2017, that representatives of local Chinese community associations based in the United States, Australia, the Philippines, and Europe had gathered in Fujian and received letters of appointment from local provincial and city United Front agencies in China to serve officially as “overseas propaganda agents”

d reform, especially its burgeoning blue-water navy with multiple aircraft carriers? August: China hosted the BRICS Sum- mit in Xiamen, East China’s Fujian prov- ince. The five BRICS countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — have increasing influence on global econo- my and politics, bu