Big leak of nearly 2 million CCP members embedded in Western companies

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There has been a major leak of the details of nearly two million CCP members. What makes it particularly interesting is that it doesnโ€™t just expose โ€œpeople 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,โ€ Sky News host Sharri Markson said. โ€œBut it’s amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping.โ€

It exposes Xi’s new global outlook.

More information will be in the Australian hours from now.

Ms. Markson said the leak demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the worldโ€™s biggest companies and even inside government agencies.

โ€œCommunist party branches have been set up inside western companies, allowing the infiltration of those companies by CCP members – who, if called on, are answerable directly to the communist party, to the Chairman, the president himself,โ€ she said.

โ€œAlong with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companiesโ€.

Ms. Markson said the leak is a significant security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping.

โ€œIt 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,โ€ she said.

The information was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese dissidents and whistleblowers in April 2016. It was given to a new group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who leaked it.

They aren’t suggesting the members committed espionage, but the concern is whether they have taken precautions to protect their data and people. [If they’re CCP, they almost certainly committed espionage, and chances are the companies didn’t take precaustions. But, to be fair, doing business with them is legal and it doesn’t mean they spied.]


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