The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its proxies "are using increasingly sophisticated and coercive tactics to influence media coverage and suppress critical reports."
It includes intimidation of journalists, according to "Beijing's Global Media Influence 2022," a report released in September by U.S.-based human rights and democracy nonprofit Freedom House.
"Political and economic pressure through the signing of free trade agreements is a mechanism Beijing uses with emerging or developing countries," said Luis Ángel Hurtado, a political communications expert and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The report examines China's infiltration tactics in the press . . .
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