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China’s information control regime a threat to freedom of Press globally: RSF

China sees a vibrant free media in other countries, especially in the neighborhood, as a threat to its manifold ambitions

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GUWAHATI , April 1, 2019 11:42 am
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Global media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) has investigated Beijing’s strategy to control information beyond its borders and said it poses a threat to press freedom throughout the world.

China, ranked 176 out of 180 in the 2018 World Press Freedom Index compiled by RSF, is expanding its hold beyond its borders to impose its ‘ideologically correct’ vocabulary, to deter any criticism of itself and to cover up the darker chapters in its history.

Less well known than the Belt and Road Initiative, but just as ambitious, this project poses a threat to press freedom throughout the world.

The RSF investigative report entitled ‘China’s Pursuit of a New World Media Order” highlights the strategy deployed by the Chinese state to achieve its goals.

These strategies include: modernizing its international TV broadcasting, buying extensive amounts of advertising in international media, infiltrating foreign media… but also employing blackmail, intimidation and harassment on a massive scale.

“In the spirit of the Beijing regime, journalists are not intended to be a counter-power but rather to serve the propaganda of states,” said Christophe Deloire, Secretary General of RSF.

“If democracies do not resist, Beijing will impose its view and it’s propaganda, which is a threat for journalism and democracy” Deloire added.

Training ‘critical thinking’ in Beijing

Over the past decade, China has invested massively in developing media capable of reaching an international public. And it has succeeded: state-owned CGTN broadcasts TV programmes in 140 countries and China Radio International broadcasts in 65 languages.

The regime has managed to convince tens of thousands of journalists in emerging countries to go on all-expense-paid trips to Beijing to ‘train their critical mind’ in exchange for favorable press coverage. As for the Chinese diaspora media, many of which used to be critical of the regime, almost all have been bought out and disseminated into the propaganda apparatus of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Violence and intimidation

Beijing is also exporting its censorship and surveillance tools, including the Baidu search engine and WeChat instant messaging platform, and encouraging authoritarian states to copy its repressive regulations, a particularly effective strategy in Southeast Asia.

Beijing calls for intimidation and violence to silence dissidents, even in democratic nations.

From freelance reporters to major media outlets, from publishing houses to social media platforms, no link in the news production chain is immune to the ‘invisible hand’ of Beijing.

Even Chinese ambassadors no longer hesitate to openly denigrate press articles that question the official narrative of China, and often in rather undiplomatic ways. Democracies are struggling to react in the face of these threats.

China sees a vibrant free media in other countries, especially in the neighborhood, as a threat to its manifold ambitions.

These media outlets, especially in countries which China seek to include in its Belt and Road Initiative, are often targets of Chinese subversion.

The Belt and Road Initiative has been often criticized for trapping countries in unsustainable debts followed by pressures to make sovereignty-eroding concessions to China.

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