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Today, the Department of State released a landmark report on how the Peoples Republic of China, or PRC, seeks to reshape the global information environment to its advantage. Beijing has invested billions of dollars to construct a global information ecosystem that promotes its propaganda and facilitates censorship and the spread of disinformation. While formidable, the PRCs efforts have faced setbacks in democratic countries, due in large part to resistance from local media and civil society.

The report finds that the PRCs information manipulation efforts feature five primary elements: leveraging propaganda and censorship, promoting digital authoritarianism, exploiting international organizations and bilateral partnerships, pairing co-optation and pressure, and exercising control over Chinese-language media. These five elements enable Beijing to bend the global information environment to its advantage. If successful, the PRCs efforts could transform the global information landscape, creating biases and gaps that lead nations to make decisions that subordinate their economic and security interests to Beijings.

The PRC is gaining overt and covert influence over content and platforms

The PRC is constraining global freedom of expression

The PRC is promoting an emerging community of digital authoritarians

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How the People's Republic of China Seeks to Reshape the Global ... - Department of State