News Analysis In a recent report on the China threat, the French Military School Strategic Research Institute (IRSEM) identified the Chinese regime’s three-pronged attack consisting of psychological warfare, public opinion warfare, and legal warfare. The attack is all part of a massive propaganda campaign focused on overseas Chinese. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims ownership of anyone of Chinese descent, anywhere in the world, and they are working hard to influence, recruit, co-opt, ostracize, or silence ethnic Chinese in other countries. In 2017, “Xi Jinping called for ‘closely uniting’ with overseas Chinese in support of the Chinese dream.” The Chinese diaspora, including both Chinese nationals abroad (Huaqiao) and foreign nationals of Chinese heritage (Huaren), number about 60 million. Xi sees these people as being integral to achieving the “Great Rejuvenation” of the Chinese state, and China taking center stage in global politics. Beijing’s overseas propaganda is largely carried out through …
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