I'll start answering in French.
This is one of the key elements of this whole issue. Foreign interference is very complex and covers a whole spectrum of activities, from diplomats who will speak openly to advance their country's interests, which is perfectly acceptable, to a whole category of activities that fall into a grey area, because they are a little more veiled or because they will be carried out clandestinely later on, and then become foreign interference. The point is that it's very complex.
I will continue in English.
The United Front Work Department, the UFWD, is an organization of the Communist Party. It is as old as the Chinese Communist Party. Under Xi Jinping, this organization has been provided new budgets. The budget of the organization dedicated to engaging the Chinese abroad and interfering in other countries' internal affairs, which is done by the UFWD, is now bigger than their entire department of foreign affairs. The budget of an organization dedicated to foreign interference is now larger than the entire overt diplomatic work that the PRC is engaging in. It gives you a sense of how important this is. I will say very quickly that this is why the President of China, Xi Jinping, calls the UFWD one of its “magic weapons”.