed journalist Bethany Allen, missionary priest Fr Sean O'Leary, Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher and UCD Professor Alexander Dukalskis.
Spotify
https://spoti.fi/4gRzfZDSoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/JWh2JzVr6WoCqjDx6#Taiwan #ireland #LeoVaradkar #FiannaFail #MEP #EEAS #CCP #China #ConfuciusInstitutes #DefendDemocracy #HumanRights #Huawei #Tiktok #Zoom #Prague #Shanghai #UnitedFront
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Join us for our review of 2024 with acclaimed journalist Bethany Allen, missionary priest Fr Sean O'Leary, Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher and UCD Professor Alexander Dukalskis.
Spotify
https://spoti.fi/4gRzfZDSoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/JWh2JzVr6WoCqjDx6#Taiwan #ireland #LeoVaradkar #FiannaFail #MEP #EEAS #CCP #China #ConfuciusInstitutes #DefendDemocracy #HumanRights #Huawei #Tiktok #Zoom #Prague #Shanghai #UnitedFront
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Join us for our review of 2024 with acclaimed journalist Bethany Allen, missionary priest Fr Sean O'Leary, Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher and UCD Professor Alexander Dukalskis.
Spotify
https://spoti.fi/4gRzfZDSoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/JWh2JzVr6WoCqjDx6#Taiwan #ireland #LeoVaradkar #FiannaFail #MEP #EEAS #CCP #China #ConfuciusInstitutes #DefendDemocracy #HumanRights #Huawei #Tiktok #Zoom #Prague #Shanghai #UnitedFront
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Join us for our review of 2024 with acclaimed journalist Bethany Allen, missionary priest Fr Sean O'Leary, Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher and UCD Professor Alexander Dukalskis.
Spotify
https://spoti.fi/4gRzfZDSoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/JWh2JzVr6WoCqjDx6#Taiwan #ireland #LeoVaradkar #FiannaFail #MEP #EEAS #CCP #China #ConfuciusInstitutes #DefendDemocracy #HumanRights #Huawei #Tiktok #Zoom #Prague #Shanghai #UnitedFront
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Join us for our review of 2024 with acclaimed journalist Bethany Allen, missionary priest Fr Sean O'Leary, Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher and UCD Professor Alexander Dukalskis.
Spotify
https://spoti.fi/4gRzfZDSoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/JWh2JzVr6WoCqjDx6#Taiwan #ireland #LeoVaradkar #FiannaFail #MEP #EEAS #CCP #China #ConfuciusInstitutes #DefendDemocracy #HumanRights #Huawei #Tiktok #Zoom #Prague #Shanghai #UnitedFront
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📜 A really gentle and diplomatic (re-)introduction to CCP's United Front Work Department (UFWD) by the BBC. Still, better than nothing.
Media coverage of UFWD and its work esp. in foreign countries can be seen as a useful barometer of media's appeasement level wrt. PRC China / CCP; the treatment of Tibet (even mentioning its very name which the CCP is trying to eradicate) is another.
To understand all this, one first needs to understand something about human nature. Trusting people and societies tend to, by default, consider other people and societies having some level of trustworthiness as well.
Likewise societies were people can't generally trust one another adopt that modus operandi themselves and don't easily believe anyone to be trustworthy. Global corruption indices act as a rough guideline here.
Now, the CCP is an extremely and inherently #paranoid organization that sees enemies everywhere. They are particularly paranoid about existential threats and after seizing power in China in 1949 they psyched and propagandized themselves as the only and irreplaceable organization (read: dictatorship) that can not only keep the old imperial state forcefully together but also to restore the "Middle Kingdom" to its rightful historical (mythical) position as the greatest power under heaven.
When the Chinese communists realized that actual communism (under dictatorship) was fucking useless after Mao Zedong's decades of nominal communist "internationalism" (where the empire's "ethnic peoples" had nominal rights or even nominal "autonomy"! Repression, massacres and famines were simply written out of history), the CCP was in desperate need for a "raison d'etre" or a reason to justify its very existence.
