Category: CCP propaganda

Chinese Propaganda at Home and Abroad: Chinese Media Attacks the US

Analysis At the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2021, the propaganda was stepped up, praising both the Party and Xi Jinping. In a China that has become prosperous and where competition in the new economy is fierce, it would be easy for everyday people to turn away from the Party which…


Chinese Broadcaster CGTN Suffers Further Setbacks and Embarrassment

Commentary It’s been a bad week for China Global Television Network (CGTN), the Chinese regime’s English media channel. On Aug, 26, CGTN was issued two fines of about $140,000 each, for airing the forced televised confessions of Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai and former Hong Kong resident Simon Cheng. Gui Minhai is well-known these days as one of…


Chinese Regime’s Whitewashing of the Taliban Sparks Backlash at Home

The Chinese regime’s warm portrayal of the Taliban, whitewashing its violent history and repression of women, has been met with backlash domestically. As the Taliban quickly seized power in Afghanistan this past week, stunning U.S. forces who were due to withdraw by month’s end, Chinese officials and state-run media have embraced the militant group’s return…


Afghanistan and Taiwan

Commentary In the wake of the collapse of the government of Afghanistan and the evacuation of Americans and their Afghan staff members and supporters, a big question is what implications this may have for Taiwan and other American allies in the Indo-Pacific region. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) international mouthpiece, Global Times, has been quick…


The Influential Westerners Helping the Chinese Regime

Commentary COVID-19 may very well be China’s Chernobyl, but try telling that to the masters of spin in Beijing. According to a recent editorial in the Global Times, a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime: “More than half a million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter to the WHO.” They demand that “the organization conduct an…


CCP Enlists Foreign Faces to ‘Tell the China Story Well’

“Telling the China story well” to the world has been a main task for the CCP’s propaganda ministry since Xi Jinping declared it a national priority at the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The ruling regime said that it is constantly trialing “new concepts, new scopes, and new narratives” to influence…


Contracts with Confucius Institute Reveal How Beijing Influences US Universities

In August last year, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Confucius Institute “an entity advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign” on American universities. In response, China criticized Pompeo’s statement as “demonizing and stigmatizing the normal operation of China-U.S. cooperation projects.” An exclusive report by Campus Reform, America’s leading college news…


It’s ‘Way Past the Time’ for Confucius Institutes to Close: Experts

Australian universities may be faced with an early cancelling of their Confucius Institute partnerships, following the axing of Victorian Belt and Road Initiative deals which exercised newly legislated veto powers. Foreign Minister Marise Payne decision to tear up the BRI agreements have brought forward calls to cancel other deals with the Chinese Communist Party, such…


It’s ‘Way Past the Time’ for Confucius Institutes to Close: Expert

Australian universities may be faced with an early cancelling of their Confucius Institute partnerships, following the axing of Victorian Belt and Road Initiative deals which exercised newly legislated veto powers. Foreign Minister Marise Payne decision to tear up the BRI agreements have brought forward calls to cancel other deals with the Chinese Communist Party, such…


CCP Brags “Two Xin Chuo Years” after Alaska meeting, Forgets the Most Tragic One

Commentary The open confrontation at the U.S.-China meeting in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18 has been used by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda department to create an uproar in public opinion in China aimed at the United States. The state media CCTV stated that China was invited to Anchorage and went with sincerity to…