public opinion guidance
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The Central Propaganda Department
The Central Propaganda Department 中央宣传部 ཀྲུང་དབྱང་དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས་པུའུ། has unified supervision over news and publishing work. Since China is officially a democracy, in which the masses have oversight of the ruling party, it is essential that the masses be trained to think the right thoughts.
Propaganda
Propaganda宣传 xuanchuan དྲིལ་བསྒྲགས། does not have the connotations it has in the West, where it means a distorted message, spin, even lies. In China (as in the Soviet Union) propaganda has the positive meaning of educating the public in how to think well, how to adopt the right stance, feel the right emotions.
Patriotic education campaign
Patriotic education is mandatory, built into the curriculum of even the youngest children, a pedagogy of compulsory love of the flag and the single race of the Chinese nation.
Mass persuasion
zhanling yulun zhendi གླེང་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི་གཡུལ་ས་བཙན་བཟུང་། is an ongoing party-state initiative to extend thought work into civil society online, engaging with citizens in popular language, to shift public opinion to a favourable view of the party state, literally, occupying public opinion fields.
Thought work
Thought work 思想工作 sīxiǎng gōngzuò བསམ་བློའི་ལས་དོན། is vitally important so that public opinion is massaged, nudged , persuaded and sometimes flooded with patriotic fervour, to ensure the CCP mass line is aligned with public opinion.
Public opinion Guidance
Today’s torrents of patriotic social media posts, triggered by any perceived disrespect or questioning of China, didn’t come out of nowhere. The coaching, coaxing, networking, incentivising, censoring and facilitating of correct expressions of righteous anger has been a major project of the party-state, over a long period.
Public intelligence industry
Public intelligence industry,舆情 yuqing is what has replaced the Fifty cent army of patriotic trolls who were paid to endlessly retweet the official line, and drown out dissenters, for pay.