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 System, staff report, 116$th$ Congress, 1$st$ Session, February 22, 2019, https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/PSI%20Report%20China’s%20Impact%20on%20the%20US%20Education%20System.pdf.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo, “U.S. States and the China Competition.” Secretary Pompeo’s speech noted a Beijing think-tank published a report in June 2019 that assessed all 50 of America’s governors on their attitudes towards China, and, to refine its influence efforts, labeled each governor as “friendly,” “hardline,” or “ambiguous.” See 美国对华态度全景 - 州长篇 [Panoramic View of the U.S. Attitudes towards China – Governors], Minzhi International Research Institute, June 22, 2019, https://user.guancha.cn/main/content?id=132238. Minzhi’s website is at http://dcthink.cn/.

Secretary Pompeo also mentioned the PRC’s Consul General in New York, who sent a letter in January 2020, to the speaker of a state legislature urging state lawmakers not to exercise their rights to freedom of speech: “As we all know, Taiwan is part of China… avoid engaging in any official contact with Taiwan, including sending congratulatory messages to the elected, introducing bills and proclamations for the election, sending officials and representatives to attend the inauguration ceremony, and inviting officials in Taiwan to visit the United States.”

Secretary Pompeo cited a third example from August 2019, when a Chinese diplomat in the consul’s office in Houston sent a letter to then-Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant threatening to cancel a Chinese investment if he traveled to Taiwan. Nevertheless, the secretary said, Governor Bryant made the trip.

The U.S. Department of Defense’s annual report on China’s military power offers an authoritative and unclassified view of the PLA. For the most recent iteration, see Office of the Secretary of Defense, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China: 2020.

Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, 2012 White Paper, http://eng.mod.gov.cn/publications/2016-07/13/content_4768293.htm.

“Xi Leads China’s Military Reform, Stresses Strong Army,” Xinhua, March 15, 2014, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/kindle/2014-03/16/content_17350020.htm. Quoted in Joel Wuthnow and Phillip C. Saunders, “Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA,” in Phillip C. Saunders, ed., Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms (Washington, D.C.: National Defense University, 2019), p. 2, https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/Chairman-Xi/Chairman-Xi.pdf.

John Costello and Joe McReynolds, “China’s Strategic Support Force,” in Phillip C. Saunders, ed., Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA: Assessing Chinese Military Reforms, p. 442.

Acting DIA Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia Daniel K. Taylor, prepared testimony for hearing on “‘World-Class’ Military: Assessing China’s Global Military Ambitions,” U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, June 20, 2019, https://www.uscc.gov/hearings/world-class-military-assessing-chinas-global-military-ambitions.

Joel Wuthnow and Phillip C. Saunders, “Chairman Xi Remakes the PLA,” pp. 1-3.

Robert O. Work and Greg Grant, Beating the Americans at Their Own Game: An Offset Strategy with Chinese Characteristics, CNAS, June 6, 2019, https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/beating-the-americans-at-their-own-game.

Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis, testimony for hearing “Department of Defense Budget posture in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2018 and the Future Years Defense Program,” Senate Committee on Armed Services, 115th Congress, 1st Session, June 13, 2017, https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/17-06-13-department-of-defense-budget-posture; and Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., U.S. Navy, testimony for hearing on “United States Pacific Command in Review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2019 and the Future Years Defense Program,” Senate Committee on Armed Services, 115$th$ Congress, 2$nd$ Session, March 15, 2018, https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/hearings/18-03-15-united-states-pacific-command. Rh