Vacancies for Global Propaganda
How does China imagine its push for international “discourse power” will unfold? The types of people CCP and government-linked entities are trying to recruit offers an illuminating snapshot.
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China Opens ICC to Rebrand Xinjiang
Xinjiang has finally unveiled its own International Communication Center, tasked with clearing the air of accusations of human rights abuse. But it’s just one move in a broader propaganda push to rehabilitate the region’s poisoned image.
Total War for Global Minds
CCP leaders are mobilizing society in an all-out bid to revolutionize the country’s international communication. Will the strategy end in absurdity and waste?
China’s Global Talent Crunch
China has placed its hopes for greater global influence on a new national network of provincial and city-level communication centers. But as they try to tell China’s story in ways that foreign audiences find compelling, can they find the talented staff they need at home?
Telling Zhejiang’s Story
As international communication centers, or ICCs, open across China to beef up its global impact, one province has become home to a disproportionate number. What’s behind the ICC boom in Zhejiang?
Cloaking What China Says
This week in a study session of the Politburo, Xi Jinping talked about “innovating internet propaganda.” Part of the answer to how China plans to do this lies in its growing network of cloaked official accounts. We take a deeper look.
Xi’s Ten-Year Bid to Remake China’s Media
Outside China, the idea of “media convergence,” the joining together of communication technologies on handheld devices, is now so much a way of life that few even talk about it. But for China’s leadership it is a concept with era-defining significance — having far-reaching consequences for the current and future exercise of power.
China Starts Influence Ranking for Cities
The country’s external propaganda efforts have increasingly leaned on localities, mobilizing and pooling resources. Now the government will measure how they are performing.
Olá Panda!
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.
More Local Centers for Global Propaganda
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.
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