CCP Increasingly Relies on Economic Coercion to Get What It Wants, Silence Opposition, Experts Say

Demonstrators attend a rally in support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement at Union Square Park in Manhattan on June 12, 2021, in New York City. Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) increasingly relies on a range of economic tactics to silence opposition, persecute ethnic and religious minorities, and bully, coerce, and manipulate foreign powers,  panelists said at a Dec. 7 hearing of the Congressional-Executive Committee on China.

Although such behavior on the part of the CCP isn’t a new phenomenon, it has grown increasingly blatant and targeted in recent years, the panelists said.