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The CCP uses propaganda and influence operations as a means of projecting its power and weakening its enemies. Chief amongst the targets for these kinds of operations is the [[United States]]. These operations are coordinated and directed by the UFWD.<ref>https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China's%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf</ref>  The term "elite capture" refers to the targeting of individuals from politics and business to think tanks, the media and academia.  Elite capture has a range of characteristics from '[[useful idiot]]s' to full-time agents of the CCP.

The CCP uses propaganda and influence operations as a means of projecting its power and weakening its enemies. Chief amongst the targets for these kinds of operations is the [[United States]]. These operations are coordinated and directed by the UFWD.<ref>https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Research/China's%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf</ref>  The term "elite capture" refers to the targeting of individuals from politics and business to think tanks, the media and academia.  Elite capture has a range of characteristics from '[[useful idiot]]s' to full-time agents of the CCP.

According to Director [[Christopher Wray]], "the FBI is opening a new China-related [[counterintelligence]] case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China. And at this very moment, China is working to compromise American health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions conducting essential [[COVID-19]] research."<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states</ref>  

According to Director [[Christopher Wray]], "the FBI is opening a new China-related [[counterintelligence]] case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5,000 active FBI counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country, almost half are related to China. And at this very moment, China is working to compromise American health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies, and academic institutions conducting essential [[COVID-19]] research."<ref>https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states</ref> According to [[Guo Wengui]] ,Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012.<ref>https://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-spy-network-united-states-includes-25000-intelligence-officers/</ref>

 

   

   

===Controlling the narrative===

===Controlling the narrative===