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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020592)" |
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| APPENDIX 1 |
| Chinese Influence Operations |
| Bureaucracy |
| While recent months have brought increased attention to the United Front Work |
| Department, or "United Front activities," it is important to emphasize that this is |
| but one of many institutions within the Chinese party-state involved in influence |
| operations. As the accompanying graphic illustrates, the bureaucracy involved in |
| extending China's global influence is large, complex, and specialized in function. |
| Generally speaking, there are three types of bureaucratic organizations included in |
| the chart: (1) policy coordination; (2) policy formulation and implementation; and |
| (3) organizations with specialized functions. |
| As a Leninist party-state, CCP organizations have higher political status than |
| government institutions. This has become even more pronounced under the Party's |
| general secretary Xi Jinping and following the bureaucratic reorganization announced |
| after the March 2018 meeting of the National People's Congress. Generally speaking, |
| Party organs make policies, which are then implemented by state bureaucracies. There |
| is no single organization overseeing the entirety of the country's influence operations |
| abroad. The most important CCP organizations in the diagram are the Foreign Affairs |
| Commission, the External Propaganda Leading Group/State Council Information |
| Office, the CCP Propaganda Department, the CCP United Front Work Department, |
| the CCP International Liaison Department, and United Front departments inside the |
| People's Liberation Army. Critical policies related to foreign affairs are formulated |
| in these bodies. The same organizations are also involved in coordinating the |
| implementation of these policies. |
| The Policy-Making Process in the Chinese Party-State |
| The process is driven both by top leadership and functional bureaucracies. Policy |
| formulation, which involves the generation of ideas and proposals, typically |
| takes place in functional bureaucracies and specialized departments within these |
| bureaucracies. In the process of policy formulation, one bureaucracy specializing |
| in the functional or issue area (for example, propaganda) may take charge, but it |
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