In a rare move last week, British spy agency MI5 gave a warning to members of Parliament regarding continuous political interference by a recognized Chinese agent on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. The identified Chinese agent is Christine Ching Kui Lee, a U.K.-based lawyer and immigrant from Hong Kong. MI5 has kept a watch on Lee for quite some time simply because Lee is politically active in Britain and China.
Lee has a good tie together with the Chinese Community Party with the party’s secretive impact organ, the United Front Work Department, known as the CCP’s “magic weapon.” The United Front’s chief tasks include recruiting influential people to collect intelligence, encourage government propaganda, and impact international and domestic decision-making.
United Front workers are given to numerous federal branches within & outside China, including “almost all Chinese embassies, [which] today include staff technically tasked with United Front work.” Under Xi Jinping, the United Front has frequently spread Communist China’s effect offshore, including Confucius Institutes on international university campuses.
The United Front also recruits overseas Chinese to do “grey zone” interference – covertly impact policies in international nations that might have geopolitical or economic results on China.
Christine Lee’s CCP Ties
MI5 identifies Lee as among United Front’s recruits. Lee served as a former chief legal adviser to the Chinese embassy in London and a legal adviser to the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.
She’s reportedly an overseas part of the Chinese Individuals Political Consultative Congress, a political body developed by the United Front particularly for planning important non-CCP people. As a part of the group, Lee often travels to China to attend the annual National People’s Many seminars or congress meetings structured and hosted by the United Front.
