{"id":1948502,"date":"2023-06-15T18:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-propaganda-seeks-to-undermine-european-unity-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T18:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:23:27","slug":"ccp-propaganda-seeks-to-undermine-european-unity-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-propaganda-seeks-to-undermine-european-unity-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts claim that CCP propaganda aims to weaken European unity."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fccp-propaganda-seeks-to-undermine-european-unity-experts-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1948502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0615\/5a49925f-29ac-444c-a2ed-22931fb6eca9\/audio.mp3?length=4242861&#038;duration=354\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-detains-catholic-priests-and-students-for-reeducation-programming\/\" title=\"China Detains Catholic Priests and Students for Reeducation Programming\">communist leadership<\/a> is attempting to fracture European unity and sow distrust in international organizations, according to testimony received by a U.S. government agency.<\/p>\n<p>China now considers a politically fragmented Europe to be among its core interests, according to Andrew Small, a senior fellow for the German Marshall Fund think tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that has been one of the big shifts on the Chinese side [in recent years],\u201d Small said during a June 15 hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe belief has \u2026 become that it\u2019s better to be able to deal with individual European member states on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cruz-shreds-democrats-push-for-red-flag-laws-as-a-way-to-open-the-door-to-comprehensive-gun-control\/\" title=\"WATCH: Cruz Shreds Democrats\u2019 Push For Red Flag Laws \u2018As A Way To Open The Door To Comprehensive Gun Control\u2019\">individual basis<\/a>, it\u2019s better to be able to sort of carve up Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Small said that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which rules China as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/on-the-birthday-of-historys-biggest-mass-murderer-ccp-backed-media-celebrates-maos-warm-and-powerful-smile\/\" title=\"On The Birthday Of History\u2019s Biggest Mass Murderer, CCP-Backed Media Celebrates Mao\u2019s \u2018Warm And Powerful Smile\u2019\">single-party state<\/a>, views European unity to be a threat to its interests. CCP leader Xi Jinping is determined to isolate European nations and encourage them to break away from working with the United States against the regime, Small said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe approach on the Chinese side and the assessment of Xi Jinping will certainly be that fragmenting Europe on this, and complicating the capacity for Europe to pull together on these actions, is a course of action they should proceed down.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><b>Europe Disillusioned by CCP<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>European nations are rapidly souring on the CCP due to the regime\u2019s ongoing support for Russia and its war of conquest in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>While many European nations are wary of getting involved in the U.S.-China rivalry, Small said, their hope for robust engagement with China cratered after Xi\u2019s visit to Moscow in March. There, he and Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to unite to create change in the international system that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/xi-to-putin-russia-china-are-driving-change-which-hasnt-happened-in-100-years_5142115.html\">hasn\u2019t happened in 100 years<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was tried as a \u2018peace mission\u2019 by Chinese diplomats,\u201d Small said, \u201cand I think it was absolutely clear that Xi Jinping had no intention of even pretending that that was the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Council meeting that took place after the Xi Jinping trip to Moscow was characterized by real concern on the part of European leaders about what the trajectory of China-Russia relations actually was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Small said the CCP had determined that its relationship with Russia was more important than ties with the European Union (EU) for fulfilling its military, political, and ideological goals.<\/p>\n<p>That acknowledgment has given EU nations some resolve to counter the regime, with many now considering China an unwelcome interloper in European security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe damage to relations has been incredibly pronounced, but I think it\u2019s reconditioned thinking in Europe so that there\u2019s a different level of understanding essentially of China as an enabler of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sleepy-joe-bidens-gang-who-stole-election-postpones-inauguration-rehearsal-claiming-security-threats-obama-advisor-lisa-monaco-to-take-over\/\" title=\"Sleepy Joe Biden\u2019s Gang Postpones Inauguration Rehearsal Claiming Security Threats \u2013 Obama Advisor Lisa Monaco to Take Over\">security threats<\/a> in Europe,\u201d Small said.<\/p>\n<h2><b>\u2018The Narrative Is Different\u2019<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps with that knowledge in mind, the CCP is adapting its international propaganda to spark unrest in the EU, according to Ivana Karaskova, a fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past several years, she said, CCP propaganda has been strategically targeting European nations to create divisions and undermine trust in international organizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is actively trying to divide Europe and undermine international organizations, says testimony received by a US government agency. Andrew Small, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, reveals that China now views a politically divided Europe as one of its key interests. This highlights China&#8217;s strategic intentions and potential impact on global unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":1948503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7126,6094,4893,5075,4521,4488,5017,15217],"class_list":["post-1948502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-ccp","tag-aims","tag-claim","tag-european","tag-experts","tag-propaganda","tag-unity","tag-weaken"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}