Editor’s note: Part 1 examines how the Chinese regime uses American mainstream media to wage its propaganda battle abroad. Analysis According to the Hoover Institute, Beijing has been conducting an ongoing propaganda campaign in the United States for some time. This campaign has been targeted at undermining U.S. confidence and policies, while exploiting the freedom of speech and the current wave of Americans’ self-criticism. The Chinese regime’s primary tools have been U.S. social media, classrooms, and mainstream media. Over 200,000 Twitter accounts were found to be working directly for the Chinese Communist Part (CCP), exploiting the death of George Floyd or U.S. claims of systemic racism. Meanwhile, in China, ethnic Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Mongolians have been the victims of all manner of repression and abuses, including cultural genocide, torture, detention, and crimes against humanity. U.S. classrooms have been another front where the CCP has waged its propaganda war. The Confucius Institutes …