Ian Duncan Smith: Too many policymakers convinced themselves that commercial integration would inevitably lead to political convergence. Instead, Beijing saw in our good faith an opportunity to deepen their infiltration of our institutions, manipulate our public square, and weaponise our open society against us. For totalitarian regimes, our freedoms are an existential challenge to their authority and a weakness to exploit.
The potential secret funding of pro-Palestine demonstrations reflects a deliberate, methodical execution of a military doctrine that the Chinese state published a quarter of a century ago…