The Republic of China should establish a database to comprehensively track China’s international network of influence operations, suggests Australian analyst Geoff Wade (Taipei Times, June 22, 2026).
There are hundreds of “united front” groups in Australia, the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand, Wade said, adding that Beijing encourages the establishment of such organizations to control overseas Chinese communities and expand China’s influence abroad.
Considering that these groups operate and report in Chinese, the international community can rely on Taiwan to help understand their activities, he said.
Wade suggested that Taiwan establish a global public database to document the activities of these organizations and map their relationship networks.
Taiwan is more familiar with the CCP and its operations than anywhere else in the world, making it the best place to establish a center to study “united front” organizations and their activities, he said.
Such a center would provide valuable information to the international community and deepen Taiwan’s ties with countries that are concerned about China’s expanding influence and espionage activities, Wade said, adding that it would benefit the whole world.
The ROC’s Mainland Affairs Council, national legislature, and security agencies already provide substantial and regular reporting on United Front activity, which includes propagandizing, infiltration and co-optation, spying, sabotage, and monitoring and harassing Chinese nationals living abroad as well as foreign critics of the PRC. But a unified and exhaustive database of all known Chinese Communist Party activity regarded as United Front does not yet exist.
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“Beijing is succeeding in crafting a global narrative of its views and place in the world through propaganda and is hoping that democracies will offer no resistance. Resistance, though, is not futile.”
