EXCLUSIVE with @StewGlobal , major advance in understanding of how Canadian law enforcement views CCP’s widespread United Front espionage —-“Canadian government report accuses China of widespread campaign of espionage, manipulation” globalnews.ca/news/8537707/c…
A government report on Chinese espionage activities in Canada accuses Beijing of engaging in a “systematic campaign of intelligence-gathering, persuasion, influence, and manipulation” against the Chinese community.
“The OCAO works to undermine individuals identified as threats to the CPC (Communist Party of China), and it organizes and monitors ‘overseas Chinese business, student, cultural, media, and political networks.’”
This story is important because of the Canadian govt documentation which asserts how broad, deep, coercive, aggressive, corrupt, and anti-immigrant the CCP's espionage tools are in Canada and around the world. Documents confirm what deep intelligence sources have been saying.
How the Overseas Chinese Affairs office works, which is part of the broader United Front Work Dept. recently outed by MI5, is fear and greed and leverage, harassment, surveillance, cash. Security and intelligence officers from Beijing work from consulates in Canada.
One of the most harmful and corrosive aspects, as @RmdKenny told me, is the CCP's tactic of attempting to control and leverage Canadian citizens who happen to be of Chinese ethnicity. This erodes Canada's democracy and attempts to rob citizens of their rights and freedoms.
And other states like Iran are probably learning from China's Overseas Office espionage and interference in immigrant communities, Chiu told me.
“The result is that ironically, in a multicultural society like Canada, many communities may prioritize their priorities more aligning with these foreign states, rather than what is critical for themselves and their families living here," @RmdKenny said.
This previous story explained how the UFWD and overseas officers in Chinese consulates leveraged communities in Canada, which had the appearance of humanitarian collection of PPE, but used espionage networks to fulfill CCP objective during pandemic. globalnews.ca/news/6858818/c…
In the recent extraordinary MI5 alert on United Front Work Department espionage activity in Britain, we can see the same language and alerts as our CBSA screening document, this British suspect was part of an Overseas Chinese association, which are run by UFWD and OCAO 
Here's a statement I captured from the Vancouver Chinese consulate website. OCAO mission is to widely "contact" overseas Chinese and promote the "peaceful reunification of the motherland" with Taiwan, which is the pre-eminent CCP foreign policy goal.
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