Enter national-socialism, a form of ethno-centric nationalism under dictatorship. Party cadres who could access foreign books learnt how a relatively small Nazi-Germany managed to mobilize the entire state to defeat the gigantic and communist Soviet Union with relative ease...!
(Of course what really happened was that after December 1941 (Pearl Harbour) when the USA was pulled into WWII it was only America's absolutely mindblowing amount of "Lend-Lease" military aid to Soviets (look it up!) that turned the tide against the nazis... but the points about "effectiveness" of nazism vs communism couldn't be ignored.)
CCP cadres also learned how the German nazis had used "legalism" devised by Carl Schmitt to justify *everything* the State would do as "legal". Absolutely everything. What's not to love! Ethnic supremacism? Check!
After 1989 (Tiananmen) and then the 1991 crumbling of the Soviet-russia empire the new war front that emerged was based on acquitition of technology and money as essential ingredients. No longer a hermetically sealed dictatorship, the CCP would pull in foreign industrialists and financiers to engage and entangle in "win-win" projects while starting to send its loyalty-checked subjects overseas by the million to study and bring about technological revolution in the PRC.
This is where the UFWD begins to emerge as *the* key department for the CCP. Its tentacles would not only keep the expatriate Chinese students (and increasingly businessmen; and they are invariably men) in line politically, but the UFWD would facilitate and focus their tasking and the transfer of data where they really wanted it. With increased foreign exposure came opportunities to influence and corrupt any and all useful foreign idiots in politics, science, business, finance...
With the newly re-adopted ethno-centrism ("Han chauvinism") another key target for UFWD was the large diaspora of ethnic Chinese emigre settlers in foreign countries. There are particularly large Chinese "communities" in most South-East Asian countries where, ironically, they are sometimes viewed similarly as the Jews ahd been at the other end of the continent; a society within society, depending on murky ancestral networks and controlling business and finance well beyond their numbers...
(NB. After playing friend and extracting all technology and science it could from Israel, CCP easily threw them under the Arab islamic bus because the latter are, for now, far more useful allies in CCP's wider war against democracy worldwide, an existential threat...)
The UFWD would effectively take over these old ethnic networks and harness them to serve business and industry of their "motherland" turned CCP Party-State.
This is just the mere rough outline of United Front's responsibilities, but it's not hard to see why CCP really considered it a "magic weapon".
⚠️ The best published research on this massive organization with global reach is done by #ASPI and #Merics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878evdp758o
#CCP #china #PRC #UnitedFront #UFWD #carlschmitt #nazism #BBC
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📜 A really gentle and diplomatic (re-)introduction to CCP's United Front Work Department (UFWD) by the BBC. Still, better than nothing.
Media coverage of UFWD and its work esp. in foreign countries can be seen as a useful barometer of media's appeasement level wrt. PRC China / CCP; the treatment of Tibet (even mentioning its very name which the CCP is trying to eradicate) is another.
To understand all this, one first needs to understand something about human nature. Trusting people and societies tend to, by default, consider other people and societies having some level of trustworthiness as well.
Likewise societies were people can't generally trust one another adopt that modus operandi themselves and don't easily believe anyone to be trustworthy. Global corruption indices act as a rough guideline here.
Now, the CCP is an extremely and inherently #paranoid organization that sees enemies everywhere. They are particularly paranoid about existential threats and after seizing power in China in 1949 they psyched and propagandized themselves as the only and irreplaceable organization (read: dictatorship) that can not only keep the old imperial state forcefully together but also to restore the "Middle Kingdom" to its rightful historical (mythical) position as the greatest power under heaven.
