Acknowledgements

Contributors

Freedom House staff:

• Sarah Cook, Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Author of global essays and co-author of Israel and United States reports
• Angeli Datt, Senior Research Analyst for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Co-author of Australia, France, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, Taiwan, and United Kingdom reports
• Ellie Young, Research Analyst for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Co-author of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Kuwait, Mozambique, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Spain, and Tunisia reports
• BC Han, Research Associate for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Co-author of Chile, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, and Sri Lanka reports

Shannon O’Toole, Tyler Roylance, David Meijer, and Elisha Aaron edited Beijing’s Global Media Influence.

Michael Abramowitz, Nicole Bibbins Sedaca, Annie Boyajian, Lara Shane, Adrian Shahbaz, Nate Schenkkan, and Allie Funk provided valuable feedback on the global findings.

Yu-Fen Lai contributed research assistance. Josh Rudolph provided editorial assistance. Marta Hulievska provided support.

Funding

The project was made possible through the generous support of the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Hurford Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Arch Puddington Fund for Combatting Authoritarianism, which was established by generous donors in honor of Senior Emeritus Scholar Arch Puddington to help carry forward his decades-long commitment to the cause of freedom and democracy. Our donors do not influence the organization’s research priorities, report findings, or policy recommendations.

Country Researchers

• Australia: Dr. Fan Yang, research assistant at RMIT University and Deakin ADI 
• Chile: Sascha Hannig, Associated researcher, Instituto Desafíos de la Democracia (IDD)
• Colombia: Dr. Carolina Urrego-Sandoval, Universidad de los Andes, Professo, Department of Political Science and Global Studies
• Ghana: Dr. Aurelia Ayisi, Department of Communication Studies, University of Ghana
• Indonesia: Dr. Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, Lecturer, Universitas Islam Indonesia
• Italy: Laura Harth, Campaigns Director, Safeguard Defenders
• Kuwait: Mohammad J. alYousef, PhD Student in Political Science, University of Virginia
• Malaysia: Benjamin Loh, Senior Lecturer, School of Media & Communication, Taylor's University
• Mozambique: Dércio Tsandzana, PhD, independent researcher
• Nigeria: Dr. Emeka Umejei, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
• Philippines: Camille Elemia, Freelance Journalist
• Poland: Alicja Bachulska, China Analyst, MapInfluenCE
• Romania: Andreea Brinza, researcher, The Romanian Institute for the Study of the Asia-Pacific (RISAP)
• South Africa: Barry van Wyk, Analyst, The China Project
• Spain: Shiany Pérez-Cheng, Research Associate, Resilient Futures
• Taiwan: Jaw-Nian Huang, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University
• Tunisia: Oumayma Ben Abdallah, Georgetown University, independent researcher on North Africa-China issues
• United Kingdom: Sam Dunning, Freelance Journalist
• United States: Yuichiro Kakutani, freelance journalist and Georgetown University, graduate student

Researchers for Argentina, Brazil, France, India, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Senegal, and Sri Lanka wished to remain anonymous.

Advisers/Reviewers

• Martin Hala, Charles University, Prague, and Project Sinopsis
• Mareike Ohlberg, Senior Fellow, Asia Program, German Marshall Fund
• Joshua Kurlantzick, Senior Fellow for Southeast Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
• Puma Shen, National Taipei University
• Tuvia Gering, researcher at the Israel-China Policy Center at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), non-resident fellow at the Atlantic Council's Global China Hub

Four other advisers on this project wished to remain anonymous.

Citing BGMI

Please use the following citation when referencing the project, the global report, or select country reports:

Cook, Datt, Young, Han, Beijing’s Global Media Influence, Freedom House, 2022, https://freedomhouse.org/report/beijing-global-media-influence/2022/aut… 

Sarah Cook, “Authoritarian Expansion and the Power of Democratic Resilience,” in Cook, Datt, Young, Han, Beijing’s Global Media Influence, Freedom House, 2022, https://freedomhouse.org/report/beijing-global-media-influence/2022/aut…

Ellie Young and Anonymous, “Argentina”, in Cook, Datt, Young, Han, Beijing’s Global Media Influence, Freedom House, 2022, https://freedomhouse.org/country/argentina/beijings-global-media-influe…