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Chinese help during the Covid-19 pandemic often feed a PR narrative that 'the West' had abandoned the region (Photo: Ministry of foreign affairs of Peru)

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Why was central Europe open to China's Covid disinformation?

Disillusionment with democracy, a lack of public debate on China and other states' disinformation campaigns, and local politicians playing into fake-news narratives are all combining to make central and eastern Europe more susceptible to foreign influence.

"With Covid-19, China really accelerated its influence and information campaign in the eastern and central European region. Our data showed that it really resonated among the people," Katarína Klingová, a senior research fellow of th...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Chinese help during the Covid-19 pandemic often feed a PR narrative that 'the West' had abandoned the region (Photo: Ministry of foreign affairs of Peru)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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