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Will California Spend Another $900 Million in China?

Beijing’s pennies apparently buy pounds in Sacramento.
Will California Spend Another $900 Million in China?
The California Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on March 16, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Anders Corr
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A friend of mine in California recently told me about a Chinese consular official who specializes in “subnational” diplomacy. An elite California international policy nonprofit admitted him as a member. The official’s goal is likely to be to understand political and business networks in California and to find tech titans and politicians in the region who are friendly enough to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to warrant its support. The nonprofit should know better.

Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).
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