Washington begins to wake up to China’s ‘influence operations’

NY Post ^ | Dec 12, 2017 | Josh Rogin

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Washington is waking up to the huge scope and scale of Chinese Communist Party influence operations inside the United States, which permeate American institutions of all kinds. China’s overriding goal is, at the least, to defend its authoritarian system from attack and at most to export it to the world at America’s expense.

The foreign-influence campaign is part and parcel of China’s larger campaign for global power, which includes military expansion, foreign direct investment, resource hoarding and influencing international rules and norms. But this part of China’s game plan is the most opaque and least understood. Beijing’s strategy is first to cut off critical discussion of China’s government, then to co-opt American influencers in order to promote China’s narrative.

“We have a lot of discussion of Russian interference in our elections, but the Chinese efforts to influence our public policy and our basic freedoms are much more widespread than most people realize,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), co-chairman of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. “This is an all-out effort to not simply promote themselves in a better light but to target Americans within the United States.”

On Wednesday, the CECC will hold a hearing on the “Long Arm of China” to expose Chinese efforts to gain political influence, control discussion of sensitive topics, interfere in multilateral institutions, threaten and intimidate human-rights defenders, impose censorship on foreign publishers and influence academic institutions.

Rubio pointed to Chinese government-sponsored Confucius Institutes on US university campuses that operate under opaque contracts and often stand accused of interfering in China-related education activities. China’s sponsorship of think tank research, academic chairs and intellectual partnerships also demand scrutiny, he said.

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Washington is waking up to the huge scope and scale of Chinese Communist Party influence operations inside the United States

Holy Crap!! That’s wonderful...and it only took them 75 years !!

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If they can benefit from it, they will do their best to ignore it and let it continue. Most of the bastards have no loyalty to the United States.