根据杭州公司2021年半年报告，其中四家公司——罗浦海狮鼎鑫电子科技有限公司、莫宇海狮电子科技有限公司、皮山海狮永安电子科技有限公司和乌鲁木齐海狮新安电子科技有限公司——隶属于中国监控摄像机制造商海视。
Four of the companies – Luopu Haishi Dingxin Electronic Technology Co, Moyu Haishi Electronic Technology Co, Pishan Haishi Yong’an Electronic Technology Co and Urumqi Haishi Xin’an Electronic Technology Co – belong to the Chinese surveillance camera manufacturer Hikvision, according to Hangzhou-based firm’s 2021 half-year report.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/1/chinas-media-realities-clash-over-truth-about-war-in-ukraine
她告诉半岛电视台说:”我认为大多数中国人没有注意到战争，因为他们要么没有关注战争，要么只是从中国媒体上获得有关战争的消息。”
她对半岛电视台说:”但是，如果你能够超越防火墙（用来形容中国对互联网的严格审查），你就会看到，人们对这场战争的说法和报道方式截然不同，在国际和西方媒体上报道的方式截然不同。”
入侵初期，中国国家电视台CCTV报道称，美国资助乌克兰实验室研制生物武器。 据报道,乌克兰总统泽伦斯基在俄罗斯发动第一波袭击后逃离基辅。
中国媒体随后忠实地转达了俄罗斯关于乌克兰平民在基辅附近的布查镇遭受酷刑和杀害的报道是”假新闻”的说法。
一直以来，入侵过去和现在都被称为”特别军事行动”，正如俄罗斯媒体所报道的那样。
“I think the majority of Chinese people don’t notice it because they either don’t pay attention to the war or they only get their news about it from Chinese media,” she told Al Jazeera.
“But if you are able to look beyond the firewall [a term used to describe China’s draconian censoring of the internet], you see that the war is talked about very differently and reported on very differently in international and Western media,” she told Al Jazeera.
Early on in the invasion, China’s state broadcaster CCTV ran claims that the United States had funded the development of biological weapons in Ukrainian labs. It was also reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had fled Kyiv in the wake of the first wave of Russian attacks.
Chinese media then dutifully relayed the Russian assertions that reports of torture and killings of Ukrainian civilians in the town of Bucha, near Kyiv, were ”fake news”.
All the while, the invasion was, and still is, being referred to as a “special military operation”, just as in Russian media.
然而，尽管存在审查制度以及信息泡沫，林和唐都注意到中国社交媒体上处理俄罗斯入侵的方式发生了变化。
战争爆发时，林书豪在中国社交媒体上看到了一些反战言论，但她所读的大部分帖子都是亲俄和反西方的。
林说:”现在，我认为批评俄罗斯的帖子和评论比以前多得多，而且在被审查员删除之前，他们熬夜的时间也更长。”
Despite the censorship and the information bubble, however, both Lin and Tang have noticed a change in the way the Russian invasion is being addressed on Chinese social media.
Lin saw some anti-war remarks on Chinese social media when the war first broke out but the vast majority of posts she read were pro-Russia and anti-Western.
“Now, I think that there is a lot more posts and comments that are critical of Russia compared to before, and they also stay up longer before they are removed by censors,” Lin said.
据泰国官员透露，在获得联合国难民地位后被拘留在泰国的60多名中国基督教徒将于下周被驱逐出境，很可能被驱逐到第三国。
美国国际宗教自由委员会在去年的年度报告中说，中国共产党要求宗教团体支持其统治和政治目标，包括改变其宗教教义，使其符合党的思想和政策。 该委员会说:”注册宗教团体和未注册宗教团体以及与中共发生冲突的个人都面临骚扰、拘留、逮捕、监禁和其他虐待。”
In its annual report last year, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom said the Chinese Communist Party requires religious groups to support its rule and political objectives, including by altering their religious teachings to conform with the party’s ideology and policy. “Both registered and unregistered religious groups and individuals who run afoul of the CCP face harassment, detention, arrest, imprisonment, and other abuses,” the commission said.
It’s another example of people from well beyond the Americas seeking refuge in the U.S.
— Read on www.axios.com/2023/03/29/uptick-chinese-migrants-southern-border
近几个月来，数千名中国移民和寻求庇护者抵达美墨边境，还有更多人在穿过哥伦比亚和巴拿马之间危险的达连峡谷丛林后向北进发。
Thousands of Chinese migrants and asylum seekers have arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, and many more are heading north after passing through the treacherous Darién Gap jungle between Colombia and Panama.
