Long reach of Beijing now extends across democratic world

Bitter Winter: The U.S. Congressional‑Executive Commission on China has released a report that offers a sobering and comprehensive examination of the PRC’s expanding global tactics of repression and influence that reach far beyond its borders. It is a document that traces a pattern of pressure, fear, and manipulation that affects activists, diaspora communities, cultural institutions, and democratic systems. The report states that these operations pose profound challenges to human rights, sovereignty, and the stability of democracies around the world…