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Propaganda Playbook

| LS Staff |

The Asia Fact Check Lab has published an 11-part investigative report series as an e-book detailing China’s propaganda operations targeting Taiwan. The reports expose what they call the “Fujian Network” (福建網絡), comprising the Fujian Daily Newspaper Group (福建日報報業集團) and Fujian Broadcasting and Television Group (福建廣播影視集團), both provincial-level media groups under control of the local CCP committee.

The e-book alleges that the media groups coordinate cross-strait united front activities. According to the investigation, these entities pay local content creators to produce content advancing pro-China narratives. In a news report about the AFCL study, the Liberty Times (自由時報) reported that Chiu Chui-cheng (邱垂正), minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, described Fujian media as “the forward base for united front media operations against Taiwan.”


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