China mobilizes global media machine to counter criticism over coronavirus crisis
With experts and government officials in the United States and Europe are accusing China of stoking that confusion over coronavirus crisis, the Asian superpower mobilizing its global media machine in the coronavirus war of words.Rod Wye, an associate fellow at the Chatham House think tank in London and former head of Asia research at the UK Foreign Office says China is trying to push three main messages about the outbreak.First, Beijing is seeking to spread its claims of being successful at controlling the virus, and show off the supplies and medical experts it is sending around the world. Second, it wants to obscure the origins of the virus. According to Wye, the timeline of the "Chinese narrative begins with the lockdown in Wuhan and the resolute action of the party to control it," not b...