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Americans have grown increasingly alert to the machinations of foreign powers. Qatar’s funding of university campuses, the reach of the Israeli lobby, Saudi Arabia’s investments in media and sport: these are debated loudly in Congress and across cable news. The scrutiny is warranted. Yet one foreign power, arguably the most consequential geopolitical rival the United States has ever faced, has managed to embed itself far more deeply and systematically into Western economies, institutions, and political life than any of the others, with comparatively little public attention. (more…)






