Publication: China Brief Volume: 21 Issue: 23
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.
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