China’s United Front Operations Target US Organizations, Lawmakers Warn

On 24 March 2025, Real­Clear­World report­ed that orga­ni­za­tions oppos­ing the House Select Com­mit­tee on Com­pe­ti­tion with the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty have sig­nif­i­cant CCP ties through Unit­ed Front influ­ence oper­a­tions. The arti­cle begins:

Recent­ly, the House Select Com­mit­tee on the Com­pe­ti­tion with the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty released a video high­light­ing the whirl­wind of bipar­ti­san accom­plish­ments and ground­break­ing inves­ti­ga­tions they’ve under­tak­en. The CCP’s decades-long polit­i­cal war­fare upon the Unit­ed States demand­ed a response, and the Select Com­mit­tee met the moment. It’s curi­ous, then, that more than 50 orga­ni­za­tions pub­licly opposed Con­gress’ reau­tho­riza­tion of the high­ly effec­tive com­mit­tee. Clos­er scruti­ny reveals what unites many of the “lead­ing civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions” that oppose the Select Com­mit­tee: shared fund­ing sources along with CCP ties and talk­ing points. The Asian Amer­i­cans for Advanc­ing Jus­tice (AAAJ) let­ter leads with the race card, echo­ing the CCP’s pre­ferred talk­ing points. The AAAJ accused the Select Com­mit­tee of “perpetuating…an adver­sar­i­al frame­work and pouring…fuel on exist­ing racial animus.”…

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Key Points:

• Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment, described as Chi­na’s “mag­ic weapon,” alleged­ly coor­di­nates influ­ence oper­a­tions tar­get­ing Chi­nese dias­po­ra com­mu­ni­ties in America.
• Com­mit­tee of 100, a sig­na­to­ry oppos­ing the Select Com­mit­tee, has been iden­ti­fied as hav­ing exten­sive ties to CCP leadership.
• Mul­ti­ple orga­ni­za­tions shar­ing fund­ing sources report­ed­ly oppose state leg­is­la­tion inspired by the Select Com­mit­tee’s inves­ti­ga­tions into CCP influence.
• Chi­nese embassy offi­cials have direct­ly engaged with Chi­nese-Amer­i­can orga­ni­za­tions, encour­ag­ing them to “draw con­cen­tric cir­cles” of over­seas Chi­nese communities.

The Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment (UFWD) is a Bei­jing-based agency inte­gral to the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Party’s (CCP) efforts to expand its influ­ence globally.

For more on the UFWD, go here.

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