Ottawa, Feb. 12 -- A sweeping investigation has raised fresh alarm over the global footprint of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), detailing how hundreds of organisations in Canada alone are allegedly intertwined with China's United Front system, as reported by The Epoch Times.

According to The Epoch Times, drawing on research from the Jamestown Foundation, analysts identified at least 575 Canadian groups with identifiable connections to the CCP's influence apparatus. Across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, the figure surpasses 2,000.

The report's author, Cheryl Yu, argued that the United Front Work Department is designed to project power subtly, embedding party preferences into foreign political, economic and ...