Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI, and Part XII of this multi-part series discussed the first six increments of the second tier geopolitical and economic goals and objectives of the Chinese Communist Party. This part summarizes an eighth portion of those goals and objectives.
Introduction
The Chinese Communists (ChiComs) are pursuing strategic initiatives aimed at achieve world economic domination: Belt-Road Initiative (and its related “Roads”) and Made in China 2025. Parts III, IV, and V of this series summarized those initiatives. To further the objectives in those initiatives, a number of intertwined secondary goals have been set by the Chinese Communist Party that are aimed at all spheres of human economic endeavors: trade, policy, regulations, legal, technology, etc. Their ultimate objective is economic dominance because that makes possible geopolitical and military dominance, and that ultimately leads to the ChiComs’ penultimate goal: world leadership in all human endeavors.
Secondary Goals of the Spider Dragon
Parts VII – XII of this series have covered 44 secondary goals of Communist China in their quest for world domination. Several more are discussed in this part of the series. All of these goals reinforce each other, comprising a gigantic “spider’s web” of interlocking goals and objectives all working to return the Spider Dragon to the CCP-perceived rightful leadership of the world.
Achieve information dominance around the world. Information dominance in a military context means to achieve a superiority over an adversary in knowledge and understanding of the battlefield at the strategic, operational, and/or tactical levels of war. Extended to other spheres of human endeavor, e.g., economic, political, and geopolitical, the concept can be used in virtually any context to gain advantage over a competitor, as all decision-making is founded on knowledge and understanding of relevant data, including that related to competitors and adversaries. The ChiComs recognize this full well and have invested enormous resources to gain total information dominance in the international arena in order to improve decision-making related to the achieve of all of their goals and objectives. In short, this secondary objective is highly synergistic with all of the other CCP secondary objectives described in this series.
Here are some excerpts from an excellent report from the Hudson Institute on Communist China’s information dominance efforts:
[T]otal information dominance is defined as the ability of an actor to collect data and employ information and digital technology for political, economic, and military objectives with greater success than their rivals.
[T]he Chinese Communist Party (CCP) believes its survival depends on its having information, making its possession as not only an external priority. Driving foreign intelligence, diplomacy, and influence operations, information contributes to the creation of regional and global order—as well as international standards and institutions and thereby enables China to protect its interests and expand its clout.
China uses a distinctive whole-of-society approach to building a dazzling wealth of data and information. Aided by intellectual property theft, forced technology transfers, decades of education training abroad, and other forms of acquiring information, China’s industrial policy goes beyond protectionist measures like subsidies. When Military-Civil Fusion is considered, this development has far more than economic and technological ramifications.
The scale and scope of China’s information enterprise distinguishes it from other countries. Overt persuasion campaigns and covert influence operations are thoroughly researched, carefully choreographed, and uninhibited by concerns over individual or sovereign rights. Beijing goes beyond the use of information and instead seeks to achieve primacy in discourse power by weaponizing narrative in ways analogous to asymmetric military strategies.
The CCP’s information dominance efforts including aggressive espionage (both human and electronic/cyber), academic exchange programs, corruption of foreign media and foreign diplomats and politicians, relentless use of state-run media to propagate narratives favorable to the regime, and other collection and influence operations. All working in concert to feed the best available information to ChiCom decision-makers.
Foment discord in the US (China’s main rival on the world stage). As discussed in other secondary objectives, Communist China seeks to displace the United States as the world’s superpower and dominant economy in every way, including by supplanting the US-built international system with “Chinese methods” and conventions. Fomenting discord and division in the United States has been an ongoing ChiCom objective for decades, as reported here and here. Pitting Americans against each other, exploiting economic disparities and “unfairness,” and promoting cultural Marxism throughout American society have been continuing prongs in the ChiCom attack on America.
Perhaps their greatest success has been the Black Lives Movement, which was founded by three self-proclaimed Marxist women and has been supported by the Chinese Progressive Association, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and other pro-Chinese Communist organizations, as noted here, here, here, here, and here. Here is just one excerpt from those linked articles that explains the history of BLM and its Marxist and anti-American roots:
Black Lives Matter began in 2013 with a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, called a “white Hispanic” in the press, was acquitted in the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin. Radical-left activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi claim credit for the slogan and hashtag. Following the Michael Brown shooting in August 2014, Dream Defenders, an organization co-founded by (the ACORN-affiliated) Working Families Party activist and Occupy Wall Street organizer Nelini Stamp, popularized the phrase “Hands Up – Don’t Shoot!” which has since become BLM’s widely recognized slogan. Not surprisingly, former Communist Party USA vice presidential candidate Angela Davis sits on the Dream Defenders advisory board.
Garza, Cullors, and Tometi all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, one of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. Stamp’s ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names after its official 2010 bankruptcy—works with all four organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), ACLU, and Southern Poverty Law Center, among others.
The Freedom Road Socialist Organization is a hereditary descendant of the New Communist Movement inspired by Chinese dictator Mao Zedong and the many communist revolutions occurring throughout the world in the 1960s and ’70s. Freedom Road split into two separate groups in 1999, FRSO/Fight Back and FRSO/OSCL (Freedom Road Socialist Organization/Organización Socialista del Camino Para la Libertad). Black Lives Matter and its founders are allied with the latter.
How many Americans know about those connections to the ChiComs? Very few, thanks to the BLM cheerleaders in the legacy media!
