How "Democratic Security" can Protect Europe from a Rising China

Abstract

The Communist Party of China (CPC) plans for China to achieve effective global dominance by 2049. It is using the major global crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to secure strategic advantage through propaganda and disinformation, assertive, sometimes aggressive diplomacy, pursuing targeted investments, and offering "health cooperation." The CPC has long targeted European business and polit-ical elites to build constituencies of support. Europe must counter by building robust societies based on core democratic value.