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CCP Adviser Outlined Detailed Plan to Defeat US, Including Manipulating Elections



A leading Chinese professor—who is also an adviser to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—laid out a comprehensive plan for the communist regime to overthrow the United States as the world's superpower.



The professor's multi-pronged strategy involves a range of malign actions to subvert the United States while strengthening the Chinese regime. They include: interfering in U.S. elections, controlling the American market, cultivating global enemies to challenge the United States, stealing American technology, expanding Chinese territory, and influencing international organizations.



The plan was explained in detail by Jin Canrong, a professor and associate dean of the School of International Studies at Beijing's Renmin University of China, in a July 2016 speech on "Sino-U.S. Strategic Philosophy" given over two full days at Southern Club Hotel Business Class in south China's Guangzhou City.



"We want to be the world leader," Jin said, explaining Chinese Leader Xi Jinping's desire for a "national rejuvenation" of the country.



Dubbed "teacher of the state" by Chinese netizens, Jin is a prominent scholar known for his fiery anti-U.S. rhetoric. He is an advisor to two powerful bodies of the CCP, the Organization Department, and the United Front Work Department, though it is unclear how close he is to Xi.



Weakening the United States

The strategy to topple the United States was composed of two broad components: weakening America through both internal and foreign sources; and strengthening the Chinese regime's economic, military, and diplomatic power.



Using a metaphor of a company to illustrate the U.S.-China dynamic, Jin likened the United States to a company president, and China to a vice president who wants the top job.



"The United States is a middle-aged man, who is good looking, has strong capabilities, and support from most employees," Jin said.



"[To replace it], we first need to create the conditions to make it easier for the United States to make mistakes. Second, we should make it as busy as possible [dealing with problems], to the extent that it will feel depressed and want to give up. Third, we should become intertwined with the United States, so that it can't attack us."



Jin said the CCP was thinking of many ways to weaken the United States, which he described as a "very difficult" task. The professor offered four practical tactics.

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2. Controlling the US Market



A container ship berthing at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province on May 17, 2019. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Ramping up Chinese investments in the United States is another way to exert influence in the country's political system, Jin said, noting that this tactic has the added benefit of enriching Chinese business people and the CCP.



"The investment opportunities in the United States are relatively good," he said. "The U.S. market is open—more open than the Japanese and European ones," he continued, adding that its benefits include its size, transparency, and stability.



He said the Chinese regime wants Chinese business people to control the U.S. market, and also for them to develop their businesses in the country.



To reach this goal, the Chinese regime had tried to negotiate with Washington for the U.S.-China Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT). The agreement was actively negotiated for the decade prior to 2017, but fell off the agenda during President Donald Trump's administration.



Some U.S. companies wishing to enter the Chinese market, and the U.S.-China Business Council have advocated for the signing of a BIT.



3. Fostering Enemies of the US



Jin said the CCP's "strategic task" was to make sure the United States has not less than four enemies.



Four enemies are needed to stretch the United States' resources while bogging the government down in domestic debates over which threat to prioritize, Jin said.



For instance, before WWII the United States had two adversaries, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. "The Americans debated over and over about who is the real threat," he said.



"If the United States has four enemies, it will totally lose its direction."



Analyzing the situation as of 2016, Jin concluded that the United States only has three adversaries: "Terrorism is definitely an enemy of the United States. Russia looks like another one ... Definitely, the United States treats us as a competitor ... It's not enough."



The professor said that in the past few years, the CCP had tried to develop Brazil into an adversary of the United States, but was unsuccessful because Brazil "didn't want to be improved."



He said the CCP had pumped a lot of investment into Brazil in the bid to get its support on global issues, including taking stances against the United States. Xi had visited Brazil in 2014 and agreed to invest in infrastructure in the country's western region, as well as a railway to link ports in Brazil and Peru.



Jin said the Chinese regime has given up on this approach and is trying to find a candidate to develop into a U.S. adversary.



4. Causing International Problems for the US



Jin said the Chinese regime was at a strategic advantage due to the United States' role as global enforcer: whenever there is a crisis in the world, the United States would have to intervene to maintain global stability, which in turn drains U.S. resources and diverts its attention away from China.



As examples, he cited the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which he described as "completely not strategically valuable" endeavors that cost the United States "$6 trillion and 10,000 soldiers' lives."



The result was that the United States "wasted ten years [without being aware of China's development], and let China grow big," Jin said.



Another possible tactic is to sell the CCP's holding of U.S. Treasury bonds to precipitate a debt crisis, he said. According to the U.S. Treasury, China currently holds nearly $1.1 trillion in U.S. treasury securities.



