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China's influence operations against the United States are unprecedented in scale due to the resources and whole-of-society approach employed by the Chinese Communist Party.
For decades, Wall Street investment firms and U.S. corporations have been deputized to advocate for the Chinese Communist Party's economic and trade policies in Washington to protect their market access in China.
The Chinese Communist Party is actively creating a narrative to undermine future U.S. public support for defending Taiwan in a potential conflict.
The Chinese Communist Party targets U.S. states and localities for influence operations, viewing them as a "soft underbelly" due to their focus on local priorities like job creation over geopolitical competition.
From 2019 to 2021, the state-run China Daily paid at least $7 million to U.S. print and online publications to insert its content alongside other news items.
There is clear evidence of Beijing-aligned censorship and surveillance of users on Tencent's WeChat app, which is used by millions of Americans.
China-related cases now constitute approximately 50% of all FBI counterintelligence work, with over 2,000 active investigations.
During the last U.S. midterm elections, PRC online disinformation campaigns began creating fake accounts misrepresenting themselves as American voters for the first time.
It is not currently illegal under U.S. federal law for a private investigator to conduct surveillance on a U.S. person on behalf of a foreign country.
It is conceivable that in the event of a conflict, China would deploy TikTok's algorithms to undermine the public resolve of the United States.
Xi Jinping has declared food security a paramount national interest, driving Chinese firms to acquire foreign agricultural technology, seeds, and know-how to reduce dependency on foreign supplies.
Major Hollywood motion picture studios self-censor and will not produce a film with a Chinese government villain to avoid being denied distribution in the Chinese market.