Speakers: Dr. Abbos Bobokhonov of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Igor Patrick of South China Morning Post, and Dr. Maria Repnikova of Georgia State University
China’s media influence is increasingly prominent in the Global South. China is sponsoring large-scale official media outreach, journalistic exchanges, media investments, content-sharing agreements, and many other initiatives in the region. Some Western commentators and politicians are warning that the Global South is already lost to China. The Carter Center, the Atlanta Global Studies Center and The China Research Center of Atlanta bring together an innovative panel of experts to tackle this fast-moving phenomenon. Dr. Maria Repnikova, an Associate Professor at Georgia State, will discuss China’s media reach into Africa, drawing on her fieldwork in Ethiopia. Dr. Abbos Bobohonov, head of the Asia-Pacific Studies Center at the Institute for Advanced International Studies in Tashkent, and a Fulbright Fellow at Georgia State, will introduce China’s media politics in Central Asia. And Igor Patrick, a Brazilian journalist, currently at the South China Morning Post, will talk about his recent book on Chinese propaganda in Latin America.
