How China Controls Its Citizens | The National Interest

How China Controls Its Citizens | The National Interest
"China is zombifying ostensibly regulatory-type international institutions in an effort to spread its pro-Party message.--by E. John Gregory
...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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