Two people, one suspected of working for the CCP and one suspected of being a former police superintendent in Hong Kong, have registered two companies in the United Kingdom, allegedly to engage Hong Kong students and their parents living in the UK.
Hong Kong organizations in the UK are set up under the control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as part of its United Front that uses geographically separate groups to advance its interests and neutralize opposition to its policies and authority.
Xiaoyi Li
The Epoch Times checked a British government website, showing that Xiaoyi Li was born in Sept. 1975, and the address of the “Hong Kong Overseas Students Association,” registered on Aug. 9, 2022, is Unit 39 St Olavs Court Business Centre, Lower Road, London, England, SE16 2XB.Li also established and served as director of two companies: World Muslim Cup International Regatta Limited (company number: 14284838) and Asean Cup International Regatta Limited (company number: 14284861).
According to the website, a person named Xiaoyi Li and who has the same date of birth, also serves as chairman of other companies that are still in operation, such as the UK Chinese Students Association (company number: 09871458), Euro Asia Youth Association (company number: 09840704), Xin Jiang Association of United Kingdom (company number: 10462780) and Panda New Media Limited (company number: 09156354).
Li also served as the chairman of many registered companies or organizations, including The Europe Xinjiang Business Association (company number: 10522261), UK New Chinatown Holding Ltd (company number: 10430404), and UK-China Friendship Promotion Limited (company number: 11906770).
According to The White Horses, Xiaoyi Li has been setting up different types of student organizations since 2008 and attracts students through cultural and recreational activities. One of the organizations uses soft power to control Uyghurs outside mainland China.
The source said that all of Xiaoyi Li’s companies and organizations are related to Muslims and Xinjiang. It is believed that he used the companies to control Uyghurs living abroad, and now to control expat from Hong Kong.
Li is suspected of being the “white gloves” of the CCP, that is, the facilitator of a shell company that looks legitimate on the surface but is controlled by the CCP and promotes its agenda.
The organization Li recently set up in the name of Hong Kong students, may have a similar purpose.
Hang Mo Wai
According to the British government, Hang Mo Wai was born in January 1959.Wong Shiu Chi Secondary School in Hong Kong indicates there is an alumnus with the same name who completed Form 5 in 1977 and joined the Royal Hong Kong Police in 1979 as Superintendent of Operations for the New Territories South Region.
CCP Infiltration in UK
With the increasing number of people from Hong Kong living in the UK, many organizations have been established to involve them; but their actual purpose is questionable.Another British association, Hong Kong People Association, was founded by William Je, who has close ties with the CCP, who is a former Hong Kong member of the Committee of Chongqing Municipal of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a political advisory body in China and a central part of the United Front system.
He is the executive chairman of the Hong Kong Youth Association, which is also a pro-CCP organization.
The organization joined the “Alliance for Peace and Democracy” launched by Robert Chow Rong and other pro-communist figures to oppose the Occupy Central and Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong that fought for true universal suffrage in 2014.
Simon Cheng Man-kit, the founder of Hongkongers in Britain, a Hong Kong expatriates association based in the UK, said that the incident “certainly raises some Hongkongers’ doubts.”
Cheng said that the CCP may use “food, [and] activities that are not related with politics” to influence Hong Kong immigrants in the UK, play down their dissatisfaction with the CCP, and then win them over.
It is very common for the CCP to unite students from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan through various organizations.
In addition, the “Hong Kong CPPCC Youth Association” has targeted Hong Kong students studying in the UK in recent years. The mentorship program organized by the Association matches people from different professional industries with Hong Kong students of the UK tertiary institutions, and is promoted by a number of Hong Kong student groups in the UK.
Many Hong Kong organizations in Britain criticized the scheme this year, saying that the plan is part of the CCP’s brainwashing and United Front efforts, and calling on the student unions that joined the scheme to withdraw from the plan and distance themselves from the CPPCC Youth Association.
In Jan. 2021, the CCP updated the “Regulations of United Front Work,” which clearly stated that the main task of united front work abroad is to strengthen “ideological and political guidance” for Chinese and those studying abroad to “love Communist China and the CCP” and agree with the “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” saying.
