people from the surrounding structures injured. a fire had been hampering rescue workers in their search for victims. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. china and the information war. hello, welcome to this latest edition of the media show, and we will spend the programme talking about china s media strategy. i m sure you have seen tiktok has been in the news. its ceo was in front of us lawmakers taking lots of questions about whether tiktok, which is owned by a chinese company, potentially poses a security threat to the us. now, tiktok absolutely denies that. chinese state spokespeople have been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put disinformation into the information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping
the coast opposite taiwan, following president tsai ing wen s trip to the united states. beijing warned the island against what it called taiwanese separatists in collusion with external forces. and, buckingham palace has invited more than 850 community and charity representatives from across the uk to attend the coronation of king charles, which will take place on the sixth you re watching bbc news. now it s time for: the media show: china and the information war. hello. welcome to this latest edition of the media show. and we re going to spend the programme talking about china s media strategy, because i m sure you ve seen tiktok s been in the news. its ceo was up in front of us lawmakers a couple of weeks back, taking lots of questions about whether tiktok, which is owned by a chinese company, potentially poses a security threat to the us. now, tiktok absolutely denies that. chinese state spokespeople have been saying they deny that, too, but it s raised broader questions
some of the girls were hospitalised. china begins three days of military excercises off the coast opposite taiwan, following president tsai ing wen s trip to the united states. at 10:00 we will be here with a full round up of the day s news. first, the media show: china and the information war. hello. welcome to this latest edition of the media show. and we re going to spend the programme talking about china s media strategy, because i m sure you ve seen tiktok s been in the news. its ceo was up in front of us lawmakers a couple of weeks back, taking lots of questions about whether tiktok, which is owned by a chinese company, potentially poses a security threat to the us. now, tiktok absolutely denies that. chinese state spokespeople have been saying they deny that, too, but it s raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals, how is it on occasions trying to put th
been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put disinformation into the information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping and everyone else within the chinese state. i am joined by howard zhang, editor of bbc news chinese. but first, yuan yang, how would you outline china s media strategy and its ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there has been a really big push, particularly after the us china trade war in 2018, for chinese state media employees not only to speak to a chinese audience using the controlled media environment within china, but increasingly to reach out to an english speaking audience and to a foreign audience more widely, including on foreign social media platforms like twitter that are in fact censored or banned
It s often not attributed, or it s attributed with a line at the end of it. and so xinhua is getting picked up and used, even though it s a chinese state propaganda channel, essentially. and yuan, when we re talking about chinese efforts to control narratives in local media, regional global media, do we need to see this in terms ofjust that a desire to control a narrative or does it go further than that? does it turn into disinformation, where the chinese are via various sources pumping clearly incorrect information into the information ecosystem? i think the answer to this question probably depends on where you sit, not to be relativistic about that. but for me, with the values that i hold as a journalist, i say that some of it is clearly disinformation. now, a xinhua journalist might disagree with that. but the conception of journalism, and in fact whatjournalism is meant to do