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The UFWD teaching manual directs operatives to win overseas Chinese over to the CCP’s side by emphasizing “flesh and blood” ties to China with the goal of securing political, moral, and financial support for the CCP.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/fb2b3934-b004-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4</ref>  To achieve these ends, UFWD officials often meet with local chapters of “Hometown Associations” (groups that connect Chinese emigrants from the same locale), sometimes along with senior staff from Chinese consulates.  In March 2018, the UFWD absorbed a number of State Council offices, including its Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, further consolidating its responsibility for activities that seek to sway the overseas Chinese communities.

The UFWD teaching manual directs operatives to win overseas Chinese over to the CCP’s side by emphasizing “flesh and blood” ties to China with the goal of securing political, moral, and financial support for the CCP.<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/fb2b3934-b004-11e7-beba-5521c713abf4</ref>  To achieve these ends, UFWD officials often meet with local chapters of “Hometown Associations” (groups that connect Chinese emigrants from the same locale), sometimes along with senior staff from Chinese consulates.  In March 2018, the UFWD absorbed a number of State Council offices, including its Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, further consolidating its responsibility for activities that seek to sway the overseas Chinese communities.

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.” A program called "Foxhunt" created by Xi Jinping is used "to target Chinese nationals whom Xi sees as threats and who live outside of China across the world... political rivals, dissidents, and critics seeking to expose China's extensive human rights violations," according to FBI director [[Christopher Wray]].  These victims, some of whom are American citizens and green card holders, are openly or indirectly threatened, often by having their relatives back in China arrested as leverage.  Wray described intimidation exercises on American businesses, policymakers, academia, and professional basketball players, using more subtle approaches. Instead of arresting relatives, the Chinese take away sneaker sales or NBA jersey revenue.  Wray called it "malign foreign influence," describing the covert efforts whereby American politicians are influenced indirectly to adopt policies the CCP desires, particularly ofour issues: [[Hong Kong]], [[Taiwan]], [[human rights]] abuses against the Uyghurs, and the Chinese government's role in the [[Covid-19 pandemic]].

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