Chinese Global Media Strategies and Their Footprints in South Asia

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October 8, 2024 | Observer Research Foundation | By Col (Dr) DCS Mayal

At the same time, China discourages adverse reporting through warnings, legal threats, visa denials, deportations, arrests, and transnational repression—to target CCP dissenters, China labels individuals as “economic fugitives” and works with the Interpol, overseas Chinese police stations, and Overseas Chinese Assistance Centres to ensure their repatriation on charges of corruption. Chinese transnational repression extends to surveilling Uyghurs abroad. In 2021, the Uyghur Human Rights Project, an advocacy group based in Washington, had counted 395 cases of Uyghurs being sent to China since 1997.

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