News Analysis Beijing’s global influence operations, including election interference, has been revealed by a new French military study that leaves the peak targets untouched. 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. The study is excellent, but focuses too much on petty forms of influence. It treats with kid gloves the most important targets of Beijing’s influence operations—the current political and economic elites of Washington, London, Brussels, Berlin, Tokyo, New Delhi, and, you guessed it, Paris. In the most comprehensive study of its kind, the authors boldly construct a taxonomy of CCP influence operations, including propaganda, …
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