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  1. Recommended read on Chinese Communist Partys global influence operations. The CCP does *not* want you know learn about this.

    Remember the line about "China's peaceful rise" that foreign leaders swallowed along with hook and sinker? Read on...

    “Most national security analysts in the United States will tell you that China presents a unique challenge to the U.S.-based order. What U.S. officials refer to as the “scope and scale” of the threat from Beijing outstrips that posed by other Western adversaries, even Russia, these officials say.

    Yet the structure of China's intelligence apparatus remains relatively opaque. During the Cold War, the U.S. and its allies developed a granular understanding of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s main civilian intelligence agency, and the GRU, its military counterpart. It’s not that the CIA or the wider U.S. intelligence community had perfect insight into its main rival — far from it. But U.S. officials did have a clear sense of how the KGB functioned.

    Not so with China, which remained cut off from the outside world for decades, and whose security services evolved in an isolated ideological hothouse. As China shed its isolationism and emerged as a world power, its intelligence operatives also fanned out across the globe.

    But Western intelligence analysts were still looking through a glass, darkly, when it came to Beijing’s espionage abroad. That’s a gap that Alex Joske’s important new book, Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, tries to fill. Joske, a former analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, traces the evolution of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China’s premier civilian intelligence agency, focusing on the MSS’s ubiquitous — and largely unknown— role in directing and executing Beijing’s influence operations abroad.”

    Project Brazen: Alex Joske on China's Influence Operations Abroad
    By @zachsdorfman
    thebrushpass.projectbrazen.com

    #CCP #PRC #china #UFWD #UnitedFront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment #MSS #MinistryOfStateSecurity #NatSec #infosec #ASPI #intelligence #espionage #CIA #GRU #propaganda #chinese #dictatorship #authoritarianism #SovietUnion #comintern #Taiwan #Australia
    #AlexJoske

  2. Recommended read on Chinese Communist Partys global influence operations. The CCP does *not* want you know learn about this.

    Remember the line about "China's peaceful rise" that foreign leaders swallowed along with hook and sinker? Read on...

    “Most national security analysts in the United States will tell you that China presents a unique challenge to the U.S.-based order. What U.S. officials refer to as the “scope and scale” of the threat from Beijing outstrips that posed by other Western adversaries, even Russia, these officials say.

    Yet the structure of China's intelligence apparatus remains relatively opaque. During the Cold War, the U.S. and its allies developed a granular understanding of the KGB, the Soviet Union’s main civilian intelligence agency, and the GRU, its military counterpart. It’s not that the CIA or the wider U.S. intelligence community had perfect insight into its main rival — far from it. But U.S. officials did have a clear sense of how the KGB functioned.

    Not so with China, which remained cut off from the outside world for decades, and whose security services evolved in an isolated ideological hothouse. As China shed its isolationism and emerged as a world power, its intelligence operatives also fanned out across the globe.

    But Western intelligence analysts were still looking through a glass, darkly, when it came to Beijing’s espionage abroad. That’s a gap that Alex Joske’s important new book, Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World, tries to fill. Joske, a former analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, traces the evolution of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), China’s premier civilian intelligence agency, focusing on the MSS’s ubiquitous — and largely unknown— role in directing and executing Beijing’s influence operations abroad.”

    Project Brazen: Alex Joske on China's Influence Operations Abroad
    By @zachsdorfman
    thebrushpass.projectbrazen.com

    #CCP #PRC #china #UFWD #UnitedFront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment #MSS #MinistryOfStateSecurity #NatSec #infosec #ASPI #intelligence #espionage #CIA #GRU #propaganda #chinese #dictatorship #authoritarianism #SovietUnion #comintern #Taiwan #Australia
    #AlexJoske

  3. ☝️ Go and read, that is, unless you deliberately want to remain "blissfully unaware".

    「In November 2020 The New York Times reported that a number of companies, including Nike, Coca-Cola, Apple, Adidas, Calvin Klein, Campbell Soup Company, Costco, H&M, Patagonia, Tommy Hilfiger and others, lobbied Congress to water down the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which was aimed at barring US companies from relying on the forced labour of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region. The companies argued that the ban was too broad and would disrupt the global supply chain.

    In September 2019, US billionaire Michael Bloomberg told Firing Line‘s Margaret Hoover that Xi Jinping “is not a dictator” and that he has to “satisfy his constituents”. He also argued that Chinese Communist officials “listen to the public”. Bloomberg’s media company has been criticized in the past for self-censoring in order not to upset the Chinese government.」

    「The Origins of the United Front

    The CCP was founded in July 1921 in Shanghai. The main objectives of the party were the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat and an alliance with... 」

    The Chinese Government’s “United Front” and the Threat to Liberal Democracies
    china-journal.org/2021/04/30/t

    #CCP #PRC #china #propaganda #UFWD #unitedfront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment #EliteCapture #corporatism #globalism #appeasement #sycophancy #musk #elonmusk #tesla #bloomberg #apple #nike #cocacola #costco #adidas #calvinklein #campbell #H&M #patagonia #tommyhilfiger
    @aristeon89

  4. CCP: “ 'Beijing' would never require companies to illegally gather data and intelligence from overseas“

    Well d'oh. The CCP *is* the 'law' in the PRC dictatorship.

    The United Front Work Department's global operations are entirely legal by virtue of them being "by the CCP, for the CCP".

    To CCP everything is "legal' and nothing external and foreign from UN Charter and other intl. treaties down is ever actually binding beyond appearances and temporary convenience.

    #ccp #prc #china #dictatorship #authoritarianism #rulebylaw #UFWD #UnitedFront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment
    @newley

  5. Pro tip: when #CCP #tankies are cheering for you you're really onto *something*.

    I sometimes wish the loudest americans could try to learn what other democracies around the world think about issues.

    #UFWD #UnitedFront #UnitedFrontWorkDepartment
    @malwaretech