CCP Penetration · Full chronicle and history

On November 6, Taiwan prosecutors officially indicted incumbent legislator Gao Jin Su-mei, accusing her of receiving approximately 170 million in CCP funds to develop a united front network in Taiwan and manage election resources for indigenous tribes, seeking a 14-year prison sentence.

A second follow-up report by The New York Times indicates that Huang Le is a spy directly recruited by the state security (MSS), tasked with getting close to and keeping an eye on Jensen Huang.

On November 6, Reuters disclosed Italian investigative documents: suspects had long been staking out Teacher Li's residence and rummaging through trash. One individual collected over 4,000 photos and 35 videos, while others offered 100 euros per day to hire people to track Teacher Li. Prosecutors suspect two main suspects acted on behalf of the Chinese police and maintained contact with personnel from the CCP United Front Work Department. The Milan prosecutor's office concluded its investigation into 10 suspects (8 Chinese citizens, 2 Italian citizens) on October 23; no convictions have been made yet.

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.

U.S. intelligence agencies have identified a Singaporean executive named Huang Xiaole as a female spy for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Under pressure, Jensen Huang issued an open letter to Nvidia employees admitting to the affair, and the board of directors has begun an investigation into whether she is suspected of helping the CCP.

On October 30, the US Department of Justice announced that two Chinese men who conducted clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) were each sentenced to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty, followed by three years of supervised release. The two had assisted in identifying recruitable US military personnel and, in January 2022, arranged for individuals within the US to drop off approximately $10,000 in cash via a dead drop in a storage locker.

According to an ANSA report on October 28, Milan prosecutors have completed their investigation into 10 suspects, accusing them of stalking, monitoring, and threatening Teacher Li, as well as rummaging through his mailbox and sending materials to China. Four of the Chinese nationals were in continuous contact with Beijing authorities, and some leaders of overseas Chinese associations were accused of being commissioned by Chinese police to coordinate the surveillance of dissidents.

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.

On October 20, Taiwan's National Security Bureau submitted a report to the Legislative Yuan, saying that the CCP sets the narrative through state media and influences the year-end nine-in-one elections through proxy accounts, troll armies, PR companies, and AI audio and video, involving issues such as energy, food safety, and national defense; from January to September this year it collected more than 2.5 million pieces of disputed information, up about 48% year-on-year.

According to a post by X user @jielijian citing an Al Jazeera report, secretly recorded evidence of the Chinese government and the Southeast Asia telecom fraud supply chain has been exposed. The report discloses details of Chinese Communist Party spies from Cambodia meeting in multiple locations in Guangzhou, points out that the Chinese government invested 350 million dollars in a military runway to supply the CCP military port in Djibouti, and mentions that female employees of CCP agents provided close, close-quarters protection to Xi Jinping's visiting delegation.

On October 14, 2026, the U.S. House Select Committee on the CCP issued a formal statement noting that recent espionage cases across the U.S. highlight the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its brazen transnational repression, reaffirming its commitment to exposing the CCP's schemes to suppress dissidents and infiltrate institutions. On the same day, Bill Essayli, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, warned in an interview with Fox News that CCP espionage activities are "extremely rampant and playing the long game" across the U.S. He cited major cases including the interstate stalking of Lai Ching-te's family, a former mayor acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and the smuggling of $300 million in chips, emphasizing that federal agencies are working to dismantle domestic spy networks.

In the early hours of October 14, 2026, Beijing time, a Twitter user posted that New People's Party member Yan Youxin had been deported back to China, and pointed out that this matter was closely related to Yang Maosen's team. The poster questioned whether Yang Maosen's team might have arranged a pro-CCP lawyer for Yan Youxin, and criticized the team for claiming to catch "spies" on one hand while seeking help from CCP lawyers on the other. The cause of the incident and its specific details remain to be further verified.

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.

At 22:30 Beijing time on October 14, 2026, user @jielijian posted a tweet stating that the CCP cyber army has continued to attack the core group of the International Alliance of Chinese Democracy, stealing accounts and destroying and wiping out members' information, in an attempt to maliciously report and get accounts banned. The user called on everyone to stay vigilant and not click on unknown links carelessly.

According to a post from the official account ChinaSelect of the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee, the committee released a new report on October 14, 2026, aimed at exposing weaknesses in the arguments against strengthening research security. Based on federal investigations and law enforcement actions, the report details in detail the risks that undisclosed foreign affiliations, financial ties, and disclosure issues pose to research security.

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.

The tweet shows Shen Boyang recounting the regret of his life: because of KMT smears, he was unable to share a proper last meal with his mother, eating only roadside french fries. He used this story as a warning that the CCP's infiltration of Taiwan is extremely severe and could cause everyone to lose their freedom, and called on everyone to join together to block this infiltration.

On October 13, Conservative MP Jacob Mantel wrote to Foreign Minister Anand, demanding an immediate investigation into the attack on female protesters outside the Chinese consulate-general in Toronto, and that the man be expelled if confirmed to be a Chinese diplomat or hired by a foreign power.

According to @ChinaSelect, the U.S. government is investigating nine universities on suspicion of J-1 visa fraud. Previously, a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released an investigative report titled "From Ph.D. to PLA," pointing out serious loopholes in U.S. academic institutions that could be exploited by the Chinese Communist Party to obtain sensitive research results. This investigation is seen as a further follow-up and response to the aforementioned security loopholes.

