Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence, House Committee on Homeland Security entitled, “Safeguarding Dissident Voices: Addressing Transnational Repression Threats to Homeland Security Wednesday, January 17, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EST 310 Cannon House Office Building Testimony of Dr. Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid Association Thank you to the honorable Chairman and the Members of the Committee for allowing me to testify regarding the CCP’s Transnational Repression Threats to U.S. Homeland Security. Since President Xi Jinping took power, the CCP’s repression against religious freedom, human rights and rule of law in China has reached to the worst level since the brutal dictator Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution time in 1960s. With Xi and CCP’s publicly stated goal of global expansion and its strategy of “unrestricted warfare” against the free world especially the USA, the transnational repression and threats has been growing rapidly in the past few years. As the intelligence community in the both Trump and Biden administrations concluded, the CCP regime indeed has become the No. 1 global threats to our value and national security in every level of our society. The goal of these transnational repressive efforts is to make the CCP party-state as the global dominant power with rules made by the CCP instead of norms based on universal values in global organizations such as the United Nations and other international institutions. Part of means to reach this CCP stated goal is to silence and crush any dissident voices in the U.S. soil and other democratic countries. Subsequently the CCP has been engaging a systematic, multiple fronts and multi-facets campaign inside our soils. The CCP’s all-of-society approach for transnational oppression efforts includes both public and covert operations through physical and cyber harassment and threats by utilizing its global resources with its mobilization of Chinese expatriates and its recruited foreign agents through financial manipulation of free and open society in western countries. 1, CCP has compulsively legalized overseas spying work for all the Chinese. According to PRC’s new National Intelligence Law passed in 2017, all Chinese citizens including those who were born here as American citizens, are mandated to engage spy work. Article 7 of the PRC National Intelligence Law obligates Chinese individuals, organizations, and institutions to support national intelligence work in every aspects. Article 14 gives the Chinese intelligence agencies the authority to demand such cooperation. Even U.S. companies operating in China must locally store all personal information that is collected and produced. The effect of that law has already vividly demonstrated in massive arbitrary arrests and sentence against dissidents in Hong Kong under the so called “Hong Kong National Security Law.” American and British citizens had been put on the CCP’s Most Wanted List” as “co-conspirators” of freedom fighters in China and Hong Kong. Therefore, under the compulsory mandate, all Chinese students, visiting scholars, business visitors and tourists in US and other country’s soils engage spying work for the CCP although some may do it inadvertently or unwillingly. Multiple cases from Dule University, to Perdue University, from