The Dalai Lama watches a performance during a celebration for his 90th birthday at the Main Tibetan Temple courtyard in Dharamsala, India, July 6, 2025.
China’s information operations represent a systematic, institutionalized approach to global narrative management that transcends conventional propaganda. China has built one of the most sophisticated sustained information warfare campaigns in contemporary history, deploying coordinated mechanisms including expansive digital surveillance, AI-generated content, and platform manipulation.
Bankrolled by enormous state investment, Beijing’s propaganda and online influence operations now extend far beyond its borders, seeking to normalize authoritarian governance and redefine reality itself, one algorithm, platform, and rewritten history at a time. And Tibetans – especially the Dalai Lama – are a prominent target. China’s information operations seek to erase Tibetan cultural identity while manufacturing consent for assimilationist rule.
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