Finally, engaging in drawn-out negotiations with the United States is also an effective strategy to bog down the United States, while giving the regime the time to focus on developing itself, according to Jin. During such negotiations, the United States wouldn't take punitive actions against the CCP such as sanctions, and instead focus its energy on preparing and carrying out the talks. Meanwhile, the Chinese regime, which has no intention of negotiating in good faith, would use the breathing space given to it over the course of the negotiations to solidify its power both inside and outside of China.



Former deputy national security advisor Matthew Pottinger in February warned of the CCP's "negotiation traps." Pottinger said years of successive formal dialogues between the two sides, such as the "Strategic Economic Dialogue" allowed the regime to "draw out the clock" and continue its economic assaults on the United States with impunity.

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Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's air defence identification zone on Friday, in the largest incursion yet reported by the island's defence ministry and marking a dramatic escalation of tension across the Taiwan Strait.



The island's defence ministry said the air force deployed missiles to "monitor" the incursion into the southwestern part of its air defense identification zone. It also said its planes warned the Chinese aircraft, including by radio.

[Anonymous]

China is playing us for fools.

[Anonymous]

China is playing us for fools.

They are shrewd and manipulate the West.

[cc]

That's true, but doesn't tell the full story



Western leaders are foolish people who no matter how many times they get bit ..   never learn that one cannot trust the snake  



Without that "no-learn" element, their would be no manipulation

[Anonymous]

That's true, but doesn't tell the full story



Western leaders are foolish people who no matter how many times they get bit ..   never learn that one cannot trust the snake  



Without that "no-learn" element, their would be no manipulation

Part of the maniupulation is using their overseas connections to get elected "foolish people" like Trudeau and Biden.

[Anonymous]

Confucius Institutes in the West.

[Gaon]

China is playing us for fools.

The Chinese influence over the Israeli economy is becoming alarming.

[Anonymous]

China is playing us for fools.

The Chinese influence over the Israeli economy is becoming alarming.

I didn't know that.

[Anonymous]

Beijing Exploiting Anti-Asian Attacks to Shun US Criticism, 'Delegitimize' America



As America grapples with troubling headlines depicting a rise in anti-Asian racism, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has apparently found its latest propaganda fodder.



Pointing to the uptick in crimes against Asian Americans, the regime is telling the United States to sort out its own affairs before criticizing Beijing for its severe human rights violations.



Propaganda exploiting America's domestic problems is a well-worn tactic used by the CCP and other authoritarian regimes to deflect criticism of its own malign actions.



In recent weeks, state-controlled media have been churning out reports daily framing the violence as a result of heightened Western criticism directed towards the Chinese regime.



Chinese diplomats, meanwhile, have wielded such incidents as a weapon to divert attention away from the CCP's domestic abuses, and depict its own governance model as superior to democracy.



In its latest rhetorical attack on the United States, the regime released an annual report on March 24 titled "The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2020."



"Since the pandemic began, the incidents of Asian Americans being humiliated and even assaulted in public have been found everywhere, and some American politicians have misled the public on purpose," the regime states in an 18-page report.



It accuses the United States of "hypocrisy, bullying ... and double standards," saying that the U.S. government, "instead of introspecting on its own terrible human rights record, kept making irresponsible remarks on the human rights situation in other countries."



Chinese state mouthpiece Xinhua followed up on the report with a commentary purporting to show "America's inherent human rights sins." The public outcry on violence against Asians will likely result in "perfunctory measures" from the United States, it claimed, but "without sweeping reforms and an earnest attitude, Uncle Sam can hardly clean up its mess in human rights protection, let alone act as a beacon."

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China encourages identity politics abroad, but jails people who even speak of it at home.



Chinese Propaganda Group Has Spent Years Cozying Up to Black Colleges



A Hong Kong-based think tank suspected of working as a front group for the Chinese Communist Party has cultivated close ties to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and members of the Congressional Black Caucus since 2014.



The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation's (CUSEF) outreach to the black community is part of a broad initiative to cozy up to prominent organizations in the U.S., including foreign policy think tanks and other elite universities.



CUSEF's activities have drawn the attention of CIA Director William Burns, who testified at his Senate confirmation hearing last month that he cut ties with CUSEF when he was president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace out of concern over "Chinese influence operations."



Most of CUSEF's contacts with HBCUs and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members have been arranged by Wilson Global Communications, a Washington, D.C.-based communications firm.



Since 2018, Wilson Global Communications has disclosed its activities for CUSEF to the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), a law that regulates foreign lobbying activity.



