In early December 2024, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te stopped over in Hawaii and Guam during a trip to visit to the three Pacific islands of Tuvalu, and Palau, and Marshall Islands, which have diplomatic relationships with Taiwan. On December 3, the the New York edition of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) World Journal news outlet published a full-page statement titled “Strong Protest Against Lai Ching-te’s ‘Transit’ Through the U.S. – A Serious Statement.” Around 120 Chinese-based organizations from the eastern United States co-signed the statement.
Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article to analyze these 120 organizations.
- These over 120 organizations are likely to be the ones with the most “combative” orientation under the CCP’s United Front Work Department. For these organizations to take such action fits in with the CCP United Front’s “struggle against the enemy” framework. Under this framework, the CCP’s United Front Work Department “leads” or “manages” groups that are less obviously pro-CCP, embedding them in the “enemy camp,” or connecting them to local underworld organizations.
- Many of these 120 organizations are relatively new, established within the last 20 years. Many have experienced splits in membership or have changed position from originally being anti-CCP to eventually becoming pro-CCP, yielding tot he CCP’s influence.
- These pro-CCP groups form the “mass base” for the CCP across the U.S. They can be mobilized at any time to support the CCP. The CCP United Front’s standard for these organizations is that they should be “able to be summoned, able to fight, and able to win.”
- According to RFA, the work of these organizations is a crucial part of the CCP’s United Front work abroad and a vital channel for its infiltration into foreign societies. Soon after establishing the People’s Republic of China in mainland China, the CCP began acting on its “termite policy,” attempting to spread CCP members or pro-CCP individuals worldwide. This strategy involves “learning from the spirit of termites to take over the world.”
Source: Radio Free Asia, December 12, 2024
https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/commentaries/ching/china-united-front-red-infiltration-12122024111821.html