The Chinese government is "big propaganda" all over the world. The picture shows a Chinese propaganda slogan on a road in Serbia.

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[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] There are pro-China remarks in Taiwanese society from time to time, and many people are worried that the recipients of the messages will lose their ability to think independently. As for whether the CCP’s propaganda is really effective, Shen Rongqin, an associate professor at York University in Canada, shared on Facebook A multinational study and its surprising findings.

Shen Rongqin wrote an article on Facebook titled "Is the Chinese Communist Party's Great Foreign Propaganda Effective?", stating that the question is "will people be immune to the influence of foreign government propaganda because they live in a society with sufficient information? Will people be immune to the influence of foreign government propaganda because they live in a democratic society?" Is it impossible to be influenced by foreign propaganda to support the authoritarian regime?"

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He cited a recent transnational study conducted by scholars from Yale and Harvard. They compared the foreign propaganda of the Chinese and American governments. The former promoted an autocratic system, while the latter promoted a democratic system. They took 19 countries across 6 continents as research samples, and the results were It was found that when the subjects were exposed to China's foreign propaganda, many people really believed that the CCP can bring about economic growth and social stability.

Shen Rongqin shared the research results, saying that regardless of rich or poor countries, democracies or dictatorships, on average, after receiving the CCP’s propaganda, the rate of believing that the Chinese dictatorship model is better than the American democratic model increased from 16% to 54%. Especially in Africa and Latin America, it is particularly effective. In contrast, the effect of the US government's large-scale publicity on people's increase in the US's democracy and economic system is much smaller.

Shen Rongqin said that from this point of view, the CCP’s big foreign propaganda, “From famous mouthpieces who often receive Chinese information and some media in Taiwan who claim to discuss news with CCP officials on the phone every day, even if they don’t consider the effectiveness of money at all, just by absorbing It also has an impact on audiences in Taiwan."