This week, a slew of new reports on China’s online propaganda campaigns was released. As researchers documented, the CCP is increasingly using foreign influencers to disseminate pro-China narratives on Western social...
China’s soft power initiatives are often derided by Western observers as ineffective or counterproductive. Over a hundred Confucius Institutes in the U.S. and Europe have been targeted as arms of the Chinese state and forced to...
A United States-led democracy summit elicited a ferocious Chinese propaganda campaign aimed in part at redefining democracy in the Party’s own terms. The U.S.’ virtual Summit for Democracy, “part pep rally and part policy...
The United States-led “Summit for Democracy”, which kicked off on December 8, is designed to reverse the trend of global democratic “backsliding.” It touched a nerve in China, triggering a wave of state- and Party-directed...
Several recently released reports have shed new light on China’s international efforts to bolster its image and manipulate public opinion, through both traditional and social media. Two reports were released this week, one...
Chinese authorities have maintained strict control over the domestic narrative on the trade war by...
Reuters reports that China, calling itself one of the world’s “biggest victims of...
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated Woeser’s response to a CCTV poll which claimed that Lhasa was China’s happiest city: I laughed and asked back, living under gunpoint day and night, being followed by snipers even...
Speaking of the “Fifty Cents Party,” the following article was published on China Youth Daily on November 30, 2009, excerpts translated by CDT: League Cadres Establish an Internet Department, Build a Corps of...
From the Toronto Star: If proximity to power is a sign of strength, then the propaganda department is strong indeed: its offices, at 5 West Chang’an Ave., are located near the senior party leaders’ compound known as...
Sunny Lee reports in the Asia Times: Some 20 years later, the Chinese government, emboldened by its economic prowess and global political importance, is now willing to experiment with the program again. Spearheading this crusade...
Charles Custer of ChinaGeeks has translated a post from Hen Huang, Hen Baoli. In it, a humorous look at how government historians may view Chinese history: This is a translation of this post from Hen Huang, Hen Baoli, which...
From the Telegraph blog: The Telegraph came under fire this week in the Chinese government’s English-language mouthpiece China Daily for using the word ‘propaganda’ when referring to the Chinese...
From Xinhua News: The Information Office of the State Council, or China’s cabinet, published the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) Monday. Following is the full text: National Human Rights Action Plan...
From Froogville blog: 愤青 fen qing * – “angry youth” – is the term given to Chinese Netizens of a self-righteous and aggressively nationalist tendency. They are mostly young males with nothing better to do...
From China Beat blog: This morning the Los Angeles Times reported on a riot in Gansu that was touched off over disagreements on city planning issues. The report comes on the heels of an uptick in news in the last week on local...
From the Washington Post: The empty Beijing hotel rooms and the lower-than-usual interest in the Games outside China are attributable to more than the strict visa policies and security measures that have discouraged travel to...
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