Welcome Home, Comrade

By: Chris Knowles

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Since 1979, the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has had offices in Chinatown in New York City and elsewhere across the United States. Its purported purpose is to assist American residents of Chinese ancestry deal with such mundane issues as obtaining driver’s licenses and filling out work papers. But its more significant purpose is the suppression of anti-Chinese Communist activities. It works in collaboration with the CCP in recruiting those of Chinese ancestry such as graduate students working in classified American military projects. They are encouraged through bribery, coercion, or love of country to steal military intellectual property and send it back to the CCP. Starting in 2014 a new initiative, Operation Fox Hunt, was started to coerce Chinese residents of the United States who were guilty of crimes in China to return to face trial and punishment. Their methods were quite notorious.