When the Chinese communists realized that actual communism (under dictatorship) was fucking useless after Mao Zedong's decades of nominal communist "internationalism" (where the empire's "ethnic peoples" had nominal rights or even nominal "autonomy"! Repression, massacres and famines were simply written out of history), the CCP was in desperate need for a "raison d'etre" or a reason to justify its very existence.
Enter national-socialism, a form of ethno-centric nationalism under dictatorship. Party cadres who could access foreign books learnt how a relatively small Nazi-Germany managed to mobilize the entire state to defeat the gigantic and communist Soviet Union with relative ease...!
(Of course what really happened was that after December 1941 (Pearl Harbour) when the USA was pulled into WWII it was only America's absolutely mindblowing amount of "Lend-Lease" military aid to Soviets (look it up!) that turned the tide against the nazis... but the points about "effectiveness" of nazism vs communism couldn't be ignored.)
CCP cadres also learned how the German nazis had used "legalism" devised by Carl Schmitt to justify *everything* the State would do as "legal". Absolutely everything. What's not to love! Ethnic supremacism? Check!
After 1989 (Tiananmen) and then the 1991 crumbling of the Soviet-russia empire the new war front that emerged was based on acquitition of technology and money as essential ingredients. No longer a hermetically sealed dictatorship, the CCP would pull in foreign industrialists and financiers to engage and entangle in "win-win" projects while starting to send its loyalty-checked subjects overseas by the million to study and bring about technological revolution in the PRC.
This is where the UFWD begins to emerge as *the* key department for the CCP. Its tentacles would not only keep the expatriate Chinese students (and increasingly businessmen; and they are invariably men) in line politically, but the UFWD would facilitate and focus their tasking and the transfer of data where they really wanted it. With increased foreign exposure came opportunities to influence and corrupt any and all useful foreign idiots in politics, science, business, finance...
With the newly re-adopted ethno-centrism ("Han chauvinism") another key target for UFWD was the large diaspora of ethnic Chinese emigre settlers in foreign countries. There are particularly large Chinese "communities" in most South-East Asian countries where, ironically, they are sometimes viewed similarly as the Jews ahd been at the other end of the continent; a society within society, depending on murky ancestral networks and controlling business and finance well beyond their numbers...
(NB. After playing friend and extracting all technology and science it could from Israel, CCP easily threw them under the Arab islamic bus because the latter are, for now, far more useful allies in CCP's wider war against democracy worldwide, an existential threat...)
The UFWD would effectively take over these old ethnic networks and harness them to serve business and industry of their "motherland" turned CCP Party-State.
This is just the mere rough outline of United Front's responsibilities, but it's not hard to see why CCP really considered it a "magic weapon".
⚠️ The best published research on this massive organization with global reach is done by #ASPI and #Merics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878evdp758o
#CCP #china #PRC #UnitedFront #UFWD #carlschmitt #nazism #BBC
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📜 A really gentle and diplomatic (re-)introduction to CCP's United Front Work Department (UFWD) by the BBC. Still, better than nothing.
Media coverage of UFWD and its work esp. in foreign countries can be seen as a useful barometer of media's appeasement level wrt. PRC China / CCP; the treatment of Tibet (even mentioning its very name which the CCP is trying to eradicate) is another.
To understand all this, one first needs to understand something about human nature. Trusting people and societies tend to, by default, consider other people and societies having some level of trustworthiness as well.
Likewise societies were people can't generally trust one another adopt that modus operandi themselves and don't easily believe anyone to be trustworthy. Global corruption indices act as a rough guideline here.
Now, the CCP is an extremely and inherently #paranoid organization that sees enemies everywhere. They are particularly paranoid about existential threats and after seizing power in China in 1949 they psyched and propagandized themselves as the only and irreplaceable organization (read: dictatorship) that can not only keep the old imperial state forcefully together but also to restore the "Middle Kingdom" to its rightful historical (mythical) position as the greatest power under heaven.
