Category: Propaganda

China’s $64 Million US Propaganda Machine: The Tip of the Influence Iceberg

Commentary China spent almost $64 million in propaganda expenses in the United States in 2020, according to a new report from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP). The sum is from new foreign-agent filings through the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and represents a sixfold increase from the $10 million registered in 2016. Both numbers…


YouTube Blocks Access to Ukrainian TV Channels Tied to Kremlin Ally, Ukraine Govt Says

KYIV—Three Ukrainian television channels linked to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin were blocked from broadcasting on Google’s YouTube on Saturday, the Ukrainian government said, following its request to YouTube to have the channels taken down. The YouTube channels of ZiK, 112 Ukraine and NewsOne did not play their content and instead showed a…


Russian and Chinese Shows of Force Confront Biden Administration

Commentary Russia and China are conducting multiple probing operations intended to test President Biden’s administration as a whole and, to be frank, directly target Joe Biden as the septuagenarian human being who ostensibly leads what China’s communist propagandists ritually deride as the U.S.-led “Liberal International Order” but recently scorned as “U.S.-led anti-China cliques.” These cliques…


Uncle Sam Needs You for a Counter-Psychological Warfare Strategy

Commentary Divide and conquer, or divide and rule, was a maxim Chinese strategist Sun Tzu stressed in 500 B.C. Sun wrote that the supreme military commander “subjugates other people’s armies without engaging in battle, captures other people’s fortified cities without attacking them.” Defeating an enemy “without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.” In the…


Biden’s First Firing Takes on New Significance Amid China’s Propaganda

Commentary Within the first hour of Joe Biden’s presidency, the commander in chief fired a little-known figure running an agency most Americans have likely never heard of. Yet that firing was symbolically and substantively significant. Its significance has only grown two months into an administration that has conferred legitimacy on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)…


Beijing Exploiting Anti-Asian Attacks to Shun US Criticism, ‘Delegitimize’ America

As America grapples with troubling headlines depicting a rise in anti-Asian racism, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has apparently found its latest propaganda fodder. Pointing to the uptick in crimes against Asian Americans, the regime is telling the United States to sort out its own affairs before criticizing Beijing for its severe human rights violations….


Russia Joins China’s Wuhan Virus Lie Campaign

Commentary From the beginning of the COVID-19/Wuhan virus epidemic, China’s communist government has lied about the disease, its origin and its transmissibility. It has also avoided an accurate accounting of the contagion’s health and economic consequences within the People’s Republic, always insisting Chinese Communist Party leadership has minimized the pandemic’s effects. We know for a…


China Insider: Beijing Asks Biden to Not Follow Trump’s Anti-CCP Policies

As the new U.S. administration takes office, there are concerns about the next steps in U.S.-China relations and their impact on the global landscape. Will Trump’s hard-line policy toward China change under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ‘s slogan of “community with shared future for mankind”, a controversial propaganda used by Chinese leaders frequently in…


‘No Country Is Immune’: Report Reveals Beijing’s Toolbox to Export Authoritarian Narrative

Countries should be vigilant about the serious threats posed by China’s expanding global media influence, according to a new report published by the U.S.-based National Endowment for Democracy. The report, titled “China’s Global Media Footprint: Democratic Responses to Expanding Authoritarian Influence,” detailed how the Chinese regime has been “leveraging propaganda, disinformation, censorship, and influence over…


Ahead of ASEAN Conference, Chinese Regime Prepared for PR Disaster Scenarios, How to Stifle Dissent

Since 2003, the Chinese regime has held the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, an annual meeting to encourage trade and investment between China and countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. In 2019, Beijing themed the meeting around promoting the Belt and Road Initiative, its ambition to increase influence through funding infrastructure projects throughout…