CCP’s Transnational Repression Weaponizes Freedoms in Democratic Countries, Professor Says

The free and democratic world should have confidence in its overwhelming advantage in both hard and soft power, according to Feng Chongyi, a Chinese scholar.

Feng Chongyi, China expert and associate professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, speaks during an interview with NTD at an International Human Rights Day rally in Sydney, on Dec. 10, 2022. Wang Nan/NTD

Under the direct command of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping, China’s state apparatus sharply escalated its transnational repression of Chinese dissidents living in the United States beginning in the spring of 2024, employing methods such as bomb threats, arson threats, and disinformation, alongside legal harassment and media attacks.

In a recent interview with The Epoch Times, Feng Chongyi, an associate professor of China studies at the University of Technology Sydney, said it’s unsurprising that the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong—launched in 1999 and continuing to today—has now extended overseas.