China's Moves To Control And Influence U.S. Public Opinion And Policy Meets Little If Any Opposition

Reuters

E. John Gregory, National Interest: How China Controls Its Citizens

China is zombifying ostensibly regulatory-type international institutions in an effort to spread its pro-Party message.

In the first two parts of this series, I explained the genesis and logic behind China’s discursive-construction of a truth-ambivalent China-wide safe space where the Communist Party would be unassailable and understood as indispensable to the nation. I also explained how the Party created a zombified version of what the West calls “civil society” in order to make the safe space self-perpetuating.

In part three, I now turn to how China is making the purveyors of American soft power into its eager and willing host organisms to expand China’s safe space beyond its own borders. China’s global media acquisitions and operations, efforts to dominate the Chinese diaspora , influencing and manipulating the politics of liberal-democratic nations and expanding influence in international organizations are all indicative of China’s international “discourse power” project.

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WNU Editor: I have mentioned it more than once .... the Russians are pikers when compared to what China is doing openly in the U.S. right now. But the current media and political narrative is Russia, Russia, and Russia, and their main target is President Trump .... who is the only Western leader warning everyone on what China is doing