News Analysis Beijing’s global influence operations, including election interference, has been revealed by a new French military study. A new study of China’s global influence operations by France’s Ministry of Armed Forces demonstrates that Beijing is making a Machiavellian turn toward seeking to inspire fear in the world, rather than solicit its amour. In Beijing’s influence operations, the authors argue, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is consciously using influence tactics that it obtained by observing similar tactics used by Russia. In the most comprehensive study of its kind, the authors boldly construct a taxonomy of CCP influence operations, including propaganda, lawfare, espionage, and organizational influence tactics. They cover some of the most controversial topics in the field of Chinese politics, including Beijing’s foreign election interference, the capture of foreign elites through trade relations, the CCP’s persecution of the Falun Gong, and the CCP’s attempt to control narratives about global organ …
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