Are all Chinese, Spies for the Chinese Communist Party ?
All who have family remaining in China are potential spies for the CP. Family is much more important to Chinese than to most Americans and CCP is happy to use threats to Grandma to elicit cooperation in America. That is less the case in 2nd and 3rd generation citizens but it is still a source of blackmail/extortion activity.
No, but what tends to happen is that most ethnically-Chinese Americans tend to have family members back in China - which gives the Chinese government plenty of leverage against them. Saving myself typing by copying from an earlier post:
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Another reason we’ve not been able to recruit Chinese nationals to spy for us is what the Chinese do to spies. They have been known to not just torture the spy to death, but ‘disappear’ and then torture and execute most of if not the entire extended family of the spy down to distant cousins, sometimes in front of the spy before finally killing the spy themselves.
Similar methods have been used to attempt to recruit Americans of Chinese descent; “Be a real shame if your Auntie Chun back in Shanghai found herself homeless and your Uncle Xiang lost his job and couldn’t get another,” that kind of thing. Or the reverse, offering blandishments to improve their relatives’ lives. Both have been reported repeatedly over the years.
Of course, this only works if the party they are attempting to blackmail or bribe actually *likes* the family left behind. Often the American-born or naturalized Americans don’t; there are reports of the recruiters being taken back when they are told that the target doesn’t like their relatives back in China, that doing nasty things to them would be a great favor and could they please send pictures after whatever deed was done?
EVERY Chinese citizen, regardless of country of residence including those living in the United States, ARE REQUIRED BY CHINESE LAW TO SPY FOR MOTHERLAND CHINA.