'Whoever gets in by bashing China won't like the ramifications' - Beijing's sinister media threat to Sunak and Truss as state-controlled media extends its influence.
Judging by the nervousness in Washington and London, the strategy is having an impact.
Beijing relentlessly builds its presence on Western social platforms. Documents obtained by the New York Times showed Shanghai police were recruiting people to create hundreds of fake Facebook and Twitter accounts per month. The paper revealed how China pays Western influencers to “spread pro-Beijing messages” on YouTube and Facebook.
He could blame Donald Trump who used social platforms for reckless propaganda, and attacks on China. Facebook banned Trump while it flags Beijing-backed outlets as “China state-controlled media”.– Reshaping the World’s Media, a report by the International Federation of Journalists in 58 countries, found that 44 per cent of respondents took a positive view of Chinese investment in local media.
Huawei knows the importance of media, as shown by its recent hiring of the former head of BBC news output, Gavin Allen, as “executive editor-in-chief”.
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