https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000z2yt
“China’s Magic Weapon” – shining a light on the CCP’s propaganda machine:BBC 2 programme to be broadcast on August 23rd at 21.00pm
Governments around the world are uncovering secret operations to expand China’s influence – the work of a little-known branch of the Chinese Communist Party called the United Front Work Department. President Xi has called it his ‘magic weapon’.
Australia has changed its laws to combat foreign interference, and America says eight out of ten industrial espionage cases now involve China. So what is the United Front doing in the UK? Jane Corbin investigates this powerful but shadowy organisation. Has influence become interference as China bids to become the most powerful nation on earth?
It’s been done before…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany
Extract from American Experience which highlights the role of the Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Ministry of Hitler’s Third Reich.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goebbels-biography/
As Hitler’s Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Goebbels masterminded the Nazi propaganda machine and executed its murderous agenda. One Vast Propaganda Machine
When Hitler ascended to power in 1933, Goebbels took over the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, which controlled radio, press, publishing, cinema and the other arts. Goebbels subjected artists and journalists to state control and eliminated all Jews and political opponents from positions of influence. On May 10, 1933, he staged a massive book burning in Berlin, where university students destroyed the works of Jewish and other blacklisted authors in huge bonfires. Goebbels promoted the Nazis’ anti-Semitic message through black and white films such as The Eternal Jew (1940) and reinforced an ideology of Nazi supremacy with Leni Riefenstahl’s state-funded documentaries Triumph of the Will, about a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1934, and Olympia, about the Berlin Olympics of 1936. “While Hitler is a fair orator … Goebbels is a past master,” observed American ambassador William E. Dodd. “He … has combined all the newspaper, radio, publications and art activities in Germany into one vast propaganda machine.”
