CCP Keeps List of Foreigners It Wants to Recruit; Monitors Expats

From Houston to the small town of Esbjerg in Denmark, the Chinese regime has its eyes on Chinese nationals and foreigners around the world—people it hopes to influence into furthering Beijing’s interests. Recently, The Epoch Times obtained a leaked government document that disclosed a list revealing that the Chinese regime seeks to “cultivate talent” in a wide breadth of sectors and countries. For decades, Beijing has maintained such talent-recruitment programs, such as the widely scrutinized “Thousand Talents Plan,” which lures overseas Chinese and foreign experts into working in China’s science and tech sectors—to help fulfill its ambition of turning China into a high-tech manufacturing powerhouse.