BLM activities aimed at dividing America are also supported by a massive ChiCom propaganda campaign through the co-opted Western legacy media and also social media, as reported here:
While the CCP conducts whole-sale racist genocide against its ethnic and religious minorities, Beijing denounces America’s so-called “systemic racism” using those same tools. The government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s spokesperson, Hua Chunying, on more than one occasion led her anti-American Twitter tweets with “I can’t breathe” in the aftermath of the tragic death of George Floyd.
The scale of this effort is hard to fathom. In 2020 alone, Twitter—a social media platform banned inside China, along with all other western social media apps—was forced to shut down close to 200,000 accounts linked to the CCP’s state-sponsored disinformation campaign.
The ChiCom investment in sowing discord, division, hate, and discontent in the US is paying off bigly! Race relations have continued to decline, and Americans are aghast at the over $2 billion in damage to businesses and other property instigated by BLM street thugs in 2020.
Build the infrastructure of a ChiCom world empire through property acquisition overseas. The ChiComs have been making strategic investments in overseas property for years for a variety of purposes, including providing security for the Belt-Road investments, constructing bases for PLA/PLA-N forces, acquiring natural resources for future exploitation, and intimidating and pressuring other nations to accommodate Chinese interests. All of those acquisitions over time will form the core infrastructure and network for a ChiCom “world empire,” for all practical purposes. As reported here:
Chinese companies scooping up land overseas… Chinese companies acquired 6.48 million hectares (16.01 million acres) of land overseas between 2011 and 2020, Nikkei Asia says, citing a new report released by Land Matrix. Chinese purchases dwarfed the 1.56 million hectares (3.85 million acres) bought by the United Kingdom (the next largest buyer of overseas land during that time).
But that is not all. The ChiComs have designs on acquiring military bases in strategic locations around the world:
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is already making serious headway securing new bases in Cambodia, Tanzania, and the United Arab Emirates, among other locales.
China’s basing pursuits—whether in the Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, or the Arctic—aren’t truly at the core of the China challenge, nor does the United States’ success hinge on altering China’s intentions. Instead, the key variable in undermining China’s grand strategy lies in influencing host governments—and reducing their receptivity to Beijing’s basing overtures.
Controlling commercial ports overseas is a bedrock objective of the Belt-Road Initiative. One good example is Gwadar, Pakistan. But ChiCom designs extend far beyond South Asia. General Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, recently stated that Communist China has designs on a naval base in the Atlantic, too, possibly in the Azores. He stated that they are “looking for a place where they can rearm and repair warships.”
And those ChiCom designs extend to the continental United States as well, as noted here:
[A] former Chinese general with alleged ties to Chinese concentration camps recently bought an airstrip in Texas. And this isn’t just some random ranch in the middle of nowhere. It is 200 square miles (130,000 acres) of land between one of the most active Air Force bases in the U.S. and the border of Mexico.
What might their objective be? Surveillance and monitoring of an important US air force base through the use of drones and other technology? Or is this something else? Regardless, this is just the latest example of ChiCom “property acquisition” – this time on our own shores – along with the 18,400 other properties purchased by the Chinese in the US between 2010 and 2020.
Implement the dual circulation model. In May 2020, Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a “dual circulation” model for the future development of the Chinese economy, later reinforced by Premier Li Keqiang during the 2021 National People’s Congress in March 2021. The objective is to make the Chinese economy less dependent of foreign advanced technologies and supply chains. Chinese companies would become independent of “foreign know-how” while creating domestically-produced Chinese products that would be in demand around the world:
- Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country would rely mainly on “internal circulation” – the domestic cycle of production, distribution, and consumption – for its development.
- This will be supported by “external circulation”.
That latter involves a globalization of China’s home-grown companies by influencing and subsidizing their acceptance and demand for products and services through geopolitical pressures and other means. The presumption is that Chinese companies can replace foreign high-tech components presently in wide use with domestic alternatives which would then enable those companies to aggressively compete in foreign markets.
How will the ChiComs “leap ahead” in the high technology race? Here is an excerpt describing their plan for implementing the dual circulation model:
[Communist China] plans to build a framework to ensure that foreign companies, lured by the financial reward of gaining or maintaining access to the Chinese market, will promote Chinese standards and political priorities on a global scale. Threatened by consumer boycotts and arbitrary enforcement of administrative regulations, few companies will dare take sides on issues that Beijing deems sensitive.
This should ignite a chain reaction: the internal market is tapped, first by accelerating urbanization, then by rebalancing labor, and then again by directing flows of capital to leap forward in producing top-end products and technologies. According to the plan, this should create enough momentum for Chinese exports to dominate, allowing Beijing to steer global trade.
But from where will the replacement for foreign technology come for their domestic industries? Why, from foreigners, of course, through clandestine means. The dual circulation model is where the rubber hits the road in terms of an acceleration of intellectual property theft through joint ventures with foreign companies, joint university research programs with foreign scientist in China and abroad, and also directly through continuing economic espionage.
Conclusion. The Spider Dragon has a lengthy list of interlocking second tier goals of which many Americans (and others) may suspect but are generally unaware. These various goals as summarized in this series are being pursued in parallel in order to achieve the objectives the ChiComs have publicly announced to the world in the Belt-Road Initiative and Made in China 2025 initiative, as well as at the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party held every five years. They grandly announce what they will do, and then do it. The US and the world need to pay attention!
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