The Chinese government has threatened to take action should the U.S. and Taiwan go through with allowing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to meet.
— Read on www.foxnews.com/world/china-threatens-take-resolute-countermeasures-meeting-between-taiwans-tsai-house-speaker-mccarthy
The announcement, for which the distributor gave no reason, added to censorship concerns amid a government crackdown in the Chinese territory. 发行方没有说明理由的这一宣布，加剧了中国政府在中国领土上镇压的审查担忧。
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-rcna76046
香港——英国恐怖片《小熊维尼之血与蜜》在香港的公映突然被取消，这加剧了人们对中国领土上日益严格的审查制度的担忧……
自 2013 年以来，小熊维尼一直是中国的敏感话题，当时一张中国国家主席习近平和美国总统巴拉克奥巴马在加利福尼亚州一起散步的照片激发了中国互联网用户将他们比作笨手笨脚的熊和他无法抑制的朋友跳跳虎。 维尼这个角色已经成为一种轻松、戏仿的方式来指代最近获得前所未有的第三个任期的习近平，以及表达异议的一种方式……
这座拥有超过 700 万人口的城市仅在本月才取消了最后一次主要的“零 Covid”限制，正试图通过全面恢复文化和体育活动来重振其经济和作为国际金融中心的声誉，例如 周四开幕的巴塞尔艺术展亚洲版……
HONG KONG — Public screenings of the British horror film “Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey” have been abruptly called off in Hong Kong, adding to worries about growing censorship in the Chinese territory….
Winnie the Pooh has been a sensitive topic in China since 2013, when a photo of Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama strolling together in California inspired Chinese internet users to compare them to the bumbling bear and his irrepressible friend Tigger. The Pooh character has become a lighthearted, parodic way to refer to Xi, who recently secured an unprecedented third term in office, as well as a way to express dissent…….
The city of more than 7 million, which lifted its last major “zero-Covid” restrictions only this month, is trying to revive its economy and its reputation as an international financial hub with the full-scale return of cultural and sporting events such as the Asia edition of Art Basel, which starts Thursday….
Ukrainian fencing national team tried to take pictures with banner printed with photos of Ukrainian athletes killed by the Russians at the Fencing World Cup in communist China, the communist chinese immediately swarmed up to stop them.
乌克兰击剑国家队试图用印有乌克兰运动员在中共世界杯击剑比赛中被俄罗斯人杀害的横幅拍照，中共立即蜂拥而上阻止他们。
尽管各国领导人对私营部门表示”坚定不移的支持”，但该国最著名的企业家之一还是选择在海外呆上几个月 Even as leaders voiced “unwavering support” for the private sector, one of the country’s best-known entrepreneurs chose to spend months overseas.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Ant Group Co. Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma may be one of Beijing’s best chances at repairing its reputation with the private sector in China and beyond. But so far, the billionaire isn’t jumping on invitations from authorities. Lulu Chen reports on Bloomberg Television.
中国抗议美国南海航行自由行动
美国第七舰队宣布，在中国声称驱逐该船离开其领海的第二天，一艘美国军舰在南中国海进行了航行自由行动。
美国米利乌斯号（DDG-69）在帕尔群岛附近航行，然后进入南海，根据释放。
China Protests U.S. South China Sea Freedom of Navigation Operation A United States warship conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, near the Parcel Islands, the day after China claimed it chased away the ship from its territorial waters, the US 7th Fleet announced. USS Milius (DDG-69) sailed near the Parcel Islands and then into the South China Sea, according to the release.
据Michael McFaul周日报道，俄罗斯似乎忽视了与中国不将核武器部署到境外的协议。 Russia seems to have overlooked its agreement with China to not deploy nuclear weapons beyond their national borders, according to Michael McFaul on Sunday.
— Read on www.newsweek.com/putin-humiliated-chinas-xi-nuclear-decision-former-ambassador-1790382
普京和[白俄罗斯总统亚历山大]卢卡申科都羞辱了习近平。记住，Luka刚刚对中国进行了一次花哨的国事访问。习近平刚来莫斯科。无法想象这个决定在北京进展顺利，”
“Both Putin and [Belarusian President Alexander] Lukashenko humiliated Xi . Remember, Luka was just treated to a fancy state visit to China. Xi just came to Moscow. Can’t imagine this decision is going down well in Beijing,”
https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1639726926138056707?s=20
China is known for its stringent censorship regime, with popular apps like Douyin falling in line. The search term ‘Tiananmen 1989’ on Douyin did not yield any search result, CNN reported. But the same term searched on TikTok will lead to videos of users talking about the People’s Liberation Army’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing that year.
