(Oxford University Press) The good news is that the bullying overreach of China's Xi Jinping might be backfiring. According to Joshua Kurlantzick's study, Xi's aim to displace the U.S. as the leading global power has been driven not only by massive overseas investments (with heavy strings attached) but through sophisticated social media campaigns and concerted efforts to influence legacy media. The enormous project projects China's power overseas while exporting its model of state-run capitalism governed by a surveillance state.

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