Borrowed Boats Capsizing: State Security Ties to CCP Propaganda Laundering Rile Czech Public

Publication: China Brief Volume: 21 Issue: 23 

By: Martin Hála, Filip Jirouš, Ondřej Klimeš December 3, 2021

New revelations on the laundering of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda through local actors in the Czech Republic point to an underresearched aspect of influence operations. The CCP’s tactic of “borrowing a boat to go out to sea”, i.e., coopting local media outlets to serve as proxies, has long been known to involve organs in the party’s propaganda system (China Journalist, October 9, 2011; CPI, July 2015). Further scrutiny of laundered propaganda operations now indicates the Ministry of State Security’s role in efforts to coopt influential voices in media and academia abroad. In the Czech Republic, these operations involve former collaborators of the MSS’s defunct Czechoslovak equivalent, a nexus that suggests the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) intelligence apparatus is reactivating elements from communist-era security agencies.

Two influence operations that have recently come to light in the Czech Republic, one targeting the media,  and the other academia, shed new light on the links between the PRC’s security services and its external propaganda efforts.

Propaganda-by-Proxy..........

The Media Front: Borrowing a Venerable Boat..............

The Academic Front: Less Venerable Connections...........

Behind Propaganda: PRC and Czechoslovak State-Security Networks..............

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 My Take - If this is happening in the Czech Republic make no mistake it's happening everywhere in the world, especially the United States. 

China’s Political System Breeds ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomats, Author Says

By Frank Fang November 2, 2021 Updated: November 2, 2021

In recent years, the Chinese regime’s diplomats have been tagged with the moniker “wolf warriors” over their bellicose rhetoric directed at their foreign counterparts.

While this label is relatively new, the controversial behaviors in question can trace its roots going back decades, according to an author on the topic.

“That kind of combative fighting spirit has been in the DNA of the foreign ministry right from the start,” said Peter Martin, during an Oct. 20 online event hosted by the University of Montana to discuss his book, “China’s Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy.”

Martin, who is currently Bloomberg’s defense policy and intelligence reporter, said his book is based on interviews and over 100 memoirs of former Chinese diplomats.

The fighting ethos, according to Martin, started with the communist regime’s first diplomat, Zhou Enlai, who decided that Chinese diplomats should “think and act like the People’s Liberation Army in civilian clothing.”...........To Read More.....