When the Chinese communists realized that actual communism (under dictatorship) was fucking useless after Mao Zedong's decades of nominal communist "internationalism" (where the empire's "ethnic peoples" had nominal rights or even nominal "autonomy"! Repression, massacres and famines were simply written out of history), the CCP was in desperate need for a "raison d'etre" or a reason to justify its very existence.
Enter national-socialism, a form of ethno-centric nationalism under dictatorship. Party cadres who could access foreign books learnt how a relatively small Nazi-Germany managed to mobilize the entire state to defeat the gigantic and communist Soviet Union with relative ease...!
(Of course what really happened was that after December 1941 (Pearl Harbour) when the USA was pulled into WWII it was only America's absolutely mindblowing amount of "Lend-Lease" military aid to Soviets (look it up!) that turned the tide against the nazis... but the points about "effectiveness" of nazism vs communism couldn't be ignored.)
CCP cadres also learned how the German nazis had used "legalism" devised by Carl Schmitt to justify *everything* the State would do as "legal". Absolutely everything. What's not to love! Ethnic supremacism? Check!
After 1989 (Tiananmen) and then the 1991 crumbling of the Soviet-russia empire the new war front that emerged was based on acquitition of technology and money as essential ingredients. No longer a hermetically sealed dictatorship, the CCP would pull in foreign industrialists and financiers to engage and entangle in "win-win" projects while starting to send its loyalty-checked subjects overseas by the million to study and bring about technological revolution in the PRC.
This is where the UFWD begins to emerge as *the* key department for the CCP. Its tentacles would not only keep the expatriate Chinese students (and increasingly businessmen; and they are invariably men) in line politically, but the UFWD would facilitate and focus their tasking and the transfer of data where they really wanted it. With increased foreign exposure came opportunities to influence and corrupt any and all useful foreign idiots in politics, science, business, finance...
With the newly re-adopted ethno-centrism ("Han chauvinism") another key target for UFWD was the large diaspora of ethnic Chinese emigre settlers in foreign countries. There are particularly large Chinese "communities" in most South-East Asian countries where, ironically, they are sometimes viewed similarly as the Jews ahd been at the other end of the continent; a society within society, depending on murky ancestral networks and controlling business and finance well beyond their numbers...
(NB. After playing friend and extracting all technology and science it could from Israel, CCP easily threw them under the Arab islamic bus because the latter are, for now, far more useful allies in CCP's wider war against democracy worldwide, an existential threat...)
The UFWD would effectively take over these old ethnic networks and harness them to serve business and industry of their "motherland" turned CCP Party-State.
This is just the mere rough outline of United Front's responsibilities, but it's not hard to see why CCP really considered it a "magic weapon".
⚠️ The best published research on this massive organization with global reach is done by #ASPI and #Merics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878evdp758o
#CCP #china #PRC #UnitedFront #UFWD #carlschmitt #nazism #BBC
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📜 A really gentle and diplomatic (re-)introduction to CCP's United Front Work Department (UFWD) by the BBC. Still, better than nothing.
Media coverage of UFWD and its work esp. in foreign countries can be seen as a useful barometer of media's appeasement level wrt. PRC China / CCP; the treatment of Tibet (even mentioning its very name which the CCP is trying to eradicate) is another.
To understand all this, one first needs to understand something about human nature. Trusting people and societies tend to, by default, consider other people and societies having some level of trustworthiness as well.
Likewise societies were people can't generally trust one another adopt that modus operandi themselves and don't easily believe anyone to be trustworthy. Global corruption indices act as a rough guideline here.
Now, the CCP is an extremely and inherently #paranoid organization that sees enemies everywhere. They are particularly paranoid about existential threats and after seizing power in China in 1949 they psyched and propagandized themselves as the only and irreplaceable organization (read: dictatorship) that can not only keep the old imperial state forcefully together but also to restore the "Middle Kingdom" to its rightful historical (mythical) position as the greatest power under heaven.
