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Those 3-Minute Micro Drama Videos? You Might Be Watching CCP Propaganda

The Chinese Communist Party has tightened its censorship of micro dramas and begun subsidizing content aimed at boosting the regime’s soft power abroad.
Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images
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Those 3-Minute Micro Drama Videos? You Might Be Watching CCP Propaganda

The Chinese Communist Party has tightened its censorship of micro dramas and begun subsidizing content aimed at boosting the regime’s soft power abroad.
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September 18, 2025Updated:September 23, 2025

President Donald Trump falls in love with a White House cleaner, for whom he is determined to leave his wife: This is the plot of a fake micro drama that supposedly took U.S. housewives by storm and raked in $203 million in revenue.

Although multiple Chinese media outlets in late July reported on the micro drama, its supposed popularity, and its massive revenue, it all turned out to be fake news. However, as viewers become increasingly obsessed with micro dramas, China experts told The Epoch Times, the mobile-first entertainment format has become a key propaganda tool for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to direct nationalist sentiment in China and influence overseas viewers.

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