Members of the Overseas Chinese Association at the flag raising event commemorating the founding of communist China in front of City Hall in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2025. The Epoch Times
More than 2,000 groups across the United States, Canada, Germany, and the UK are helping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) advance its agenda by exercising influence in democratic nations, according to a Jamestown Foundation report published on Feb. 11.
The report maps these organizations, which, by some counts, mobilize tens of thousands of actors on behalf of CCP interests. These are groups that fall under the CCP’s United Front Work Department, which came to the spotlight only a few years ago when a human rights group exposed the “secret police stations” run by Chinese officials on foreign soil.
