by Victoria Jones (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, August 2025)| Le Monde diplomatique
Are Chinese media exaggerating the elevated state of the country's AI technology? A senior scientist says yes—and warns that hype is blinding China to looming challenges.| China Media Project
Key Takeaways Information as Power Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus argues that power stems from the ability to construct and sustain shared information networks—o ...| behorizon.org
Tours organized for foreign journalists in China by propaganda officials and organizations like the All-China Journalists Association may be deployed with slightly more subtlety than those for domestic "news workers." But the goal is the same — to guide coverage in ways favorable to the leadership.| China Media Project
A softball question pitched to China's foreign minister at this year's National People’s Congress kicked up a simple question: Who is China-Arab TV?| linguasinica.substack.com
During political meetings in Beijing earlier this month, China made a show of its openness to foreign journalists. A closer look at its efforts to cultivate invited guests, particularly from the Global South, suggests what the government really wants is to have less experienced China reporters who arrive as tabula rasa — ready to be imprinted with the government’s message.| China Media Project
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?”| China Media Project
The latest outpost for China’s nascent International Communication Centers has been unveiled in Lanzhou New Area, a satellite city on the edge of the Gobi that has been dismissed as a ghost town. What does this tell us about China’s external propaganda efforts directed westward to Belt and Road partners?| China Media Project