This section of the EUvsDisinfo website features content about China’s information manipulation activities in the global information environment, including guest articles by researchers from civil society and academia.
China’s information manipulation and interference is diverse and comprises various tactics, including those of a coercive nature. These tactics include spreading conspiracy narratives, carrying out disinformation activities on social media platforms and suppressing critical voices globally, also by intimidation and harassment. The pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine have provided further evidence of China’s information manipulation, but also of its alignment with Russia in the information environment – Chinese state-controlled media and official social media channels having provided a platform for sanctioned Russian channels and amplified selected pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives.
Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.
