by Seamus Bruner and Jedd McFatter, Breitbart:
On the 1300 block of North Eustis Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, a ten-minute drive from the Governor’s Mansion, sits a brutalist brick building that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front operation that serves several functions for the CCP — none of them good for the United States.
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The building on the 1300 block of North Eustis Street in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Google Maps)
Out of this building, CCP operatives curry favor with politicians like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, and provide various services for Chinese Americans in Minnesota who are still loyal to Beijing, including hosting meet-and-greets with CCP diplomats and dignitaries. Businesses registered at this address receive six-figure grants from American taxpayers.
The building has been associated with a web of businesses and groups including the Alliance of Chinese Culture & Arts, the Center for Community Service, and the Alliance of Minnesota Chinese Organizations. It is also the home of the Overseas Chinese Service Center of Minnesota (“Minnesota OCSC”), which apparently works under the umbrella of the CCP’s “united front.”
According to a recently released US House Oversight Committee report, “united front work is carried out by a vast network—including through the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and Chinese intelligence services, including the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and the Ministry of State Security (MSS).” The Ministry of Public Security has been likened to China’s FBI while the Ministry of State Security is more like China’s CIA.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping describes united front work as one of the CCP’s “magic weapons” that helps “undermine the sovereignty and integrity of the political system of targeted states.”
President of the Jamestown Foundation and former CIA Counterintelligence Analyst Peter Mattis says that united front work “damages U.S. interests through legal and illegal technology transfer, surveillance of Chinese diaspora communities, promotion of favorable narratives about the PRC through ostensibly independent voices, and the neutralization or harassment of critics of the CCP.”
The CCP Ministry of Public Security’s united front work includes operating secret overseas police stations, including on US soil. Last year, the FBI busted one of these united front operations in Manhattan, describing it as a “secret, illegal police station.” In a separate case in New York, more than forty CCP officers and operatives were arrested. The secret CCP police station’s purpose was to “threaten, harass, and intimidate” Chinese dissidents and “spread disinformation and propaganda to sow divisions within the United States.”
The New York secret police station and the Minnesota service center appear on the same global list of Overseas Chinese Service Centers (OCSC) that has been posted to websites affiliated with the CCP. Activities include helping Chinese consulates in processing visas and other documents for overseas Chinese and both New York and Minnesota have special designated WeChat accounts assigned to their regional locations by the Chinese government. The New York secret police station used such tools to help the CCP—among other things—keep tabs on Chinese living abroad.
The Minnesota OCSC apparently spreads pro-CCP propaganda in the US. For example, Philip Lenczycki of the Daily Caller reported that Chinese Foreign Ministry documents reveal the Minnesota OCSC has a “propaganda chief” named Deng Qing. That propaganda chief is affiliated with and attends events at the Eustis Street outpost.
