Chinese Propaganda at Home and Abroad: Beijing Wages Propaganda Battle Abroad

Part 1 of 3: The CCP co-opts American mainstream media in its global propaganda campaign

A screen advertising Xinhua News Agency is seen in Times Square in Manhattan, New York City, on March 2, 2020. Andrew Kelly/Reuters

News Analysis

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.