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New revelations on the laundering of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda through local actors in the Czech Republic point to an underresearched aspect of influence operations. The CCP’s tactic of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea” (借船出海, jie chuan chu hai), i.e., coopting local media outlets to serve as proxies, has long been known to involve organs in the …
Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images A man walks past a twelve-story Shanghai building alleged in a February 19, 2013 report by the Internet security firm Mandiant to house a Chinese military-led cyber hacking group. Mandiant's hundreds of investigations traced to this building hacking attacks on U.S. newspapers, government agencies, and companies. On China’s Twitter, Discussion of Hacking Attacks Proceeds Unblocked February 20, 2013 As The New York Times reported yesterday evening, U.S.-based cybersecurity firm Mandiant has just released a deeply troubling report called “Exposing One of China...