THE ENEMY WITHIN: The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States. “Chinese subnational influence in the United States today grossly outweighs the capacity enjoyed by any other external power. It also dwarfs the leverage cultivated by the “active measures” playbook deployed by the last U.S. great power rival, the Soviet Union. This paper attempts to scope the strategic challenge posed by this apparatus by documenting indications of China’s strategy, noting the means and actors deployed to realize this vision, and offering case studies that convey a more granular portrait of how subnational influence in the United States may benefit Chinese strategic interests.”