Reporters Without Borders’ Propaganda Monitor investigates China’s push to reshape the global media order

China is the world's biggest jailer of journalists, ranking 178 out of 180 countries and territories. Since 2012, under the rule of leader Xi Jinping, the country has expanded its influence beyond its borders to impose an "ideologically correct" vocabulary, deter criticism, and cover up its crimes against humanity.

Through investigations published on the Propaganda Monitor mini-siteand exclusive contributions from international experts, think tanks and exiled and diaspora media outlets, the project will unveil the Chinese regime's strategies for exporting its model of information control - a system in which journalism is subordinated to state propaganda. The project will highlight key tactics, including substantial investments in modernising China's international broadcasting, financial stakes in foreign outlets, and "training programmes" inviting journalists from developing countries to travel to China, where they are encouraged to adopt and relay Beijing's official narratives.

To mark the launch of The Propaganda Monitor: The Chinese Edition, RSF is publishing brand new articles, covering how Caribbean media from Grenada, Jamaica and Guyana are swimming in a sea of Chinese propaganda, the expansion of Chinese state mouthpiece CGTN, and how China exploits the economic struggles of the press in the Solomon Islands, in the Pacific, to impose its narratives.

In 2019, RSF published the report "China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order," which exposed the Beijing regime's tactics to export its repressive vision of journalism, while the 2021 report "The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China" detailed China's efforts to control news and the media both within and outside its borders.