Is China weaponizing the free press?
The Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a recent report has claimed China has built its discourse power beyond borders and engineered a change in the global news landscape.The new report, titled, “The China Story: Reshaping the World’s Media” was launched on June 25, by IFJ, the world’s largest voice for journalists.In its report, the IFJ did not hesitate to say that Red Republic’s media-warriors is increasing its global footprint in the world’s media and its strategy showed clear signs of targeting journalists to “outsource its influence” in developing countries with ineffective or repressive governments, yet also clearly cut across both the developed and developing world.Journalists from 58 countries were asked whether they received overtures from Beijing. The