China responded with fury and indignation to a report alleging that it has invested billions to build a “global information ecosystem” to spread propaganda and disinformation. A media analysis of the country’s response, which paints the US as an “empire of lies,” only substantiates the report’s main thesis.| China Media Project
This term, which remains a crucial phrase in the CCP’s vocabulary on press and information control in China today – in an era of rapidly developing digital communications – first appeared in official Party criticisms of former Party secretary Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳) following the brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing on June 4, 1989. The essential idea behind the term is that media control is essential to preserving regime stability, based on the leadership’s unde...| China Media Project
The phrase "telling China's story well" ((讲好中国故事)), introduced by Xi Jinping within the first year of his administration, in August 2013, encapsulates the notion that Party-state media and even quasi-private actors must work internationally to strengthen and innovate external propaganda, thereby enhancing China's "international discourse power" (国际话语权) as a key aspect of its "comprehensive national power" (综合国力).| China Media Project