— Read on www.hindustantimes.com/technology/why-is-chinese-app-tiktok-inaccessible-in-china-101679819210659.html
中国短视频应用程序TikTok在全球范围内正面临艰难时期。虽然它已被英国、加拿大、法国、比利时、印度等国家禁止，但它正在努力防止自己被美国禁止。参议院已经投票禁止抖音使用所有政府设备。
Chinese short video app TikTok is facing a tough time globally. While it has been banned by countries like United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, India and others, it is fighting to prevent itself to be banned by the United States. The Senate has already voted to ban TikTok from all government devices.
中国以其严格的审查制度而闻名，抖音等热门应用程序也符合要求。据CNN报道，抖音上的搜索词“Tiananmen 1989”没有产生任何搜索结果。但在抖音上搜索的相同术语将导致用户谈论当年中国人民解放军对北京民主抗议者的残酷镇压的视频。
China is known for its stringent censorship regime, with popular apps like Douyin falling in line. The search term ‘Tiananmen 1989’ on Douyin did not yield any search result, CNN reported. But the same term searched on TikTok will lead to videos of users talking about the People’s Liberation Army’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing that year.
菲律宾一位官员说，菲律宾外交官在非公开会谈中与中国官员对峙，抗议中国在南中国海的侵略行为，但没有就这些问题达成任何重大决议。
参与会谈的一名菲律宾官员告诉美联社说，菲律宾外交人员概述了几起事件，突出了中国在非公开会谈中在争议水域的自信。 这位官员说，他们列举了中国的”入侵”事件和2月6日发生的一起事件，当时一艘中国海岸警卫队舰艇瞄准了军用级激光，使菲律宾巡逻艇的一些船员在一片有争议的浅滩上短暂失明。
这位官员说，中国代表的回应主要是重申北京对南中国海大部分海域的主权主张，并援引菲律宾船只的入侵。
A Philippine official says Filipino diplomats have confronted Chinese officials in closed-door talks with a slew of protests over China’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea but no major resolution was reached on the issues.
A Philippine official involved in the talks told The Associated Press that Filipino diplomats outlined several incidents underscoring China’s assertiveness in the disputed waters in the closed-door talks. They cited Chinese “incursions” and a Feb. 6 incident when a Chinese coast guard ship aimed a military-grade laser that briefly blinded some crew members of a Philippine patrol vessel off a disputed shoal, the official said.
China’s representatives responded mostly by reiterating Beijing’s claim of sovereignty in most of the South China Sea and citing intrusions by Philippine vessels, the official said.
Opinion :
China, without shame, 不知羞耻的中国
中国主张, 不只是冠状病毒属于自己, 全世界都是自己, China claims coronavirus isn’t just theirs, the whole world is theirs
This is a golden opportunity to seize for India, Vietnam, and the many other countries that are now offering themselves as alternatives. Not that Vietnam is any less communist or more respectful of freedom than Beijing, but it keeps a good distance from China and enjoys good relations with Washington.
As in the days of the first Cold War, the one with the USSR, the West is less careful with our allies than with our adversaries. Vietnamese communism, or the worrying Hindu nationalism of Narendra Modi in India, do not stand in the way of doing business with the blessing of Washington. It is cynical but hardly surprising.
Still, we are witnessing a major turning point in globalizat
— Read on worldcrunch.com/business-finance/globalization-china-trade-cold-war
TikTok’s chief executive has admitted that users’ data can be accessed by its Chinese parent company as it battles a potential ban in the United States.
— Read on sg.finance.yahoo.com/tiktok-chief-admits-chinese-parent-184832815.html
Orville Schell & Irena Grudzińska Gross about the country’s increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
— Read on www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/xi-jinping-china-tragedy-by-orville-schell-and-irena-grudzinska-gross-2023-03
尽管习近平去年年底终于结束了中国灾难性的零新冠肺炎政策，但他继续加倍努力深化国内专制和海外侵略的列宁主义项目。更多中西“脱钩”和冷战式集团的出现几乎是肯定的。
Although Xi Jinping finally ended China’s disastrous zero-COVID policy late last year, he has continued to double down on his Leninist project of deepening autocracy at home and aggression abroad. More Sino-Western “decoupling” and the emergence of Cold War-style blocs is all but assured.