A recent investigation by the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (Select Committee) found that the brokerage firm Webull Global was not transparent about its ties to China, exposing U.S. investors' financial data to the risk of surveillance. The committee noted that the Chinese Communist Party is exploiting U.S. financial data and markets.

On October 7, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office announced that a soldier surnamed Zhou of the Army's Dongyin Area Command, starting in November 2024, photographed national security secrets from an official computer and handed them to a man surnamed Chen dispatched by the security office of a public security bureau in a certain province of China, receiving cash, gold, remittances and virtual currencies totaling more than NT$790,000, and used his mother's and his Vietnamese fiancée's accounts to transfer funds layer by layer to conceal the source of the money. Zhou has been detained and held incommunicado; prosecutors have indicted him on charges of accepting bribes, leaking state secrets and money laundering, with a citizen judge participating in the trial.

Recently, the United States has successively arrested multiple Chinese Communist Party spies and agents, including a real estate agent involved in monitoring the family members of Taiwanese political figures and a Navy service member suspected of leaking military secrets.

The Director of the FBI posted a warning that foreign hostile forces are no longer safe havens for espionage, and disclosed that a CCP agent suspected of surveilling the family of Taiwan's leader in the United States was intercepted at an airport.

Influencer Yaoyao Jiang was surrounded and harassed by suspected CCP members in the US. The group filmed her with their phones and tried to block her vision. US police later intervened.

Directed by a mainland figure identified as "K", the suspects tailed crosstalk performer Huang Yihao, and on September 11 near his residence in New Taipei they divided up duties — keeping lookout, ramming a vehicle and filming. Huang suffered a contusion to his right pelvis; afterwards the other party obtained a medical certificate through a traffic insurance claim and sent it back to K.

Hu Liren stated on the "Real China" program that many CCP agents overseas have already been put under surveillance and identified by the intelligence agencies of various countries, including Wang Shujun, Tang Yuanjun, and others who have mixed themselves in among overseas democracy movements.

Hu Liren said on the "Real China" program that the Chinese Communist Party has sent well-known figures such as Wang Zhi'an overseas, mainly targeting Falun Gong media, claiming that they criticize in small ways while helping greatly under the banner of opposing the CCP, and stand on the CCP's side on key issues.

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.

According to Hu Liren, US media recently exposed information about former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao's family's dealings with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and her service in the CCP's united front organs, and the US government has begun investigating Chao; Chao had previously traveled to China to meet with Han Zheng.

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 UK government's permission for China to build a super-embassy in central London has sparked serious national security concerns regarding the CCP's potential use of the site to embed spy networks and surveillance equipment.

The mayor of Arcadia, a city in California, has admitted to being an illegal agent of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), highlighting the CCP's infiltration activities in the United States.

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.

The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced the seizure of 13 fake websites that appeared to be consulting or research organizations but were actually used for Chinese intelligence recruitment.

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.

The New York Times reported that since December last year, a fake Hong Kong consulting firm, under the guise of high-paying consulting work, attempted to recruit the core aide to the chairman of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, seeking sensitive information on China policy; the case has been handed over to the FBI.

Wang, the former mayor of Arcadia, California, was arrested for engaging in illegal activities as an agent of the Chinese government prior to taking office as mayor, and is currently behind bars.

A federal jury in New York has found Lu Jianwang guilty of acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese Communist Party government and of obstructing justice; the case involved a secret overseas police station in New York's Chinatown.

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.

The UK Labour Government has officially approved China's construction of a large embassy at the Royal Mint Court mint near the Tower of London, sparking concerns among overseas dissidents regarding intelligence gathering and intimidation.

Zhang Wanying, suspected of spying on overseas dissidents on behalf of the Chinese government, was formally indicted by federal prosecutors on October 9, with a new charge of conspiracy to act as an agent added, facing a maximum sentence of 15 years.

On Wednesday (May 7), the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill under which American universities with ties to certain Chinese universities would be barred from receiving Department of Homeland Security funding. Lead sponsor, Republican Representative Ploug, said there is already evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has maliciously expanded its influence in the United States through programs such as Confucius Institutes.

Chinese-American politician Sun Wen was arrested in 2023, accused of accepting tens of millions of dollars in bribes from the CCP and obstructing exchanges with Taiwan and human rights issues.

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.

The head of UK MI5 issued a national security intervention alert to Parliament, naming Chinese lawyer Christine Lee as a spy for the CCP United Front Work Department and exposing her scandal of buying British members of Parliament.

During the 2019 Canadian Liberal Party leadership election, the Chinese Embassy in Toronto organized international students to vote for the pro-communist candidate Dong Hanpeng.

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.

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.

The CCP began to contact then-low-level official Sun Wen in 2016 and began to bribe 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.

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%.

Sun Wen started as the Director of Asian Affairs for New York State in 2012, later promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff of New York State, and was bought off by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during that period.

Zhao Xiaolan's sister, Zhao Anji, serves as an independent director of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, marking the entry of a Zhao family member into the internal governance of a Chinese state-owned listed shipbuilding company.