Over the past few years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has escalated attacks of some of its most vocal critics in the United States, deploying a comprehensive playbook to silence them.
The operation has highlighted the level of infiltration and influence the CCP possesses in the United States. If the plan gains traction, the CCP is likely to use the same toolkit against other targets, experts told The Epoch Times.
The operation kicked into high gear in 2022, when CCP leader Xi Jinping complained to top officials that practitioners of Falun Gong, a faith group persecuted by the CCP in China, have been increasingly effective at exposing the CCP’s crimes overseas, several internal sources told Chinese dissident and legal scholar Yuan Hongbin last year. …