Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government makes your school lunch, and “While there is no evidence that anyone on the party membership list has spied for China…”

An extraordinary leaked database of 1.95 million registered party members reveals how Beijing’s malign influence now stretches into almost every corner of British life, including defence firms, banks and pharmaceutical giants.
 
Most alarmingly, some of its members – who swear a solemn oath to ‘guard Party secrets, be loyal to the Party, work hard, fight for communism throughout my life…and never betray the Party’ – are understood to have secured jobs in British consulates.
 
Among them is a senior official at the British Consulate in Shanghai. Its headquarters is also home to intelligence officers from the UK security services.
 
The official describes their role as supporting ministers and officials on visits to East China.

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“Communist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members – who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself,” she said.
 
“Along with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies”.
 
Ms Markson said the leak is a significant security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping.
 
“It is also going to embarrass some global companies who appear to have no plan in place to protect their intellectual property from theft. From economic espionage,” she said.

@BrianTh37895972: Note how many major cities there are in China. Then ponder that the leaked list of 1.9 million CCP members who now live in other countries are just from the **Shanghai area**. The # of CCP members living abroad engaged in influence operations is vast.