…no loyal ally would ever run … domestic influence campaigns to manipulate public sentiment in their favor….while our adversaries are using those very same tools to destabilize us.
China’s approach to warfare extends far beyond traditional battlefields. Through calculated cultural infiltration, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aims to reshape the ideological and social landscape of the West, not with bombs or bullets, but through ideas, influence, and psychological subversion. By embedding itself in educational institutions, co-opting media channels, and fueling social movements, China methodically undermines the foundational values of our republic, eroding unity, weakening trust, and stoking division from within.
But China isn’t the only foreign actor leveraging our freedoms against us. Israel claims to be our ally, but no loyal ally would ever run psychological operations or pay for domestic influence campaigns to manipulate public sentiment in their favor, especially while our adversaries are using those very same tactics to destabilize us and when their actions aid the destabilization. China, Israel, and other nations are exploiting America’s open society to advance their geopolitical agenda at the cost of our cohesion, and they must be held accountable. Cultural warfare is not just a Chinese strategy—it’s become a global contest, and we are the battlefield.
Destabilization from within is the most efficient kind of war—silent, systematic, and surgical. When culture becomes the battlefield and confusion becomes the weapon, a nation does not fall with a bang, but dissolves in plain sight. This wasn’t spontaneous decay—it was planned demolition. — Tore Maras
For over a decade, I’ve warned that what we now call DEI isn’t simply a social policy—it’s a Trojan horse. China didn’t just hijack our language around equality and access; they cultivated DEI as a soft-power extension of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Why? Because the ADA provided the perfect legal and cultural framework to embed long-term structural influence. DEI didn’t spring out of corporate compassion—it was incubated in academia, quietly normalized in public education, and then scaled into industries and eventually the U.S. government and military.
I’ve recorded companies on camera boasting that they’ve been building this architecture inside China for over 30 years under the pretext of ADA programs. One executive even named Apple as a collaborator. This wasn’t about accessibility. It was about infiltration. They were building the interface of control while we applauded the interface of inclusion. What began as accommodation has been twisted into ideological engineering, funded by foreign influence and executed by useful idiots in high places. That’s the play. That’s the invasion. And it happened without a single shot fired.
They didn’t need to fire a shot to fracture us. While fentanyl poisons our bodies, cultural warfare poisons the mind—and China has mastered it. With calculated precision, Beijing exploits the West’s openness, repurposing our own freedoms to embed narratives that weaken identity, erode national confidence, and dismantle cohesion from within. This isn’t just about propaganda—it’s psychological conditioning. From TikTok’s viral moral nihilism to Confucius Institutes wrapped in diplomacy, China’s strategy is to infiltrate the fabric of thought, normalize division, and frame Western civilization as obsolete. It’s warfare that doesn’t look like war, but its casualties are just as real: fractured generations, confused identities, and a nation at war with itself before it ever sees the enemy.
Educational Infiltration
China’s infiltration into the U.S. educational system, particularly through the establishment of Confucius Classrooms in K-12 public schools, represents a strategic effort to project soft power and influence American perceptions from an early age. These programs, presented as cultural and language exchange initiatives, have been implemented in numerous school districts across the United States. While they offer Mandarin language instruction and insights into Chinese culture, concerns have been raised about the potential for these classrooms to serve as conduits for Chinese government propaganda.
China’s infiltration into U.S. K-12 education extends beyond Confucius Classrooms, encompassing a network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), foreign-owned educational services, and subtle influences within teachers’ unions. These avenues have facilitated the dissemination of narratives aligned with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) interests, often under the guise of cultural exchange or educational enhancement.
One significant channel has been the involvement of NGOs and foreign-owned tutoring services in American schools. For instance, a report from the Texas House highlighted concerns about Hong Kong-based ownership of prominent tutoring services, such as The Princeton Review and Tutor.com, which have established a presence in K-12 education across the state. Lawmakers expressed concern that such foreign involvement could introduce potential pathways for undue influence, data exploitation, and long-term ideological manipulation within the education system.
