Emails Show How Utah State Official Snubbed Chinese Propaganda Conference Invite

As official Washington sours on China’s malign behavior, Beijing is intensifying an effort to curry favor with state and local officials across the United States.

In a previously unreported incident, the Chinese embassy in Washington attempted to invite one of Utah’s top education officials to participate in a virtual propaganda conference intended to sell American elites on the Chinese Communist Party’s narratives on its atrocities against Uyghurs in 2021.