When the Meloni government announced in July that Italy intended to exit Xi Jinping's signature trade and infrastructure program, Chinese state media made their voices heard. But Italy's formal step to withdraw last week has met with uncharacteristic quiet.| China Media Project
In The Currency of Truth, anthropologist Emily Chua draws on long-term fieldwork among newspaper journalists in Guangzhou and Beijing to argue that contemporary news articles should be thought of less as truth-claims written for a public and more as a currency that industry players use to create agreements, build connections, and protect and advance their positions against one another.| China Media Project
Internet control authorities in China routinely portray "online rumors" as a threat to public well-being. But the real concern, which has nothing to do with factualness or accuracy, is that they might be harmful to the Party's well-being — a fact that inflates the value of rumors, including truly false information.| China Media Project