China demands floor to query whether World Uighur Congress president is qualified to speak. Read more at straitstimes.com.
— Read on www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/china-tries-to-block-prominent-uighur-speaker-at-un
中国周四试图阻止一名著名的维吾尔族活动家在联合国人权理事会发表讲话，他要求该机构紧急处理关于北京严重违规行为的指控。 China attempted on Thursday to block a prominent Uighur activist from speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council, where he demanded the body urgently address allegations of serious violations by Beijing.
中国强大的防火墙阻止了人们使用各种网络服务，也阻止了中国人民受到威胁。 周三，中国数亿网民试图访问允许访问的网站被重定向到动态互联网技术（DIT）的主页。 一家销售允许中国公民绕过防火墙的技术的公司.
尽管官方媒体称这次故障是一次成功的黑客攻击，但知情人士周三告诉路透社记者，没有发现任何黑客企图，这使得这些消息来源怀疑，在修改防火墙时，是否只是人为错误造成了问题。
这个洞让许多中国公民第一次看到外面的数字世界。 多年来，中国出于各种原因封锁了包括DIT在内的网站，包括据称对其政府结构的威胁和限制对某些主题的评论。
China’s formidable Great Firewall, which blocks access to all sorts of Web services and perceived threats to the country’s people, was the victim of a glitch on Wednesday that saw hundreds of millions of Chinese Web users attempting to access allowed sites being redirected to the home page of Dynamic Internet Technology (DIT), a company that sells technology allowing Chinese citizens to get around the firewall.
Although state-run media outlets have said that the glitch was a successful hack, people apparently familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that no hacking attempts were identified, making those sources wonder whether simple human error caused the issue when modifications were made to the firewall.
The hole gave many Chinese citizens their first glimpse into the outside digital world. For years, China has been blocking Web sites, including DIT’s, for a myriad reasons, including alleged threats to its government structure and a desire to limit comments on certain topics.
中国人说，政府强迫每个人生育多少婴儿是很自然的。 中国人认为世界是一样的。 由中国脑力激荡的教育。
Chinese say it’s very natural government forced to have how many babies on every people. Chinese think the world is the same. By China’s Brainwahed education.
中国的爱国主义教育是长期的，不间断的。 中国共产党控制着社会的方方面面，包括经济、文化和媒体。 从幼儿园到大学的教育是中共的首要任务。中国共产党的洗脑教育造就了适应不了世界的中国人 China’s patriotic and war-wolf education is long-term with no interruptions. The Chinese Communist Party or CCP controls every aspect of society including the economy, culture, and media. Education from kindergarten to university is the CCP’s top priority.
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/frontier-influencers
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.
In the broader context of attempts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to censor speech, promote disinformation and seed the internet with its preferred narratives, we focus on a small but increasingly popular set of YouTube accounts that feature mainly female China-based ethnic-minority influencers from the troubled frontier regions of Xinjiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia, hereafter referred to as ‘frontier influencers’ or ‘frontier accounts’.
Despite being blocked in China, YouTube is seen by the CCP as a key battlefield in its ideological contestation with the outside world, and YouTube’s use in foreign-facing propaganda efforts has intensified in recent years. Originally deployed on domestic video-sharing platforms to meet an internal propaganda need, frontier-influencer content has since been redirected towards global audiences on YouTube as part of the CCP’s evolving efforts to counter criticisms of China’s human rights problems and burnish the country’s image.
Alongside party-state media and foreign vloggers, these carefully vetted domestic vloggers are increasingly seen as another key part of Beijing’s external propaganda arsenal. Their use of a more personal style of communication and softer presentation is expected to be more convincing than traditional party-state media content, which is often inclined towards the more rigid and didactic. For the CCP, frontier influencers represent, in the words of one Chinese propaganda expert, ‘guerrillas or militia’ fighting on the flanks in ‘the international arena of public opinion’, while party-state media or the ‘regular army’ ‘charge, kill and advance on the frontlines’.
