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Oct 30, 2026
Ron SteslowHOST
Now, the CCP, as I mentioned, has a name and a department for recruiting outsiders to serve its goals.
Ron SteslowHOST
They call it the United Front Work Department.
Ron SteslowHOST
So before we get into the trip, can you help listeners understand what the United Front Work Department is? Because the name is deceptively innocuous.
Ron SteslowHOST
What is it? Who does it target? And why is it Chairman Xi's magic weapon?
Isaac Stone FishGUEST
The United Front Work Department is one of the most confusing Communist Party entities.
Isaac Stone FishGUEST
And to explain it, it's helpful to talk about its history.
Isaac Stone FishGUEST
In the 1910s, there was a British dock worker strike.
Isaac Stone FishGUEST
Inside China, this ministry works with boarding groups and with musicians and with businesses and with minority religions.
Gordon ChangGUEST
Right now, we don't know exactly what they're doing.
Gordon ChangGUEST
We'll know a couple of months from now, but I suspect that they're heavily involved supporting, for instance, Al-Saeed in Michigan, because these groups have traditionally been the recipient of funds from the Communist Party's United Front Work Department, which is the part of the party that subverts foreign governments.
Gordon ChangGUEST
So I'm sure that they're involved.
Gordon ChangGUEST
And as we see in New York State, the communists are very much behind the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party looks to Chinese Americans as a rich source of votes.
Gordon ChangGUEST
Right now, we don't know exactly what they're doing.
Gordon ChangGUEST
We'll know a couple of months from now, but I suspect that they're heavily involved supporting, for instance, Al-Said in Michigan, because these groups have traditionally been the recipient of funds from the Communist Party's United Front Work Department, which is the part of the party that subverts foreign governments.
Gordon ChangGUEST
So I'm sure that they're involved.
Gordon ChangGUEST
And as we see in New York State, the communists are very much behind the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party looks to Chinese Americans as a rich source of votes.
ZhenfeiHOST
While he was in Anhui on April 2, Beijing announced a major swap.
ZhenfeiHOST
Organization department head Li Ganjie and United Front Work Department head Shi Taifeng traded roles.
ZhenfeiHOST
The organization department is incredibly powerful, controlling all party personnel decisions.
ZhenfeiHOST
In contrast, the United Front Work Department, which handles non-party and regional affairs, holds significantly less real power.
ZhenfeiHOST
Li Ganji, a trusted Xi Jinping aide mentored by Chen Xi, was replaced by Xi Taifeng, who has a more complex background.
ZhenfeiHOST
Although he served as a deputy to Xi Jinping, he was also a vice president of the Central Party School during the years Hu Jintao was its president.
FrankHOST
Let's see groups, including the United Democrat Democracy Alliance, invoking Erica Chenoweth to three point five percent rule appear ready to coordinate the street actions, legal support and media framing.
FrankHOST
Neville Roy Singham, operating from Shanghai and connected to the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department, is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad.
FrankHOST
The plan assumes Trump will choose immediate order over patience.
FrankHOST
His hand is a pony.
Mark LevinHOST
Neville Roy Singham, this billionaire trader in China.
Mark LevinHOST
Legal support, media framing and so forth connected to the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department is positioned to amplify the disruption from abroad.
Mark LevinHOST
Again, look at France.
Mark LevinHOST
The reported DSA link planning treats the Insurrection Act as a trap that works only if Trump walks into it on their timetable and terms.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
We discuss the strategic significance of the area known as the Iron Triangle in the South China Sea, China's expanding military operations around Taiwan, and the use of activities that risk normalizing increasingly coercive behavior.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
We also examine the role of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department in the Philippines and how Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro is pushing back.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
Hello and welcome to Perspectives with Nilo, where we go beyond the headlines to examine the forces shaping our world and the questions that often go unanswered.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
I'm your host, Neil O'Sullivan.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
If you haven't heard it, that conversation is well worth revisiting.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
Today, Ray joins us again to examine how China's activities are evolving across the Western Pacific.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
We'll explore the strategic importance of what has become known as the Iron Triangle in the South China Sea, China's increasingly assertive military operations around Taiwan, and the role of the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department in the Philippines, including recent statements from Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro.
Neil O'SullivanHOST
And now, on to the interview.
Brian ThomasHOST
He's going to be pushing things.
Brian ThomasHOST
Connected to the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department in a position to amplify the disruption from abroad.
Brian ThomasHOST
Go back to the interconnected nature of the world.
Brian ThomasHOST
You wonder where all this violence and all these protests come from and all this division.
Steve LanceGUEST
And what do I mean by that? The Chinese Communist Party has been operating freely and openly in our free and open society using a variety of means.
Steve LanceGUEST
And they do it through asymmetric tactics, through something called the United Front Work Department.
Steve LanceGUEST
And this is something that sort of blends covert and overt, in some cases, influence tactics.
Steve LanceGUEST
aimed at subverting us in our country, as well as some of our most cherished institutions.
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Steve LanceGUEST
There was a Chinese gentleman sort of lurking in the shadows that you saw in the film.
Steve LanceGUEST
And we looked into it a little bit further and we tracked those same materials, those same billboards and that Chinese gentleman to a nexus of another man named Michael Chu.
Steve LanceGUEST
He was a subject in the film who is directly connected to the CCP's United Front Work Department.
Steve LanceGUEST
And through that, we also got to find out that there were articles that the New York Times, these articles that they were posting on X that were getting the most traction out of any New York Times article that whole year in terms of likes and reads.
Derek GilbertHOST
with the media, although the media may not even be aware of it, just the media leans so far left that they think that this kind of thing is just normal, with financial support from a guy named Neville Roy Singham, who is a multimillionaire, He was a tech entrepreneur, sold his business for like $750 million about 10 years ago, moved to Shanghai, and now appears to be working, although we can't prove it, with support of the Chinese Communist Party.
Derek GilbertHOST
through its United Front Work Department, which is how they coordinate the actions of Chinese expats, which is how you wind up with independent Chinese police departments in Toronto and New York City.
Derek GilbertHOST
They are positioning themselves for essentially a government takeover.
Derek GilbertHOST
They are working on the premise developed by a Harvard professor named Erica Chenoweth.
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