Category: Propaganda

EpochTV Review: How Communists Create Division to Achieve Their Goals

Commentary In this final episode of an informative special series on communism, Joshua Philipp reviews the ideological principles it is founded on, and further examines how communist messaging must create division and strife in order to achieve its desired goal. Under the system of dialectical materialism, everything in the universe amounts to “matter in motion,”…


‘Covert, Corrupt, and Coercive’: Report Details Beijing’s Bid to Establish New Global Media Order

The Chinese regime has been deploying “covert, corrupt and coercive” means to weaponize Chinese-language and Western media in a campaign to impose its vision of current affairs on the rest of the world, a recent French military think tank report finds. Beijing’s efforts to export its narratives have lasted for decades. The first Chinese Communist Party-controlled…


Wikipedia Co-Founder Criticizes Site, Says It Has Slid Into ‘Leftist Propaganda’

Wikipedia has in recent years drifted away from neutrality and slid into “leftist propaganda,” according to its co-founder Larry Sanger. Sanger, who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago over the project’s direction, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” that the online encyclopedia, which turned 20 years old earlier this year, has gradually shifted to…


Rep. Buck Calls on US Universities to Shut Down CCP ‘Propaganda Machines’

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) is hoping to dismantle the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence on American academic institutions through Beijing-funded Confucius Institutes. The congressman earlier this week submitted an amendment (pdf) to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a massive defense bill that authorizes spending levels for defense, seeking to bar the use of funds from…


Pro-Beijing Operatives Try to Mobilize Asian Americans to Protest

An expansive pro-Beijing influence operation has sought to sow division around the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic and incite street protests in the United States, cyber intelligence researchers found. The network initially began in 2019 focusing on discrediting Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests. The operation has since expanded in size and scope, spanning 30 social…


Antonio Graceffo: China’s Internal and External War of Propaganda to Throw the World Into Chaos

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda systems both within the country and abroad are running full steam ahead. It’s a part of an overall strategy to dominate the flow of information in the world. This comes from a desire to control the narrative on various aspects of the issues most concerning to citizens in the…


Chinese Propaganda at Home and Abroad (Part 1 of 3): CCP Propaganda Abroad

Commentary To win over the hearts and minds abroad and at home, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses a variety of tools such as state media, complicit foreign media, self-criticism in the United States, and self-censorship in foreign countries. Through these powerful tools, fueled by social media, the CCP is able to take advantage of real…


Authoritarianism and Censorship in the COVID Era, Part 1: Propaganda and Vaccine Patriotism

Commentary “Today is the beginning of a form of discrimination that has never been witnessed in history, and this in ‘the land of liberty and human rights.’ I have not been able to enter a store for a long time now because it is out of the question that I put a sanitary napkin on…


Chinese State Media Welcomes Taliban’s Rise in Afghanistan, Exult US ‘Defeat’

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan gave the Chinese regime a golden opportunity to attack the United States and deepen its own influence. And it wasted no time to seize it. State-run newspapers, broadcasters, and Chinese diplomats have launched a propaganda offensive not dissimilar to the regime’s ongoing efforts to deflect blame around the origins of the…


Chinese State Media Welcomes Taliban’s Rise in Afghanistan, Exults US ‘Defeat’

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan gave the Chinese regime a golden opportunity to attack the United States and deepen its own influence. And it wasted no time to seize it. State-run newspapers, broadcasters, and Chinese diplomats have launched a propaganda offensive not dissimilar to the regime’s ongoing efforts to deflect blame around the origins of the…