Enlisting Propaganda for Agenda Building: The Case of the Global Times
Abstract:
This article uses agenda building theory to examine how the People’s Republic of China is using propaganda in the form of news to build an agenda within global news media as part of their Three Warfares Strategy. This qualitative content analysis of the English language version of the Global Times revealed that the PRC is building an offensive news agenda to directly challenge the credibility and legitimacy of its rivals. It is obsessively preoccupied by receiving blame for COVID-19-related mistakes and threats of economic decoupling.
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Joint Special Operations University
Tampa, Florida, United States
Douglas S. Wilbur (Ph.D., University of Missouri at Columbia) specializes in the role of propaganda and information warfare in violent conflict and war. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In a previous life, he was an Information Operations Officer in the U.S. Army with four deployments.
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Journal of Information Warfare
The definitive publication for the best and latest research and analysis on information warfare, information operations, and cyber crime. Available in traditional hard copy or online.
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