China’s infiltration into American higher education has been both strategic and multifaceted, leveraging financial contributions to influence academic discourse and institutional priorities. A significant aspect of this strategy involves substantial, often undisclosed, donations to universities, which have raised concerns about foreign influence on campus policies and research agendas. For instance, Ohio State University (OSU) has come under scrutiny for accepting approximately $15.8 million from Chinese sources since 2013. This influx of funds coincided with OSU’s substantial investment in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, where the university reportedly spent $13.3 million on 201 DEI-related employees in a single year. Such financial entanglements have prompted questions about the potential for foreign donors to steer academic priorities and suppress dissenting viewpoints.
Beyond OSU, other prestigious institutions have also received significant Chinese funding. The University of California, Berkeley, for example, accepted $87.5 million from China since 2013, along with additional funds from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Similarly, Georgia Tech has received $162.8 million from foreign sources, with at least $32.3 million originating from China. These substantial donations have raised alarms about the potential for foreign influence on academic research, programs, and national security.
Media and Entertainment
China’s influence over American media and entertainment has been a calculated, decades-long campaign of soft power—one that now extends to the highest levels of U.S. political leadership. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has leveraged its economic clout to shape narratives, censor dissent, and embed its ideology into the cultural bloodstream of the West. This manipulation is most evident in Hollywood, where studios alter content to appease Beijing, and in the music industry, where artists are promoted or sidelined based on their alignment with CCP interests. The recent affiliations of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris with the Creative Artists Agency (CAA China)—a firm with significant ties to China—underscore the depth of this entanglement. That contract, signed in 2017, was discovered on Hunter Biden’s Laptop.
Hollywood’s relationship with China has evolved into a symbiotic yet precarious partnership. To access China’s lucrative market, American studios often submit to stringent censorship demands. Films are edited to remove content deemed unfavorable by Chinese authorities, such as references to Taiwan’s independence or critiques of the CCP. This self-censorship extends beyond theatrical releases, influencing the development of scripts, character portrayals, and even casting decisions. The result is a global narrative landscape increasingly sanitized to align with Beijing’s preferences.
The music industry is not immune to this influence. Chinese investments in global music platforms and partnerships with Western artists have created opportunities for the CCP to promote performers who portray China in a positive light while marginalizing those who are critical of its policies. This strategic promotion shapes public perception, subtly aligning global audiences with China’s geopolitical narratives.
The entanglement deepens with the involvement of political figures. In February 2025, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris re-signed contracts with CAA, a talent agency known for representing high-profile clients in entertainment and politics. CAA’s connections to China have raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest and the influence of foreign entities on American political figures. The agency’s role in shaping the post-office careers of Biden and Harris—including securing speaking engagements and publishing deals—highlights the blurred lines between politics, entertainment, and foreign influence.
This convergence of political power and entertainment, under the shadow of foreign influence, poses significant challenges to the integrity of American cultural and political institutions. As China continues to expand its soft power reach, the need for transparency and vigilance in safeguarding national interests becomes increasingly urgent.
Social Movements and Civil Unrest
In recent years, civil unrest in the United States has been more than just the organic expression of political frustration—it has become a battlefield for foreign adversaries seeking to manipulate domestic narratives and destabilize American society from within. China, in particular, has honed its strategy of asymmetric warfare by leveraging soft power and covert influence operations through social movements and cultural flashpoints. This is where I must raise a serious concern: Israel’s actions appear to align strategically with China’s broader objectives, suggesting more than mere coincidence, perhaps even deliberate collaboration that I will explain.
One avenue through which this influence manifests is the financial backing of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). While direct funding from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to activist groups is often concealed behind layers of intermediary organizations and shell entities, investigative reports and financial audits have highlighted suspicious donations flowing through foreign-tied NGOs into U.S. protest movements. For example, during the height of civil unrest in 2020, cybersecurity analysts identified anomalous digital fundraising patterns and donations from overseas accounts associated with Chinese IP ranges. Though not definitively attributed to the Chinese government, the pattern aligned with known CCP tradecraft—proxy actors creating chaos under the guise of domestic activism.
