From identifying “enemies” and monitoring dissidents to manipulating local organizations, Beijing is using every means in its toolbox to silence those in overseas Chinese communities, including in Canada, it views as a threat, according to a government report. The report showed that China is actively engaged in a “systematic campaign of intelligence-gathering, persuasion, influence, and manipulation” against dissident voices through its Overseas Chinese Affairs Office (OCAO). The OCAO, which the Chinese regime claims “protect[s] the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese,” was tasked with “influencing or manipulating” community members and using “coercive tactics” against those who challenged the regime, according to the report. “This involves intimidation of OC (Overseas Chinese) at every level of society,” said the report, authored by the Canada Border Security Agency (CBSA) in March 2020 and obtained by Global News, which published an article on it on Jan. 26. “The managing of their behaviour is accomplished …