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Sun Liping report quote 1.9.2012
We’ve become so obsessed with feeling the stones that we don’t even wish to cross the river anymore.
Jan 12, 2012
We’ve become so obsessed with feeling the stones that we don’t even wish to cross the river anymore.
David Bandurski
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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.
Pleas and Appeals
Mar 22, 2024 | Alex Colville
After it went viral in China this month, video footage of a woman wailing before the altar of Bao Qingtian, an 11th-century official who has become a popular symbol of justice, drove a debate online about the difficulties of seeking recourse for official wrongs.
When the ByteDance CEO Groveled
Mar 20, 2024 | David Bandurski
With a US Senate debate on TikTok and its national security implications on the horizon, some media have asked what signs there are that the app’s parent company, ByteDance, is under the thumb of China’s leadership. An abject politically-laden apology six years ago by the company’s CEO cuts right through the questions.
The Ugly Politics of Media Obstruction
Mar 14, 2024 | David Bandurski
The harassment of state media reporters during a live report from the scene of a deadly explosion yesterday has angered some as an unacceptable act of interference. A closer look reveals a more disquieting truth — that such acts of obstruction are not an exception but the very nature of media policy in China.
Mo Yan Against the Martyrs
Mar 11, 2024 | Alex Colville
A spat about the red credentials of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture.
Talking at Cross-Straits
Mar 8, 2024 | Alex Colville
Media reports in recent days have focussed concern over China’s plans for Taiwan, drawing on apparent changes in the political language used by senior PRC officials. But a more cool-headed look at the history of Taiwan talk suggests these changes are more of the same obscurity.
New Frontiers in Foreign Propaganda
Mar 5, 2024 | Dalia Parete
The latest collaboration between the Discovery Channel and state-run media in China has been accused of whitewashing genocide in Xinjiang. Why is this American network so keen to “tell China’s story well?”
The Local Game of Global Propaganda
Feb 29, 2024 | David Bandurski
A new regional media network for South Asia and Southeast Asia created by the government’s China Daily and the provincial propaganda apparatus in Yunnan offers another glimpse into how Xi Jinping is seeking to remake the CCP’s global communication.
When Science Fiction Meets Political Fact
Feb 22, 2024 | Alex Colville
A win for China in the Best Novella category at the 2023 Hugo Awards for science fiction has been lauded by state media amid global controversy over authors being shut out of the Chengdu-hosted event. But many Chinese readers have panned the winning work — and some suspect that its victory is politically too convenient.
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