China Newspeak

Two Countries at War, in the People’s Daily

Mar 22, 2023 | CMP Staff
A mention of Volodymyr Zelensky in China’s flagship newspaper this week, the first in many months, could be a faint foreshadowing of Xi Jinping’s planned call with the Ukrainian president. But it comes amid more resounding messages of deepening partnership between China and Russia.

Going Global

The Ins and Outs of the China Daily USA

Mar 16, 2023 | Ryan Ho Kilpatrick

Headlines and Hashtags

Framing China’s Health Experts

Mar 9, 2023 | CMP Staff

Headlines and Hashtags

A Model Opera at Lujiang Middle School

Mar 3, 2023 | David Bandurski

Going Global

Co-Producing with the CCP

Feb 17, 2023 | David Bandurski

Tracking Control

China’s Propaganda Machine is Calling

Feb 16, 2023 | CMP Staff

China Newspeak

Optimization: Another Word for Messy

Feb 2, 2023 | CMP Staff

Going Global

Getting Personal With State Propaganda

Jan 25, 2023 | David Bandurski

Going Global

Chinese Propaganda, In a Local Paper Near You

Jan 19, 2023 | David Bandurski

Chinese-style Modernization

Mar 4, 2023 | CMP Staff
“Chinese-style modernization,” also referred to in English as the “Chinese path to modernization,” is a catchphrase formally introduced by Xi Jinping in early 2021 to encapsulate the political assertion that modernization as pursued by China abides by such principles as the equitable income distribution, peaceful national development, and ecolog…

Five Firm Grasps

Dec 13, 2022 | David Bandurski
First appearing in late October 2022, in the wake of the 20th National Congress of the CCP, the “Five Firm Grasps” are essentially a short list of political priorities to set the direction of the next five years of Xi’s rule. The list is topped with the doctrinaire demand that CCP members fall into line and acknowledge the greatness of the first…

Socialite

Dec 7, 2022 | Xinyu Deng
Once signifying graceful women of a distinguished background, the term “socialite,” or yuan (媛), has in recent years become a misogynistic umbrella term used on digital platforms in China to disparage women who advertise fancy lifestyles. The term has also been used by state-run media to roundly criticize perceived materialistic excesses, reinfo…
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Getting Personal With State Propaganda

Jan 25, 2023 | David Bandurski
A new university research center in Jiangxi province with the stated intent of exploiting international exchange students to further China’s external propaganda goals should alert universities around the world to the dangers of the CCP’s transactional view of friendships and exchanges.

Going Global

Chinese Propaganda, In a Local Paper Near You

Jan 19, 2023 | David Bandurski
Recent reflections on China’s efforts at global influence in the CCP’s official newspaper suggest core Party media have made little real progress in developing their own international channels for communication since “going out” was defined as a key goal in the late 2000s — and that when it comes…

China Newspeak

Whitewashing China’s Record on Covid

Jan 9, 2023 | David Bandurski
An official commentary published yesterday in the CCP’s official People’s Daily newspaper is one of the more egregious efforts to date to present China’s handling of the pandemic over the past three years as evidence of strong global leadership.

Tracking Control

Cai Qi Leads Propaganda Ministers Conference

Jan 5, 2023 | CMP Staff
Cai Qi, the Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of ideology, led a national meeting of propaganda ministers in Beijing this week. The national strategy for media and ideology boils down to this simple formula: unquestioning obedience to Xi Jinping.

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