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Frontier Influencers: The New Face of China’s Propaganda

Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), International Cyber Policy Centre (2022), 52 pp.
"This report explores how the Chinese party-state's globally focused propaganda and disinformation capabilities are evolving and increasing in sophistication. Concerningly, this emerging approach by the Chinese party-state to influence international discourse on China, including obfuscating its record of human rights violations, is largely flying under the radar of US social media platforms and western policymakers." (Executive summary, page 3)
Methodology, 4
1 Introduction: Redirecting domestic propaganda to global audiences, 5
2 Background: The CCP's 'lovable' external propaganda strategy, 9
3 Guiding international public opinion: frontier accounts on YouTube, 11
4 Frontier accounts on Twitter, 34
5 Multi-channel networks, 36
6 Conclusion and policy recommendations, 42