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Reporters Without Borders released a report exposing how China uses media diplomacy and other strategies to export an authoritarian information control model abroad, aiming to amplify its own narrative and marginalize unfavorable information.

On August 31, 2026, Reporters Without Borders released a report pointing out that Chinese authorities are mass-disseminating official narratives in Turkey through cooperating media and sponsorships, constituting transnational speech suppression against local Uyghur journalists and dissident groups.

On July 17, 2026, more than 50 international human rights and press freedom organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, Safeguard Defenders, and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, issued a joint statement calling on the Thai government to urgently halt the deportation of Chinese exiled investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong.