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WOIPFG’s Investigation Report on the CCP's new round of transnational persecution of Falun Gong

May 23, 2025

According to the latest investigation by WOIPFG, starting in 2024, the CCP launched a new round of systematic actions to suppress Falun Gong around the world under the direct command of Xi Jinping. By integrating the resources of the Central Political and Legal Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department and other departments, the CCP has used public opinion warfare, legal warfare, intelligence networks and violent means to destroy Falun Gong's international influence and cover up serious human rights crimes such as organ harvesting in China. This report provides a detailed analysis of the CCP's repressive tactics, organizational structure, and underlying motivations, and calls on the international community to face up to this threat and defend justice and human rights.

Table of contents
Chapter 1: The CCP adjusts its strategy and organizational structure for overseas persecution of Falun Gong
Chapter 2: The Central Role of the Ministry of State Security in the Overseas Persecution of Falun Gong
Chapter 3: A Systematic Analysis of the Ministry of Public Security's Overseas Attack on Falun Gong
Chapter 4 The United Front Work Department’s Suppression Mechanism and Infiltration Effect on Falun Gong Overseas
Chapter 5  Red Capital and International Institutions Are Tools for the CCP to Wage a Global Public Opinion War
Chapter 6: The CCP Conspiracy to Destroy Falun Gong's Reputation and Launch Transnational Cyber Attacks
Chapter 7: The CCP's transnational pursuit of live organ harvesting survivors
 

Chapter 1: The CCP adjusts its strategy and organizational structure for overseas persecution of Falun Gong

Starting in 2024, the CCP has launched a new round of transnational repression against Falun Gong overseas. The campaign was personally deployed by Xi Jinping, and the Central Political and Legal Commission coordinated the efforts of the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and mobilized state resources to carry out systematic persecution, aiming to weaken Falun Gong's international influence and cover up human rights crimes in China.

The CCP adopted a multi-dimensional strategy in this operation:

  1. Core goal: To dismantle overseas Falun Gong organizations and isolate their international support by slandering Falun Gong founders and attacking Falun Gong practitioners' Shen Yun Art Troupe and Epoch Times Media Group.
  2. Public opinion manipulation: Starting in 2024, Western media such as the New York Times, online platforms, and disinformation were used to systematically smear Falun Gong and Shen Yun in an attempt to influence international public opinion.
  3. Legal tactics: Launching litigation attacks to create confrontation between Falun Gong and American society, and pushing the United States to take negative legal actions against Falun Gong to cover up the CCP's domestic crimes such as live organ harvesting.

The CCP's long-term goal is to weaken Falun Gong's global influence and divert the international community's attention from the CCP's human rights atrocities through "public opinion warfare" and "legal warfare."

In order to effectively implement this strategy, the CCP has adjusted the organizational structure of overseas persecution: [1]

  1. [Fighting Law Office]: The CCP has set up special agencies overseas, such as the [North American Office of Fighting Law], as an overseas extension of the "610 Office", a special persecution organization for Falun Gong, responsible for coordinating operations. These institutions rely on embassies and consulates abroad, Chinese associations, and student organizations to secretly monitor and sabotage Falun Gong activities.
  2. Intelligence and United Front Network: The Ministry of State Security uses 100,000 spies (more than 40,000 overseas) to gather intelligence through public identities (e.g., journalists, businessmen) and covert channels. The United Front Work Department used associations such as the Fujian Association and the Association for the Promotion of Unification to set up "overseas police stations" in the United States to directly participate in the crackdown.
  3. Interdepartmental Collaboration: The Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CCP) has integrated resources from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to form an efficient persecution network that infiltrates Western media and society.

Examples in the United States show that the Chinese community under the control of the Chinese embassy and consulates in the United States has become a front line of persecution, and some members have been prosecuted by the US justice department for participating in transnational repression. At the same time, the CCP's attempts to exploit the influence of Western media have become increasingly apparent, such as the New York Times's successive reports attacking Shen Yun and the Falun Gong community.

This global attack on an unprecedented scale shows that the CCP is carrying out a comprehensive suppression of Falun Gong through strategic upgrading and organizational reshaping. Its ultimate goal is to cover up domestic crimes and weaken Falun Gong's international standing.

I. The CCP plotted to convict Falun Gong in the United States

In January 2025, a CCP public security insider under the pseudonym Shen Liang revealed to The Epoch Times that the CCP's goal is to prosecute Falun Gong in the United States and gradually destroy its reputation from the individual to the whole. As long as one case is true, it will trigger more chain reactions, and eventually the United States will deny Falun Gong, so that the persecution of Falun Gong in China will be covered up forever. He said: "The Chinese Communists are most afraid that the United States will support Falun Gong and investigate its domestic crimes, which is the fatal weakness of the Chinese Communists." [2]

Starting in August 2024, the New York Times published nine articles attacking Shen Yun in five months, echoing the CCP's plan for transnational repression. Shen Liang said that behind this was the manipulation of the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security, and the materials were collected by spies from within the target. Another CCP public security insider under the pseudonym Watson revealed to The Epoch Times in November 2024 that the new attack was a systematic plan launched by Minister of State Security Chen Yixin in the spring of 2024 in an attempt to destroy Falun Gong's "foreign forces" by the end of the year. Watson said: "Chen Yixin is very ambitious and wants to claim credit from Xi Jinping. Without high-level support, the overseas spy is mostly perfunctory, but his involvement made the operation troublesome." [3]  Chen Yixin made it clear that if Falun Gong is not eliminated, the United States and Falun Gong will investigate jointly, then the CCP will have nowhere to hide.

According to WOIPFG on January 6, it received confidential internal information from the top level of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party used the strategy of unrestricted warfare to use the media and the judiciary to launch a "public opinion war" and "legal warfare" in the United States to attack the Falun Gong religious group with the core concept of faithfulness, compassion and forbearance., Shen Yun Art Troupe, The Epoch Times and their key personnel This is by no means limited to the Falun Gong issue, but one of the strategic goals of the Chinese Communists to confront the United States and dominate the world.

Falun Gong practitioners in the United States have become a major hidden danger to Xi Jinping's regime. Because, in the 26 years since the CCP brutally persecuted Falun Gong practitioners, especially the organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners, the CCP has committed a crime that has never been seen in the history of mankind, which is the crime of national mass extermination and a crime against humanity. It is intolerable to mankind, and this is the biggest and deadliest crime committed by the CCP. If these crimes are verified and convicted by the United States and other international communities, the CCP will immediately face disintegration, and its leaders, including the CCP leader, will face a historic trial. Moreover, there are so many Falun Gong practitioners in the United States, and the influence is great. There is also a global tour by Shen Yun Performing Arts, a world-class traditional art performance of pure goodness and pure beauty. Among them, there are also truth programs about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, which makes the CCP more and more afraid.

The Deep Motive for Overseas Attacks on Falun Gong: Covering Up Crimes and Fear of Exposure

Shen Liang revealed that the CCP's overseas attacks on Falun Gong and Shen Yun Art Troupe are not as simple as they seem, and their core motive is to cover up the persecution of Falun Gong in China, especially the truth about torture and live organ harvesting. Shen Liang learned through a department-level official in the 610 system that the CCP is most afraid of the US government formally investigating these crimes, because if exposed, it will lead to the "collapse of the party and the country", and even Xi Jinping and other leaders may face trial by international tribunals.

Shen Liang said: "The CCP's sudden large-scale attack on Falun Gong overseas is by no means just aimed at Shen Yun, and its conspiracy is far beyond the surface." He pointed out that Minister of National Security Chen Yixin suggested to Xi Jinping that all efforts must be made to eradicate Falun Gong so that it has no place in the world. If the United States designates Falun Gong as an "X religion", no one will be held accountable for its crimes in China, which is the real reason why the CCP attacks Falun Gong.

A history of persecution and continued evil. In July 1999, Jiang Zemin, former leader of the Communist Party of China, collectively launched a political persecution of Falun Gong and called for the "elimination of Falun Gong," which started a cross-century human rights disaster. What is even more appalling is that the large-scale live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners organized by the CCP has supported a huge organ transplant industry chain in China, and it is still operating efficiently. Shen Liang said: "I have seen with my own eyes those live harvesting and torture, completely exterminating humanity. Once exposed, the whole world will destroy the CCP. ”

II. Xi Jinping personally formulated a new strategy to crack down on Falun Gong

According to the information obtained by tracking the international community, Xi Jinping, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, believes that the CCP's previous suppression measures against Falun Gong have completely failed, so he has personally formulated a new strike strategy[4]. According to a high-level classified Chinese Communist Party intelligence released by Tracking International in January 2024, the strategy has the United States as its main target

Since Xi Jinping consolidated power in 2018 after revising the constitution, he has made the realization of the "Chinese Dream" a central goal, while the United States has been seen as the main obstacle. It’s think tank believes that the strategy of "biding time in obscurity" is no longer applicable, and has been replaced by "great power diplomacy" against the United States. Intelligence shows that the focus of the CCP's various departments has shifted to the United States, and the conflict between China and the United States is seen as inevitable, especially exacerbated by the tough attitude towards China after Trump took office.

Falun Gong's influence in the United States and its interaction with practitioners in Chinese mainland are seen as major hidden dangers by the Xi Jinping regime. Therefore, the CCP is trying to force the US government to cut off its support for Falun Gong through public opinion warfare, with the ideal goal of eradicating Falun Gong from the United States, and at the very least, destroying its relationship with the US government.

Development and implementation of new strategies

In October 2022, Xi instructed the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CCP) Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission to coordinate with the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the United Front Work Department to develop and implement a new international strategy for Falun Gong.

According to Yuan Hongbing, a jurist in Australia, told The Epoch Times in December 2024 that the meeting was convened by the Central Political and Legal Commission, and the participants included high-level officials such as the Minister of Public Security, the Minister of National Security, and the Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee. Xi Jinping personally attended and gave clear instructions. [5]

Specific measures include:

1). Xi Jinping believes that before the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012, the international crackdown on Falun Gong basically failed, especially the influence of the media founded by Falun Gong practitioners continued to expand, and it became the main opponent of the CCP in the international public opinion war. Xi pointed out that the failure stemmed from a lack of organization and coordination, outdated methods, and wasted funds and corruption, stressing the need to re-screen personnel and cultivate new forces.

2). The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission is responsible for the overall coordination of the new strategy against Falun Gong, the Ministry of State Security is responsible for leading international operations, the United Front Work Department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are jointly implementing it, and the Ministry of Public Security is responsible for domestic affairs.

3). The implementation strategy includes attacking the founder of Falun Gong and his family as the core, combining public opinion warfare and legal warfare. Public opinion warfare is carried out through unofficial channels and self-media platforms to reduce the risk of official exposure of the CCP; The legal battle was directed against Falun Gong practitioners' Shen Yun Art Troupe, Feitian University, Feitian Art Academy, and related media organizations.

The CCP is focused on U.S.

WOIPFG investigations show that Xi's new strategy is explicitly focused on the United States.

The CCP's use of unrestricted warfare tactics to launch "public opinion warfare" and "legal warfare" on the United States to attack the Falun Gong religious group, Shen Yun Art Troupe, The Epoch Times, and their key personnel with the core concept of belief in truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance is by no means limited to the Falun Gong issue, but one of the strategic goals of the CCP to confront the United States and dominate the world.

The new round of transnational persecution carried out by the CCP is a continuation of the CCP's mass extermination and persecution of Falun Gong religious groups overseas for a quarter of a century. The purpose of blaming the United States for the crime of the century of persecution of Falun Gong is to make the United States an accomplice in the persecution of faith and human rights, to fundamentally undermine the foundation of the United States, and to subvert the United States from within. Once the CCP succeeds in persecuting Falun Gong in the United States, the United States will be morally kidnapped by the CCP, and the credibility and international dominance of the United States will be undermined. Then, no one will dare to investigate the crimes committed by the CCP, and the CCP will concoct its persecution of the Falun Gong religious group to the whole world, so as to achieve the CCP's goal of arbitrarily bullying the world.

The CCP is actively deploying in the online field, cultivating public opinion personnel who are familiar with the topic of Falun Gong, creating false information, accusing Falun Gong of violating US law or challenging government authority, and trying to get the United States to end the protection of the Falun Gong community. The ultimate goal is to undermine the influence of Falun Gong in American society at a time when the political situation in the United States is sensitive.

Wang Huning laid out an anti-US strategic attack on Falun Gong

Wang Huning, currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, is the highest think tank of the Communist Party of China, and has been deeply used by three generations of leaders: Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. From 2023 onwards, he will be in charge of the United Front System and lead the suppression of overseas Falun Gong[6].

At the end of the 80s of last century, Wang Huning, then a professor at Fudan University, went to the United States to inspect and published "The United States Against the United States" to analyze the social contradictions in the United States. This book made him a strategic think tank of the CCP, and his views have been circulating at the top level to this day, especially after 2008, the theory of "American decline" has become the basis of the CCP's international strategy. [7]

In February 2023, U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher pointed out at a congressional hearing that the book exposed the CCP's conspiracy to incite infighting in the United States and weaken the power of the U.S. state, involving the use of Wall Street and corporate allies to counter the United States. [8]

In December 2024, scholar Li Mianying revealed to The Epoch Times that Wang Huning was the core handicapper in the CCP's new round of suppression of Falun Gong. After he took over the United Front system, he integrated overseas intelligence forces and concentrated on cracking down on Falun Gong

Li Mianying said that Wang Huning relied on his international political expertise to systematize the crackdown, focusing on Falun Gong and Shen Yun Art Troupe. Wang Huning believes that the pro-democracy movement group is no longer powerless, and the Falun Gong group is the primary threat to the CCP because of its firm belief and strong organization.

Wang's tactics include:

1).Creating public opinion attacks: Using Shen Yun's characteristics as a social literary and artistic group, by fabricating negative information, creating humanized pseudo-problems, and launching public opinion warfare.

2). Internal discord and disintegration: creating divisions within Falun Gong, causing internal contradictions and divisions through co-optation and provocation.

Chapter 2: The Central Role of the Ministry of State Security in the Overseas Persecution of Falun Gong

As the core institution of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong, the role of the Ministry of State Security has never changed from the earlier domestic crackdown to a new round of overseas offensives in 2024. Since the CCP's large-scale persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, the Ministry of State Security, as a large-scale secret service, has played a key role in the persecution that has lasted for more than two decades. From domestic surveillance and arrests to overseas intimidation and attacks, the Ministry of State Security is everywhere.

The Ministry of State Security's persecution of Falun Gong is not limited to China, but also extends overseas. Through cooperation with the United Front Work Department, Chinese Communist Party embassies and consulates, and other institutions, the Ministry of State Security uses state resources to manipulate overseas Chinese communities, cultivate pro-communist forces, and carry out the task of suppressing Falun Gong. Under the guise of "serving overseas Chinese and Chinese communities", the CCP has planted proxies around the world, carried out ideological infiltration, and tried to influence the policies and public opinion of various countries.

In many countries, the CCP has established a vast network of control, forming a "county within a country", which not only serves the CCP's overall strategy, but is also ordered to specifically combat Falun Gong. Agents of the Ministry of State Security continue to expand the scope of persecution by intimidating, harassing, and violently attacking overseas Falun Gong practitioners.

Since 2024, the new Minister of National Security, Chen Yixin, has actively promoted a new round of cross-border attacks on the Falun Gong community for his personal power ambitions, aiming to comprehensively smear and eliminate Falun Gong internationally through "legal warfare" and "public opinion warfare". In line with the CCP's overall plan, the CCP's secret service organizations deployed overseas by the National Security Department have provided so-called internal materials for "legal warfare" and "public opinion warfare" behind their backs, and some of them have even been directly involved in specific attacks.

In November 2024, a public security insider under the pseudonym "Watson" revealed to The Epoch Times that the CCP's recent attacks on Falun Gong and Shen Yun Art Troupe were a systematic and complete plan, with every step being controlled by the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security behind the scenes, and those ostensibly involved in the "legal war" and "public opinion war" were actually just pawns. [9]

Watson pointed out that the materials used in the attack were collected and filmed by national security agents infiltrating the target organization before being released through others. "Otherwise, these attackers wouldn't have been able to suddenly have the material, and with their capabilities they wouldn't have been able to do it."

He further revealed that the plan was initially led by the new Minister of National Security, Chen Yixin. Without the support of the CCP's top brass, overseas spies are usually just running errands. "If it weren't for Chen Yixin's intervention, there would not have been these substantive attacks. In the past, these spies were symbolically doing superficial work, but in fact they did not do much harm to Falungong. But once there is a direct intervention from the top, the problem is serious. ”

Watson stressed that the operation was planned from the spring of 2024 due to the personal ambitions of the new Minister of National Security, Chen Yixin. Chen Yixin was eager to consolidate power, but due to the secretive nature of the Ministry of State Security and the checks and balances of Chen Wenqing (secretary of the Central Political and Legal Committee) and Wang Xiaohong (minister of public security), it was difficult for him to achieve effective political results at home, and he was even repeatedly criticized, so he turned to Falun Gong overseas

Watson pointed out: "Chen Yixin plans to crack down on Falun Gong's 'foreign forces' by the end of 2024, in an attempt to completely dismantle the Falun Gong organization, so as to ask Xi Jinping for merit and reward." This is the root cause behind this series of attacks. ”

The CCP has set up a secret agency dedicated to cracking down on Falun Gong across the border, the "Falun Gong Office"

The CCP has secretly set up a special agency overseas to specifically target the Falun Gong community, the "Fighting Falun Gong Work Office" (hereinafter referred to as the "Falun Gong Work Office"). This organization is the overseas version of the "610 Office" of the Chinese Communist Party, which is dedicated to the persecution of Falun Gong, and is specifically responsible for organizing and implementing persecution activities against overseas Falun Gong groups.

On June 29, 2021, WOIPFG obtained a letter of appointment jointly issued by the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of State Security, which showed that Wu Xiuhua was appointed as the director of the "North American Office of Fighting". According to the documents, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security jointly set up a special organization for Falun Gong in North America, with the goal of "completely eradicating and eliminating Falun Gong on a global scale." [10] (Figure 1)

Widely distributed in major regions of the world, they are usually attached to the CCP's embassies and consulates in various countries, and rely on organizations such as overseas Chinese communities, student unions, and hometown associations that have long been controlled by the CCP to carry out clandestine activities. Behind many cases of persecution against the Falun Gong community, there are dark hands secretly planned and controlled by the organization.

According to the investigation by WOIPFG, a series of malicious attacks on Falun Gong overseas in the past year, including the New York Times' report on the CCP's cover-up of the CCP's organ harvesting crimes, the distortion of the facts of the Shen Yun Art Troupe, the slanders of CCP Internet celebrities, and the malicious lawsuits initiated by some people, are all part of the CCP's systematic overseas persecution of Falun Gong. These actions were planned by the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, and were carried out through the "Crackdown on Falun Gong Work Offices" set up by the CCP in various regions of the world. [11]

Figure 1: Letter of appointment of Wu Xiuhua, director of the "North American Office".

After Chen Yixin took office, he began to carry out systematic intimidation, slander, and sabotage activities against Falun Gong and Shen Yun in 2024. For example, a group of CCP agents and people claiming to be "former Falun Gong practitioners" or "former Shen Yun actors" have attacked Falun Gong on American social media. The New York Times also published a number of negative reports in a short period of time, echoing the CCP's actions.

According to a January 2024 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center, the CCP's long-term crackdown on Shen Yun includes diplomatic pressure, economic threats, disinformation spreading, and direct sabotage. As of October 9, 2024, the campaign has spread to 38 countries, documenting more than 130 incidents, including threats of violence and physical attacks against Shen Yun actors, Falun Gong practitioners, and performing theaters. Behind these actions, there are traces of the planning of the Ministry of State Security and its overseas networks. [12]

The CCP's continued crackdown on Falun Gong stems from its fear of the truth being exposed. Once the international community completely exposes the crimes of torture and live organ harvesting suffered by Falun Gong practitioners in China, the CCP regime will face extinction. The CCP's new offensive aims to destroy Falun Gong's international influence through smear and legal means, cover up domestic human rights crimes, and seek political capital for senior officials such as Chen Yixin.

More than 100,000 national security agents are scattered at home and abroad

Due to the concealed nature of the national security secret services, it is generally estimated that there are no less than 40,000 spies scattered overseas by the national security department, most of whom are journalists, scholars, businessmen, and political exiles. In addition, the total number of special agents scattered in Chinese mainland is more than 50,000 [13],[14].

The Ministry of State Security is very different from the intelligence units of the Chinese Communist military when it comes to military intelligence gathering tasks in the international arena. Normally, the spies sent by the Ministry of State Security do not have military backgrounds, and most of them do not have a military service resume, making it even more difficult for these people who lack military temperament to be alarming.

Now, the Department of National Security's intelligence-gathering skills have improved dramatically, relying not only on whispers at embassy dinners, but can be arival with the CIA. U.S. officials say MSS has deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system in Beijing that tracks U.S. spies and individuals, and uses AI-generated files to screen targets, analyze networks and identify weaknesses. According to the report, the interest of the CCP's intelligence agencies in AI technology reflects its huge ambitions. In recent years, the department has grown through extensive recruitment, including U.S. citizens. [15]

The International Organization for the Investigation of the Persecution of Falun Gong has released a detailed investigation report on the involvement of the Ministry of State Security of the Communist Party of China in the persecution of Falun Gong.

Chapter 3: A Systematic Analysis of the Ministry of Public Security's Overseas Attack on Falun Gong

According to the high-level confidential information obtained by the CCP from the tracing of international information, starting in 2024, the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China, under the leadership of Minister Wang Xiaohong, launched a new round of offensive against Falun Gong overseas, in line with the overall strategy of CCP leader Xi Jinping. The operation was coordinated by the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, with close cooperation between the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department, and the diplomatic system, to implement the plan to eradicate Falun Gong from the United States and other countries through intelligence infiltration, public opinion manipulation, and legal warfare.[16]

High-level deployment and core objectives of the Ministry of Public Security

In 2024, the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China will hold a number of video conferences, chaired by Wang Xiaohong himself, to issue instructions to provincial and department-level units. Intelligence shows that the plan has received support from the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party, especially the proposal of Minister of State Security Chen Yixin. The six core tasks for Falun Gong include:

1). Intelligence spies on the Trump administration

Activate the special agents (the CCP's internal name for spies) and intelligence informants deployed in the United States, and do everything possible to get close to the core of Trump's team, find out Trump's true attitude towards the CCP and possible sanctions, and provide intelligence support for follow-up operations.

2). Intensifying the Anti-Falun Gong Public Opinion Offensive

Various ministries and commissions have provided pictures, videos, and other materials to fund anti-Falun Gong personnel through "donations," and have used "public opinion personnel" (commonly known as Wumao) who are familiar with Falun Gong to fabricate their "crimes" in violation of US law. These materials were processed to hide traces of the CCP's plots, aiming to create public opinion pressure to force the U.S. government and related agencies to cut off support for Falun Gong, and ultimately achieve the goal of banning Falun Gong from the United States.

3). Smearing Shen Yun, The Epoch Times, and Key Figures

Mobilize special intelligence personnel and external propaganda resources to increase attacks and smears against Shen Yun, Epoch Times, and Falun Gong "key figures" and disrupt the internal relations of overseas Falun Gong groups. Local agents can operate flexibly, but they need to avoid contradictions that could tear apart their organizational structure.

4). Promote the "De-Wheel Program"

To activate latent personnel, and induce Falun Gong members to give up their cultivation (de-wheeling) by setting up a relief fund or providing financial subsidies from a third party through the Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The detached were then used to expose the so-called "shady scenes" in order to weaken the credibility and cohesion of Falun Gong.

5). Wooing High-Level Personnel to Opposition

Mobilization of high-level special intelligence personnel to carry out "offensive operations" against Falun Gong and the Epoch Times, through attacks and co-optation, to transform one or two key figures, turn to opposition at a critical moment, and deal a "fatal blow" to Falun Gong and the US officials who support it.

6). Undermining Falun Gong's Relationship with the U.S.

Before Trump took office, make best effort to undermine Falun Gong's relationship with the U.S. government. The highest goal is to eradicate Falun Gong from the United States, and the lowest goal is to block Trump's potential cooperation with Falun Gong.

Intelligence shows that the CCP's top brass will ultimately target the founder of Falun Gong in order to completely eliminate the so-called threat. The CCP's top brass believes that Falun Gong has evidence of its crimes (such as organ harvesting alive), and if the United States launches an investigation, it will trigger international accountability and threaten the survival of the CCP regime. This is the core motivation of the CCP's plan to destroy Falun Gong internationally

The 2024 Political and Legal System Meeting and Domestic Stability Maintenance Measures

At the beginning of 2024, the national political and legal system held a number of meetings to establish annual goals. In May, it was convened by the Political and Legal Committee (attended by Chen Wenqing) and implemented by the Ministry of Public Security in June (chaired by Chen Siyuan), both of which were video conferences with the participation of local political and legal systems. The meeting stressed "strengthening domestic stability and eliminating destabilizing factors", focusing on Falun Gong and foreign "anti-China forces"[17]

Specific measures for the May meeting of the Political and Legal Committee

1). Monitor Trends on Sensitive Dates

Pay close attention to Falun Gong's "truth-telling" plan on dates such as May 13 (World Falun Dafa Day), June 4 (Tiananmen Square Anniversary Anniversary), and July 20 (the anniversary of the start of persecution), and public security organs at all levels need to formulate countermeasures

2). Infiltrate internal planning

Obtain Falun Gong's future development plans (cultural, economic, talent, etc.) through intelligence channels, and arrange special intelligence personnel to infiltrate Falun Gong's top leaders outside the country.

3). Spy on Western Cooperation

Pay attention to Falun Gong's interaction with both parties and Western politicians in the United States, especially the attitude and actions of the United States during the election and the new policy toward China.

4). Stop the sanctions program

End Falun Gong's efforts to cooperate with Western politicians to sanction the CCP's top brass at any cost.

5). Divide the anti-China forces

Through special intelligence, grasp the movements of overseas Chinese people's movement groups and related organizations, collect their tainted and bad deeds, provide external propaganda countermeasures, sabotage Falun Gong's cooperation with democracy movement groups, and create contradictions so that they have no time to interfere in the CCP's domestic affairs.

The June meeting of the Ministry of Public Security further requested

1).Supporting Social Media Attacks

Provincial departments and departments have allocated resources to support Chinese-language YouTubers in attacking Shen Yun and Falun Gong on social media, providing them with internal public security materials, and activating sleeper agents to create internal contradictions when necessary, expanding their influence, arousing the attention of American society, and forcing the US government to take action to eradicate Falun Gong.

2). Cut off domestic and foreign ties

Maintain stability in the domestic suppression of Falun Gong, avoid new conflicts, and provide material for foreign media. We will make every effort to cut off the communication channels between Falun Gong in China and overseas, block the outflow of persecution information (such as live harvesting), break the chain of exchange for international sympathy, and cooperate with domestic strategies to eradicate Falun Gong globally.

Deep motivation and structural adjustment

Intelligence shows that the crackdown on Epoch Times and Shen Yun is only part of the plan, and the ultimate goal is to break up the Falun Gong community and clear the way for the CCP to recover Taiwan and other major decisions. The CCP believes that Falun Gong is a major hidden danger to maintaining domestic stability and must be eliminated at its root. Extreme measures may be used in the future, especially against important figures in the Epoch Times, to be carried out by the Overseas Special Operations Group.

After the Third Plenum of the CCP Central Committee in 2024, the prefectural and municipal governments merged the low-level institutions under its control, the 610 Public Security Bureau, the State Security System, and the Anti-Cult Education Department into the "Internal Political Security Bureau", which upgraded its powers to facilitate unified command, indicating that the suppression of Falun Gong has intensified. The CCP's original strategy of "natural extinction" against Falun Gong (waiting for the death of elderly Falun Gong practitioners and the withdrawal of young people from joining) was forced to turn to the initiative due to changes in the international situation. [18]

Public opinion manipulation and internal separatist strategies

The CCP spreads rumors through multiple channels, inciting Falun Gong to confront the U.S. government, and uses professionals to design copywriting (such as "Students should go out to protest such as the 1999 Tiananmen Square incident"), which is disseminated by CCP agent accounts responsible for foreign countries. If Falun Gong practitioners protest, the scene will get out of control, and the CCP will play into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Intelligence shows that there are some CCP spies lurking inside Falun Gong, and it is difficult to guard against them once they cooperate with the action, showing that the CCP has rich experience in this kind of conspiracy. [19]

The Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security has actively operated a systematic plan for overseas spy networks to attack Falun Gong

The Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China (Anti-Cult Bureau, formerly the core department of "610") has long been actively operating overseas spy networks and carrying out transnational attacks against Falun Gong. According to information provided to The Epoch Times by a public security insider under the pseudonym Watson, as well as the testimony of Hao Fengjun, a former Tianjin "610" official, the Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security played a key role in intelligence gathering, spy management, and public opinion manipulation. At the same time, an August 2024 report by the Falun Dafa Information Center shows that the CCP is expanding its offensive through social media and online armies in an attempt to eradicate Falun Gong globally. [20]

(Note: Hao Fengjun, a former police superintendent of the State Security Bureau and Office 610 of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau in China, fled China and arrived in Australia as a tourist in February 2005 because he did not want to continue to participate in the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and other religious groups, and subsequently sought political asylum. Hao Fengjun carried a large number of classified documents with him. )

The following will provide a detailed analysis of the operation mode and resource support of the four bureaus of the Ministry of Public Security, as well as their coordinated actions with the Ministry of State Security and the eleventh bureau of the Ministry of Public Security:

1. Overseas Spy Network of the Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security

The Fourth Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security is nominally an "anti-Cult bureau", but in fact it undertakes the functions of the original "610 Office" and is responsible for the operation of special agents against Falun Gong at home and abroad. Watson revealed that the Ministry of State Security and the Ministry of Public Security of the Communist Party of China each manage foreign personnel, which are divided into three categories: spies, informants, and external propaganda, and four of them have a prominent position in Falun Gong-related operations. [21]

1). Mode of Operation:

The Fourth Bureau manages domestic and foreign spies and informants, and infiltrates overseas Chinese associations through organizations such as hometown associations (such as the New York Fujian Association[22]). For example, Sang Linyu, the former director of the Fourth Bureau, cooperated with the president of the Fujian Association to show his deep influence. The New York Fujian Association is led by the new leader Chen Heng, and in 2023, he was recommended by the Chinese Consulate General to participate in the Chinese Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and many meetings in Fujian, highlighting the control of the Chinese Consulate over the association.

2). Intelligence gathering

Hao Fengjun disclosed that the Fourth Bureau sent spies from the mainland and bribed local Chinese and even foreigners as spies. The information was reported to the Fourth Bureau by the local 610, and then reported to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and fed back to the Chinese Consulate. The four bureaus send instructions in encrypted transmission, avoiding leaving official documents and ensuring concealment.

3). Execution Efficiency:

The agents of the four bureaus adopt a single-line contact model, report directly to the national security department, operate independently to avoid horizontal contact, and are far more efficient and concealed than the traditional joint system. Hao Fengjun said: "Whoever leads him, he will report to whomever he wants."

2. The resources and power support of the Fourth Bureau

The Fourth Bureau relies on the persecution of Falun Gong to build a huge system, and the funds and power far exceed those of ordinary departments.

1).Source of funding:

Hao Fengjun revealed that the 610 organization applies for hundreds of millions of yuan from the financial department every year for advanced equipment (such as office equipment, cars) and project tasks. Taking Tianjin as an example, there are more than 50 people in the 610 Municipal Bureau, and more than 200 full-time personnel in the city, and the funds are allocated from the local finance and the four bureaus, including salaries, bonuses and activity funds.

2). Intelligence Rewards:

The value of overseas intelligence is extremely high, ranging from 3,000 yuan to hundreds of thousands of yuan for a piece of information. Tianjin submits thousands of pieces of information to the four bureaus a year, involving the United States, Canada, Australia and other places. For example, the intelligence value of Australian student Li was 10,000 yuan, and after it was adopted, the funds were allocated layer by layer, and finally issued to overseas special intelligence personnel in the form of "year-end condolence money".

3). Scope of power

610 can be transferred to the same or senior police (such as the household registration office, public security department), and its leaders enjoy over-standard treatment. As the core of 610, the Fourth Bureau has the funds and power to support its dominant position in overseas operations

3. The coordination of the fourth bureau with Chen Yixin and Wang Xiaohong

Minister of State Security Chen Yixin's plan to attack Falun Gong overseas is related to his personal ambitions and close ties with the CCP's top brass, but the actual implementation is led by the Fourth Bureau, and the intervention of Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong further strengthens the action. Watson said that the Fourth Bureau continues the existing operation mode of "610", complements the special service network of the Ministry of State Security, and makes the intelligence collection and suppression of Falun Gong more systematic.

4. The collaboration of cyber troops and public opinion manipulation

The 11th Bureau (Cyber Security Bureau) of the Ministry of Public Security is in charge of special cyber investigations and works with the 4th Bureau to manipulate global public opinion. [23]

1). Special battle:

“China Digital Times” disclosed in May 2023 that the 11th Bureau issued a notice on March 24, 2023, approved by Vice Minister Chen Siyuan, organizing more than 40 cyber police to conduct a ‘special campaign for the investigation of foreign cyber armies’ from March 27 to April 27 in Beijing. The organizer was the 24th Division of the 11th Bureau, with Hu Fengming as the organizer, and a list of 32 participants whose identities have been verified through cross-verification.

2) Competition for public opinion

The 11th Bureau manages the nation's cyber police, which is charge of cybercrime cases. This This campaign aims to compete with public opinion outside the country and provide support for the overseas operations of the 4th Bureau.

3) Weaponize social media

The Falun Dafa Information Center reported in August 2024 that the CCP used the resources of the Ministry of Public Security to instruct internet celebrities (such as two Chinese-speaking YouTubers) to attack Falun Gong and Shen Yun, spread false information and manipulate search engine results. The CCP viewed the social media as an ideal platform for disrupting public opinion because of its strong communication capability and diverse audience. [24]

5. Specific strategies against Falun Gong
Investigation shows the CCP plans to escalate the persecution of Falun Gong globally (especially in the U.S.)[25], with tactics including:

1). Internal Division:

The 4th Bureau initiated an espionage network to infiltrate Falun Gong, inciting practitioners to distrust the U.S. government and even to protest publicly. Sources said that the CCP “professionals” designed rumors, such as “U.S. agencies are being used by the CCP to suppress Falun Gong,” which were then spread by the 50-cent party to stir up trouble and force the U.S. to suppress Falun Gong.

2) Legal Battle Inducement:

They used internet celebrities to spread rumors that could have legal consequences in the United States (such as calling Falun Gong as a “Cult ” or fabricating negative information about Shen Yun) to induce the authorities to investigate Shen Yun and its organizations. Although rumors are are easy to debunk, their purpose is to create confusion.

3) Resource Support:

The Ministry of Public Security asked provincial departments to provide YouTuber with anti-Falun Gong content, including internal materials held by the 4th bureaus, and mobilized the overseas agents and undercover agents to assist and amplify the effect of the attack.

The 4th Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, with its abundant funding and power, actively operates an overseas spy network and carries out transnational attack plans against Falun Gong. From intelligence gathering to public opinion manipulation, the 4th Bureau works in tandem with the 11th Bureau and the Ministry of State Security to form a systematic offensive against Falun Gong under the leadership of Chen Yixin and Wang Xiaohong.

Chapter 4 The United Front Work Department’s Suppression Mechanism and Infiltration Effect on Falun Gong Overseas

The United Front Work Department uses overseas Chinese communities to carry out the task of persecuting Falun Gong

The United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the CCP is one of the main agencies promoting the policy of persecuting Falun Gong from home to overseas. By working in concert with multiple CCP departments, it utilizes overseas Chinese and Chinese students as tools to carry out systematic attacks on targeted Chinese groups overseas. At the same time, the United Front Work Department is not limited to the Chinese community, but also actively seeks out agents in mainstream societies and political figures in various countries, attempting to build a small circle of interests centered on the will of the CCP through subtle influence, and realizing the CCP's strategic ambition of “the CCP's global united front.” [26]

1) Guiding Policies of CCP Leaders on United Front Work:

On July 1, 2021, CCP leader Xi Jinping clearly pointed out in his speech on the centennial of the founding of the Party that “the patriotic united front is an important magic weapon of the CCP to unite all Chinese people at home and abroad to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” He encouraged Chinese around the world to unite and spread positive messages about the CCP's ruling through various forms to strengthen the CCP's international image. [27][28]

On October 21, 2023, CCP leader Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 110th anniversary of the European-American Alumni Association (EAA), saying that the EAA was a “united front” organization, and demanding the EAA strengthen its political nature (see Figure 2).

Figure 2: Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 110th anniversary of the “European and American Students' Association”

As early as 2001, Qian Qichen, then member of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, emphasized at the Third Plenary Session of the Sixth Session of the Overseas Chinese Federation of China that “At present, when we carry out overseas fellowship, we must combine the overseas Chinese affairs in Taiwan with the combat against Falun Gong cult organization overseas.” This speech explicitly made anti-Falun Gong one of the priorities of overseas Chinese affairs. [29]

2) The United Front Role of the “Chinese Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification” (CCPPR)

The China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification (CCPPR) claims to be a non-government organization established to strive for the peaceful reunification of Taiwan, but in fact, it is a united front tool under the direct jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department of the CCP. Its branches are spread all over the world, registered as local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to cover their official background, but they only receive orders from Beijing to implement the policies of the CCP and serve its interests. [30]

The Investigation Report on “the CCP's United Front Offensive Led by the CCCPR” exposes in detail the true nature of the CCPPR, pointing out how it has essentially become an important pawn through its ostensible civil status for the CCP's expansion of its influence overseas.

Wang Huning, current member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CCP Central Committee, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, also serves as chairman of the CCPPR. The direct involvement of this high-level leader shows the CCPPR’s core posiion in the CCP's united front system.

3) Systematic brainwash and manipulation of overseas Chinese and students

The CCP's United Front Work Department, primarily through the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) of the People's Republic of China and in close collaboration with the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other departments, studies and formulates political strategies targeting overseas Chinese. These strategies include the systematic and long-term indoctrination of overseas Chinese with CCP ideology and confusing the concepts of “China” and “CCP” through deceptive propaganda. [31]

By taking advantage of the Chinese people's natural attachment of their homeland, the CCP bundles patriotic sentiments with allegiance to the CCP, attempting to make overseas Chinese to identify with the CCP regime and serve it.

The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) forms a joint mechanism with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the People's Liberation Army, the Ministry of State Security and other ministries to influence and control overseas Chinese through a full range of means. The OCAO has provincial and municipal branches in local governments, and every CCP embassy or consulate abroad has staff specializing in overseas Chinese affairs.

In March 2018, the Central Committee of the CCP decided to merge the OCAO into the United Front Work Department (UFWD), but still retain the name of OCAO externally. This restructure further consolidates the leading role of the United Front Work Department in overseas activities to influence overseas Chinese communities more effectively.

4) The focus of united front work shifted after 1999:

Since the CCP began its full-scale crackdown on Falun Gong in 1999, the focus of its overseas united front work has gradually shifted to supporting this policy. The United Front Work Department operates overseas through multiple systems, including pro-Communist diaspora groups, overseas student organizations, chambers of commerce, CCP-funded media, and the Chinese Overseas Friendship Association.

According to a conservative estimate in 2005, there were more than 10,000 overseas Chinese organizations worldwide, many of which were directly or indirectly influenced by the CCP and have become its extended arm for carrying out its united front work. [32]

5)  The Role and Control of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA):

The Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) is an organization of mainland Chinese students and scholars studying or working in universities around the world. As early as 2000, CSSA already had branches in at least 12 countries around the world, with at least 109 in the United States alone. [33]

Many CSSAs explicitly state in their bylaws or websites that they accept the leadership of the CCP embassy or consulate in the country. Educational counsellors and consuls of CCP consulates directly manipulate CSSA by serving as advisors, using state resources to transform these student organizations into implementation tools for the CCP's global strategy.

6) Specific actions and cases:

On May 17, 2008, the CCP launched the “5.17 Flushing Incident in New York” , organizing Chinese people who were unaware of the truth to attack Falun Gong practitioners[34]

In July 2014, the CCP instructed some Chinese to wear “red vests” and distribute anti-Falun Gong materials near the Flushing subway station in New York to incite hatred.

In Taiwan, the United Front Work Department-controlled “Patriotic United Association” has repeatedly and violently attacked Falun Gong practitioners. In Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Youth Care Association (HKYCA), an offshoot of the “610 Office,” has frequently harassed Falun Gong truth clarification sites. [35]

When senior CCP officials visit abroad, members of the “welcoming delegation” organized by the United Front Work Department or the Chinese Consulate officials personally participate in beatings Falun Gong practitioners. These incidents are typical cases of the CCP's persecution policy carried out by the United Front Work Department.

7) U.S. Official Investigation and Report:

On August 24, 2018, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) under the U.S. Congress released a report titled "China's (CPC) Overseas United Front Work", pointing out that the United Front Work Department is playing an increasingly important role in the CCP's foreign policy, using united front tactics to win over and eliminate forces opposing the CCP. [36]

According to the report, the CCP has added about 40,000 united front cadres in recent years, and almost all CCP embassies have staff to cooperate with the United Front Work Department. In recent years, the United Front Work Department has strengthened its collaboration with the Ministry of National Security, supporting its overseas operations by developing informants and gathering intelligence. 

The United Front Work Department's teaching manual revealed by the Financial Times shows that the CCP is paying more and more attention to united front work against overseas Chinese, trying to influence their behavior and opinions. [37]

8) Deep involvement of the Ministry of State Security (MSS):

China's Ministry of State Security plays a key role in united front work and influence operations. The United Front Work Department builds a network with international personalities friendly to the Chinese Communist Party, and the Ministry of State Security uses this as a convenient condition for recruiting agents and building an intelligence network. [38] 

For example, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) holds an annual meeting in Beijing and invites about 30 foreigners to attend. The Ministry of State Security secretly held welcome meetings and united front forums in an attempt to use the foreign visitors for political influence operations, spreading lies, shaping their understanding of the CCP and changing their positions on key issues.

The CCP uses public identities (such as foreign affairs, journalism, economics and trade, finance and other foreign-related occupations) as a cover to collect intelligence through covert channels, analyze and summarize intelligence from public materials, and form a systematic intelligence network.

The CCP uses United Front organizations such as the European and American Returned Scholars Association to attack Falun Gong and Shen Yun

Through United Front organizations such as the European and American Scholars Association, the CCP manipulates Chinese journalists associated with Falun Gong and uses international media platforms to carry out negative propaganda against Falun Gong and its related groups (such as Shen Yun Art Troupe) in an attempt to weaken its international influence.

The New York Times published a number of articles attacking Falun Gong and Shen Yun that were alleged to be linked to the CCP's united front system. The lead reporter Nicole Hong is a Chinese-American journalist whose father, Hong Chaohui, has long been involved in the CCP's united front activities. [39]、[40]

Hong Chaohui is a member of the North American branch of the Western Returned Scholars Association and an overseas honorary director of the Chinese Western Returned Scholars Association (see Figure 3), which is supported by inscriptions from successive CCP leaders such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping, as well as financial support from the intelligence services.

(Picture 3: Screenshot of Hong Zhaohui serving as an overseas honorary director of the China European and American Scholars Association)

According to a CCP police insider who goes by the pseudonym "Watson," the overseas attack on Falun Gong is part of the power ambition of the new Minister of State Security, Chen Yixin, who provides so-called "inside material" behind the scenes to support these reports. [41]

The background and operation of the United Front Work of the European and American Returned Scholars Association

The European and American Returned Scholars Association (Chinese Overseas Students Association) is an organization of overseas students under the leadership of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and managed by the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China. In 2003, the name of "Chinese Overseas Students Association" was added to strengthen its united front function. [42]

On October 21, 2013, Xi Jinping attended the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the European and American Returned Scholars Association and delivered a speech; On May 12, 2016, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of European and American Returned Scholars Associations"; On October 21, 2023, Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to it’s 110th anniversary, emphasizing its "united front character" and calling for greater political character.

From 2014 to 2015, the then President Chen Zhu promoted the establishment of overseas liaison workstations in seven countries, including Japan, Singapore and Sweden, to strengthen contacts with overseas scholars and embassies and consulates through symposiums, overseas visits, receptions, etc., and to grasp overseas trends. 

In 2021, Ding Zhongli was elected as the eighth president, and he formed a deep relationship with the Ministry of State Security led by Chen Yixin to jointly carry out secret spy activities. 

When Hong Qianqian's relationship with Hong Chaohui was exposed by overseas media, the CCP's domestic media quickly deleted the relevant reports. This coordinated action is seen as requiring the intervention of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee or the Cyberspace Administration of the State Council, demonstrating the effectiveness of the CCP's control over public opinion

Overseas Chinese Organizations Accept the Leadership of the Chinese Consulate and Are Actually Spy Agencies

By controlling overseas Chinese associations and turning them into tools for united front work and espionage activities, these associations ostensibly serve overseas Chinese compatriots, but in fact serve the interests of the CCP. [43]

1) Development and control of the New York Federation of Chinese Organizations:

The organization was established in New York in September 1990 and is composed of 18 Chinese associations, commonly known as the "Eighteen Overseas Chinese Groups". In 1999, Liang Guanguan became the chairman and then changed its name to the Federation of Chinese Associations in the East of the United States, and now claims to have 215 groups. 

Its main activities are to entertain mainland visiting delegations and facilitate their return to China for business or investment, but in essence it lacks the service function of local overseas Chinese and has become a tool under the control of the Chinese Consulate. 

Liang Guanguan also serves as the vice president of the China Overseas Friendship Association, the executive director of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification, and the chairman of the National Alliance to Oppose Independence and Promote Reunification, showing his important position in the CCP's united front network.

2) Direct control of the Chinese Consulate:

Former chairman Liang Bowen (who has been the chairman of the New York Council for the Promotion of Unification for ten years since 1983) has revealed that the chairman of the federation is hand-picked by the Chinese consulate, and the ostensible election is only a formality. The federation has become a resource that the CCP can mobilize to crack down on dissent and create "public opinion." 

The Overseas Friendship Association of China is under the direct jurisdiction of the United Front Work Department, and its chairman is the head of the United Front Work Department. As the first foreign vice president, Liang Guanguan further highlights his special role.

3) Hoover Institution's warning:

In November 2018, the Hoover Institution released a report titled "China's Influence and U.S. Interests", pointing out that the CCP has fully infiltrated the overseas Chinese community in the United States, and recommended that United Front organizations and their derivative groups register as foreign agents, including the Council for the Promotion of Unification and Overseas Exchange Association. [44] 

The report named Liang Guanguan, Zheng Shigan, chairman of the Fujian Office, and Chen Qingquan, adviser to the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, indicating that their activities have attracted the attention of the United States.

4) The case of the Fujian Association:

In March 2023, Chen Heng was elected as the 81st chairman of the Fujian Association of the United States, and in September of the same year, he participated in the "Overseas Chinese Banquet" in Beijing and met with national dignitaries, showing the support of the Chinese Consulate. 

Chen Heng said that the Fujian Association has the support of the CCP's top level and ranks first among the world's hometown associations, and its secretary-general Chen Wu also emphasized the close ties with the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. [45]

The CCP's overseas police station "anti-Falun Gong" activities have been prosecuted by the US

US judicial department has issued indictment for the setting up of secret "police stations" overseas by the CCP to carry out transnational persecution against Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents[46]. 

In April 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice indicted 44 CCP agents for setting up a secret police station in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York, for participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and other dissidents. 

Lu Jianwang, chairman of the Fujian Association, and Chen Jinping, secretary general of the Changle Association, were arrested, and arrest warrants were issued for 34 mainland police officers (members of the "912 Special Project Working Group").

Located at 107 East Broadway in Manhattan, under the banner of serving the diaspora, the Changle Association is actually an overseas police station supported by the Chinese Communist Party, carrying out the tasks of the United Front Work Department, the Ministry of National Security, and the "610" office. 

Lu Jianwang admitted to contacting the director of the "610" bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, and was repeatedly instructed by him to interfere with Falun Gong activities, collect intelligence, and receive remuneration. Before Xi Jinping's visit to the United States in 2015, he was instructed by the Chinese consulate to organize anti-Falun Gong protests. 

The Spanish human rights organization "Safeguard Defenders" revealed that similar secret police stations exist in many cities in the United States (such as New York and Los Angeles), but the specific addresses are not fully disclosed.

Taking advantage of the so-called "Chinese Anti-cult" Organizations by Overseas Chinese

The CCP funds "anti-cult" organizations disguised as non-governmental organizations in an attempt to suppress Falun Gong and influence overseas public opinion through unofficial entities. [47]

1) Internal CCP documents reveal operational tactics:

In 2011, Hunan Provincial official Chai Lijun wrote a report pointing out that official political and legal means could not effectively oppose Falun Gong, and recommended supporting overseas Chinese to establish non-governmental "anti-cult" organizations. 

According to the report, this strategy can take advantage of the relaxed environment for the management of non-governmental organizations overseas to achieve the goal of the united front. Its advantages include the ease of registration, the ability to use political power to meet requirements, and the right to speak. 

It is proposed that this be elevated to a national strategy to develop such organizations globally through new formations, acquisitions, alliances, etc

2) Source of funding:

The funds come from "domestic support forces" and are channeled through indirect channels such as state-owned enterprises or the China Anti-Cult Education Association to avoid disputes caused by direct government funding,  Such organizations often face legal action for alleged rights violations in the United States.

3) Specific case:

The "Global Chinese Anti-Cult Alliance" was founded by the China Anti-Cult Association, and the funding came from the Tianjin Political and Legal Committee. Its chairman, Li Huahong, has long slandered and violently attacked Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing, and has been arrested by New York police several times and faces prosecution. 

In collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, and other multinational organizations, the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China (CCP) has systematically persecuted Falun Gong and expanded its global influence by using overseas Chinese groups, student organizations, media, and disguised non-governmental organizations. Its tactics include intelligence gathering, ideological indoctrination, violent suppression, and public opinion control, and the use of state resources to support covert operations, forming a huge cross-departmental mechanism.

Chapter 5  Red Capital and International Institutions Are Tools for the CCP to Wage a Global Public Opinion War

As the core representative of the CCP's "red capital", CITIC Group, with its deep political background and global economic network, is not only an important pillar of the CCP's political and economic power, but also assists the CCP in systematically suppressing Falun Gong and other groups overseas through institutions such as the CITIC Reform and Development Foundation. 

An internal document leaked in July 2024 reveals the CITIC Foundation's specific tactics, including using the media, think tanks, and international resources to spread defamatory information and manipulate global public opinion. At the same time, the CCP has expanded its domestic pattern of human rights persecution overseas through the coordinated operation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), think tanks such as the China and Globalization Think Tank (CCG), and intelligence networks, demonstrating an escalation of transnational repression of Falun Gong. [48]

The following will systematically explore the key position of CITIC Group in the CCP's global strategic layout, analyze its institutional ties with the CCP's top leadership, the functional positioning of the "globalization think tank" in the external narrative output, and reveal how the CCP uses economic tools and soft power to disguise its political schemes.

History and power structure of CITIC Group and CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development

According to a leaked internal report in July 2024, the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development, a state-run think tank of the Chinese Communist Party, was involved in the CCP's efforts to export red ideas to the international community. The foundation was established in August 2014, approved by the State Council, registered by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and supervised by CITIC Group. [49] 

CITIC Group, formerly known as China International Trust and Investment Corporation approved by Deng Xiaoping and founded by Rong Yiren in 1979, was a landmark enterprise in the early days of the CPC's "reform and opening up". In 2002, it was renamed as CITIC Group Corporation, restructured into a wholly state-owned company in 2011, and listed in Hong Kong in 2014 to expand its international influence. [50]

CITIC has a close relationship with the "princelings", and Wang Jun, the son of Wang Zhen, a veteran of the Communist Party of China, has served as general manager and chairman. In the early 80s, Deng Xiaoping, Ye Jianying, Wang Zhen and other CCP giants invited Rong Yiren to establish a trust business, and CITIC was first involved in arms exports, and later contributed to the birth of Poly (controlled by Wang Zhen and Deng Xiaoping's family) and Kelly (led by Ye Xuanning, the son of Ye Jianying), and the outside world also pointed out that it involved Liu Yunshan and Zeng Qinghong's family forces. [51]

CITIC Group is one of the three major ministerial-level central enterprises of the Communist Party of China, and is known as the "four major consortia" together with China Merchants, China Resources and Poly. According to the 2024 Fortune Global 500, CITIC ranks 71st with revenue of US$131.242 billion and profit of US$4.125 billion, with total assets of RMB11.33 trillion, close to the combined GDP of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen (12.56 trillion yuan) [52]

CCP Uses Businesses and NGOs to Influence Abroad

In 2011, Chai Lijun, an official of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department and a member of the Anti-Cult Association, wrote a report revealing that the CCP used state-owned enterprises and NGOs to exert influence overseas to suppress the Falun Gong community. The report points out that the domestic model of "direct government money to anti-Cult organizations" does not apply overseas, as it may arouse international skepticism and criticism. [53]

As a result, the CCP has turned to large state-owned enterprises (SOEs) for this task. These companies have the economic power and political motivation to not only safeguard the CCP's overseas interests, but also indirectly spread the CCP's ideology by funding overseas Chinese anti-X-religion organizations. The report recommends that domestic government support should be channeled through "non-governmental" forms or corporations such as the China Anti-Cult Association to disguise the official context. For example, state-owned enterprises such as CITIC Group are seen as ideal executors because of their deep pockets and international pipeline. [54]

The International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee (IBC) is one of the core departments of the CCP's external work, and its website claims that its work targets include communist parties, left-wing parties, ethnic and democratic parties in developing countries, and socialist parties, labor parties, and conservative parties in developed countries. [55]

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee has implemented Xi Jinping's thinking on external work and has established contacts with more than 600 political parties and organizations in more than 160 countries and regions. Through high-level visits, forum dialogues, working visits and other forms, the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee promotes a "new type of inter-party exchanges", aiming to "tell China's story well and convey China's voice" and shape the international image of the CPC. As an important part of the country's diplomacy, the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee coordinates with state-owned enterprises and think tanks to serve the CCP's global strategy, including spreading slanderous and offensive rhetoric against Falun Gong in the international community. [56]

The CCP expands its intelligence network overseas

The Liaison Department (General Political Liaison Department) under the General Political Department of the Communist Party of China is the core organ of intelligence and counterintelligence. As the late leader of the princelings, Ye Xuanning served as deputy director and minister of the General Political Liaison Department, and headed his company, Kelly. The company is ostensibly an enterprise, but in fact it raises funds for the General Political Liaison Department, and together with the Intelligence Department of the General Staff and the Ministry of State Security, it is called "the CCP's three major spy systems".[57]

During his tenure at the helm of the General Political Liaison Department from 1990 to 1997, Ye Xuanning launched an unprecedented program to send thousands of Red descendants of the CCP to study abroad. This operation spanned many countries and lasted for nearly a decade, and was called the largest "latent case" in the history of the CCP's military intelligence. [58]

The General Political Liaison Department was later merged with the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, and some intelligence officers were transferred to the Strategic Support Force, while the rest were transferred to civilian positions. For the first time, Germany's counterintelligence department characterized the International Liaison Department as an intelligence agency, warning it to gather sensitive information and win over friendly forces through contacts with German political circles. The International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee often invites German parliamentarians to visit China to promote "CCP values", with the aim of building a network of support for the CCP.

The CITIC Foundation's specific strategy for Falun Gong

An internal document from the CITIC Foundation shows that it was involved in a systematic campaign against Falun Gong. In this document, it calls for the mobilization of the central media, university think tanks, and other units to disseminate information slandering Falun Gong overseas. The specific forms include news reports, academic papers, short videos and micro-short dramas, so as to adapt to the "fragmented" communication characteristics of overseas social media and expand coverage and influence. [59]

This multi-pronged information manipulation aims to increase credibility through the "echo chamber" effect, obfuscate sources, deceive global Internet users, and reverse public opinion against Falun Gong and Shen Yun. The clear goal of the document is to "arouse the sustained attention of the whole American society and force the US government to attack on all fronts to eliminate the Falun Gong forces", which shows that the CCP intends to achieve its political goal of eliminating Falun Gong through international pressure.

The potential role of the "Think Tank on China and Globalization" in the overseas crackdown on Falun Gong

Think tanks are often used as "soft power" tools in the CCP's global strategy to combat Falun Gong, covering up political intentions in the form of academic discussions and policy recommendations, providing a platform for superficial neutrality, and indirectly supporting the CCP's political intentions overseas. [60]、[61]、[62]、[63]

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Beijing, the Center for China and Globalization (CCG) is the only Chinese think tank with special consultative status with the United Nations, with nearly 100 full-time researchers and multiple branches and representative offices at home and abroad. CCG cooperates with the Belt and Road Think Tank Alliance of the International Liaison Department of the Central People's Republic of China, and its chairman Wang Huiyao is a former counselor of the State Council, and its honorary chairs include Chen Deming, former minister of the Ministry of Commerce, and other high-level CCP government officials. According to the 2020 Global Think Tank Report of the University of Pennsylvania, CCG ranked 64th among the top 100 think tanks in the world. As Senior Vice Chairman, Zhang Yichen further connects the influence of CITIC and CCG to provide soft power support for the CCP's internationalization agenda. 

Chapter 6: The CCP Conspiracy to Destroy Falun Gong's Reputation and Launch Transnational Cyber Attacks

In 2024, the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, relying on the State Security Bureau and the Cyberspace Administration of China, established a "Fa Axis Gong" network organization in accordance with the internal "Guiding Opinions on the Establishment of 'Fa Axis Gong' in Overseas Online Public Opinion Warfare" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guiding Opinions"), and organized overseas influencers and cyber trolls to publish reports to frame Falun Gong through the New York Times and other media. This is the new strategy of CCP leader Xi Jinping to persecute Falun Gong in an attempt to eradicate Falun Gong on a global scale, or at least to undermine Falun Gong's reputation.

I. The CCP's "Fa Axis Gong" Conspiracy: A Cyber Offensive Against Falun Gong

Under the leadership of the State Security Bureau and the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), The “Fa-Axis-Gong” is an intelligence organization established via the “Guiding Opinions” against Falun Gong. The campaign is aimed at weakening Falun Gong's overseas influence through international media, trolls, and bribed dissidents. (See Figure 4 and Figure 5) [64]

(Figure 4: The CCP issued the "Guiding Opinions" to frame Falun Gong)

(Figure 5: The CCP issued the "Guiding Opinions" to frame Falun Gong)

The "Guiding Opinions" clearly stated: The establishment of the "Fa-Axis Gong" network spy organization, using religious belief as a disguise, to carry out encirclement and suppression of foreign public opinion against Falun Gong. The document begins with: "Falun Gong's international influence is a hidden danger that we must remove."

Organizational structure and division of labor:

Top leader: The director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of National Security is responsible for the overall strategy.

Core Implementation: The Cyberspace Administration of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee leads the daily scheduling and coordinates technical and publicity resources.

Propaganda support: The Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee is responsible for deploying media forces to guide public opinion.

Membership:

The core members of the organization will be composed of carefully selected and reliable individuals, while the peripheral members may consist of our personnel who have infiltrated Falun Gong or former Falun Gong members who hold grievances against the group.

Conspiracy layout:

The CCP's established operational policy of "Fa Axis-Gong" is summarized as "organizing, fighting, cooperation, and encircling":

Orgainizing: Contact Falun Gong dissidents and dig up internal contradictions;

Fighting: Accurately strike key people and create chaos;

Cooperation: Cooperate with international media to form a joint force of public opinion; Encirclement: Encirclement and suppression of the positive image of Falun Gong until its reputation collapses.

The long-term goal is to build Fa-Axis-Gong into a permanent cyber force for the CCP to fight global religious forces, and its ambitions go far beyond the battle of Falun Gong.

II. Behind the New York Times' attack on Shen Yun

The "Guiding Opinions" instructed: "Use the credibility of the international mainstream media (such as the New York Times) to weaken the foundation of Falun Gong's public opinion."

A CCP public security insider under the pseudonym Watson told The Epoch Times that the CCP's current round of attacks against Falun Gong and Shen Yun (since 2024) is a systematic and complete plan, and every step is controlled and conspired by the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security behind the scenes, and these people on the surface are just chess pieces. "Including the things they exposed, they were also collected and filmed by the national security agents inside the target, and then released through them, otherwise how could they suddenly have these materials, it would be impossible to do it with the skills of those few people." [65]

Since 2024, the New York Times has published a series of negative reports on Shen Yun and Falun Gong, most of which are sensationalist headlines, with some reports citing so-called "former members' revelations" and accusing Shen Yun of "oppression and brainwashing."

The New York Times' report was questioned

According to the Falun Dafa Information Center's investigation, the New York Times had the following problems in reporting on Shen Yun and Falun Gong: [66]、[67]

1) Ignoring feedback and evidence: Ignoring information provided by Shen Yun and other parties that was contrary to its report.

2) Source issues: Use problematic sources and small-scale samples to construct a specific narrative. 3) Ignoring expert opinions: Failure to refer to the views of experts in multiple fields.

4) Withholding key information: Failure to disclose material background to readers.

5) Perpetuating prejudice: The CCP's distorted reporting model of Falun Gong belief has long been followed.

The New York Times' Deep Ties

Public information shows that Joseph Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, has strong ties to the Chinese regime. From 1994 to 2008, he served as a correspondent in China and then as Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times for 14 years. Kahn's Chinese-American wife's real estate business spans Beijing and New York. Kahn personally participated in writing a eulogy to glorify former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. Kahn's father, Leo Kahn, was the co-founder of Staples, the largest office supply retailer in the United States, and became the exclusive supplier for the Beijing Olympics. [68]

New York Times reporter Nicole Hong is the main writer of several articles attacking Shen Yun and Falun Gong. She is a journalist of Chinese descent whose father, Hung Chaohui, has close ties to the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Hong Chaohui is a member of the North American Chapter of the Western Returned Scholars Association and an overseas honorary director of the Chinese Western Returned Scholars Association. [69]

The European and American Scholars Association is one of the eight institutions directly under the United Front Work Department of the Communist Party of China, responsible for overseas infiltration and intelligence gathering, and has long received the support of successive leaders of the Communist Party of China (such as Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, Xi Jinping) and intelligence department funding. In 2023, Xi Jinping wrote a congratulatory letter for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the European and American Scholars Association.

When Hong Qianqian's relationship with Hong Chaohui was exposed by overseas media, Chinese domestic media quickly deleted the relevant reports. Such a highly coordinated action would have been nearly impossible without the intervention of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee or the Cyberspace Administration of the State Council.

The New York Times interviewee's connection to the Beijing Dance Academy

The Beijing Dance Academy (BDA), a state-run institution of the Chinese Communist Party, is used as a tool against Shen Yun and is a major global competitor to Shen Yun and its affiliated schools. [70]

At least three of the six former Shen Yun performers cited by The New York Times in its report attacking Shen Yun had undisclosed ties to the Beijing Dance Academy.

All three have traveled to China to work with the Beijing Dance Academy. One of them, who runs a Taiwanese dance studio in partnership with the Beijing Dance Academy, has a public Facebook page that lists her as a "teacher in the classical dance department of the Beijing Dance Academy."

Another interviewee maintained a positive relationship with Shen Yun for more than a year after leaving Shen Yun and even tried to return, but after establishing contact with the Beijing Dance Academy, his attitude changed and he began to make statements contrary to it.

The New York Times did not mention these connections in its report, and there was an apparently concealed conflict of interest.

Cited by the New York Times as "Zhang Junge Lawsuit"

1). The whole story:

On November 25, 2024, former Feitian student Zhang Junge filed a lawsuit in the United States, accusing Shen Yun of "coercion and abuse" by eight entities, including Shen Yun Performing Arts Troupe and Feitian University. In her complaint, she claimed that she had been forced to undergo "faith brainwashing." However, three years ago, Zhang Junge volunteered to apply for a graduate degree at Feitian University, and publicly thanked the school for its training many times. [71]

2) Attitude reversal:

At the beginning of 2024, Zhang Junge and her husband went to Beijing Dance Academy and Shanghai for inspection. After returning to the United States, she gave an interview to the media, questioning the authenticity of "Falun Gong practitioners being harvested alive" – a crime that has been confirmed by congressional testimony and human rights reports. Zhang Junge's transformation is puzzling

3). Media amplification and clarification:

The New York Times quoted Zhang twice, but his statement was full of loopholes. The associated counter party Zhang Tianliang posted a long rebuttal on platform X, attaching Zhang Junge's previous communication records and interview videos. Feitian teacher Xianyuan recorded a video and refuted his false accusations one by one. Mr. Zhang did not respond.

Based on the above and the information provided by the Falun Dafa Information Center, many of the reports published by The New York Times since 2024 about Falun Gong, Shen Yun or Feitian University and Feitian Art Academy are based on quotes taken out of context to mislead readers. Despite repeated clarifications from Shen Yun, The New York Times continues to repeat the same narrative. Deutsche Welle, the Associated Press, the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, ABC news, and others have also published reports to attack Shen Yun.

This wave of intense media attacks is in line with the "Guiding Opinions" above, which states "actively establishing cooperation with internationally renowned media outlets (such as the New York Times) to promote their publication of negative reports on Falun Gong."

III. Deploy cyber trolls and KOLs to attack Shen Yun and Falun Gong

The Guiding Opinions, issued by the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and the municipal government, and led by the State Security Bureau and the Cyberspace Administration of China, clearly state that cyber trolls and opinion leaders (KOLs) should be organized around the world to systematically publish content attacking Falun Gong on major social platforms.

The leaked CCP documents revealed by the Falun Dafa Information Center specifically mention that the CCP Ministry of Public Security "fully supports" a Chinese YouTuber who has attacked Falun Gong on social media platforms and made violent threats against Shen Yun performances. Currently, the YouTuber is facing federal charges in the U.S. for illegal possession of weapons, and U.S. law enforcement agencies have warned him of a security threat to Shen Yun's New York Training Center. [72]

On August 18, 2024, shortly after the New York Times article attacking Shen Yun was published, the YouTuber publicly stated on Platform X (formerly Twitter): "I was the one who introduced people to The New York Times, especially the original interviewee." At least three of The New York Times' six core interviewees have been featured on the YouTuber's channel.

Communications records show that the YouTuber had assisted The New York Times in contacting other former Shen Yun actors, some of whom both contributed content to its channel and served as the subject of interviews for New York Times articles. As early as January 2024, he had already mentioned his contact with the New York Times on the channel, and hinted at the content of the report through at least 14 social media posts before the article was published, claiming that Falun Gong and Shen Yun would be "finished." In multiple posts, he also thanked the unnamed New York Times reporter, suggesting that he had undisclosed inside information

On August 4, 2024, the YouTuber posted a lengthy post outlining the "three strategic areas" to dismantle Shen Yun: the legal system, mainstream media (such as The New York Times), and Chinese-language online communities. Its goal is highly consistent with the strategy in the CCP's leaked documents: to discredit Falun Gong and silence its voice in the international community by promoting negative public opinion and law enforcement investigations.

The CCP has systematically supported overseas KOLs and cyber trolls

The Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (hereinafter referred to as the "Central Propaganda Department") is the main department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in charge of national propaganda, ideological and public opinion guidance. Its vice minister, Zhuang Rongwen, is also the director of the Cyberspace Administration of China. As early as 2014, Ren Xianliang, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China, pointed out in a speech that "we must support our own Big Voices and discourse leaders", with the aim of "firmly grasping the initiative of public opinion and occupying the high ground of public opinion".[73]

This strategy calls for cultivating "storytelling" communication masters, forming an all-media network propaganda team, and pushing the "main theme" of the CCP's perspective on a global scale.

