Minitrue Plus Five: January 7, 2020 – Libya, South China Sea, Sacked Officials

[China Digital Times] - 01/7/2025

In late 2020, CDT acquired and verified a collection of propaganda directives issued by central Party authorities to state media at the beginning of that year. These directives were issued on an almost daily basis in early 2020 through the early weeks of what would become the COVID-19 pandemic, (…)



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