When the Chinese communists realized that actual communism (under dictatorship) was fucking useless after Mao Zedong's decades of nominal communist "internationalism" (where the empire's "ethnic peoples" had nominal rights or even nominal "autonomy"! Repression, massacres and famines were simply written out of history), the CCP was in desperate need for a "raison d'etre" or a reason to justify its very existence.
Enter national-socialism, a form of ethno-centric nationalism under dictatorship. Party cadres who could access foreign books learnt how a relatively small Nazi-Germany managed to mobilize the entire state to defeat the gigantic and communist Soviet Union with relative ease...!
(Of course what really happened was that after December 1941 (Pearl Harbour) when the USA was pulled into WWII it was only America's absolutely mindblowing amount of "Lend-Lease" military aid to Soviets (look it up!) that turned the tide against the nazis... but the points about "effectiveness" of nazism vs communism couldn't be ignored.)
CCP cadres also learned how the German nazis had used "legalism" devised by Carl Schmitt to justify *everything* the State would do as "legal". Absolutely everything. What's not to love! Ethnic supremacism? Check!
After 1989 (Tiananmen) and then the 1991 crumbling of the Soviet-russia empire the new war front that emerged was based on acquitition of technology and money as essential ingredients. No longer a hermetically sealed dictatorship, the CCP would pull in foreign industrialists and financiers to engage and entangle in "win-win" projects while starting to send its loyalty-checked subjects overseas by the million to study and bring about technological revolution in the PRC.
This is where the UFWD begins to emerge as *the* key department for the CCP. Its tentacles would not only keep the expatriate Chinese students (and increasingly businessmen; and they are invariably men) in line politically, but the UFWD would facilitate and focus their tasking and the transfer of data where they really wanted it. With increased foreign exposure came opportunities to influence and corrupt any and all useful foreign idiots in politics, science, business, finance...
With the newly re-adopted ethno-centrism ("Han chauvinism") another key target for UFWD was the large diaspora of ethnic Chinese emigre settlers in foreign countries. There are particularly large Chinese "communities" in most South-East Asian countries where, ironically, they are sometimes viewed similarly as the Jews ahd been at the other end of the continent; a society within society, depending on murky ancestral networks and controlling business and finance well beyond their numbers...
(NB. After playing friend and extracting all technology and science it could from Israel, CCP easily threw them under the Arab islamic bus because the latter are, for now, far more useful allies in CCP's wider war against democracy worldwide, an existential threat...)
The UFWD would effectively take over these old ethnic networks and harness them to serve business and industry of their "motherland" turned CCP Party-State.
This is just the mere rough outline of United Front's responsibilities, but it's not hard to see why CCP really considered it a "magic weapon".
⚠️ The best published research on this massive organization with global reach is done by #ASPI and #Merics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878evdp758o
#CCP #china #PRC #UnitedFront #UFWD #carlschmitt #nazism #BBC
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I don't use the term #leftunity because there's a lot of discourse around it, but I do believe that on the ground, in the streets, and on many particular issues, #communist and #anarchist people can work together (and must). I think that better terms might be #unitedfront or #leftalliance, as unity as a term papers over meaningful differences in the two political ideologies.
I think that #anarchists as a whole, could stand to be more critically supportive of past and current socialist experiments around the world, while #communists (#marxistleninists and #maoists) should accept that there is sound anarchist theory that might not be reflected in many self-identified anarchists. After all, how many Leninists can honestly claim to have done their own reading?
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Not really a fan of the #AFP but they're correct that it was a cowardly act by the #Islamists. Carrying out offensives during #Ramadan... Just yet another proof that these bandits are not really Muslim and are hijacking the name of #Islam. :seija_coffee:
We need a #unitedfront against Saudi-funded #Islamism.
