China and its Disinformation Operation: Some Theoretical Insights and Implications for International Politics

Abstract

There is some growing evidence that the People‘s Republic of China (PRC) is exerting its influence on states by employing and deploying disinformation tactics to pave the way for its ideology of the China model to permeate over advances and its economic expansion over the globe, China‘s disinformation operation is presumed to be a main lever to realize its dream of being the world‘s hegemony. Despite the world economic growth that China has considerably contributed to so far, it is criticized for working for its self-interest and has yet to be illuminated what the motive is for China to strive forward and embark on such a cause. Resting on the long-lived ideology of Sinocentrism deep-rooted in the Confucianism of China, this study will examine how its disinformation operation is capitalized on and how it fits into that ingrained ideology of the PRC. Together with that, this reset of Confucianism of China, this study will examine how disinformation has stretched so far and propounds the accounts for the reasons why the international community should outline adequate countermeasures to respond to such malicious information manipulation schemes. As such, it would supplement the insight into how China utilizes disinformation as an instrument to hold up its Sinocentrism to outdistance the Western ideology and inch to the seat of the global helmsman.