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Communist China’s Calculated Lies and Calculated Buys

Communist China’s Calculated Lies and Calculated Buys
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Austin Bay
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China knows how to curry below-the-radar favor with international political figures, bureaucrats, and opinion leaders, then, when a problem develops threatening Chinese Communist Party interests, use covert influence to stifle criticism or delay a response.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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