When it comes to information warfare, the CCP’s totalitarian regime occupies the high ground compared to democratic regimes. For example, the Party blocks media from all democratic countries, but is able to insert its state-run media in democratic societies. The CCP prevents media from democratic countries from adding inserts to its media, but the CCP can insert its own content into the media from democratic societies, or it simply acquires them when convenient. CCP media serve the Party first and foremost, and Western journalists will never have executive roles. The CCP can, however, send its own undercover people into Western media or train foreigners into being mouthpiece reporters for the Party’s media. As long as the West still regards the CCP media as legitimate, the West will continue to lose in the information war. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered Xinhua News Agency and China Global TV Network to register as foreign agents in the United States. It was a correct step, but is still far from sufficient — the problem is the lack of reciprocity in the first place. The CCP’s foreign propaganda campaign is a major project aimed at globally reshaping the public’s views on the regime, and it has met with some of its desired results. The CCP spreads its noxious ideology through this propaganda work, which has severely misled people about the regime, its mode of operations, its human rights abuses, and communism in general. Read more in Chapter Eighteen: The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Ambitions (Part II) https://ept.ms/30xXrsF