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The Chinese Communist Party is turning to an odd source for its propaganda.

Travel vloggers.

Now, the CCP has been using its state-run news outlets and also other entities to promote the channels of propagandists.

And while the Chinese Communist Party's focus on travel bloggers have become kind of the face of this program,

the CCP is also extending this into a broader network of reporters, podcasters, presenters, influencers, and others

who it's using as tools to promote its propaganda by proxy.

Now, these operations have been allowed to take place mostly in the open,

but they could also run into similar pressure on things going after, for example, Russian disinformation

and other things because many people now are being charged criminally for allegedly working

as foreign agents for Russia for doing very similar things.

Now, first on the sudden influx of these travel vloggers going to China.

The Chinese Communist Party has lifted visa restrictions for many countries.

And this is causing a, you know, quote, travel rush.

Now, Chinese media have this to say. This is South China Morning Post.

They say an opinion piece, I never expected that foreigners could become the strongest

spokespeople for China. On YouTube, I've come across video headlines such as China is not

what we expected. I was wrong about China, so I came back. And the media doesn't want you

to see this in China, made by foreign vloggers, some of whom have many followers.

And also that China travel rush is underway, thanks in part to China rolling out a visa-free 24-hour transit policy for people from other countries around the world at all of its accessible exit entry ports.

And that's the keyword here because it only lets them into certain areas.

You're not allowed to travel to some key areas, notably.

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