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| Portrait of Xi Jingping flanked by CCP slogans replaces Christian images in a Catholic Church |
Review based on an
E-book copy obtained directly from Optimum Publishing International.
This is an
excellent, if somewhat remorseless study of the unprecedented and
ongoing campaigns of global influence and intelligence-gathering
operated by the Chinese Communist Party. It names names, and goes on
to name very many names indeed, of individual and corporate CCP
collaborators in many Western countries. It deserves to be read for
that alone, and any credible journalist should keep a copy handy, to
consult prior to interviewing any member of their own country’s
great and good on any matter pertaining to China, the CCP or “foreign
influence.” Especially to determine if anyone frequently crying
“foul” about his opponent’s alleged ties to Russia or the
Ukraine, for example, has equally juicy ties of his own to the brutal
totalitarian dictatorship that is the CCP.
The one flaw in this
book is that it conflates “Brexit” with “CCP influence”
despite the fact that it also details many, many examples of
influence and intelligence-gathering within EU-related bodies and the
governments of ALL EU member states. (Germany seems to be the most
compromised state of all, possibly because the CCP programme to
compromise German politicians is firmly rooted in the mighty German
car industry.) Furthermore, the long and dispiriting list of great
and good Britons who have proved to be entirely in the CCP’s
pocket, includes a former Prime Minister, a former Northern Ireland
Secretary and a former First Secretary and President of the Board of
Trade, all three of them much better known for their unswerving
devotion to the EU project in all its forms and at every level.
Possibly the only obvious Brexiteer actually mentioned in the book as
being influenced by China is Boris Johnson, currently leading the
charge against the CCP over Hong Kong and the Uighurs, even as the
aforementioned trio of the great and good persist in denying that
there are any human rights abuses in China.
Boris aside, pretty
well every Briton the book actually names as a red-flag-waving
collaborator is also a blue-flag-waving Remainer and there is an
obvious reason for this: these people have all chosen to support the
CCP at a visceral rather than a sentient level, because they tend to
either disparage democracy or only pay it lip-service whilst
undermining it in practice and they are instinctively authoritarian
with a Communitarian outlook on social and political affairs. Those
are also the hat-measurements for unquestioning support for the
European Project so it is almost inevitable that people who buy into
the one should buy into the other. It’s like this: if you order
“Federal European Utopia” on Amazon, your order confirmation will
helpfully tell you that people buying this also purchased “world
domination by the Chinese Communist Party.”
The reason why the
CCP feels it needs to dominate the world is that it is convinced
(again, somewhat like the Eurocrats), that it is perfect and that
problems can only come from “outside” or a”tiny minority”
(always 5% or less) of its own subjects. The global influence and
intelligence-gathering campaign is ultimately intended to ensure that
there is no “outside” to the CCP in this world, and the equally
well-funded campaign by the CCP’s “610 Office” against all
forms of religious practice and belief, both within China and
outside, too, is similarly intended to make sure that there is no
“outside” to the CCP in the world beyond. This is why images of
the CCP’s core leader are now replacing images of Jesus and the
Virgin Mary in churches and Uighurs are being blindfolded and herded
onto trains carrying them who knows where.
Read this book, but
do not do so unthinkingly. And do bear in mind that “unprecedented”
usually means that there’s a very good reason why nobody has done
this before.
