Since 2003, the Chinese regime has held the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, an annual meeting to encourage trade and investment between China and countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In 2019, Beijing themed the meeting around promoting the Belt and Road Initiative, its ambition to increase influence through funding infrastructure projects throughout Southeast and central Asia, eastern Europe, and the African continent. Recently, the Epoch Times obtained internal documents revealing how Chinese authorities tried to avert public relations disasters by setting up “emergency” protocols for the meeting. They also made arrangements to make sure public opinion about the event was positive and prevent participants from expressing negative views. Despite the preparations, authorities still found that the event lacked professionalism, according to the documents. Emergency Scenarios One of the files was an “emergency management comprehensive exercise plan” for the opening ceremony of the 2019 summit. The event was …