Equally concerning is the information warfare waged through digital platforms. TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, serves as a trojan horse in America’s cultural bloodstream. With its content algorithm controlled by servers subject to Chinese law, TikTok has been instrumental in subtly shaping discourse—promoting divisive narratives, suppressing pro-American content, and amplifying radical ideologies. Young users, in particular, have been inundated with curated content pushing themes of systemic oppression, anti-law enforcement sentiment, and historical revisionism—often without realizing the geopolitical subtext behind what seems like spontaneous viral media.
The influence extends beyond just the social media feed. Disinformation campaigns originating from Chinese bot networks on Twitter (X), Facebook, and YouTube have been well-documented. These campaigns often mirror Russia’s earlier tactics during the 2016 election cycle. Yet, China’s approach is more refined, focusing on inflaming racial divisions, encouraging civil disobedience, and eroding trust in institutions, including elections, policing, and the judicial system.
Covert Sponsorship and Influence via Social Media
Influencers as Agents: The Social Media Psywar
Over the past decade, China has employed increasingly sophisticated soft power operations on Western social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. One key vector of influence involves indirectly funding or influencing social media influencers, particularly those targeting younger, more impressionable demographics. These influencers are often approached by intermediary companies—allegedly based in Europe or the U.S.—that market themselves as health, lifestyle, or wellness brands. In reality, many of these entities are linked through ownership or financing to Chinese conglomerates or shell corporations with ties to state-backed ventures.
This form of digital influence has two main goals: to shape narratives favorable to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to erode social cohesion in the United States. A 2021 report by Recorded Future and Graphika highlighted that Chinese influence campaigns had shifted from purely state media to more insidious tactics, including leveraging Western influencers to echo or normalize Beijing’s talking points without those influencers necessarily knowing the origin of their sponsors. Many influencers, eager for monetization, unknowingly become conduits for disinformation or ideological grooming.
TikTok, owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company, is one of the clearest examples of a platform structurally vulnerable to this type of manipulation. Influencers on TikTok have been documented spreading anti-American rhetoric, glamorizing Chinese culture or technology without disclosing sponsorships, or participating in challenges and trends seeded by coordinated campaigns. In 2020, TikTok’s algorithm was found to be suppressing content that referenced Tiananmen Square or supported protests in Hong Kong. While this was widely reported, what went under the radar was the role of “health brand” sponsorships that funneled money to creators who promoted content aligning with “stability-first” narratives—a concept central to CCP ideology.
More disturbingly, some of these health or tech firms—ostensibly unrelated to politics—are ventures backed by China’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) or by firms linked to Chinese provincial governments, such as Zhejiang or Guangdong. These fronts use corporate veils to fund campaigns promoting “unity,” “anti-racism,” and “climate justice” themes, which, while noble-sounding, are subtly leveraged to drive wedges in U.S. political and cultural discourse.
The lack of transparency in advertising partnerships on social media only deepens the challenge. Without clear disclosures of funding sources, Chinese entities masquerade as progressive brands, insert themselves into national debates, and even direct American influencers to unwittingly criticize their government while avoiding scrutiny of China’s human rights abuses or military expansions.
As of now, Congressional investigations into social media disinformation campaigns have begun to explore this space, but concrete public-facing conclusions remain limited. However, given the CCP’s well-documented use of “borrowed boats to sail across the sea” (a term used to describe leveraging foreign voices for domestic propaganda), this form of influence via health and wellness fronts on social platforms should not be underestimated.
