Several government officials, including a ranking Philippines Coast Guard officer and a media organization, have become the latest targets of China’s aggressive assertions against those critical of their actions in the South China Sea.
In this episode of #CorrespondentsOnTaiwanPlus, host Andrew Ryan speaks to Summer Chen, founder of Taiwan-based initiative FactLink, and Regine Cabato, a contributor at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), to discuss China’s information war in the region and how journalists can fight back.
00:00 – Intro
01:30 – Chinese Embassy targets media in Manila row
04:20 – Cabato: ‘Scary’ to be on China embassy radar
05:42 – Taiwan fact-checkers on alert for disinformation
06:32 – Pro-Duterte influencers get Beijing training
08:17 – Chen cautions against labeling influencers
10:05 – Is influencer diplomacy being weaponized?
Watch this episode of Correspondents, where we go beyond the headlines with experts and journalists in Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific region.
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