The State Department in a first-of-its-kind report has laid out Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China, while spending billions of dollars to do so.
FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Sept. 23, 2023. The U.S. State Department in a first-of-its-kind report has laid out Beijing's growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China, while spending billions of dollars to do so.
In a first-of-its-kind report, the State Department last week laid out Beijing’s tactics and techniques for molding public opinion, such as buying content, creating fake personas to spread its message and using repression to quash unfavorable accounts. China over the weekend slammed the report, calling it “in itself disinformation as it misrepresents facts and truth.”
But U.S. government officials say Beijing is advancing its agenda through coercion and lies. In one case outlined by the report, the Chinese government created a fake commentator named Yi Fan, whose pro-Beijing writings have appeared in publications in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The aim is to counter allegations that Beijing has mistreated the country's 11 million ethnic Uyghurs through arbitrary detention and labor programs that send Uyghurs to work in factories far from their homes.
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