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When Worlds Collide
Jul 12, 2024 | Alex Colville
State media have released a short, AI-generated series on Douyin. It’s the meeting point of several tools the Party has been using to modernize media and propaganda.
A Rare Exposé
Jul 10, 2024 | David Bandurski
In an investigative report splashed across the front page last week, a Beijing newspaper exposed lax food safety practices. It was just like old times.
China Starts Influence Ranking for Cities
Jul 4, 2024 | David Bandurski
The country’s external propaganda efforts have increasingly leaned on localities, mobilizing and pooling resources. Now the government will measure how they are performing.
The Politics of Pure Business
Jul 3, 2024 | David Bandurski
As Western media groups talk of “purely commercial” cooperation, China’s official Xinhua News Agency regards its partnerships as part of China’s broader effort to shape global discourse and promote its government image. It’s time for professional media groups to wake up.
China Grapples with Nationalism, and Fuels It
Jul 2, 2024 | Alex Colville
A flurry of statements from Chinese social media platforms in the wake of a tragic attack on a Japanese woman and her child in Suzhou pledge to clear up rabid nationalism online. Meanwhile, Chinese state media continue to pour fuel on the fire of anti-Japanese sentiment.
MAGA Communism and the China Grift
Jul 2, 2024 | Jordyn Haime
Riding American frustrations with foreign wars, can “MAGA Communism” advocate Jackson Hinkle help China gain sympathy in the US?
Olá Panda!
Jun 28, 2024 | David Bandurski
As China’s leadership pushes regional and local media and propaganda offices to strengthen their global communication efforts, Sichuan province takes a typical soft approach with Portuguese audiences.
A Media Labyrinth in the Middle East
Jun 25, 2024 | Bertie Lyhne-Gold
An oddly compliant question from the foreign press corps on the sidelines of this year’s National People’s Congress kicked up a simple question: Who is China-Arab TV? We followed the question down the rabbit hole.
Top Propaganda Official Faces Investigation
Jun 23, 2024 | David Bandurski
The sudden announcement Friday of a corruption probe against Zhang Jianchun marks just the second case in the Xi Jinping era of a senior propaganda official falling from grace.
More Local Centers for Global Propaganda
Jun 12, 2024 | David Bandurski
The addition of external propaganda bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin over the past two weeks brings the total number at the provincial level to 23. These ICCs, also being launched at the city level, are meant to remake China’s approach to delivering its message externally.
Goldfish Memories
May 27, 2024 | David Bandurski
In a post to China’s popular WeChat platform last week, one writer bemoaned the shocking loss of nearly a full decade of information from the early days of the country’s domestic internet. Within hours the writer’s reflections had vanished too.
Riding into the Uncanny Valley
May 21, 2024 | Alex Colville
Military mouthpieces have joined Chinese state media in experimenting with AI anchors. But how effective will these digital propagandists be in the fight for hearts and minds?
A Fire That Can’t Be Extinguished
May 21, 2024 | Dalia Parete
As Taiwan’s new president took office, state media outlets in China were spitting fire. And nothing the new leader says or does, they write, can ever dampen the flames.
China’s Mouthpieces Go Quiet
May 7, 2024 | David Bandurski
In recent months, the unexplained disappearance of high-level ministers in China has fueled speculation about unease within the halls of power. What does it mean when the leadership’s most vocal mouthpieces also fall silent?
Shades of Yellow
Apr 24, 2024 | David Bandurski
In its latest two-month campaign against public accounts on domestic social media platforms, China’s cyberspace control body is targeting falsehood and sensationalism. The ugly truth is that the country’s state-run media, which are not to be touched by the purge, are some of the worst culprits.
Fingertip Formalism
Apr 18, 2024 | David Bandurski
In recent years, China’s leadership has pushed innovation at the intersection of tech and governance. But mobile-based solutions have created a new problem — how to get officials off their phones.
The Flip Side of Influence
Apr 17, 2024 | Alex Colville
For foreign influencers, China’s massive and potentially lucrative market is a huge draw. But national sensitivities are also a very real pitfall — as one influencer has learned this month.
Who is Seeing the Real America?
Apr 15, 2024 | Initium Media
“Zero-dollar shopping” videos depicting America as a lawless hellscape where woke politics mean criminals now go unpunished have been going viral for years within China and on Chinese-language social media abroad. What lies behind this strange trend?
Golden Opportunities
Apr 9, 2024 | David Bandurski
One of Southeast Asia’s largest media groups announced this month that it would collaborate on content with a Chinese magazine. Is it turning a blind eye to the powerful political motives and interests that lay behind?
Winning Hearts on a Korean Island
Apr 8, 2024 | David Bandurski
A recent series of events on South Korea’s remote Jeju Island offers a glimpse in miniature of China’s vast global media diplomacy campaign to paint the most pleasant picture of Xinjiang, where the country has been accused of serious human rights abuses.
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