Open Letter to Free World Leaders: Launch Investigation on CCP's Infiltration We are writing to draw your attention to recent reports of large-scale and systematic infiltrations by members of the Chinese Communist Party in various multinational corporations, banks, and academies. Some, if proven, pose direct and imminent threats to the national security of each country. Therefore, we urge leaders of the world to conduct investigations on related personnel and to expel them where appropriate to contain infiltrations of the authoritarian regime against the democratic countries. The leaked data set, if proven, poses considerable threats to the international community. The data set had shown that not only financial institutions were infiltrated, but the transport and healthcare industry were targets of infiltration too. To name a few, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, suppliers of the COVID-19 vaccines for the United Kingdom are among the list to have hired hundreds of Party members. Australia's peak intelligence agency has also warned the federal government that Beijing covertly controls sections of Chinese-language media in Australia as part of its influence operation. Those members of the CCP may act under the facade of these corporations, making agreements and decisions that serve the interests of the Party. All 1.95 million registered members of the Communist Party of China must swear oaths of loyalty and secrecy to the Party. That number was reported in 2016. With a possible sponsorship and oversight by the Party, the influence of these members has consolidated in time and numbers. Among the infiltrations, cases that are related to law-making institutions and diplomatic agencies are alarming and deserve immediate responses. It was exposed that the Shanghai Consulate of the United Kingdom had hired secret members. It was further revealed that 150 lawmakers around various countries are in fact, secret members. The gravity of these allegations warrants a thorough investigation that all governments should consider expelling them where appropriate. The continued access to sensitive and strategic information, decision-making processes, and personal connections ought not to be endured. It poses severe dangers not only to each country across the globe. Therefore, we firmly believe that the leaders of the democratic countries should consider taking the following actions: a) to undergo thorough investigations on the identity and numbers of members of the Communist Party holding senior management positions in corporations. b) to demand corporations disciplining these members within the management who had concealed their identities.
c) to set out a list of corporations that holds strategic interests to prevent and deter control. d) to legislate prohibitions on systematic and large-scale buyouts over existing businesses, regardless of its scale and nature of the business, and the registration of new companies that manipulate civil society. Follow up actions, including but not limited to sanctions and expulsion, can be implemented to ensure that core positions and industries in each autonomous society are free from the communist threat. Should the international community decide to take on the matter, it will have crucial implications for the people of Hong Kong. The determination to combat Chinese influence reassures Hong Kong and others that the global community stands in solidarity with Hong Kong and the liberal values. The world should resist and deter indirect manipulations over their societies by exposing the communist members hiding behind the very institutions that despite their neutral outlook, complied with arbitrary, insidious, and unlawful decisions to undermine the liberal order. We are ever grateful for the commitments made by the international community to Hong Kong and confident that liberal values can be safeguarded if we have no hesitation to contain communist China and act now. Sincerely, Nathan Law Former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong Pro-democracy activist Ted Hui Former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong Pro-democracy Activist Sunny Cheung Nominee of the Hong Kong Pro-democracy Primaries 2020 Pro-democracy Activist