China Media Project Discourse Tracker June 2024

You may have noticed that Sinocism has not published the monthly discourse tracker from China Media Project in several months. After an absence of several months, we are pleased to re-introduce the China Media Project's monthly discourse report, for which we previously partnered with the excellent Sinocism. These discourse reports were first created in the 2010s by CMP founder Qian Gang, a veteran journalist and former Southern Weekly managing editor who remains one of the world's foremost experts on the often esoteric discourse of the CCP. Our early work on the keywords of the People's Daily, which we sometimes called "The CMP method," was dismissed by a handful of prickly China observers at the time as mere tea leaf reading. As China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and state media telegraphed China's official position in fierce language, terms related to Taiwan were boosted significantly. When meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Wang reiterated China's position on a political settlement of the war in Ukraine, which China has insisted on referring to as "The Ukraine crisis." China's position was packaged as the Six-Point Consensus, China's alternative peace plan jointly issued by China and Brazil on May 23, 2024 - and seen by many international diplomats as a "Subtle boycott" of a meeting of more than 90 nations led by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. On June 21, Wang Yi attended the First Plenary Session of the Intergovernmental Committee between China and Nigeria, and held talks with the Nigerian foreign minister. Even more fruitful from China's perspective was the Forum, which adopted three "Outcome documents." These included the Beijing Declaration, which reaffirmed "Mutual support on core interest issues and deepening practical cooperation" between China and Arab states.