China Central Radio and Television (CCTV) is an international online platform that disseminates information about the Communist Party of China in 61 languages, with audiences in more than 180 countries and regions around the world, making it the world's largest multilingual media cluster with the largest variety of languages and the widest coverage. The platform also cooperated with the Cyberspace Administration of China to hold online publicity activities such as "Pictures in China, the Most Beautiful Landmark" to recruit overseas Internet celebrities to participate in the image outflow of the CCP. [74]

Huawei's Xi'an Research Institute Directly Involved in the CCP's Transnational Intimidation of Shen Yun

During Shen Yun's 2025 tour in Taiwan, a series of highly organized and technical email intimidation incidents occurred one after another, including shootings and bombings, directly targeting Shen Yun and its venues, with the intent of using violent means to force the performance to be terminated. After an investigation by the Taiwanese police, the upstream network source of the threatening letters was finally identified as the "Huawei Xi'an Research Institute" in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China. [75]

Huawei has long been deeply involved in the CCP's military technology projects, and the results of this tracing further reveal that the CCP has used the corporate shell as a cover to launch a transnational information war, and has incorporated the suppression of Falun Gong and other faith groups into the national level action system. This pattern not only reveals the nature of its systematic political persecution, but also poses a serious and persistent security threat to the international community.

During Shen Yun's performances in Taiwan, theaters and government offices in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Keelung, and other cities received threatening emails, some with images of explosives, and some threatening to shoot or explode if the show was not canceled. On March 30, the Zhongshan Hall in Taichung City received 27 bomb threat messages in two minutes, many of which were sent at the same time, suspected to be the work of automated programs. So far, a total of 42 theaters in Taiwan have received similar emails.

I. On April 29, 2025, Falun Gong practitioners were violently attacked at a Truth Telling Location on the street

On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 10:33 AM, Falun Gong practitioners at Main St. in Flushing. A booth at the Truth Telling Location at the entrance of the Line 7 subway was violently attacked by a tall young Chinese man who identified himself as Fan Yang. The man kicked the tent of the stall and insulted the Falun Gong practitioners at the booth to doing truth telling. Attempts to damage the truth location of Falun Gong were stopped by Falun Gong practitioners in a timely manner.

At that time, this tall Chinese man wearing green clothes and sunglasses approached the Falun Gong Truth Telling Location at the subway entrance, suddenly kicked the tent stand of the Truth location and kicked the table askew, and suddenly deformed the tent.  Insulted Falun Gong practitioners at the truth telling location. When Falun Gong practitioners stopped him, he deliberately fell to the ground in an attempt to perform "breaking the porcelain", but then stood up shamefully.

II. The record of the terrorist attack letter is as follows:

1. On April 20, 2025, in the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center, a letter of terrorist threats such as bombs was received. 

The terrorist threat letter claimed that on "April 25 (to be in Flushing) Keshina Boulevard, a car ould ram the Falun Gong procession and shoot at all the people wearing Falun Gong clothing, throw a homemade bomb with mixed ammonium nitrate powder! At the same time, another team would shoot and kill the security personnel at Longquan Temple, break into Longquan Temple and shoot everyone, and set fire!"

At the same time, on the evening of April 20, 2025, the Flushing Public Library in New York also received a bomb threat letter. 

On the evening of Sunday, April 20, the Queens Public Libray and Flushing Branch of the Queens Public Library in New York, as well as the 196th Street branch in Bayside, received bomb-threatening emails threatening not to allow the Falun Gong march or the bomb would be detonated.

The IP address of the terror letter is located in China

The IP address 162.158.178.123 belongs to Cloudflare, Inc., and is geographically located in Hong Kong, China.

The IP address belongs to Cloudflare's 162.158.178.0/24 network segment. According to the information provided by the IP geolocation service, the geographic location of the IP address is Hong Kong, China.

It's important to note that Cloudflare is a company that provides content delivery network (CDN) and network security services with multiple server nodes around the world. So, while the IP address appears to be in Hong Kong, actual users may be accessing from other regions through Cloudflare's network

2. At 8:20 a.m. on April 23, 2025, in the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center, a bomb threat and a huge amount of money extortion letter were received for the second time.
The full text of the terrorist letter is as follows:

40-46 Main Street, Suite 201 Flushing, NY 11354 Place a lot of explosives around! Don’t want the explosives to detonate, prepare 10 million US dollars before the day after tomorrow!

The threat letter is translated into Chinese as such:

40-46 Main Street, Suite 201 Flushing, NY 11354 Place a lot of explosives around! Don’t want the explosives to detonate, prepare 10 million US dollars before the day after tomorrow!

3. April 25, 2025 10:59 AM In the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center, a bomb terrorist threat was received for the third time. [76]

The full text of the letter is as follows:

A large amount of explosives have been placed on the hills around Longquan Temple, and I swear to God that I will detonate them in the afternoon to attract the guards, and then break into Longquan Temple and open fire and throw bombs!

The IP address of the terror letter is located in Los Angeles, USA.

On the morning of April 25, 2025, the Flushing Public Library in New York also received another bomb terror letter.

4. April 27, 2025 7:47 AM In the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center,  a bomb threat and a huge amount of money extortion letter was received for the fourth time.

The full text of the letter is as follows:

All Falun Gong members and supporters in Taiwan, including political leaders and celebrities who support Falun Gong, as well as their family members, will be in danger in the near future! Shootings! Kidnaps, car accidents! fires in the residence, vehicle explosions! I swear to Jesus, I'm not kidding you!!

5. April 27, 2025 7:30 PM In the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center,  bomb threat and a huge ransom letter was received for the fifth time.

The summary of the letter is as follows:

"Kill you all stupid people like twisted squash and inferior dates. Everyone will applaud me, your grand papa, taking out all your locations in US and Taiwan. Kill Falun Gong, MingJing Party, 101 garbage Jia Yongjie.

6. On April 28, 2025 at 7 AM, in the message area of the official website of the Global Withdrawal Service Center, a bomb threats and huge ransom letters was received for the sixth time

The full text of the letter is as follows:

All Flushing demonstrators, as well as their family members, will be slashed and killed! Their children’s broken body pieces will be found in the heart of Washington!! The female members of their family will be gang-raped and thrown into the center of New York! Male members will get into  car accident and then be run over back and forth!! I swear to Mazu, Jesus, God, Avalokiteshvara! This! Inevitably! will happen in the near future!

The nature of the incident was very bad. Moreover, the IP address of the second terror letter was located in Los Angeles, USA. This is a blatant and continuous terrorist attack by the Chinese Communist Party against public service institutions and religious belief groups in the United States. The nature of these acts of the CCP makes it a terrorist organization. The terrorist attacks targeted the Falun Gong religious community, with the aim of preventing Falun Gong practitioners from telling the truth and trying to cover up the CCP's 26-year-old persecution of Falun Gong for crimes against humanity. These tactics are completely consistent with the characteristics of the CCP's transnational escalation of persecution against Falun Gong in recent years. Moreover, similar incidents occur frequently in many overseas countries and regions. At the same time, the CCP took advantage of the social conditions of freedom of speech and judicial independence in the United States to launch a "public opinion war" and "legal war" against Falun Gong, Shen Yun Art Troupe, Epoch Times, Longquan Temple, etc.

At the same time, Longquan Temple in New York, where Shen Yun is headquartered, has received almost daily death threats, targeting individuals and organizations related to Falun Gong.

According to a Bloomberg report on June 28, 2019, Huawei has long maintained close cooperation with the Chinese Communist military, and has jointly conducted at least 10 technical research projects with various units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army over the years, covering key areas such as artificial intelligence and wireless communications. These include assisting the Investigation Department of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China in identifying and analyzing emotional tendencies in online video messages, and working with the National University of Defense Technology to study how to collect and analyze satellite imagery and geographic coordinates. [77]

Founded in 2000, Huawei's Xi'an R&D Center covers an area of 426 acres and currently employs more than 16,000 people, covering four core businesses: fixed network (FBB), mobile network (MBB), cloud computing, and terminals. [78]

In addition, on the eve of the screening of the documentary "State-Owned Organs", which exposed the live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party, it also received threatening emails, and its IP was also traced to Xi'an, China, which is consistent with the source of this case. (See Chapter 7 for details)

The frequent intimidation incidents during Shen Yun's performances are not isolated cases, but a typical case of the CCP's state-level information warfare and cross-border suppression of overseas faith groups with the help of military technology companies.

Chapter 7: The CCP's transnational pursuit of live organ harvesting survivors

The rare living evidence has unveiled the bloody black curtain of the CCP's live organ harvesting.

Cheng Peiming, a Falun Gong practitioner in Heilongjiang, China, was forcibly removed from a Chinese Communist Party prison in 2004 and later escaped as the world's first confirmed survivor of live organ harvesting. Since his public testimony in 2024, the CCP has launched a full-scale public opinion counterattack, framed fraud, and conspired to exterminate people across borders, and even interfered with the global screening of the disclosure documentary "State-Owned Organs".[79]

The CCP even published framed articles through platforms such as the "China Anti-cult Education Network" and "China Daily" hosted by the official website, falsifying Cheng Peiming's medical records and denying the crime, but accidentally corroborating the fact of live organ harvesting. After Cheng Peiming publicly exposed the crime of live harvesting, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of State Security of the Communist Party of China planned to carry out a transnational extermination operation.

I. From Falun Gong practitioner to victim of live organ harvesting

Cheng Peiming was born in August 1955 in an ordinary family near Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China, and was a former coal miner. In 1998, he began to practice Falun Gong and follow the principle of "truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance" to be a good person. However, in July 1999, Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin ordered the suppression of Falun Gong, and in December 2001, Cheng Peiming was arrested by Harbin police and sentenced to eight years in prison for distributing leaflets exposing the truth about the persecution. In Harbin prison, he was violently tortured with electric batons, including beatings with electric batons, and his weight plummeted to less than 50 kilograms. In July 2004, he was transferred to Daqing Prison, and his fate changed. [80]

The horrific moment of live harvesting operation

On November 16, 2004, Cheng Peiming was suddenly escorted by prison guards to the No. 4 Hospital of Daqing City, where six police officers held him down and forcibly administered him with anesthetics. In the operating room, he saw Dr. White Coat whispering to the "610" office officer. "They asked me to sign a consent form, and when I refused, six prison guards jumped up and held me down and gave me a shot, and I fainted," he recalled. The surgery lasted several hours. Three days later, Cheng woke up to find himself handcuffed to a hospital bed with a drain between the sixth and seventh ribs on the left side of his chest. He felt severe pain and weakness, but no one told him the reason for the operation. There is still a 35-centimeter scar on the left side of the chest. [81][82]

In 2020, Cheng Peiming underwent 9 medical examinations (including 3 CT, 3 ultrasounds, 2 X-rays and 1 MRI) in the United States, and the 2nd and 3rd segments of the liver and half of the lower lobe of the left lung were removed. Cheng Peiming later learned that Falun Gong practitioners often "disappeared" after being taken away from prison, and he may be the only survivor.

Escape and testimony

On March 3, 2006, prison guards took Cheng Peiming to the hospital again, claiming that he was going to have "another operation." He realized that this was a premeditated plan for the second live harvesting, and took advantage of the night guard shift to escape from the fire ladder on the third floor of the hospital, and escaped from the search and arrest through many difficulties. After that, he went into hiding in Tibet under a national arrest warrant, and in 2015 he fled to Thailand through underground channels, where he was granted refugee status by the United Nations. In July 2020, Robert Durst, a U.S. State Department official, assisted him in arriving in the United States.