TAG TEAM-Prominent Examples
Pivoting for a moment to provide clarity of the SCALE of damage this weapon can do. The Israeli government, through its Ministry of Foreign Affairs and affiliated groups, has funded programs designed to recruit and support influencers to post pro-Israel content. In many documented instances, these influencers—some of whom are American or European citizens—receive talking points, media kits, or even financial support to counter criticisms of Israel’s policies in Gaza, the West Bank, or its overall treatment of Palestinians. According to a 2020 exposé by The Guardian, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs openly collaborated with non-governmental organizations to produce digital content and amplify it through seemingly independent accounts. These tactics blur the lines between genuine public opinion and state-crafted messaging.
In the aftermath of conflicts like the 2021 Gaza war or the October 2023 escalation, there was a measurable surge in coordinated online campaigns pushing pro-IDF and anti-Palestinian narratives. Bot networks and blue-check influencers alike flooded platforms with content aimed at controlling the framing of these events, often accusing critics of anti-Semitism or downplaying civilian casualties in Palestinian territories. U.S.-based protests, especially on university campuses, were met with counter-messaging fueled by these campaigns, which often escalated tensions and contributed to divisiveness.
Israel Intersects with China
While Israel and China may appear to operate from different ideological paradigms, their technological and strategic partnerships have grown substantially. China’s investments in Israeli infrastructure, particularly in Haifa Port (until 2021, when U.S. pressure led to a reevaluation), AI startups, and the telecom sector have been well-documented. At the same time, both nations share a deep interest in controlling narratives through digital platforms and shaping Western public discourse via indirect means.
There’s no public proof that China and Israel are jointly conducting influence operations—yet their converging goals make such collaboration plausible. Both nations benefit from weakening U.S. public cohesion: China by sowing ideological confusion and decay, and Israel by shielding its actions from global scrutiny while leveraging America’s fractured political environment.
Influencer warfare becomes a potent and dangerous tool. Whether pushing fentanyl disinformation or polarizing geopolitical debates, foreign nations are increasingly treating the American mind as the battlefield. The civil unrest fueled by such tactics isn’t just cultural noise—it’s a consequence of hybrid warfare, and those behind it understand precisely what they’re doing.
Industrial Espionage and Academic Influence
Universities for Rent: Espionage Masquerading as Academia
China’s strategy of industrial and academic espionage in the United States has been persistent, aggressive, and deliberately masked behind the facade of scholarly exchange and cooperation. Over the past two decades, Chinese nationals embedded in U.S. educational institutions have played a pivotal role in the covert transfer of critical intellectual property and sensitive research findings, particularly those tied to defense, AI, biotech, and energy systems. These thefts don’t just compromise academic integrity—they directly fuel the People’s Liberation Army and China’s commercial technological dominance. In 2020, for instance, the Department of Justice indicted multiple individuals linked to China’s Thousand Talents Program—a state-run recruitment initiative aimed at siphoning expertise and proprietary data from U.S. laboratories. One high-profile case involved Dr. Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard’s Chemistry Department, who was found to have concealed his financial relationship with Wuhan University of Technology while receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
The threat doesn’t end in the lab. China’s influence strategy includes infiltrating decision-making structures within academic institutions themselves. By securing board memberships and research collaborations, Chinese-linked individuals and proxies position themselves to steer policy, block research critical of the CCP, and divert institutional focus toward more cooperative—read: compromised—academic endeavors. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy have both raised red flags about Chinese influence over grant decisions and research direction at partner institutions. These strategic placements aren’t accidental. They’re part of a larger information control and acquisition campaign, where every faculty board seat, every research grant, and every collaborative lab becomes a node in China’s soft-power matrix.
We are not dealing with random academic misconduct. This is coordinated state-sponsored espionage disguised as a global educational exchange. It undermines national security, corrupts academic independence, and weakens America’s innovative edge. Universities, once the frontiers of free thought and discovery, are being transformed into data-harvesting outposts for foreign powers. It’s time to confront this infiltration not as an academic scandal, but as an act of hybrid warfare.
