Dr. Shaomin Li, ODU professor of management and eminent scholar, discussed China’s growing influence and America’s response. Dr. Li described as “surreal” what has been unfolding on the Chinese Party State, economic and political fronts. There is growing evidence of a new form of power seeks to penetrate and sway and even undermine the integrity of democracies around the world. Now that the shift has been recognized, Dr. Li poses the question if it is too late to stem the threat.