Q&A: A look at China's pervasive attempts to exert its influence around the world
by Jessica Meyers, Los Angeles Times
Jan 04, 2018
4 minutes
BEIJING - A foreign government accused of infiltrating schools, the legislature and the media, using its agents to monitor students and influence politicians.
It looked like a campaign of espionage and interference that a top intelligence official warned could "cause serious harm to the nation's sovereignty, the integrity of our political system, our national security capabilities, our economy and other interests."
Forget, for a moment anyway, Russia meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential race. This was China meddling in Australia.
The reports last year suggested that the Communist Party was taking extreme measures to extend
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