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as maintaining good relations with Taiwan, interacting with the Tibetan government in exile, and expressing support for human rights. When President Donald Trump assumed office in 2017 and actively began courting Chinese President Xi Jinping, first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beijing summit, Congress took a

t the House Congressional China Caucus and the Senate China Working Group were inactive. Most recently, the 115th Congress has actively embraced the Trump administration’s view that China has benefited more from the bilateral relationship than has the United States. In fact, amidst all the partisan warf

GEN. KARL EIKENBERRY (RET.) Stanford University DONALD EMMERSON Stanford University FRANCIS FUKUYAMA St

al plea from the Chinese president. Nevertheless, President Trump’s dominance in the Republican Party means that fe

Friendship with Foreign Countries. These organizations and others are bolstered by various state agencies such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, which in March 2018 was merged into the United Front Work Department, reflecting that department’s increasing power. Introduct

sing.fcc.gov /myibfs/download.do?attachment_key=1487042. 17 Eller, Donnelle, “China-backed newspaper insert tries to undermine lowa farm support for Trump, trade war.” September 24, 2018. https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/agriculture/2018/09/24/china -daily-watch-advertisement-tries-sway-iow

ystem is lobbying. For example, within one day of President Trump tweeting his openness to a settlement with ZTE Co

hile a workshop in 2010 concerned China’s policies in Tibet and Xinjiang. At the thirteenth Seminar in 2015, He Yafei, then the assistant director of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, argued that overseas Chinese media needed to promote the Belt and Road Initiative and essentially embrace the role of becoming a mouthpiece of the C

ity’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Donald Emmerson is Director of the Southeast Asia Progra

) 696K (E) 23.5K (E) N/A PRC-Funded and PRC-Controlled Media Outlets The Chinese Communist Party liaises with Chinese-language media mainly through the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (or Qiao Ban {*7). The Qiao Ban holds an annual conference on Chinese-language media called the World Chinese Media Forum. These