Agenda

In recent years, China’s leadership has developed a more assertive approach and new ways of communicating at home and abroad. The workshop aims to provide a toolkit necessary to disentangle and analyse China’s official narratives and the ideologies and rationale behind them. Thanks to the participation of leading experts in the fields of China’s history, political communication, public diplomacy, propaganda and disinformation, and the partnership with China Files, the workshop will shed light on the contents and strategies of China’s official communication on a number of crucial and critical issues. This initiative is part of a one-year project “Countering Chinese disinformation in Italy” carried out by IAI with the support of the U.S. Mission to Italy through its 2022 Annual Program Statement grant program.

9.30-9.45
Introduction

9.30 – 9.40
Beatrice Gallelli (Istituto Affari Internazionali & Ca’ Foscari University)

9.40 – 9.45
Riccardo Alcaro (Istituto Affari Internazionali)

9.45 -10.30
Deconstructing Chinese official narratives

Panelists
James Millward (Georgetown University), History and Diversity in Modern China
Marina Rudyak (Heidelberg University), Decoding Chinese-style Modernisation
Una Berzina Cherenkova (Riga Stradins University), China’s narratives on Russia’s war in Ukraine

Chair: Beatrice Gallelli (Istituto Affari Internazionali & Ca’ Foscari University)

10.30-11.00
Q&A

11.00 – 12.30
Interactive workshop: Talks from and on China

Moderators:
Lucrezia Goldin (China Files) Sabrina Moles (China Files)

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The workshop is part ofaone-year project “Countering Chinese disinformation in Italy” carried out by IAI with the support of the U.S. Mission to Italythrough its 2022 Annual Program Statement grant program.