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China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide (chinamediaproject.org)

The addition of external propaganda bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin over the past two weeks brings the total number at the provincial level to 23. These International Communication Centers (ICCs), also being launched at the city level, are meant to remake China’s approach to delivering its message externally....

China's government launched additional "local communication centers" to increase propaganda efforts worldwide (chinamediaproject.org)

The addition of external propaganda bases in Zhejiang and Tianjin over the past two weeks brings the total number at the provincial level to 23. These International Communication Centers (ICCs), also being launched at the city level, are meant to remake China’s approach to delivering its message externally....

Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)

As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...

As Taiwan's new president took office, state media outlets in China were spitting fire. And nothing the new leader says or does, they say, can ever dampen the flames. (chinamediaproject.org)

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Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)

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China is eager to show the world that it can lead in generative AI technology. But one of its first challenges is chillingly unique - how to make its chat bots speak like the Communist Party. (chinamediaproject.org)

China is determined not just that it won’t be left behind, but that it will lead the generative AI trends of the future. But this comes with substantial political risk for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership....

China's recent campaign against domestic social media targeted falsehood and sensationalism. But the country's state-run media, not to be touched by the purge, are some of the worst culprits. (chinamediaproject.org)

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The flip side of influence: A word of warning to all foreigners “telling China’s story well”: be careful not to tell your own country’s story well — at least, not in China. (chinamediaproject.org)

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Who is seeing the real America? - "For Chinese people in North America, the truth is rapidly submerged by the deluge of misinformation in simplified Chinese" (chinamediaproject.org)

Even for Chinese people who live in Canada and the United States, where English is the main language, a mix of habits, cultural affinity, and other factors means that they continue to get most of their information from Chinese-language media, writes a Chinese in the U.S....

U.S.: Lawmakers accuse national media network of "whitewashing genocide” against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China's Xinjiang region (chinamediaproject.org)

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