‘Battle of Narratives’: Lawmaker Calls for US to Go on Offensive Against CCP

WASHINGTON—For years, the Chinese Communist Party has been gifted the upper hand in the “battle of narratives” with the United States about its place in the world. But a lawmaker and a group of China experts want to turn that around. A major narrative that the Chinese regime has been successfully spreading, both in China and around the world, is that China’s rise under the CCP is inevitable and that the party is “undeterrable,” John Lee, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said at a Dec. 11 panel hosted by the think tank. “If you absorb those narratives, you may hate what China does in the world, but you feel powerless to actually do anything about it,” he said at the event, calling it “the one area where we do need to go on the offensive.”...