China is asking Estonian opinion leaders to be more favourable towards its policies
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The Chinese embassy in Tallinn has sent an email to many Estonian opinion leaders, asking them to be more favourable towards its policies.
In the email, the “political section” of the Chinese embassy, as the signature says, notes that the “world, including Estonia, is becoming more and more interested in China, while there are a lot of ignorance, misunderstanding, stereotype and disinformation about China. Hereby, we try to provide you various perspectives through China Watch to understand China, an old, modern and fast developing county of diversification with a 5,000 years of civilization history.”
Influence activity pursued by the People s Republic of China is a threat to academic and press freedoms. A public letter to the Riigikogu, government, boards of Estonian universities, independent research institutions, journalistic publications and all scientists, teachers, journalists, culture workers and politicians in Estonia.
The growing and expanding global influence activity of the People s Republic of China aimed at academic Chinese studies and the free press coverage of events in China has become obvious and echoed loudly in the media and monitoring reports.
China has targeted researchers, journalists and institutions whose activities it regards as hostile. This chiefly concerns sensitive topics for China, such as repressions – that some believe to exhibit tokens of genocide – in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and East Turkestan (Xinjiang),