{"id":7017,"date":"2020-04-28T17:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T16:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=7017"},"modified":"2021-04-18T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T16:08:03","slug":"coronavirus-chinas-global-propaganda-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/04\/28\/coronavirus-chinas-global-propaganda-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China\u2019s Global Intimidation Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/04\/28\/coronavirus-chinas-global-propaganda-war\/belgium-eu-china-diplomacy-politics\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7020\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7020\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/372-china-disinformation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/372-china-disinformation.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/372-china-disinformation-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><em>Chinese diplomats around the world are waging an aggressive disinformation campaign\u00a0aimed at controlling the narrative about the origins of the coronavirus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Coronavirus: China\u2019s Global Intimidation Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15943\/coronavirus-china-intimidation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | April 28, 2020<\/p>\n<p>The European Union has caved in to pressure from China and has watered down a report on Chinese efforts to deflect blame for the coronavirus pandemic. Officials in Beijing reportedly threatened to block the export of medical supplies to Europe if the report was published in its original form.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations come as Chinese diplomats around the world are waging an aggressive disinformation campaign \u2014 described as a \u201cWolf Warrior\u201d style of diplomacy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3076384\/chinas-wolf-warriors-battle-twitter-control-coronavirus\">named<\/a> after a Chinese nationalist action film series \u2014 aimed at controlling the narrative about the origins of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese envoys have been especially aggressive on Twitter, which they are using to attack, intimidate and silence Western journalists, lawmakers and think tank scholars \u2014 essentially anyone who contradicts China\u2019s official version of events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/15943\/coronavirus-china-intimidation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese diplomats around the world are waging an aggressive disinformation campaign\u00a0aimed at controlling the narrative about the origins of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214,100],"tags":[42,224,9,129,52,171,179,62],"class_list":["post-7017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus-crisis","category-european-union","tag-china","tag-covid-19","tag-europe","tag-european-union-2","tag-france","tag-geopolitics","tag-germany","tag-sweden"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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