Our Chinese Sister Cities: "Use the Countryside to Surround the City"
"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 China's 'exchange' organizations have been assigned political missions". — China's 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 York, 2019. "We will keep connecting schools in the U.S. and China one at a time". — USA-China ...
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