Books: How Beijing targets media in global influence operations

Australia and U.S. serve among many examples of growing Chinese media control

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A screen advertising China's state-run Xinhua News Agency is seen in New York's Times Square in March 2020.  © Reuters

JOSHUA KURLANTZICK

This is the second of two edited excerpts from the new book by author and analyst Joshua Kurlantzick, "Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World (OUP, Dec. 2022). The first excerpt with the author's introduction ran in Nikkei Asia on Feb. 4.

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