Two million CCP members embedded in organisations in India and around the world
A data leak shows that over two million Chinese Communist Party members were secretly embedded in organizations around the world including India in a shocking twist. What is more worrying, the fact that these Chinese Communist Party members hold a strong position in several biggest companies, banks, media, universities and even in government agencies.
Details were revealed by Australian media groups known as ‘Australia’ newspaper. The newspaper obtained the leaked data along with the names, date of birth, national ID number and ethnicity of over two million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members
Shocking intrusion:
If the headline alone shocked you then I must say read this with a strong heart. Among the companies mentioned in the list are manufacturers such as Boeing and Volkswagen, pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and AstraZeneca, and banks like ANZ and HSBC. As per the documents, around 600 people at HSBC, Standard Chartered banks are CCP members. the business insider reported citing the leaked data. Which means most probably personal details might have been compromised.
“It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world,” The Australian journalist and Sky News host Sharri Markson said. “What’s amazing about this database is not just that it exposes people who are members of the Communist Party, and who are now living and working all over the world, from Australia to the US to the UK, but it’s amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping,” she added.
A Master Plan By China:
Around 79,000 CCP branches have been set up inside western companies where members if called on, are answerable directly to the Communist Party and President Xi himself, the reports said.
It is also going to embarrass some global companies who appear to have no plan in place to protect their intellectual property from theft, from economic espionage, Markson said.
The data was reportedly extracted from a server in Shanghai in 2016 by Chinese dissidents, who used it for counterintelligence purposes. It was later leaked to the international bipartisan group the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, before being sent to the international consortium of four media organisations–The Australian, the UK’s Mail on Sunday, Belgium’s De Standaard and a Swedish editor.
The Australian did not name the individual members on the list, only the companies they work for.
Source: The Australia, Bussiness Insider
