Reports
Freedom of Navigation and East Asian Stability: Countering Beijing's Campaign of Historical Revisionism
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john_lee
Senior Fellow
U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping speak during a joint statement in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (Photo credit: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping speak during a joint statement in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (Photo credit: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images)

John Lee examines how China’s campaign of historical distortion is recycled on the public stage to justify Beijing’s increasingly assertive political, military, and territorial actions. Lee also outlines a series of targeted soft-power policy options that, if implemented, would openly and frequently challenge the historical revisionism Beijing employs to justify its hegemonic ambitions.