Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push

An ASPI report argues that Beijing uses Chinese tech firms and emerging technologies—such as generative AI, mobile gaming, and immersive platforms—to harvest data and refine global propaganda efforts, positioning these companies as foundational to future information exchange. It highlights China’s regulatory moves and experiments with gamified propaganda, contrasts views from another think tank on China’s organizational effectiveness, and recommends that governments scrutinize supply chains, classify certain ML/cloud services as dual-use, and standardize data storage to preempt authoritarian data misuse.