In recent years, many well-known newspapers in Western countries have distributed content edited and produced by China Daily, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-run English-language newspaper, as a supplement to their daily papers. Recently, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany, has stopped distributing the CCP supplement, often regarded as propaganda to influence the free world with the regime’s agenda.
The Office of Foreign Propaganda within the CCP’s Propaganda Department is geared toward foreigners in China, the outside world, and overseas Chinese. “China has been remarkably successful in recent years at gaining dominant influence over foreign-based Chinese-language schools; newspapers; social, sporting, and commercial groups; television and radio stations; indeed any grouping of Chinese outside China,” according to the book “Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China,” by Anne-Marie Brady.
