Here’s How Communist China Influences and Manipulates Media Coverage Globally: Sarah Cook [CLIP]

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The Chinese regime uses a skillful combination of carrots and sticks to influence—and even manipulate—media reporting in America, Canada, and around the world:

The carrots:

1. Paid junkets and trips to China. Can't persuade the China beat reporter to go because he knows the deal? Target the non-China specialists. The travel writer. The tech writer. The culture writer. Target the media executives.

2. Ad buys and full-page paid inserts

The sticks:

1. Visa restrictions on foreign journalists

2. Cut off business. Block an outlet's website in China.

3. Physical threats, cyberattacks, cyberbullying

4. Control sources and translators in China - If the CCP can't control journalists, they can certainly make any sources they talk to face dire consequences.

China researcher Sarah Cook has been investigating the Chinese regime’s media influence operations for years.