According to Wilson Global's most recent FARA filing, submitted March 22, CUSEF paid the firm $89,844 over the past six months to hold virtual meetings with the leaders of HBCUs and college students. She also had contact with Yu Jiang, a professor at Xavier University who operates the school's Confucius Institute, which U.S. officials also consider to be an influence agent of the Chinese government.



CUSEF has paid Wilson Global $667,641 since January 2017, according to FARA filings.



In its FARA disclosures, Wilson Global says it provides CUSEF with "communications and public relations services, which included outreach to U.S. elected officials."



The firm coordinates trips for college students and leaders of HBCUs to China, all funded by CUSEF. Wilson Global has also arranged contact between CUSEF and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.



Julia Wilson, the owner of Wilson Global, has held meetings with CBC members Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim Clyburn, Donald Payne, and others, according to Wilson Global's FARA filings.



On July 12, 2019, Wilson Global hosted a virtual event for Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson and CUSEF advisor Alan Wong held at Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU.



Wilson Global says CUSEF's mission "to build and improve dialogue between China and African American education and civic leaders, and between the youth of China and the U.S. to enhance relations between China and the U.S. in general."



Despite the seemingly innocuous goal, U.S. officials and national security experts have grown suspicious in recent years of CUSEF's links to the Chinese Communist Party and the United Front Work Department, which handles influence operations for the communist regime.



"One of the top sources of recruitment has been American students in China," James Carafano, a vice president of the Heritage Foundation and national security expert, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.



He said that the Chinese government uses groups like CUSEF and Confucius Institutes to provide cultural enrichment programming for the purposes of "data mining" and potential recruitment of American students.



"Nothing's innocuous because essentially everything connects back to the Chinese Communist Party. You can never assume that any contacts are innocent," Carafano told the DCNF. "The FBI's been warning about that for years."



The FBI appears to have briefed many of the HBCU presidents who have taken part in the CUSEF junkets, according to Wilson Global's FARA filings.



FBI special agent Peter Lapp provided security briefings in December 2018 and November 2019 for delegations of HBCU presidents visiting China, according to the FARA filings.



China's efforts to cozy up to HBCUs came to the forefront earlier this year during the Senate confirmation hearing for Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the ambassador to the United Nations.



Burns also said that the Chinese Communist Party deploys groups like CUSEF as part of a "whole-of-government approach ... to try and influence political, economic, and cultural developments to benefit CCP interests."



CUSEF, founded in 2008, is a key hub of the Chinese government's United Front Work Department.



In an Aug. 24, 2018, report, the U.S.-China Economic Security and Review Commission said that China uses the United Front system to "neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party."



According to the commission, United Front affiliates also "conduct influence operations targeting foreign actors and states."



The organization has developed connections over the past decade with other universities, such as Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University and Columbia University. CUSEF has also partnered with several prominent foreign policy think tanks, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for American Progress.



CUSEF has leveraged those connections to present Beijing-friendly viewpoints on hot-button issues.

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US, 13 Nations Question the Integrity of WHO-China Study on CCP Virus Origin



The United States on Tuesday joined more than a dozen other nations to express shared concerns about a World Health Organization (WHO) study into the origins of the CCP virus, pointing to the report's delay and lack of access to crucial data.



"Together, we support a transparent and independent analysis and evaluation, free from interference and undue influence, of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic," reads the statement signed by the governments of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.



"In this regard, we join in expressing shared concerns regarding the recent WHO-convened study in China," the statement continued, acknowledging the importance of the international mission into the Chinese megalopolis of Wuhan, where the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus first emerged, but also emphasizing that the study was "significantly delayed" and lacked access to "complete, original data and samples."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/china-leverage-developing-countries-contracts-debt">How China gains leverage over developing countries through secret debt contracts



China's lending to other governments has scaled up dramatically over the last decade



Even though China is the largest official creditor in the world, many of the contracts it makes with the governments of developing countries are secret – until now.



A group of researchers examined 100 Chinese debt contracts to learn how the country extends its reach beyond its borders. They released a lengthy report on Wednesday.



CHINA BOOSTS MILITARY SPENDING AS GOP DEMANDS BIDEN DO THE SAME



"It's a big deal because there is a lot going on in these contracts. The basic principle is these are governments making commitments on both sides of the ledger ... and their citizens have a right to understand," researcher Scott Morris of the Center for Global Development told Fox News. "What is striking, frankly, about the work we've done is the degree to which it has been secret."



The countries on the other ends of these contracts include the Philippines, Cameroon, Serbia and Argentina.



[It's called control and China does nothing for free]

[Anonymous]

[It's called control and China does nothing for free]

You got that right.