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===Overseas dissident groups===
===Overseas dissident groups===
Chinese intelligence services have specifically targeted ethnic minorities such as [[Uyghur]]s living overseas, threatening to send their families still in [[Xinjiang]] to internment camps, or keep them there, if the former do not agree to spy for China. According to Uyghurs who have been threatened in this way, this coercion is intended “not only to gather details about Uyghurs’ activities abroad, but also to sow discord within exile communities in [[the West]] and intimidate people in hopes of preventing them from speaking out against the Chinese state.”
Chinese intelligence services have specifically targeted ethnic minorities such as [[Uyghur]]s living overseas, threatening to send their families still in [[Xinjiang]] to internment camps, or keep them there, if the former do not agree to spy for China. According to Uyghurs who have been threatened in this way, this coercion is intended “not only to gather details about Uyghurs’ activities abroad, but also to sow discord within exile communities in [[the West]] and intimidate people in hopes of preventing them from speaking out against the Chinese state.”
===Other organizations===
====Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification====
The China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification (CPPRC)—a prominent organization promoting China’s take over of [[Taiwan]]—is directly subordinate to the UFWD and has at least 200 chapters in 90 countries, including 33 chapters in the United States registered as the National Association for China’s Peaceful Unification. The CPPRC has become one of the most prominent groups claiming to represent the Chinese diaspora communities and is a leading organization mobilizing international Chinese communities in support of Beijing’s
policies.
A separate entity, the Liaison Department of the [[People’s Liberation Army]] (PLA) General Political Department (GPD), facilitated the activities of a number of [[front organizations]]—including “friendship” and “cultural” associations—as part of its broader mission to conduct propaganda operations, perform perception management,<ref>According to the [[Department of Defense]], perception management comprises “actions to convey and/or deny selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning as well as to intelligence systems and leaders at all levels to influence official estimates, ultimately resulting in foreign behaviors and official actions favorable to the originator’s objectives.... Perception management combines truth projection, operations security, cover and deception, and psychological operations.” U.S. Department of Defense, Joint Publication 1-02: Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, April 12, 2001 (as amended through October 31, 2009), 411. http://jitc.fhu.disa.mil/jitc_dri/pdfs/jp1_02.pdf</ref> and gather intelligence.
==See also==
==See also==