It’s hard to imagine that any country could be so foolish as to allow a dangerous adversary to set up a massive propaganda apparatus within its borders that openly works to seduce its citizens, undermine its institutions, and weaken it into subservience.
Only you don’t have to imagine, because that would be the foolish country that you are living in.
Over the past few decades, our Washington “elites” have allowed China, the self-declared enemy of the United States, to build a vast network of front groups, Confucius Institutes, and media outlets across the country. More recently, TikTok and other social media have been added to the mix.
Beijing’s goal, namely, “China wins, America loses,” has never changed.
Following the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1979, China set creating pro-CCP organizations and subverting existing ones to advance its interests.
By 1998 there were already an estimated eight thousand such front groups in operation, according to the Cox Commission. The number is surely many times larger today.