“What makes Chinese disinformation different is that it rarely looks like disinformation at all. Instead of pushing Latin falsehood, it works by reshaping the conceptual language through which people interpret reality. Ideas like stability, peace, sovereignty or development. Once those concepts are subtly redefined, individual facts become less important, because they are interpreted within a framework, already tilted in China’s favour. This is why, much of China’s influence relies on repetition, selective framing and institutional authority, rather than emotional manipulation. The goal is not to convince audience that China is right, but to make alternative interpretations equally valid, or equal questionable.” – says dr Maciej Gaca, CIR’s expert and professor in Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, in “Anatomy of Disinformation”, TVP World
