Since December 4 last year, when Xi Jinping declared China’s victory in the fight against poverty during a meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee, this claimed victory has been a centrepiece of the CCP’s propaganda efforts, both domestically and globally. Those efforts have further intensified since February 25, when Xi again spoke of a “complete victory” during […]
Author Archives: David Bandurski
David is the co-director of the China Media Project, a research and fellowship program with the Journalism & Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. A frequent commentator on Chinese media, his writings have appeared in Far Eastern Economic Review, the Wall Street Journal, Index on Censorship, the SCMP and others.