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/TheManilaTimes/statuses/112113987545329126 -
🇨🇦💥🇨🇳☭ 📜 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
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🇳🇫 #TAIWAN: ❝#Chinese 🇨🇳 spouses working with #CCP to be monitored❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/11/07/2003808809
#China
#UnitedFront
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Erfolgreicher 1. Weltkongress der United Front
https://bit.ly/3LccvWJ
Zukunftsweisende Kampfansage an Faschismus, Krieg und Umweltzerstörung
Stärkt die Internationale antiimperialistische Einheitsfront gegen Faschismus, Krieg und Umweltzerstörung #ufwc #UnitedFronthttps://twitter.com/PWeispfenning/status/1699782307186712803 -
An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:
「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」
「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism
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An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:
「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」
「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism
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An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:
「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」
「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism
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An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:
「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」
「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism
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An informative nitter🧵by the WaPo article's co-author, #ShibaniMahtani:
「When I started conceptualizing my new role as an investigative correspondent, I knew one of the stories I wanted to dig into was how & why extreme pro-Beijing narratives are hardening within parts of multicultural Singapore, my home. Here is what we found:」
「In an ecosystem where people including my friend's parents get forwarded extremely pro-CCP messages that veer on explicit Han chauvinism within this multi-racial society, Zaobao -- a respected, trusted newspaper backed by the state -- can provide a counterweight. It has not.」
https://nitter.nl/ShibaniMahtani/status/1683647052323110912
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #china #PRC #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism
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⚠️ The de-facto capture of Singapore would be a huge strategic win for the Chinese Communist Party, and they are making solid progress in realizing that morsel of the CCP's "china dream".
Historically Hong Kong — "CCP's banking colony" — has been CCP's main avenue of economic and foreign trade manipulation, akin to a poker swindler holding two sets of cards. Since the 2019-2020 crushing of #Hongkongers' hopes of ever gaining 'treaty-enshrined' civil or human rights, the manipulative value of HK is on a terminal decline. Capturing Singapore to act as CCP's new banking and business colony would indeed recharge CCP's ability to project power in the region and globally.
Better yet, SG would become a hostile port to the US and other countries in the alliance of democracies if and when the CCP decides to, say, invade #Taiwan.
It has been a long game decades in the making, but CCP's humongous United Front tentacles working to weaponize and 'han-chauvinize' its *subjects* in the large and highly ethnocentric Chinese diaspora are bearing bittersweet fruit.
Oh, and the inner workings of those fancy F35s must be quite fascinating.
“Xi Jinping wants to build influence among ethnic-Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, raising concerns that the Chinese Communist Party is stoking divided loyalties”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2023/singapore-china-news-influence-lianhe-zaobao/
#WashingtonPost #Singapore #Hongkong #Malaysia #SouthEastAsia #chinesediaspora #CCP #PRC #china #unitedfront #UFWD #ethnonationalism #hanchauvinism #colonialism
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CCP *always* had ambitious reach over "its" large "non-resident Chinese" diaspora, mainly through the humongous United Front Work Department, probabaly the most powerful tool and weapon in the regime's arsenal.
The difference is that now, under the glorious guidance of emperor-for-life Jinping the Belligerent, the #CCP is eager to bare its teeth. No more that “hiding strength, biding time” spiel of Chinese #dictatorship's “peaceful rise” narrative.
The question is, will these ludicrous overreaches — like hunting down highly respected pro-democracy activists and politicians with bounties and threats — wake up the sleepwalking democracies. Before it is too late.
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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Good research by #MERICS on CCP's use of sanctions against its #democratic enemies.
The real fun bit comes at the very end: "Unofficial measures".
What this means of course is that because the CCP is a *#dictatorship*, they can really do whatever they want!
