As I read this propaganda piece I could not help thinking that this is a validation of US political warfare during the Cold War.  China and the CCP are deathly afraid of these organizations and capabilities and they do not want them to be restored to the US national security toolbox.

But if ever there was justification to bring back VOA, RFA, etc and USAID and all the foreign policy tools that served the US well during the Cold War and beyond, the Chinese are making the case for us.  The Chinese and the CCP are pleased with the cuts to American national security and foreign policy organizations and they are so afraid of them that they will continue to work to discredit them because in reality they are deathly afraid of them.  We should take note.

The 36 page report can be downloaded HERE (I downloaded it from the Chinese web site so you would not have to go there).

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JL1Y_tjpcO5ZBVte6ODPl4-H_X_zVsS5/view?usp=sharing

The forward of the report says it all.

Foreword 

The war on ideology is one without smoke. 

In early 2025, after the Trump administration’s announcement to dismantle the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and dissolve the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), these agencies’ longstanding activities of exporting ideology, promoting ideological infiltration, manipulating international opinions, shaping foreign nations’ perceptions, and even conspiring to subvert sovereign governments were exposed one after another. These revelations provoked a widespread international outcry. 

This “washing of dirty linens” revealed to the world only the tip of the iceberg of the United States’ global ideological warfare. The relentlessness with which the United States pursued activities to colonize the mind for nearly a century was once again thrust into the spotlight. 

Since World War II, particularly after the end of the ColdWar, by leveraging its global supremacy in political, economic, military, and technological might, the United States has been exporting its ideology worldwide in an attempt to capture the minds of nations with American values, reshape peoples’ conceptions, and create philosophical dependence on an American-centric worldview. 

Colonization of the mind constitutes a cornerstone of U.S. foreign strategy. As noted by renowned American scholar Joseph Nye, “The critical question for the United States is not whether it will start the next century as the superpower with the largest supply of resources, but to what extent it will be able to control the political environment and get other countries to do what it wants.” Former Presidential National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski stated even more bluntly: Reinforcing American culture’s position as the ‘exemplar’ for all nations is an indispensable strategy for maintaining U.S. hegemony. 

The U.S. campaign for mind colonization poses a serious threat to global peace and development. It erodes ideological sovereignty and subverts foreign governments; it embeds cognitive wedges and incites geopolitical conflicts; it destroys philosophical independence and helps groom pro-American factions; it imposes Western development paths and undermines autonomous progress. With the development and upgrading of new technologies like artificial intelligence, the U.S. attempts to colonize the mind operate more covertly and have more extensive targets, thus the greater need for attention and vigilance of all peace-loving people. 

Today, with the accelerated awakening of the Global South and U.S. hegemony moving toward decline, the world is seeing more clearly the selfishness, hypocrisy, and double standards concealed behind the U.S.-fabricated value system. Various changes show clearly that the foundation of the carefully constructed U.S. edifice of mind colonization has started shaking At this critical juncture, a systematic examination of the history, practices, and perils of the United States’ colonization of the mind helps shake off the blind belief in U.S. ideology, break its mental shackles, and empower other nations to better safeguard their cultural sovereignty and advance mutual learning among global civilizations.

Think tank report exposes U.S. mind colonization

https://english.news.cn/20250907/52998b0f27704866af2a66f5df6577dd/c.html

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2025-09-07 21:08:30