Commentary The Chinese regime is using video games, the virtual equivalent of opium, to spread powerful, carefully crafted propaganda. Beijing just issued a new set of rules for the country’s gamers: From Mondays to Thursdays, children under the age of 18 are forbidden from playing online video games. Instead, they will be allowed one hour on Fridays, one hour on the weekends, and one hour during public holidays. The journalist Sam Shead recently outlined the ways in which Chinese “tech giants” are snapping up “gaming studios around the world.” With these acquisitions, according to Shead, we can expect video games to “look a little different in the coming years.” In fact, with the Chinese regime heavily involved, we can expect video games, one of the most potent forms of ‘soft power,’ to look a lot different in the future. Soft Power and Subterfuge In the late 1980s, when Joseph Nye …