Reference News Network, September 9 report. According to the Latin American News Agency, on September 7, the Xinhua News Agency's National Think Tank released a report titled "Cultural Colonization: Means, Roots and International Harms of America's Cognitive Warfare" at the 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank High-Level Forum.
The report thoroughly analyzed the historical reasons, complex practical systems, and severe international harms of America's cultural colonization.
The report pointed out that America's hegemonic status in international politics, economy, and military is the "hard prerequisite" for its cultural colonization; convenient conditions such as language culture, narrative discourse, mass media, and academic research have laid the "soft foundation."
The report emphasized that America's activities in this field have a deep practical foundation and a clear strategic layout, forming a complete system support including strategic system, organizational system, value system, dissemination system, content system, and technological system.
With the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, America's methods of cultural colonization have become more covert, and the scope of attacks has expanded. The report reminds all people who love peace to pay high attention and be vigilant about this.
According to Brazil's 247 News website, on September 7, during the 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank High-Level Forum held in Kunming, China, a think tank report revealed America's long-term actions of ideological manipulation and cognitive warfare to implement cultural colonization. This report, titled "Cultural Colonization: Means, Roots and International Harms of America's Cognitive Warfare," was released by the Xinhua News Agency's National Think Tank on the 7th.
The report pointed out that Washington has been consolidating its hegemony through ideological infiltration, manipulation of international public opinion, and large-scale propaganda. The report emphasized that as the Global South accelerates awakening, America's hegemony is declining, and the world sees more clearly that behind America's fabricated value system lies selfishness, hypocrisy, and double standards.
Research shows that America's cultural colonization is not the result of isolated actions, but a system jointly created by the government, media, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations.
Under the leadership of the American government, the U.S. Congress, the National Security Council, and relevant decision-making bodies of the Department of State regularly hold meetings to formulate specific themes and action goals based on information provided by the intelligence system, mobilize and integrate various resources, and through discussions on bills, the introduction of laws, and the issuance of bans, serve the purpose of cultural colonization via official means.
Non-governmental organizations such as the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy act as behind-the-scenes instigators, providing funding to political groups, media institutions, and social movements in target countries, often inciting "color revolutions."
American media portrays itself as a defender of freedom and prosperity, attacking the systems of non-Western countries. American think tanks provide ammunition for the U.S. government's propaganda and cognitive warfare through creating concepts, proposing topics, and releasing reports.
In the digital age, control over internet infrastructure, social media, and artificial intelligence algorithms has enhanced America's ability to manipulate. The report warns that mechanisms such as algorithmic recommendations, content censorship, and account bans are being used by the United States to control the global flow of information.
The report also cited the views of William Blum, the author of the book "Democracy: America's Deadliest Export." In his book, Blum pointed out that since the end of World War II, the United States has tried to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments and violently interfered in elections in at least 30 countries.
In addition to inciting conflicts and coups, America's ideological infiltration has also undermined the spiritual independence of countries, giving rise to a group of culturally subdued elites who regard America as the only standard and model, acting as the "spokespersons" for American interests.
America imposes neoliberal economic ideas and development models such as the "Washington Consensus" on developing countries, leading some countries into economic stagnation and social difficulties.
In recent years, the resistance forces of the Global South countries have been strengthening. The report points out that China, based on its own development experience and the common aspirations of the people of all countries, has proposed initiatives such as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, providing new ideas and solutions for countries to break free from value superstitions, overcome ideological dependence, and embark on a path of independent and autonomous development. (Translated by Tian Ce)
On September 7, participants at the 2025 Global South Media and Think Tank High-Level Forum read the think tank report titled "Cultural Colonization: Means, Roots and International Harms of America's Cognitive Warfare." (Xinhua News Agency)
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