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How China's State Media Works: Xinhua to Wolf Warrior
How China's state media works: six institutions from Xinhua to CGTN, five influence layers, the Wolf Warrior shift and why the playbook stalls in AI engines.

How China's state media works: six institutions from Xinhua to CGTN, five influence layers, the Wolf Warrior shift and why the playbook stalls in AI engines.

China spends more on external influence than any country except the U.S. The owned-media infrastructure is the largest of any state. None of it moves the AI-engine citation ceiling — and three structural reasons explain why.