Commentary
The Chinese general and military theorist Sun Tzu is known for a lot of short phrases on strategy, including: “To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”
This is what the People’s Republic of China seems to be doing to the West with its latest move on social media platforms. It has “made available” a dozen or so writers on Substack, with collectively 50,000 subscribers so far, who provide “interpretations of Chinese government decisions, translations of speeches and analysis for an elite audience—namely, Western diplomats, scholars and journalists,” according to The Economist. Not surprisingly, not all contributors avow their ties to the PRC regime….