这份报告探讨了中国政党国家的全球宣传和虚假信息能力是如何演进和日益成熟的。 令人担忧的是，中国政党国家影响有关中国的国际讨论的新方法，包括模糊其侵犯人权记录，在很大程度上是在美国社交媒体平台和西方决策者的监视下飞行的。
在中国共产党试图审查言论、宣传虚假信息和利用其首选叙事播撒互联网的更广泛的背景下，我们关注的是一些规模虽小但日益流行的YouTube账号，这些账号主要以来自新疆边疆地区的华裔女性为特色， 西藏和内蒙古，以下简称”边疆影响者”或”边疆账户”。
YouTube虽然在中国被封锁,但被中共视为与外部意识形态角逐的核心战场,最近几年YouTube在对外宣传上的使用正在加强。 最初部署在国内视频共享平台以满足内部宣传需要，此后，作为中共对抗对中国人权问题的批评和提高国家形象不断努力的一部分，前沿影响力内容已经转向YouTube上的全球受众。
除了党国媒体和外国博客，这些经过仔细审查的国内博客越来越被视为北京对外宣传武库的另一个关键部分。 他们使用更个人化的沟通方式和更柔和的表达方式，预计会比传统的党-国媒体内容更有说服力，后者往往倾向于更僵硬和更具教育意义的内容。 用一位中国宣传专家的话说，对中共来说，边疆势力代表着”国际舆论舞台”中的”游击队或民兵”，而政党国家媒体或”正规军”则代表着”冲锋陷阵、杀阵、在前线前进”。
由HurshidemAblikim主演的短片截图(附英文字幕)
资料来源:”人权”，YouTube，2020年4月23日，在线。
影响者是中国宣传的新面孔。 他们隐藏在关于小狗和化妆的博客中，秘密允许北京粉饰其危害人类的罪行。 YouTube虽然在中国被封锁,但已成为中国共产党重要的意识形态战场。 他们创造了一个全新的影响者生态系统，这些影响者遵循着党的路线。 通过这些视频，这些维吾尔族影响者将他们的祖国新疆描绘成田园诗般的繁荣景象。 然而，许多可信的报告记录了中国对维吾尔族人口持续犯下的罪行——从强奸、强迫绝育到奴役。 澳大利亚战略政策研究所的研究员Daria Impiombato和她的团队观看了其中的1700多个视频。 很快，他们发现了一个令人担忧的灰色区域，这些影响因素在其中运作。 通过在”多频道网络”或MCN工作， 这些”影响力机构”拥有国家认可的VPN网络，允许它们绕过无所不能的”中国防火墙”。 然而，这些机构与中国共产党有联系，其内容必须严格遵守中国法律。 北京的宣传机器正在试图控制叙事，不仅是在他们的边界内，而且也在你们的算法内。
Influencers are the new face of Chinese propaganda. Hidden amongst the vlogs about puppies and makeup, they clandestinely allow Beijing to whitewash its crimes against humanity. Despite being blocked in China, YouTube has become a key ideological battleground for the Chinese Communist Party. And they have created a whole new ecosystem of influencers who tow the party line. From looking at these videos, these Uygher influencers portray their homeland of Xinjiang as idyllic and prosperous. However, numerous and credible reports document China’s ongoing crimes against the Uygher population – from rape, forced sterilization to slave labor. Daria Impiombato, a Researcher at The Australian Strategic Policy Institute, and her team, watched over 1,700 of these videos. Soon enough, they found a worrying grey area in which these influencers operate. Through working for ‘multi-channel networks’ or MCNs,. These “influencer agencies”, with state-approved VPN networks, allow them to circumnavigate the all-powerful “Great Firewall of China”. However, these agencies are linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and their content must strictly follow Chinese law. Beijing’s propaganda machine is attempting to control the narrative, not just within their borders, but directly within your algorithms too.
Table 1: Frontier accounts on YouTube with more than 2,000 followers
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Figure 18: A video on the Ayituna (阿依图娜) channel describing the beautiful hair of the women in the vlogger’s family
Figure 24: Screenshots of posts from the @Maryamugul Twitter account featuring frontier influencer vide
Source: ‘Xinjiang Mali’ [新疆玛丽], Twitter, 9 October 2021, online; ‘Xinjiang Mali’ [新疆玛丽], Twitter, 27 May 2021, online.
The now-suspended @LeonaBenjamin18 Twitter account shares the same name and profile picture as the currently active @Maryamugul Twitter account
Source: Twitter.
Xiaowu Brothers’ post outlining ‘detailed rules for the review of online short video content’
Source: ‘Xiaowu Brothers’ [杭州小五和她的兄弟们科技有限公司], Facebook, 30 December 2021, online.
Meta’s blog post on Xiaowu Brothers’ success story
Source: Meta for Media, 5 August 2022, online.
Xiaowu Technology joint party branch held an organisational life meeting and carried out a criticism and self-criticism session of party members
Source: ‘Jincheng Xiaowu Technology’ [晋城小五科技], Weixin, 1 April 2022, online.
