At the recent Social Democratic Party conference Chancellor Scholz did not limit himself to embracing the imperialist violence in the Middle East. He also positioned the SPD as the most aggressive party of rearmament and executor of the NATO war offensive against Russia.
The SPD-led German government is aggressively stepping up its war policy. The SPD strategy paper “Social Democratic Responses to a World in Transition” asserts a leading role for Germany in Europe and the world.
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The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and strategic thinkers across the globe for their diverse insights into U.S. Asia policy. This conversation with Sarah Cook – research director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House and author of “China’s Global Media Footprint: Democratic Responses to Expanding Authoritarian Influence” (National Endowment for Democracy 2021) – is the 267th in “The Trans-Pacific View Insight Series.”
Explain the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in countering China’s global media footprint.
Non-governmental entities including journalists, civil society groups, think tanks, and technology firms are playing a crucial role in documenting and countering the coercive and covert aspects of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) global media footprint, often with some effect. One key example has been the exposure and analysis of disinformation c
https://www.afinalwarning.com/494430.html (Natural News) A new report authored by the U.S.
National Endowment for Democracy is warning that countries, including the U.S., need to be more vigilant about China’s expanding global media influence and the threats it poses.
Titled “China’s Global Media Footprint: Democratic Responses to Expanding Authoritarian Influence,” the report goes into detail on how Beijing has been “leveraging propaganda, disinformation, censorship, and influence over key nodes in the information flow.” All this in an effort to “shape media content” to portray the county and the regime in a positive light.
The report talks about how Beijing has exploited the openness of Western societies to manipulate foreign media content. This is a gray zone between established practices of diplomatic maneuvering and coercive activities that the report describes as “sharp power.”