China's Influence & American Interests: Foreword

Foreword

In February 2018 twenty-three American and ten foreign academics, diplomats, journalists, and think tank members met at the Annenberg Foundation Trust’s Sunnylands estate in Southern California to launch a project to map the challenges posed by the People’s Republic of China’s growing quest—in what Beijing propagandists call a “discourse war,” huayuzhan (话语战)—to influence civic discussions in societies outside the sovereign borders of China.