EPISODE 34: Demystifying China's "discourse power"

Disinformation Wars

In this episode of DISINFORMATION WARS, host Ilan Berman talks to Tuvia Gering, a scholar at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies, about the ways in which Beijing is shaping global discourse - and what the PRC is saying to the world.

Tuvia Gering is a researcher at the Diane & Guilford Glazer Foundation Israel-China Policy Center at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv, Israel, and a non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub. He is also the author of Discourse Power on Substack, and you can find him @geringtuvia on Twitter.

MATERIALS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE:

Kenton Thibaut's reports on Discourse Power for the Atlantic Council:

1) China’s discourse power operations in the Global South

2) Chinese discourse power: Ambitions and reality in the digital domain

3) Chinese discourse power: Capabilities and impact

Pew’s most recent poll on global attitudes toward China.