The Long Tentacles of China’s United Front Network

In the chart shown below, Hamilton outlines the organizational structure of China’s United Front Work Department operations

Organizational structure of United Front operations. Prepared by Clive Hamilton, author of “Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia."

Clive Hamilton, an author, and professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, has done in-depth an investigation of China’s influence and interference operations in Australia. He published his findings in the 2018 book “Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia.”

The main threat Hamilton identifies is that Beijing has been working to sway elite opinion, attempting to get decision-makers in Western countries to conform with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) agenda.