China has seized on protests sparked by George Floyd's death to spread propaganda about what it calls American 'double standards.'
the U.S. government for failing to address America's racial inequality. On social media, officials and propagandists have trolled America with schadenfreude.
U.S. support for anti-China protests in Hong Kong, which have been large and violent at times, is also in Chinese officials' crosshairs. The issue of the use of military force to quell demonstrations is particularly relevant this week, as critics of the Communist Party mark the 31st anniversary of the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests around Beijing's Tiananmen Square. The U.S. slapped long-lasting sanctions on China afterward.
"Domestically, it's an incredibly effective tactic," she says."For casual viewers who pick up a newspaper or pick up state media, this will shape how they see things." The Chinese government tightly controls reporting and messaging in the news media, and foreign news is regularly censored and curtailed by a system of internet filters that block many outside websites.
With the economy severely weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Communist Party is leaning more heavily on nationalism to boost its domestic image, says Xiao Qiang, with the School of Information at the University of California Berkeley.
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