China has managed to obtain extensive influence in India, including in the South Asian nation’s film industry, universities, media, and its tech industry, according to a report by an Indian think tank. In the years following World War II, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has utilized journalists and members of other organizations, especially those with Marxist tendencies, to proliferate the CCP’s influence in India, said the Law and Society Alliance (LSA) report released on Friday. The 76-page report provides details on how Beijing has used soft power to make inroads into Indian civil society, academia, politics, and a number of industries such as the media, entertainment, and the technology sector. “China, as a manipulative adversary, has effectively been targeting the bright impressionable minds, the tech savvy youth, the opinion makers and the intelligentsia present in India, and thereby the future of India in totality. This needs to be taken into due …