The Strategy Behind the CCP’s Global Spending Influence Operations

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping (front C), South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (front 3-L), Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (front L), Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (2nd row L), Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé (2nd row C), Malawi's President Arthur Peter Mutharika (2nd row R), Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio (last row L), Liberian President George Weah (last row C) and other African leaders applaud during a group photo session during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 2018 Beijing Summit on Sept. 3, 2018. How Hwee Young /Pool/Getty Images

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On May 28, President Joe Biden made a shocking note in his remarks to U.S. service members at a Virginia military base, “We’re in a battle between democracies and autocracies.” He also said that Chinese leader Xi Jinping once told him that he “firmly believes that China, before the year [20]30, ’35, is going to own America.”