The 650-page report, entitled “Chinese influence operations – a Machiavelli moment” digs through the layers of secret and not-so-secret institutions, actions and designs used by Beijing to manipulate western opinion.
Written by Paul Cheron, an intelligence expert and Chinese specialist with credentials from Harvard and China’s most prestigeous university Qinghua, in partnership with political scientist Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, a security specialist, the report is probably the most extensive analysis of China’s propaganda machine ever published in French.
The report argues that for a long time China wanted  more to be loved than feared, she wanted to seduce, projecting a positive image of herself in the world and so arousing admiration. Recently China has increasingly shown another side.
PARUTION du rapport de l’IRSEM sur “Les opérations d’influence chinoises : un moment machiavélien” par Paul Charon et Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer. Cette somme de plus de 640 pages et 3000 notes est désormais en libre accès sur https://t.co/kJ4cuDHRi0 pic.twitter.com/hIWpNfoMbX
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“Its influence operations have hardened considerably in recent years and its methods increasingly resemble those employed by Moscow,” according to the report. Quoting Machiavelli’s The Prince, the authors say that China today thinks that “it is safer to be feared than to be loved”.
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Paul Crespo
Paul Crespo is the Managing Editor of American Defense News. A defense and national security expert, he served as a Marine Corps officer and as a military attaché with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at US embassies worldwide. Paul holds degrees from Georgetown, London, and Cambridge Universities. He is also CEO of SPECTRE Global Risk, a security advisory firm, and President of the Center for American Defense Studies, a national security think tank.
Our Main Enemy. NO ally to control the globe
So far the US/UK Empire has shown more intentions to rule the entire World than any other nation. The concept of “full spectrum dominance” is a US plan…not Chinese.
Through out history the Western nations have shown more willingness to engage in empire building than China which itself was subjected to a “century of humiliation” by the British Empire when Britain took a chunk of Chinese territory (Hong Kong). No doubt China’s military buildup is to ensure that no such thing ever happens again. If the US attempts to subdue China and impose its will on the Chinese people it is going to run into a catastrophe. China is rapidly overtaking the US in trade/commerce, it’s students do much better in school and it is building a first class military. We cannot afford a World War with China and Russia just to maintain an empire.
Complete BS. If they could, China would dominate the world with an iron fist. That’s the way communists think. They have no problem killing millions to hold absolute power. The whole world was stupid to ever get in bed with China and depend on them for manufacturing of key products like medicine. The US has enriched countries all around the globe without taking control of them.
Why do you write it’s students? You would not write hi’s or her’s?