Despite Beijing's push to localize international communication efforts since 2018, flagship outlets like China Daily remain essential to external propaganda. The post Central Media and the Local Soft Power Push appeared first on China Media Project.| China Media Project
Beijing launched a grandiose television series promoting Xi Jinping across dozens of Italian networks. Why did Italy's media welcome such blatant propaganda?| China Media Project
At a recent event for China-Indonesia media cooperation, part of China’s larger push for influence in Southeast Asia, “responsibility” was on the agenda — emphasizing for participants that the role of journalism is to promote good feeling and a smooth bilateral relationship.| China Media Project
Exchanges this week between Guyanese media and a provincial-level communication center in Shandong offer a glimpse of China’s broad push for influence abroad. The secret: convince journalists in the Global South that using Western media sources on China means unfair bias.| 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
Originally meant as a platform for dialogue, the “Understanding China” international conference has become a mere stage for China’s ruling party. It stands as yet another example of how the notion of dialogue has become twisted by China's media statecraft in the Xi era — and how cities and provinces are now being roped into the business of external propaganda.| China Media Project
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
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