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In August last year, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Confucius Institute “an entity advancing ...

New Book Showcases How ‘Wilful Blindness’ to CCP-Connected Crime Operations Harms Western Democracies Investigative journalist Sam Cooper’s new book “Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West” offers an in-depth look on how massive international crime networks are targeting democracies worldwide and how authorities in some cases have been looking away. The book follows Cooper’s investigation of suspicious money-laundering activities in Va...

Trade Group Driving China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Australia: Internal Documents A pro-Beijing organization in Australia is a driving force behind a decade-long infiltration into the country, including promoting China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese government documents reveal. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a transcontinental investment project aimed at expanding China’s global influence through political, economic, or cultural cooperation, was first proposed ...

"While American local governments value such "exchanges" for financial and cultural reasons, exchange (交流) has always been viewed as a practical political tool by Beijing, and all of Chinas exchange organizations have been assigned political missions". — Chinas Influence & American Interests, Report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States, by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society in New Yor...