CCP Officials Profit From Medical Supplies Amid Pandemic

CCP Officials Profit From Medical Supplies Amid Pandemic Jiang Pengyong, a Chinese senior official’s grandson, is going public with his story of participating in a scheme to purchase personal protective equipment from foreign countries and selling them to the Chinese regime. Jiang initially agreed to the scheme because he thought he was contributing to the nation’s epidemic crisis. Jiang owns Shenzhen Jipingyong Tech Company, a Shenzhen-based e-commerce company. He procured the medical supplies through his company that has an office in South Korea where Jiang is based. Huang Zhongnan, his broker in China, told Jiang that the medical supplies would be donated to frontline healthcare workers or ordinary citizens who needed it to fend against the spread of COVID-19. But Huang later revealed that the medical supplies were handed off to officials in government and foundations, who sold them for a profit. Jiang decided to go public with his story to unveil the corruption in China. 35,000+ Australians Are Spied on by Military-Linked Chinese Company A Chinese company with links to Beijing’s military and secretive intelligence arm has amassed the personal details of more than 35,000 Australians as part of a giant global database targeting influential figures and their families, The company, Zhenhua Data, is tied to the People’s Liberation Army, Ministry of State Security, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and has collated the profiles of 2.4 million people across the world. The data contains information on 35,558 Australian individuals, including prominent people in politics, business, law, academia, and defence. It includes birth dates, addresses, marital statuses, and political leanings. Bank records, job applications and psychological profiles were also included in the data, much of which was taken from public documents, including news articles, criminal records, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok. However, 20 percent of the data is not open source, including confidential documents, indicating that the information was obtained through hacking or the dark web. The database was leaked by an anonymous employee of Zhenhua Data and discovered by Professor Chris Balding, who worked at Peking University until 2018 when he fled to Vietnam over safety concerns. Overseas Chinese and Foreigners Are Being Monitored Through WeChat The Chinese instant messaging software WeChat, suspected of being a tool for the CCP to monitor people and spread false information, is being banned by the United States. It was recently reported that a Chinese woman who immigrated to Canada posted an article on WeChat that the CCP did not like. After returning to China, the police locked her up on a tiger chair for interrogation. Chinese independent scholar Gebi Dong said: "Because there are bundled plugins in Wechat such as payment systems, etc, it has been a way of controlling Chinese people. At the same time, it is monitoring Chinese people through their communications, contacts, and business activities, etc. Its coverage is very large, so its effects are also very harmful and large.” WeChat has even extended Beijing's reach abroad. A New York Times article cited the personal experience of Ms. Li, who immigrated to Canada. Ms. Li returned to China in 2018. As the coronavirus spread in early 2020 and China’s relations with countries around the world strained, she posted an article on WeChat from the U.S. government-run Radio Free Asia about the deterioration of Chinese-Canadian diplomacy. The next day, four police officers showed up at her family’s apartment. They carried guns and riot shields. The police officers took Ms. Li, along with her phone and computer, to the local police station. She said they manacled her legs to a restraining device known as a tiger chair for questioning. They asked repeatedly about the article and her WeChat contacts overseas before locking her in a barred cell for the night. Cai Xia: Second-Generation Chinese Communists Question the CCP Cai Xia, a retired teacher at Party School of the