CCP's unrestricted Warfare Detailed at Toronto Forum

Across the West, concerns are growing over how far the Chinese Communist Party is reaching into free societies. In Toronto, a public forum brought together experts who say Beijing's influence operations are no longer a distant threat but a daily reality. The speakers include an anti-money laundering expert, a disinformation expert and a human rights lawyer. They alerted the audience to the Chinese regime's unrestricted warfare strategies targeting the free world and encouraged a whole of society approach to counter the CCP's tactics. Here's a closer look. A public forum titled Out of Bounds was held at the City Hall of Toronto, exposing the CCP's unrestricted warfare strategies targeting the free world, including public opinion warfare, media and legal warfare, digital and cyber warfare, economic coercion, political infiltration and transnational repression. The PRC government, Chinese Communist Party is the biggest transnational organized crime group ever seen in the world today. Bar none. Transnational repression is a much less visible phenomenon than foreign interference. Transnational oppression tends to work on diaspora communities who are often isolated from each other and not having much access to the media. The experts at the forum shared extensive information and insights from history, international research reports and their own decades of experience in the field, covering topics on the CCP's disinformation and cognitive warfare, along with lawfare targeting journalists and dissidents, as well as the CCP's organized crime and state-linked political interference, and transnational repressions in Canada. The experts warned the audience that the CCP's unrestricted warfare is not abstract, but a ready and everyday reality in Canada, although not yet known to most people in society. The CCP's strategy is comprehensive and everyday. The Chinese Communist Party uses the whole of state approach. Their media influence, their diaspora pressure, economic coercion, and lawfare and elite capture. This affects our daily lives, the universities, our housing markets, social media, supply chains, and local elections. Most people I'm sure in this room know what the United Front is. What they do is they provide political influence and intelligence arm for the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese triads and the United Front, they operate in parallel, mutually beneficial networks. They work with diaspora influence, elite capture, and we've seen all kinds of elite capture. If you look at the power corporation, they direct diaspora associations, culture group, and business chambers. They monitor, suppress, and intimidate dissidents. That's going on in Canada on a daily basis. The CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, uses three warfares, public opinion warfare, legal warfare, and psychological warfare to silent dissident and control narratives beyond its borders in a very sophisticated and clandestine manner. Shen Yun Performing Arts has been a prime target of CCP's hostility since its global tour in 2006. Shen Yun seeks to revive China's pre-communist heritage and also exposes the ongoing human rights abuses in China. And this is something Gao Jisheng said, a human rights lawyer there. He said, if you become a human rights activist, you become a human rights victim. Human rights lawyer David Mattis, who has himself been sanctioned by Beijing for his work in exposing the CCP's crimes against humanity and forced organ harvesting, says people outside China must raise the political cost of abuse in ways those inside the country cannot. A message that resonated with many in the room. There's so many nefarious acts of foreign interference. So I would really like for Canadians to have a greater awareness of what China's doing in order for us to push back. The problem is huge. The problem is real. And the first step is just acknowledging it before we can address. The panel were perfect. We do need to have all the like-minded people who have some courage as well come together, come up with answers to that very big question. We're in a war that's affecting us greatly on all levels. And it's up to us to start getting out there, talking to our politicians and reforming Canada. The panelists say resisting Beijing's tactics will take more than reports and commissions. It means tougher laws, stronger cyber defenses, and above all, Canadians willing to speak out instead of looking away. And it's time as Canadians that we stood up and tried to force the issue a little bit so we get a handle on what's going on. The intersection between organized crime and state-linked political influence. This is something that the China Tribunal said, which was looking specifically at forced organ harvesting. And what they said was, when you're interacting with the Chinese state, you have to realize you're interacting with a criminal organization. And you have to behave accordingly. NTD News, Canada.