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Beijing added to its stable of foreign-facing propaganda publications—such

where it was still internally referred to as

the Party once again directly engaged with

as the Party persecuted those in China with foreign ties. But

and a few Western writers and journalists

Communist China used organizations such as the China News

but they are always important to follow as indicators of the

and substantive elements in China’s diplomacy ( 外交 ).

the themes of its external propaganda have

but under Xi it has become a top priority of China’s party-state.

and raise the country’s soft power and the

we should improve our international communication

where he again stressed the importance of external propaganda

which was launched in 2007 by former Party general

President Xi Jinping has overseen the intensification of this

a concerted campaign to control overseas Chinese-language media

has come with a rapid expansion of China’s English-language

which it accuses of distorting news about China and

China’s rise as a major player in the media landscape

which set up shop in the Empire State Building. 2