China's Global Impact

 



China leads 4 out of the 15 agencies of the United Nations and holds important positions in other agencies. (1)


China is the center of an alliance of totalitarian regimes with financial and technological support

    • Support nuclear technology in North Korea
      • China provides nuclear material to North Korea. (2)
      • China has been training North Korean nuclear scientists. (3)
    • Sold U.S. technology to Iran.
      • ZTE paid a $ 1.2 billion fine for exporting U.S. technology to Iran (4)
      • Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou lied to HNBC about its tie with Iran (5)
      • China allowed drone technology from the U.S. to Iran, then used by Russia during the Ukraine War. (6)


Expand military influence via Belt & Road Initiative (7)

  • Infrastructure development and investments in 147 countries by March 2022. (8)
  • China often worked with corrupted government administrations to sign contracts involving inflated project costs. (9) 
  • https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/15/the-belt-and-road-initiative-is-a-corruption-bonanza/ (10)


Long-arm Policing Overseas

    • China runs over 100 secret police stations worldwide. (11)(12)
    • Italy had Chinese police take part in joint patrols with its officers in its territory. The joint patrols took place in 2016-2019 and were "suspended" in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and "stopped" after Safeguard Defenders pointed out 11 Chinese police stations in Italy. (13)(14)
    • China's Operation Fox Hunt sends undercover intelligence agents to other countries to harass, stalk, and coerce residents to return to China. (15)(16)


Beijing's Global Media Impact (17)

    • Mass distribution of Beijing-backed content via mainstream media. (18)
    • Harassment and intimidation of outlets that publish news or opinions disfavored by the Chinese government. (19)
    • Cyberbullying, fake social media accounts, and targeted disinformation campaigns. (20)


Global Suerveillance (21)

  • China's 2016 cybersecurity law, 2021 data security law, and 2017 national intelligence law obligate tech firms to cooperate with state security organs when requested. (22)
  • According to China's National Intelligence Law, Huawei must hand over 5G data to the Chinese government. (23)
  • TikTok's excessive data harvesting raised security concerns.
    • User location, phone contacts, calendar (24)
    • Access to clipboards that password managers use (24)
    • Microphone and camera access allows secretly recording of conversations and video resources. (25)
  • Popular apps like Tiktok and WeChat manipulate content to shape people's opinions. (26)
  • The Indian government banned 273 Chinese apps out of national security concerns. (27)



Reference:

  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/03/china-already-leads-4-15-un-specialized-agencies-is-aiming-5th/
  2. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-and-chinese-company-indicted-conspiracy-defraud-united-states-and
  3. https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-north-koreas-nuclear-advance-scientists-who-bring-technology-home-1504711605
  4. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/zte-corporation-agrees-plead-guilty-and-pay-over-4304-million-violating-us-sanctions-sending
  5. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/huawei-cfo-wanzhou-meng-admits-misleading-global-financial-institution
  6. https://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Iranian_Drones_Contain_Western_Brand_Components_October31_FINAL.pdf
  7. https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/14/2002079292/-1/-1/1/EXPANDING-GLOBAL-ACCESS-REPORT-FINAL.PDF
  8. https://greenfdc.org/countries-of-the-belt-and-road-initiative-bri/
  9. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/01/15/the-belt-and-road-initiative-is-a-corruption-bonanza/
  10. https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/china-srilanka-07182022103112.html
  11. https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/chinese-overseas-police-service-stations-tied-illegal-policing-madrid-and-belgrade
  12. https://www.newsweek.com/china-overseas-police-service-center-public-security-bureau-safeguard-defenders-transnational-crime-1764531
  13. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/05/11/477630160/chinese-cops-in-italy-joint-patrols-aim-to-ease-chinese-tourists-jitters
  14. https://www.reuters.com/world/italy-stops-joint-police-patrols-with-china-interior-minister-2022-12-19/
  15. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/eight-individuals-charged-conspiring-act-illegal-agents-people-s-republic-china
  16. https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/china/us-justice-department-charged-china-fugitive-family-intl-hnk/index.html
  17. https://freedomhouse.org/report/beijing-global-media-influence/2022/authoritarian-expansion-power-democratic-resilience
  18. https://jamestown.org/program/xinhua-infiltrates-western-electronic-media-part-2-relationships-with-news-agencies-and-distribution-services/
  19. https://opcofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2021-FCCC-Report-FINAL.pdf
  20. https://qz.com/1691785/chinas-paying-to-build-its-influence-on-foreign-social-media
  21. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/chinese-surveillance-ecosystem-and-the-global-spread-of-its-tools/
  22. https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/national-intelligence-law-of-the-p-r-c-2017/
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20190529154448/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-data-to-china-government-if-asked-experts.html
  24. https://internet2-0.com/whitepaper/its-their-word-against-their-source-code-tiktok-report/
  25. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2022/11/09/tiktok-users-are-bleeding-data/?sh=2ea9ad886a2f
  26. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tiktok-security-concerns-china-data/
  27. https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/garena-free-fire-to-tiktok-all-the-273-chinese-apps-that-indian-govt-banned-so-far-1913141-2022-02-15

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