Major leak 'exposes' members and 'lifts the lid' on the Chinese Communist Party | Sky News Australia
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A major leak containing a register with the details of nearly two million CCP members has occurred – exposing members who are now working all over the world, while also lifting the lid on how the party operates under Xi Jinping, says Sharri Markson. Ms Markson said the leak is a register with the details of Communist Party members, including their names, party position, birthday, national ID number and ethnicity. “It is believed to be the first leak of its kind in the world,” the Sky News host 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,” Ms Markson said. “But it's amazing because it lifts the lid on how the party operates under President and Chairman Xi Jinping”. Ms Markson said the leak demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the world’s biggest companies and even inside government agencies. “Communist 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,” she said. “Along 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 companies”. Ms Markson said the leak is a significant security breach likely to embarrass Xi Jinping. “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,” she said. Ms Markson said the data was extracted from a Shanghai server by Chinese dissidents, whistleblowers, in April 2016, who have been using it for counter-intelligence purposes. “It was then leaked in mid-September to the newly-formed international bi-partisan group, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China- and that group is made up of 150 legislators around the world. “It was then provided to an international consortium of four media organisations, The Australian, The Sunday Mail in the UK, De Standaard in Belgium and a Swedish editor, to analyse over the past two months, and that's what we've done". Ms Markson said it, “is worth noting that there's no suggestion that these members have committed espionage - but the concern is over whether Australia or these companies knew of the CCP members and if so have any steps been taken to protect their data and people”.

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  • Classic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 年前

    The intelligence is clear: Bejing intends to dominate the US and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

    Projection level: Over 9000

  • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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    4 年前

    “is worth noting that there's no suggestion that these members have committed espionage"

    Jesus Fucking Christ so you basically just released the data of two million innocent Chinese people, greatly increasing the chances that some random dipshit is gonna off some of them. And this is gonna cause further stigmatization of Chinese, and of course all Asian people, wherever they are. Bullshit. They've demonized Muslims (which effects all brown people), Mexicans (which effects all South America), and now they are gonna do the same for all East Asian people. You better believe that the "Communist party branches" is gonna be used to crackdown on any unions that are forming in the face of increasing oppression at these companies.

    • VYKNIGHT [none/use name]
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      4 年前

      Literally every kid back in elementary was in the Young Pioneers of China... I guess all of them are CPC members

    • KiaKaha [he/him]
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      4 年前

      Yes, pretty much.

      While it is possible to climb without being a party member (for instance you could be a member of another party), it’s incredibly helpful, and very competitive.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 年前

      Doesn’t “CPC member” describe basically every Chinese citizen who has some level of civic engagement?

      Official party membership isn't like US party affiliation, were you simply declare yourself prior to a primary vote. It's more akin to getting a job certification or a degree. CCP membership is admittance to an elite club obtained by demonstrating both doctrinaire understanding and support.

      Particularly in the wake of Xi's Premiership, it is more about operating as a real movement vanguard. In a country of billions, actual accredited CCP members are a slim minority.

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 年前

      Check out three fucking sentences later.

      “is worth noting that there’s no suggestion that these members have committed espionage"

      they always fucking do this, with Tito and Cuba

  • ARVSPEX [none/use name]
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    4 年前

    Wow, this just so happens to perfectly align with the Yellow Peril narrative that has been relentlessly disseminated in the west for centuries. Very cool.

    It also happens to have been brought to light by IPAC, the modern-day Eight-Nation Alliance. Cool, cool.

    :elmofire: :elmofire: :elmofire: :elmofire:

  • Wardstrobe [none/use name]
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    4 年前

    leak demonstrates party branches are embedded in some of the world’s biggest companies and even inside government agencies

    BREAKING NEWS: PARTY IN POWER MAY HAVE CONTROL OVER THEIR GOVERNMENT

    is worth noting that there's no suggestion that these members have committed espionage

    well you see, the presumption of innocence is only when it's about people I like, not these filthy yellow commies (who are breeding might I add)

  • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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    4 年前

    This so clearly a CIA job and not some chinesw dissidents, i cant wait for the people mention in the leak to misteriously dissapear/die inside western countries and them blaming it on chinese agents coventing their tracks.

    Now "peacefull" Biden :biden-nibble: is gonna take power and continue the policy of encirclement while blaming china for is "agression" i bet the segregationist is gonna built bipartisant concentration camps for suspected CPC member (aka chinese) while the dems celebrate Unity :liberalism:

    Death to America :amerikkka:

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    4 年前

    I thought you were kidding, but no, the article is straight up talking about branches of the Communist Party being secretly embedded in foreign companies and governments. Very cool.

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    4 年前

    It always amuses me that people use the word "CCP member" as if the CCP was some intelligence organization and not just a fucking political party.

    • Pezevenk [he/him]
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      4 年前

      Parties have members too??

      I guess people don't usually call registered dems/republicans and operatives "members" but that's only because US parties in particular are weird as fuck and no one understands them. But, like, there is nothing weird with using "member", it's not a loaded term, every party ever has members.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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        4 年前

        oh yeah i didn't mean it that way, I was saying how being a party member is a completely normal thing, but these articles say it as if "CCP member" meant that these people dedicated their lives to the CCP.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]MA
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      4 年前

      I mean we call political partymembers of the DNC and RNC "operatives", so maybe it's another form of projection.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      4 年前

      All the twitter libs will be screeching about how it's your patriotic duty to condemn your local chinamen chinese population as spies and will be groveling at Biden's feet begging for him to send them all to camps.

      • ARVSPEX [none/use name]
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        4 年前

        I can already see them going 'It has to be true, there is no way they would make up such a big lie!' when they are told to not swallow this story whole.

  • VILenin [he/him]
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    4 年前

    The gall of fucking Australia to talk about "theft" of any kind

  • culdrought [he/him]
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    4 年前

    worth noting that there's no suggestion that these members have committed espionage

    Gotta get that disclaimer in, in case some nutjobs attack people who are on the list. These fucks know exactly what they are doing.

  • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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    4 年前

    “Communist 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,”

    Very cliche and intimidating claim.

    • unperson [he/him]
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      4 年前

      You can picture Winnie the Pooh laughing evilly and pressing a button on his desk as a pointy antenna with a red dot springs from the top of the heads of these thousands of CCP members and they stare forward and say, in a robotic voice, must. steal. intellectual. property.

      • NationalizeMSM [none/use name]
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        4 年前

        Yea, the stupid thing about this is that it all just boils down to intellectual property. There is some scary hints at other possibilities, but the main fear is they steal our business. The weapons designs could be a real threat if there was some future potential for war, but that's kind of on us to start.

        • spectre [he/him]
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          4 年前

          True, but I'm pretty sure non-citizens generally aren't allowed to work on weapons anyway

        • an_engel_on_earth [he/him, they/them]
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          4 年前

          Chuds and libs: "Goddamn I hate corporate america"

          Also chuds and libs: "How dare those ch*nks steal our corporations' intellectual property!"

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 年前

      Isn't this what WASPs thought Kennedy's relationship to the Pope would be?

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 年前

    My university just expelled a ton of Chinese students, and our local subreddit nutted.