![]() ![]() Poland has a status of Free in Freedom in the World 2022, the latest edition of Freedom House’s annual report on political rights and civil liberties. Areas of vulnerability included political polarization, problematic instrumentalization of foreign ownership laws to silence independent media groups, and broader pressure on the media from the PiS government (see Resilience and response). Poland’s communist history has also led to strong public skepticism of Communist propaganda, reinforcing the country’s resilience to foreign media influence efforts from countries such as China or Russia. Domestic political pressure on media as a threat to resilience: Poland’s resilience in the face of covert or coercive Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media influence was rooted in its robust civil society, media professionalism, and generally democratic legal frameworks, as well as its small but growing community of experts on China.There do not seem to be any significant independent Chinese-language media in Poland, with most readers served by pan-European outlets or local social media accounts with ties to Chinese party-state actors. Strong influence on Chinese diaspora media: The Chinese expatriate and diaspora community in Poland is small, probably numbering fewer than 8,000 people. ![]()
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