Dragon's Roar and Bear's Howl: Convergence in Sino-Russian Information Operations in NATO Countries?
Dragon's Roar and Bear's Howl: Convergence in Sino-Russian Information Operations in NATO Countries?

Author(s): Richard Turcsányi, Jan Daniel, Vojtěch Bahenský
Subject(s): Media studies, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Political behavior, Politics and communication, Comparative politics, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Peace and Conflict Studies, Russian Aggression against Ukraine
Published by: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Keywords: Russia; NATO; China; information influence; Chinese and Russian information operations; convergence; COVID-19; Russian war on Ukraine;
Summary/Abstract: Russian – and increasingly also Chinese – information operations have in recent years been at the forefront of the threats assessment in NATO countries. Concerns about China’s power and its challenge to the existing Western-led international order, together with its attempts to increase its information influence, make the Chinese efforts in the information domain a strategic and security issue, leading to its explicit inclusion in the new NATO Strategic Concept at the Madrid 2022 summit. Russia’s fully fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022 dramatically raised the stakes in countering long-standing Russian influence operations in NATO countries, with tensions reaching levels unseen since the end of the Cold War. The Russian war on Ukraine and its fallout have also put the relationship between Russia and China increasingly under the spotlight.

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