Pre-roll advertisements on videos about Xinjiang cotton, appearing on the ‘Annie Guli’ and ‘Chinar girl on horseback’ YouTube accounts, and a pop-up ad on the ‘GuLi XinJiang’ account
Sources: 安妮古丽 (Annie Guli), online; 马背少女驰娜尔 (Chinar girl on horseback), online; GuLi XinJiang, online.
在习近平看来，中国及其边疆地区的形象被用来遏制国家崛起的”外国势力”的负面形象扭曲了。 塑造一个”可信、可爱、可敬”的中国边疆形象，是为中国营造一个良好的内外环境，进而促进中国的稳定、发展和全球力量。 在中国被屏蔽的平台上出现了种族边界账户，这再次表明北京愿意尝试建立其全球话语权。
党国担心，向普通中国人开放社交媒体平台和其他互动渠道，将使他们面临受西方优越的”话语权”影响的风险，并破坏中共的政治计划。 中共不但没有鼓励中国网民广泛参与外国平台，反而继续限制他们跨防火墙进行对话，表明党国不相信中国公民”讲好中国故事”，除非他们通过指定的渠道被引导和引导。
边境影响账户越来越多地被用作北京日益增长的宣传武器库的一部分。 它们被视为一种可以利用的资源，但前提是它们得到适当的利用。 目前，他们的有效性似乎主要限于全球华人侨民。 但是，随着北京继续加大对社交媒体内容制作的政治控制，并使官方言论和自我表达更加一致，这些看似真实的报道很可能会被发布到全世界。
From Xi’s point of view, the image of China and its frontier regions is distorted by negative portrayals from ‘foreign forces’ used to contain the country’s rise. Creating a ‘credible, lovable, and respectable image’ of China’s frontier regions is meant to cultivate a favourable domestic and external environment for the PRC that will, in turn, facilitate the country’s stability, development and global power. The emergence of ethnic-frontier accounts on platforms blocked in China is another sign of Beijing’s willingness to experiment in building its global voice.
The party-state is concerned that opening up access to social media platforms and other interactive channels to regular Chinese people will expose them to the risk that they’ll be influenced by the West’s superior ‘discourse power’ and undermine the CCP’s political project. Far from encouraging widespread participation of Chinese internet users on foreign platforms, the CCP has continued to restrict them from engaging in dialogue across the firewall, indicating that the party-state doesn’t trust Chinese citizens to ‘tell China’s story well’ unless they’re led and guided through designated channels.
Frontier-influencer accounts are increasingly used as an emerging part of Beijing’s growing propaganda arsenal. They’re seen as a resource to be drawn on, but only if they’re harnessed properly. At present, their effectiveness appears to be mostly limited to the global Chinese diaspora. But, as Beijing continues to ramp up political control over social media content production and bring official discourse and self-expression further into line, more of these seemingly authentic accounts are likely to be unleashed onto the world.
更有甚者，据报道TikTok在本周向华盛顿支付了一大批影响力人士，要求他们在三天之内访问华盛顿特区，向立法者求爱，希望能避免禁令的通过。
TikTok的发言人Jamal Brown(h/t Politico)说:”华盛顿的立法者应该从那些生活将直接受其决定影响的人那里听到第一手消息。” “我们期待着欢迎我们的创造者来到我们国家的首都，帮助他们发出自己的声音，并继续为他们的生活和社区带来有意义的影响。”
近几个月来，包括美国联邦和州政府在内的各国政府越来越警惕TikTok，主要是担心推出TikTok应用的中国公司ByteDance所引发的国家安全相关担忧。
与此同时，《福布斯》的一项调查首次报道了TiKTOK母公司内正在寻找泄漏源的员工对记者的监控。
What’s more, TikTok is reportedly paying an army of influencers to descend on Washington DC over three days this week, courting lawmakers in the hopes of staving off a ban.
“Lawmakers in Washington debating TikTok should hear firsthand from people whose lives would be directly affected by their decisions,” said TikTok spokesperson Jamal Brown (h/t Politico). “We look forward to welcoming our creators to our nation’s capital, helping them make their voices heard, and continuing to drive meaningful impact in their lives and for their communities.”
Governments around the world, including in the US at both the federal and state levels, have grown increasingly wary of TikTok in recent months, primarily over national security-related concerns stemming from the Chinese company ByteDance that launched the app.
A Forbes investigation, meanwhile, was the first to report on the surveillance of journalists by employees within TiKTok’s parent company who were searching for the source of leaks.