us, now, tiktok absolutely denies that, chinese estate spokespeople have been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put this information into the information ecosystem? let s information ecosystem ? let s start information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xi jinping and everyone else within the chinese state. i am joined by howard zhang, editor of bbc news chinese, but first, nguyen, how would you outline china s media strategy and its ambitions? ambitions? yes, thanks for havin: ambitions? yes, thanks for having me ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there - ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there has i ambitions? yes, thanks for. having me on. there has been ambitions? yes, thanks
people from the surrounding structures injured. a fire had been hampering rescue workers in their search for victims. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for the media show. china and the information war. hello, welcome to this latest edition of the media show, and we will spend the programme talking about china s media strategy. i m sure you have seen tiktok has been in the news. its ceo was in front of us lawmakers taking lots of questions about whether tiktok, which is owned by a chinese company, potentially poses a security threat to the us. now, tiktok absolutely denies that. chinese state spokespeople have been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put disinformation into the information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping
been saying they deny that as well. but it has raised broader questions about what china hopes to achieve with its media strategy around the world. how is it trying to create narratives that suit its goals? how is it, on occasions, trying to put disinformation into the information ecosystem? let s start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping and everyone else within the chinese state. i am joined by howard zhang, editor of bbc news chinese. but first, yuan yang, how would you outline china s media strategy and its ambitions? yes, thanks for having me on. there has been a really big push, particularly after the us china trade war in 2018, for chinese state media employees not only to speak to a chinese audience using the controlled media environment within china, but increasingly to reach out to an english speaking audience and to a foreign audience more widely, including on foreign social media platforms like twitter that are in fact censored or banned
even the other big media organisations, when it comes to political meetings, take the text literally from xinhua, which is why ijoined them. because if you re going to be in china, you might as well start essentially at the top. did you see yourself as a journalist? no, i had no background at all. i mean, istudied media at university, but no, i worked in local government in the uk. so why did you do it? for love, basically. i met a girl and moved to china. she had a job there and so i moved for a holiday, and i thought, if i m going to be in this place, i might as well experience the country as close as possible. and to the point that howard and yuan were making, did you feel that your presence in a chinese media organisation like xinhua had extra currency because of the fact that you re british? 0h, of course. i m a face, that s what we call ourselves. so i knew i got in because i m from england, i m six foot and white, and i have
according to the chinese state media, is very different to our conception ofjournalism in the anglo saxon or british context. and just before we go on to some other areas that i want to ask all of you about, we heard from yuan yang that she has concerns about the content coming out of xinhua, but some people who work there may disagree. when you were there, was everyone quite open about the fact that this wasn t journalism as some people might expect it, or were there others who said no, we re doing proper work here and this is justified? yes, there is an awareness, but really, i think you ve got to look at the staff who work there. again, it s not really a media organisation. it s a government organisation. they haven t had that wider scope of. yes, we had a shorthand. i would hand pieces back that i would feel would be overly propaganda and wouldn t be swallowed by the wider world,