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A report by Safeguard Defenders mentions that Italian police are investigating individuals suspected of long-term stalking, surveillance, and threats against Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher.

On October 23, Milan prosecutors concluded their investigation into 10 individuals suspected of stalking the operator of the Teacher Li account. Among them, 8 are Chinese citizens and 2 are Italian citizens. There are currently no convictions.

According to X user @Terenceshen, the Canadian government has initiated deportation proceedings, with a member of a CCP united front organization, the founder of a Canada-China relations organization, and a Liberal Party donor facing possible expulsion over suspected war crimes. The incident has drawn attention to CCP united front activities in Canada and the legal liability of the individuals involved.

On October 13, 2026, the renowned Canadian media outlet Global News revealed that the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has officially initiated deportation proceedings against 63-year-old Tiger Yuan, founding president of the Canada-China Friendship Promotion Association. The CBSA alleges that Yuan committed war crimes and crimes against humanity while serving in the People's Liberation Army during the Sino-Vietnamese War in the 1980s, and that he misrepresented his military history when applying for permanent residency in 2008. The case has been referred to the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) for a deportation hearing. Yuan's lawyer strongly denies the war crime allegations.

A former chief investigative reporter for Britain's Daily Mail disclosed that the person who traveled to Seattle with Zhang Wanying is California construction businessman Miao Fatai, whose son said he returned to China because his mother is ill.

A detention hearing was held at the federal court in Los Angeles. The defense proposed a bail package involving property and electronic monitoring, while prosecutors alleged that her asset disclosures were false and that she posed a flight risk. In the end, the judge ruled that she will remain in custody.

Officials formally announced that Zhao Shitong has taken office as a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and head of the United Front Work Department, taking charge of Fujian's key united front networks concerning Taiwan affairs, overseas Chinese affairs, and the non-public economy.

A Chinese national who has lived abroad for a long time said that police, on the pretext of a verification check, demanded their passport, visa, living and work details, WeChat records, as well as a video call and real-time location sharing.

In early September 2026, X users posted screenshots and audio recordings from Chinese WeChat groups in Los Angeles and other areas, showing that the recruitment activity was funded by the embassy and chambers of commerce. From September 22 to 26, airfare, accommodation, and transportation were covered, with an additional $80 'labor fee' provided. Registration required submitting ID card and passport information.

According to a report by the Italian media "Il Foglio" on August 26, a woman from Zhejiang in her forties, who was suspected of harassing and stalking Teacher Li, was deported by Italy last Saturday upon arriving at Milan Malpensa Airport with her 8-year-old daughter.

On August 24, 2026, Chinese citizens living in Singapore and elsewhere reported that police in their domestic household registration jurisdiction had demanded via WeChat that they submit personal photos and proof of overseas employment, warning that they would bear the consequences themselves; others who had returned to China said they were summoned by police and had their phones checked for entry and exit records.

The US White House released declassified FBI documents disclosing that CCP beauty spy Fang Fang influenced American politics through sexual seduction, donations and other means, and that while working at Air China she served as a flight attendant aboard Hu Jintao's special plane.

The CCP is collaborating with CCTV and pro-unification KOLs to study history textbooks used by Taiwanese students, aiming to develop a new generation of united front brainwashing narratives targeting the Taiwanese people in an attempt to divide Taiwanese society and supporters of various political parties.

When connecting to Wi-Fi at the Taiwanese Convention in the western United States, participants found a network name called "Chinese Communist Party" on site, and attendees suspected that someone had set it up intentionally.

In July 2026, Tencent QQ Browser added the "Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher" social accounts, Telegram bots, and the rights-defense project website exposing cross-border repression and excessive working hours to its blocklist, prohibiting access.

In May 2026, the civil human rights initiative the Overseas Black Hand Files project officially launched in response to the Chinese authorities' long-arm jurisdiction over overseas dissidents, publicly soliciting and documenting cases of transnational repression carried out by China around the world.

On March 12, 2026, the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress passed the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress. Article 63 stipulates that overseas organizations and individuals who undermine ethnic unity and progress and incite ethnic division shall be held legally liable in accordance with the law, effective July 1.

In early March 2026, the Italian government, on national security grounds, ordered the deportation of 8 Chinese citizens suspected of surveilling and intimidating dissident Teacher Li (Li Ying).

In March 2026, the case involving Xu Chunying exposed the risk that individuals with backgrounds in Chinese Communist Party political organizations could apply to enter Taiwan through fraudulent business exchanges.

On February 27, according to ABC News, HungryPanda in Australia experienced another dispute during the Spring Festival, and the company admitted to being in contact with Chinese police.

On August 5, 2026, the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch released a human rights report, pointing out that Chinese authorities continue to intensify strict crackdowns on domestic dissident groups and have extended long-arm jurisdiction and transnational repression tactics overseas.

Qiao Xinxin, the initiator of the Demolish the Wall Movement, was cross-border arrested in Laos by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police and brought back to China. He was later secretly sentenced to 5 years in prison and subjected to torture in prison.

After learning that Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen would visit New York, Sun Wen promptly reported to Chinese consular officials and, on various pretexts, refused and obstructed formal exchanges and activities with the Taiwanese side.

The Jamestown Foundation released a report on the CCP's global expansion, pointing out that Chinese government agencies recruit influence agents within overseas Chinese communities and attempt to control discourse within those communities.

The U.S. Department of Justice received the foreign agent registration documents submitted by Wu Zheng, in which Wu Zheng declared that he has served as vice chairman and secretary-general of the Charhar Institute's China-U.S. Relations Committee since November 2018.

China has merged the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council into the United Front Work Department of the CCP Central Committee, shifting overseas Chinese affairs from the administrative system to the party system.

Since 2018, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used Tang Yuanjing's longing for home as a lure of returning to China and successfully turned him.

In 2016, Yuan Rongxiang, founding president of the Canada-China Friendship Promotion Association, donated 1,500 Canadian dollars to the Montreal riding association of then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and 2,800 Canadian dollars to the federal Liberal Party, and posed for a photo with Trudeau at a party fundraising event. Three other directors of Tiger Arms, the Port Coquitlam gun shop under his name, each donated 1,500 Canadian dollars as well. This series of political donations subsequently triggered extensive scrutiny and questioning in Canadian society and the media over pro-Beijing united front community leaders approaching senior politicians and the infiltration of foreign influence.

On December 22, 2014, the Standing Committee of the CCP Central Committee's Politburo announced that it had placed Ling Jihua, then head of the United Front Work Department, under investigation; nine days later, Sun Chunlan succeeded him as head of the United Front Work Department.

Data from Freedom House's database shows that between 2014 and 2024, a total of 1,219 incidents of physical transnational repression occurred worldwide, of which the Chinese Communist Party was responsible for 272, accounting for 22%.

The program claimed that after the Chinese Communist Party took power, in order to coordinate propaganda and win over celebrities in the arts and literary circles, it invited the quyi performer Luo Yusheng, who was then performing in Nanjing, to return to Tianjin; no public reports were found to verify this claim.