Poking with Chopsticks - How dictatorship works

Chinese government's huge propaganda machine aims to replace facts with fantasy in the ongoing Corona crisis. Liwen and Marcel analyze the strategy and capabilities of the world's most powerful authoritarian regime to twist and invent news to it's favor and shout it out loud to the world.

Freelancing writer Qin Liwen and former China correspondent Marcel Grzanna team up for their new podcast on the mechanisms in the largest and most perfectionist authoritarian system in the world. Episode 1 gives a realistic, detailed and exciting description on the current situation in China with an invisible enemy threatening millions of people and the power monopoly of the Communist Party.