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China’s glittering modern facade often convinces outsiders that it’s a country just like those in the West. Not so, says Peter Mattis, a former CIA analyst who now studies Chinese influence activities for the Jamestown Foundation. When American thought leaders interact with Chinese representatives, it’s not a free-flowing “conduit,” he says, but a controlled circuit.
America has never faced a rival quite like China, which presents such a compelling, well-financed challenge to democratic values. America certainly doesn’t want a new “Red Scare,” but maybe a wake-up call.
Meddling the WashPoo calls it.
70 years again when Soviet Russia was meddling anyone who pointed it out was accused of hysteria.
Third article on China you’ve posted from WaPo tonight. Mighty interesting reading.
„former CIA analyst“
so he is incompetent & a deep state propagandist ?
As part of a broad effort to interfere in U.S. institutions, China tries to shape the discussion at American universities, stifle criticism and influence academic activity by offering funding, often through front organizations closely linked to Beijing.
Now that aspect of Beijing’s foreign influence campaign is beginning to face resistance from academics and lawmakers. A major battle in this nascent campus war played out over the past six months at the University of Texas in Austin.
I guess this should be the rule:
Read what the WP says about any topic, and then think the opposite.
David Ignatous hates traditional Americans... anything he says should NOT be trusted at face value.