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During anti-CCP protests in [[San Francisco]] surrounding the 2008 Olympic torch relay, former U.S. intelligence officials said Chinese security officials monitored and directed counterprotesting blocs of thousands of Chinese students to drown out [[Beijing]]’s critics, which ''[[Politico]]'' called an “operation … by a hostile foreign intelligence service to forcibly suppress [[First Amendment]] activities in a major American city.”  U.S. law defines “conspiracy against rights” as conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same” or going “in disguise … or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured.”  The UFWD efforts at suppressing protests on U.S. soil to promote its narrative is as much a problem of [[civil rights]] as it is a problem of [[national security]].<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071/</ref>

During anti-CCP protests in [[San Francisco]] surrounding the 2008 Olympic torch relay, former U.S. intelligence officials said Chinese security officials monitored and directed counterprotesting blocs of thousands of Chinese students to drown out [[Beijing]]’s critics, which ''[[Politico]]'' called an “operation … by a hostile foreign intelligence service to forcibly suppress [[First Amendment]] activities in a major American city.”  U.S. law defines “conspiracy against rights” as conspiring to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same” or going “in disguise … or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured.”  The UFWD efforts at suppressing protests on U.S. soil to promote its narrative is as much a problem of [[civil rights]] as it is a problem of [[national security]].<ref>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/27/silicon-valley-spies-china-russia-219071/</ref>

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld the platform’s decision to ban [[President Donald Trump]] – a strong source of opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/facebook-oversight-board-anti-trump-foreign/</ref>  One of the board’s four co-chairs, former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt,<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fb-oversight-board-chair-headlined-ccp-conference/</ref> headlined an event hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which is led by Deng Rong, the daughter of a former paramount leader [[Deng Xiaoping]].  Rong is regarded as the “public face” of the United Front.  UFWD functions as “avowedly an arm of the party-state.”  The U.S. State Department has described UFWD as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld the platform’s decision to ban [[President Donald Trump]] – a strong source of opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/politics/facebook-oversight-board-anti-trump-foreign/</ref>  One of the board’s four co-chairs, former Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt,<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/fb-oversight-board-chair-headlined-ccp-conference/</ref> headlined an event hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), which is led by Deng Rong, the daughter of a former paramount leader [[Deng Xiaoping]].  Rong is regarded as the “public face” of the United Front.<ref>https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/00_diamond-schell-chinas-influence-and-american-interests.pdf</ref> UFWD functions as “avowedly an arm of the party-state.”  The U.S. State Department has described UFWD as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-pompeo/u-s-designates-chinese-body-a-foreign-mission-quits-local-cooperation-agreement-idUSKBN27D305</ref>

===Overseas diaspora and dissident groups===

===Overseas diaspora and dissident groups===