Recently, a list of nine tactics of CCP propaganda has been circulating on the Internet, six of which are aimed at domestic media and the last three at foreign media, or the so-called “Great Foreign Propaganda”. Regardless of whether the list is really from within the Chinese Communist Party system, its contents are well observed and thoroughly analyzed, so I would like to share them with you here.
The most basic three moves are to deliver basic political information through the mainstream media, and to provide basic “ideological guidance” and “behavioral guidance”. The fourth interesting move is to consciously deliver “soft information” to those who are not keen on political news through platforms such as Weibo, Weixin and ShakeYin, packaging political information as entertainment information for daily subconscious guidance. The fifth tactic is to create topics, both positive and negative, through microblogs, B-site, Douban and other platforms that do not seem to be political, and to drive the rhythm of social media by using the net army to wash the pages and reply to posts, in order to “influence the daily thinking and judgment of viewers”.
The sixth operation against the domestic media is actually also very “brilliant”. When the information is out of control or credibility crisis erupts, the focus of attention is diverted by disguising it as personal revelations, abandoning the pawn to protect the marshal, looking for the target to take the blame, creating revelations, thereby enabling the public to vent their grievances, thus avoiding the core issues, and even going so far as to break their wrists to blacken themselves and build heroes, in order to divert attention.
However, the most virulent tactics are the three “big foreign propaganda” tactics against foreign media. What is more powerful is that the CCP can create negative information through oil pipes, Twitter and overseas pro-democracy movements, with three parts true and seven parts false, deliberately “low-level blackness”, causing the public to gradually become disgusted with it on the Internet. Rational opinion leaders, with seven parts true and three parts false, usually maintain an objective and neutral analysis, and are deliberately fed by the officials, but at the critical moment, this kind of “ultimate infernal” will change color to cooperate with the CCP for “positive guidance” and harvest the last audience!
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