CCP Threat in the Digital Space

CCP digital authoritarianism seeks to control the global information environment.

Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at their office in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

The U.S. State Department on Sept. 28 released the “Global Engagement Center Special Report: How the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Seeks to Reshape the Global Information Environment,” which claims that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has invested billions of dollars in a strategic campaign of disinformation around the world that’s designed to manipulate the global information space.