Final Thoughts: We Are the Battlefield
China’s cultural warfare strategy is not a side act to its military and economic expansion—it is the quiet front line. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has deployed a multipronged campaign aimed at systematically weakening Western societies from within, exploiting democratic openness as a vulnerability rather than a virtue. Through well-documented infiltration of the American educational system—beginning with programs like Confucius Classrooms and extending into higher education via billions in undisclosed donations—China has inserted itself into the moral and ideological formation of future generations. Universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Ohio State have accepted massive foreign gifts, many of which went unreported until federal investigations exposed them. These funds were not mere philanthropic gestures. They were tools of influence—geopolitical investments meant to shape curricula, suppress criticism of the CCP, and reward compliance through lucrative academic partnerships.
This effort extends into the media and entertainment industries, where China uses economic leverage to sanitize Hollywood films, censor critical narratives, and export a CCP-friendly worldview under the guise of global content. Major studios like Disney and Universal Pictures have altered films, removed Tibetan or Taiwanese symbols, and rewritten scripts to gain access to China’s market, effectively outsourcing editorial control to Beijing. Meanwhile, platforms like TikTok—controlled by China-based ByteDance—target Western youth with algorithmically tailored content that amplifies social division, fuels anti-American sentiment, and deliberately misinforms during politically sensitive moments. This is not passive propaganda—it is interactive, real-time psychological warfare.
At the street level, this subversion manifests through covert funding of NGOs and grassroots movements that incite civil unrest and destabilize the cultural consensus. Whether it’s material support for identity-driven protests or digital manipulation of social media narratives, these tactics are designed to fracture national unity and exhaust the public’s emotional bandwidth. Every protest that turns violent, every polarized debate, and every institutional crisis provides Beijing with the cover it needs to advance its interests globally. At the same time, America debates the use of pronouns, while China seizes ports in Sri Lanka, consolidates its control in the South China Sea, and reconfigures the Belt and Road Initiative to extend its influence through Africa and Latin America.
This is precisely why any foreign nation—particularly Israel—must not be exempt from complete transparency and hard scrutiny. Israel is openly funding and promoting divisive rhetoric within the United States to secure its position on the global stage, even as this adds fuel to the disruption and psychological fragmentation of our society. The American mind is not another nation’s battlefield unless that nation considers itself at war with us. No true ally would ever run psychological operations or pay for domestic influence campaigns to manipulate public sentiment in their favor, especially at a time when our enemies are deploying those very same tactics to destabilize us from within. Suppose a so-called partner is knowingly compounding the effects of foreign disinformation and civil unrest for their geopolitical advantage. In that case, they are not a friend—they are an opportunist accelerating our decline.
This is a war. A war for your mind and any nation that aids our enemies should be treated as an enemy. I said DEI is a CHINESE WEAPON, and I STAND BY THAT.
We are not only in a war for territory but for truth, for cohesion, and for sovereignty itself. Cultural subversion is the battlefield we ignored for too long, and now it is the ground on which our enemies advance. The only path forward is one of full declassification, absolute transparency, and relentless accountability—no matter the ally, no matter the flag.
The question isn’t whether we’re under attack—it’s whether we still recognize what warfare looks like. Cultural sabotage was only the beginning. What comes next is more insidious and less visible: the algorithmic war for reality itself. In Part III, we will uncover how artificial intelligence—particularly the classified MIMIC systems—has become the new theater of operations. These aren’t just tools of prediction or convenience; they are instruments of control, training themselves on our behavior, feeding on our psychology, and gradually erasing our ability to discern what is real, what is planted, and what is weaponized.
They seized the gates with ports. They poisoned the mind with culture. Part I revealed how China’s strategy began with physical infrastructure—controlling ports, trade routes, and global logistics under the guise of economic cooperation. Part II exposes how they infiltrated the psyche—weaponizing education, media, and identity to fracture the American soul from within. But what comes next is not merely influence—it is command. If culture was the Trojan horse, then AI is the remote detonation. Part III unveils the final mechanism: MIMIC—the machine behind the curtain. Prepare to be introduced to the intelligence designed to finish what soft power began.
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