narratives that suit its goals, how is it on occasions trying to put this information into the information ecosystem? let's start by understanding these broad ambitions of president xijinping and everyone else within the chinese state. i'm joined by howard zhang, editor of bbc news chinese, but first of all, yuan yang, europe, china correspondent for the financial times, how would you outline china's media strategy and its ambitions? yes, thanks for having me, ros. so, there's been a really big push, particularly, ithink, after the us—china trade war, since 2018, four chinese state media employee is notjust 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