After the Central Intelligence Agency released two videos to persuade Chinese officials to provide intelligence about their communist regime, the Chinese foreign ministry denounced the effort, calling it “infiltration.”
Analysts said the Chinese regime’s strong reaction shows that the CIA’s videos are having an effect on officials within the ruling Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) system.
On May 1, the CIA released two short videos in Mandarin Chinese, speaking directly to CCP officials and enticing them to work with the CIA.
The first video targets senior CCP officials who have watched their colleagues fall from power, go to jail, or be disappeared. After recapping the internal struggles among top CCP officials, the video calls on any senior CCP official who “wants to take control of his fate to find a path that will protect his loved ones and the fruits of his lifelong hard work” to work for the United States….