Manipulation, disinformation, control: China's influence operations scrutinized
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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the closing of the annual session of Parliament in Beijing on March 10, 2021. AP - Mark Schiefelbein
By: Clémentine Pawlotsky
20 mins
China is expanding its influence in the world with increasingly aggressive methods akin to those employed by Russia.
This is the conclusion of the
Chinese Influence Operations
report
.
A Machiavellian moment
, unveiled by the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (IRSEM), attached to the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.
This highly documented 650-page survey is the result of two years of work.
It sheds light on a wide range of operations carried out by Beijing, ranging from propaganda, manipulation to large-scale disinformation campaigns.
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Analysis with
Paul Charon
, director of the IRSEM Intelligence, Anticipation and Hybrid Threats Domain and co-author of this report.
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