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October 2020
China’s Disinformation Campaigns in the Nordic Countries: Lessons from Central Europe
Following the Covid-19 outbreak, China pursued wide-ranging disinformation campaigns in Europe aimed at shifting the narrative from being depicted as the country of origin for the coronavirus crisis, to a savior in response to the pandemic. The so-called ‘mask diplomacy’, later criticized as a poorly masked “charm offensive”, utilized social media campaigns to criticize specific countries’ poor handling of the pandemic and peddled a good degree of misinformation in pursuit of their desired image. CHOICE founder Ivana Káráskova will be…
Find out more »Oxford Debate: Will Europe Choose the U.S. Over China?
U.S.-China relations are as tense as ever and the middle ground continues to disappear. The ongoing pandemic has just been another opportunity for the two superpowers to display their dismay with each other, adding to disputes over trade, technology, security at the expense of journalists, academics, entrepreneurs and many more, not least third countries under pressure from both sides. In this conflict, will Europe align with its traditional ally across the Atlantic to defend "Western values"? Or will it carve…
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