Mike Gonzalez

senior fellow at the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, The Heritage Foundation

Mike Gonzalez, a Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, is former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal Asia's editorial page.

Articles by Mike Gonzalez

China’s Public Opinion Warfare: How Our Culture Industry Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the PRC

Mike Gonzalez, February 5, 2015

“We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States,” said President Barack Obama on December 19, referring to Sony’s North Korea fiasco. That is exactly what is happening, however, and with a far more important global actor, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which is censoring not just our movies, but also our universities. Efforts to influence, if not corrupt, our culture-making industries and indoctrinate the American people in a favorable view of the PRC regime may pose a threat to our long-term national security. The U.S. Congress is right to ask the Government Accountability Office to look into the matter, and its probe should be expanded beyond the GAO.