A Jamestown Foundation report exposes Hongmen (Chinese Freemasons) as a CCP-aligned criminal network aiding Beijing’s agendas—Taiwan annexation and Belt and Road expansion—through organized crime and influence campaigns.

By The Bureau

A Washington-based think tank has released a hard-hitting report linking a global Chinese network—known as Hongmen, or the Chinese Freemasons—to transnational organized crime and covert Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence campaigns targeting Beijing’s foremost policy objectives, including the annexation of Taiwan and the global expansion of Belt and Road Initiative development projects.

The new research, published by the Jamestown Foundation, resonates with geopolitical concerns in Canada, particularly in British Columbia—the only jurisdiction in North America to have signed a formal Belt and Road cooperation agreement with Beijing—and in Ottawa, where one of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election candidates was linked to the Chinese Freemasons, according to The Globe and Mail.

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