CCP's "law" is just a #legalistic facade, just like it was in #Nazi #ThirdReich where the Chinese "communists" in fact copied #legalism from. 🤔
"How China imposes sanctions — A guide to the evolution of Beijing’s new policy tool"
https://merics.org/en/report/how-china-imposes-sanctions「China has to date adopted unilateral sanctions that:
☭ came in response to perceived violations of its red lines and national interests,
☭ did not show any signs of any signs of adopting secondary sanctions,
☭ often came as a mix of official and unofficial measures (i.e., measures that are not officially announced and/or adopted by the central government).The last point makes China’s sanctions policy challenging to respond to. Not only is litigation complicated when non-official measures are adopted, they can also bolster official sanctions, while remaining plausibly deniable. China wants to create the perception that its punitive measures are difficult to predict, in order to discourage other countries’ from sanctioning.」
Unavoidably the paper uses the usual euphemisms wrt. the #neverelected CCP dictatorship. For instance "national interests" of the CCP regime are often diametrically opposed to the interests of its silenced and manipulated subjects, a.k.a "the people". CCP ≠ China
"...and you may ask yourself: 'How did we get here!?' "
#PRC #CCP #beijing #china #unitedfront #AxisOfDespots #appeasement #nixon #kissinger #MFN #WTO
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So… is Eslite saying that the #CCP 🇨🇳 has offices *in #Taiwan* 🇳🇫?!
❝#Eslite_Bookstore denies allegations data went overseas❞
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/05/17/2003799952 -
⬆️ 「... a front group for a Chinese propaganda network that’s borrowing tactics from Russia’s infamous 2016 troll farm.
Social media giant Meta announced on Wednesday that it had booted 107 accounts in a China-linked network behind the phony news outlet dubbed the New Europe Observation. The outlet, which Meta researchers say was linked to a Chinese technology company, appeared aimed at trying to stir up unrest in European countries.」
By #RollingStone — "Pro-China Internet Trolls Just Got Busted for Doing Something Wild"
They even set up a business in Londograd like real pros do... Good men!
In 2020 the CCP imposed their "national security law" in #Hongkong, with the sole purpose of protecting the never-elected #dictatorship from people demanding their UN-enshrined civil rights. Incidentally that "law" entitles the CCP to arrest, and imprison *for life*, anyone they deem hostile to their dictatorship — *anywhere in the world*.
Maybe these totally accidental hatemongers running businesses in Europe could be at least invited to explain their rationale behind these hate and anti-democracy campaigns there. The CCP or its UFWD naturally have *nothing* to do with these harmless pranks because they *never* interefere in other countries' internal affairs... (NB: definition of "countries" may vary)
#CCP #china #UnitedFront #UFWD #disinformation #misinformation #propaganda #agitators #EuropeanUnion #EU @yennikwok
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You clearly have significant understanding of the danger the CCP's global project presents to liberal democracies worldwide, even if understanding that may be outside the scope of your organization's focus.
Yes, it is (or was) possible to operate in the fringes of CCP/PRC business and not be a committed sociopath, but anyone productively engaged with China that is harnessed by the CCP is in clear and present danger of being an outright "useful idiot".
For those not cued in: The CCP considers *democracy* an existential threat to its communist-turned-Han-chauvinist empire to be crushed.
Engaging the CCP, i.e providing it with everything it was after, was always a wishful endeavour and a cover for foreign "capitalists' greed" (see: marxism and rope, hanging). The essential industrial supply chains should never have been shipped lock, stock and barrel to a hostile (see: biding time, hiding strength) dictatorship in the first place.
Shockingly, until the Biden administration America's policy towards the "PRC" was based on appeasement, hubris, actual racism under trump and underlying it all, since 1970s, was greed and profiteering.
Getting it all with no concequences emboldened the CCP *and* putin too. All other authoritarians around the world are now aligning behind the notion that by joining hands (hello Axis!) they can not only survive but thrive (their subject peoples are inconsequential to it all).
Shouldn't essential business and supply chains of democracies be located in countries *not* hell-bent on crushing the freedoms and civil rights people fought for generations to enjoy?
#CCP #china #unitedfront #ufwd #AxisOfAuthoritarians #democracy #tradepolicy
@gwbstr