On August 9, 2024, Cheng Peiming took off his shirt at a press conference in Washington, D.C., showing off his scars, and choked up: “I survived for the sake of those fellow practitioners who were killed.” His testimony made headlines in more than 70 English-language media, including The Guardian and News.com.au, and was hailed as “ironclad evidence of live organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party”.

II. The collapse of the CCP’s lies: the truth of the crime under the framing and cover-up is exposed

Survivor Cheng Peiming's exposure of the crime of live organ harvesting has alarmed the CCP. On July 22, 2024, the "China Anti-cult Education Network" (managed by the X Education Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and hosted by the former "610" Office) and the Tianjin "610" website published articles denying the accusations of live extraction. On October 8, the CCP published a lengthy report, "Investigation of Cheng Peiming, the First Survivor of Live Organ Harvesting", in which he falsified medical records and claimed that the 2004 operation was to remove "swallowed nails and blades." The article has been widely reprinted by China Court Network, the official website of the Tianjin Public Security Bureau, Sina, The Paper and other platforms. "China Daily" published an article at the same time, accusing Cheng Peiming of "mental abnormality" and trying to discredit his credibility. [83]

These articles are directly controlled by the CCP's "610" office and are designed to confuse facts and calm international public opinion. The CCP also fabricated the so-called "testimony" of Cheng Peiming's sister, saying that she believed the official version but did not provide any audio, video or written evidence.

The CCP self-revealed the evidence of the live organ harvesting crime

Despite the CCP's vehemently denials, the framed article inadvertently confirms the key facts:

1). Cheng Peiming's status as a Falun Gong practitioner and 8 years of illegal imprisonment;

2). Forced surgery at Daqing No. 4 Hospital in November 2004 without the consent of the person or his family;

3). A specific description of the surgical incision of the chest and diaphragm.

However, the CCP said that the operation was triggered by "swallowing nails" and was full of loopholes. In general, endoscopy rather than 35-centimeter thoracotomy is usually used to remove a foreign body, and the liver or lung loss cannot be explained. Cheng Peiming's prison medical records have long been destroyed by "610", and the CCP's sophistry has become evidence of the crime. These lies are not only untenable, but on the contrary confirm the existence of live harvesting.

III. Transnational extermination: from intimidation to assassination

On October 31, 2024, an anonymous Chinese internet researcher leaked the minutes of a meeting between the Ministry of Public Security and Heilongjiang public security personnel to the Falun Dafa Information Center. According to the records, the CCP's top brass regarded Cheng Peiming as a "major threat to national security" and ordered the Heilongjiang provincial security department to formulate a "three-step extermination plan":[84]

1) Trapping and returning to China: Through relatives and friends in Harbin to pressure Cheng Peiming, he falsely claimed that "he can be pardoned when he returns to China".

2) Forced withdrawal: The CCP plans to coerce Cheng Peiming's relatives and friends in China to go to the United States to exert pressure in person, threatening the safety of Cheng Peiming's family in China to force Cheng Peiming to withdraw his testimony about live organ harvesting.

3) Assassination: If the first two fail, the CCP plans to assassinate Cheng Peiming in the United States, disguised as a suicide or car accident afterwards.

According to the source, the CCP said that if necessary, it would "directly kill him (Cheng Peiming) to make him look like he committed suicide." 

After Cheng Peiming exposed the CCP's live harvesting crime as a live organ harvesting survivor, his life was immediately in danger. In the early morning of November 2, 2024, there was a sudden knock on the door at his home. The inspection found that the garage door had been pried open, the front door was ajar, and two tire tracks were left on the grass in the backyard. What is even more suspicious is that the camera in the home was offline from 1:12 to 6:18, and the police investigation confirmed that it was a deliberate intrusion. [85]

For months, his life was enveloped in terror:

on October 15, his car was scratched 30 centimeters long;

On October 28, the right front tire burst while driving, and the repairman found two rusty nails;

U.S. police have intervened in the investigation, but the suspect remains at large.

VI. The CCP's sabotage of live organ harvesting documentary "State-owned Organs" will be released globally

Since October 2024, the documentary "State-owned Organs", which exposes the CCP's systematic live organ harvesting crimes, has been released in many cities around the world. At the screening, survivor Cheng Peiming personally told his real experience of live organ harvesting. [86]

After the release of "State-owned Organs", it caused an international shock. However, the revelation also led to retaliation, with the organizers receiving dozens of threatening letters threatening to "detonate theaters if the screening of 'State-Owned Organs' is not canceled."

Bomb threats

In Taiwan alone, 28 threatening letters have been received in just two months since the release of "State-Owned Organs" in October 2024, threatening to detonate bombs if the broadcast is not canceled. 

Zhang Yuanbin, deputy director of the National Security Bureau of the Republic of China, pointed out that threatening emails have been sent to the Ministry of Culture, the Kaohsiung City Council and the Nangang store of the Joy Times Cinema in Taipei City since October 2024, saying that "multiple remote-controlled bombs have been planted" and demanding that the film screening be canceled.

As of November 22, 2024, statistics from the National Security Bureau show that there are 28 cases of threatening emails received by units covering cinemas, government agencies, councils, schools and the media, of which Kaohsiung City has the most 7 cases, followed by Taipei City, New Taipei City, Yilan County and Criminal Bureau with 3 cases each.

An investigation by the Criminal Bureau found that the threatening emails were sent through VPNs (virtual private networks) and the IP sources were distributed in many countries, with 8 cases in Paris, France, 6 cases in Poland, 5 cases each in the United States, 5 cases in China, and 2 cases each in Germany, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. According to the police's analysis, this was deliberately concealed through an overseas springboard, and patrols and security protection around cinemas in various places have been strengthened.

The National Security Bureau of the Republic of China further pointed out that the series of intimidation acts is suspected to be part of the CCP's "long-arm jurisdiction" strategy, which intends to interfere in Taiwan's internal affairs and exert pressure on Taiwan through political, economic, social, cultural and military means, with the ultimate goal of cross-strait reunification.

The documentary "State-owned Organs", which exposes the truth about the CCP's live organ harvesting, and Cheng Peiming, who narrowly escaped from prison, have become the most direct and shocking evidence of the CCP's atrocities of live organ harvesting.

Epilogue:

WOIPFG’s investigative report reveals a new round of systematic transnational repression of Falun Gong launched by the CCP around the world starting in 2024. From the new strategy personally deployed by Xi Jinping to the coordinated operation of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, the United Front Work Department and other departments, the CCP has attempted to completely eliminate Falun Gong's international influence and cover up its appalling human rights crimes such as organ harvesting in China through public opinion warfare, legal warfare, intelligence infiltration, and violent intimidation. The testimony of survivor Cheng Peiming and the scars on his body have become irreparable evidence of the CCP's atrocities.

The CCP's transnational persecution not only threatens the survival of the Falun Gong community, but also seriously provokes the values of justice, freedom and human rights in the international community. The CCP has built a vast global network of repression using red capital, overseas Chinese communities, international media, and online trolls, demonstrating its extreme fear of exposing the truth. In the face of this unprecedented scale of persecution, the international community must remain vigilant and take measures to stop the CCP's infiltration and sabotage, hold it accountable for its crimes, and defend human rights and the rule of law.

 

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October 20, 2022, Lin Feng.
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[39] The Epoch Times: To flatter the CCP, the New York Times wrote articles attacking Shen Yun March 20, 2024

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[40] The father of New York Times reporter Hong Qianqian has a United Front background. Wang Zhiyuan: The New York Times blatantly lied (photo) Published: 2024-08-28

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[44] The Epoch Times:  [Restoring the Truth] The Red and Black of CCP Spy Chen Jun June 12, 2023

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https://archive.is/L1I25

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[59] New Epoch Times report reveals how the CCP uses social media to spread rumors and defame Falun Gong August 8, 2024
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[63] New Epoch Times report reveals how the CCP uses social media to spread rumors and defame Falun Gong August 8, 2024
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[64] The Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China/Municipal Government (led by the National Security Bureau and the Cyberspace Administration of China) issued guiding opinions on the establishment of a special organization for overseas online public opinion warfare targeting Falun Gong.
https://x.com/zhihui999/status/1826793450433290692

[65] [Inside Story] China's Minister of National Security launched an attack on Falun Gong in the United States
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[66] 10 things you need to know about the New York Times report on Shen Yun
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https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/27/n14379528.htm

[68] Why did the New York Times grossly attack Shen Yun and Falun Gong? Exposing the six secret relationships between New York Times editor-in-chief Dominic Kahn and Jiang Zemin's Shanghai Gang
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[69] The father of New York Times reporter Hong Qianqian has a United Front background. Wang Zhiyuan: The New York Times blatantly lied
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[70] The Epoch Times [Feature] The truth behind the former student’s lawsuit against Shen Yun and Fei Tian November 27, 2024

https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/27/n14379528.htm

[71] The truth behind the lawsuit filed by former students against Shen Yun and Fei Tian
https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/24/11/27/n14379528.htm

[72] New York Times "Investigates" Shen Yun and Falun Gong: 12 Key Points You Need to Know
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/8/28/n14319253.htm

[73] The National Cyberspace Administration of China held a symposium on "Running websites in accordance with the law and telling Chinese stories well"
http://politics.people.com.cn/n/2014/1101/c70731-25952762.html

[74] International Online
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E5%9C%A8%E7%BA%BF/5670571

[75] Liberty Times: Falun Gong Shen Yun Performing Arts Tour in Taiwan: Multiple bombs suspected to come from Huawei

https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/paper/1700082

[76] https://www.epochtimes.com/b5/25/4/25/n14491988.htm

The Epoch Times Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP Found Another Bomb Terror Threat Letter April 26, 2025

[77] Bloomberg reveals Huawei’s relationship with the Chinese military https://www.rfi.fr/cn/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD/20190628-%E5%BD%AD%E5%8D%9A%E7%A4%BE%E6%8F%AD%E7%A4%BA%E5%8D%8E%E4%B8%BA%E4%B8%8E%E4%B8%AD%E5%85%B1%E5%86%9B%E6%96%B9%E5%85%B3%E7%B3%BB%E6%AF%94%E5%B7%B2%E7%9F%A5%E7%9A%84%E6%9B%B4%E5%AF%86%E5%88%87

[78] Another key headquarters of Huawei is exposed!
https://web.archive.org/web/20250409130537/https://izxxz.com/article/11…

[79] Organ organ harvesting survivor Cheng Peiming: No matter life or death, I will only tell the truth https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/8/n14367129.htm

[80] "I'm not just speaking for myself": Falun Gong practitioners in Washington tell their experiences of forced organ harvesting by the Chinese Communist Party
https://www.voachinese.com/a/survivor-of-ccp-forced-organ-harvesting-recounts-experience/7685674.html

[81] Falun Gong practitioner Cheng Peiming had part of her liver and lungs removed; transplant authority confirms
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/8/10/n14308792.htm

[82] The CCP also provided evidence that Cheng Peiming was tortured and had her organs harvested alive
https://www.zhuichaguoji.org/node/143110

[83] The CCP forged Cheng Peiming’s thoracotomy medical records, which are full of loopholes
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/15/n14371615.htm

[84] The Epoch Times: CCP threatens organ harvesting survivor Cheng Peiming, does not rule out assassination November 5, 2024
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/4/n14364326.htm

[85] The Epoch Times: CCP threatens organ harvesting survivor Cheng Peiming, does not rule out assassination November 5, 2024
https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/11/4/n14364326.htm

[86] Watch the film "National Organs" and American politicians condemn the CCP's live organ harvesting

https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/24/10/24/n14357240.htm