Back in August an interesting little curio popped up in my feed concerning student societies across the UK, and the alleged influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Five different UK based pro-democracy groups – one each from Durham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham and a national version – released a joint statement alleging that the CCP was “infiltrating” British Hong Kong student societies via a mentoring programme.
The Hong Kong branch of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), part of the CCP’s United Front Work Department outreach and influence program, had been recruiting Hong Kong students in the UK to sign up for a program that had advertised itself as containing “no political propaganda”.
