The CCP’s Covert Warfare in the US

a scheme of bribery by chinese agents in the United States has revealed another aspect of the Chinese regime’s insidious operations in this country.

An agent linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been arrested and charged by the Justice Department after he attempted to bribe an undercover FBI agent posing as an IRS official. The Chinese man wanted the IRS to revoke the tax exempt status of a nonprofit group run by Chinese dissidents.

It’s just the latest in a string of cases that have exposed the “transnational repression” carried out by proxies of the CCP.

In just the past six weeks, the Justice Department has charged 40 members of China’s national police force with carrying out a cyber propaganda campaign to harass U.S. residents; arrested one Boston man believed to be secretly feeding Beijing a “blacklist” of regime critics; and arrested two more in New York who were overseeing one of four known Chinese police stations in the United States.

“You’re not just talking anymore about organizing some counter-protesters, or trying to convince someone to come back to China. or monitoring a dissident. This was really an attempt to use institutions of the United States, including things like whistleblower systems and protections, to basically go after a perceived enemy of the CCP,” Sarah Cook, a senior China analyst at Freedom House, told The Epoch Times.

Read this week’s cover story by reporter Eva Fu to learn more about Beijing’s sprawling campaign to silence dissent abroad.

Recent charges against Chinese agents for a bribery scheme that targeted Falun Gong reveals the extent of the Chinese regime’s operations in the United States.

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