International Chinese Communist Party Shanghai Leak - Leaked database of 1.95m registered Communist party members reveals how Beijing's malign influence now stretches into almost every corner of western life

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Here's the leak itself, although it's in Mandarin:

>Where were these leaks found?
They're from what's suspected to be a server from Shanghai that got hacked into by a dissident, before he uploaded it all to telegram.

>What's contained in these leaks?
The names of communist party members, places, dates of birth, Chinese ethnicity and in some cases addresses and telephone numbers. Many of these people keep quiet because it would cost them their job or raise complications.

>What do these leaks show?
They show the mass infiltration of UK and Australian firms by Chinese Communist Party including AstraZeneca, Rolls Royce, HSBC and Jaguar Land Rover. Just from banking alone, there were more than 600 party members across 19 branches working at the British banks HSBC and Standard Chartered in 2016. Potentially, giving the CCP access to important secrets regarding aeronautic technology and banking, among other sensitive information.
This isn't even going into how they forced people at foreign Consulates to pledge allegiance to the communist party and China, or the senior officials they have ensnared.
 

Alrakkan

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I'm excited to see all the arrests from this.
Oh don't worry, nothing will happen.

Maybe some small, low-seniority uppity dangerhair foot-soldiers will get arrested, but no executives.

I'm dead serious about this, the only thing that could happen to these people is if extremists that will get themselves arrested and never ever see the light of day again kill these people or injure them beyond continued agency. I'm not going to do anything, even if only to not completely fed-post. My government has long prioritised continued positive diplomatic relations so as to preserve Chinese trade over the values it espouses and demands of its people in the context of general knowledge. The few they could arrest for what any sensible man would call treachery will mostly go free.

I'd be glad to be wrong, though. I'd have a massive renewal of faith in my government. But, that I would tells me that I shouldn't get my hopes up.
 
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I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm or if you are actually serious.

If the latter, Biden would be suspect #1 on my list for sure regarding anyone from the USA pledging to Communism
I'm 100% serious.
 

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This is why Cold War II was lost before it began. The Chinese sank their teeth into our economy and have political and economic influence on the level the USSR never dreamed. Even better, the very idea that "foreign enemy agents are everywhere in the government" is considered McCarthyism which is automatically bad because pop culture (where many writers and directors were yes, communists or needed to be friends with communists) seriously exaggerated the negative parts about it and downplayed the positives. You'd probably need a literal dictatorship to root out the CCP influence at this point, since the minute anyone seriously investigates the media and those investigated shrieks MCCARTHYIST NAZI DICTATORSHIP and mobilize their goons in the streets and agents within the government to manufacture a scandal.

Game over. Enjoy your Chinese overlords and global implementation of the Chinese way to socialism the same way the US tried to spread democracy and capitalism everywhere.
SHUT! DOWN! EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!
I'm excited to see all the arrests from this. I wonder if the Biden's pledged allegiance to the Communist Party of China...
At most they just fire a few people and reassign a few others, probably the least connected ones in the organization and CCP. Nobody powerful ever loses their job, let alone winds up in prison. Joe Biden can come out and say "yes, China is paying me to make it easier for them to acquire American technology" and wave the dollar bills in front of a camera and nobody will care one iota because you'll either never hear it, you'll be told "here's what Joe actually said", or you'll be told "China is infiltrating every aspect of our society and here's 10 reasons why that's a good thing."
 

Alrakkan

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At most they just fire a few people and reassign a few others, probably the least connected ones in the organization and CCP. Nobody powerful ever loses their job, let alone winds up in prison. Joe Biden can come out and say "yes, China is paying me to make it easier for them to acquire American technology" and wave the dollar bills in front of a camera and nobody will care one iota because you'll either never hear it, you'll be told "here's what Joe actually said", or you'll be told "China is infiltrating every aspect of our society and here's 10 reasons why that's a good thing."
It genuinely makes me feel sad. I can't sleep properly anymore and I'm always exhausted. I have so much for which to thank the country in which I grew up and my parents, brought up here as well. And it's been wasting for years, decades. But passing on slowly and even still pulling the odd stunt here and there, for good or for bad. I loved it here. I loved waking up every single day knowing I was British. I know it gets a bad rap here and for good reason. But I remember getting all the support I would ever need for my educational needs and getting educated in a school system that was certainly flawed but workable. I remember my streets being safe and a green place to walk through and get some fresh air and see wildlife only ever being a 10 to 15 minute walk from wherever I lived. I remember my family having good, honest well-paying work. I remember thinking that the UK was so great growing up. But I've seen too much and I've seen it start to touch myself and those around me. I see the people in charge staring the evils, wholly soluble and ousted in times only so far gone by, that cause stuff like this and I see them paralysed.

I really remember my country being just about perfect, ready to contend on the 21st Century's World Stage. I feel it getting stolen away by the impassionate and the thoughtless.

I feel so sick.
 

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Jaguar Land Rover.
I suppose we should care about that, but Land Rover has been owned by Tata Motors, an Indian automotive company, for some time now. That's their problem, now.

Industrial espionage would be shocking if it weren't for the fact we know that some of their intelligence agencies have been dabbling in it for a considerable amount of time now. That they're using human intelligence as well as their standard hacking should come as no surprise. China engages in industrial espionage in tandem with 'regular' espionage on its perceived adversaries and competitors, from renewable energy technology to defence contractors.

It's not so much a shocking revelation as it is a confirmation of what we've known and/or suspected for a while.
 
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