Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2020
Abstract
China under Xi Jinping has become increasingly powerful and aggressive. What was a government largely focused on defending its own one-party system and assuring the world of its peaceful intent has become a dangerous regime determined to undermine the chief alternative: liberal democracy.
Beijing is now "waging a sophisticated and sustained campaign of political warfare against democratic nations, both large and small." With an array of overt and covert tactics, the Chinese Communist Party is attacking the perceived weak points of democratic countries by buying influence, sowing disunity, leveraging its economic might, and infiltrating political parties, the media, and civic institutions