In the two videos released so far, a father uses a windup camel skittering across a map to describe trade across Asia along the old Silk Road,<br />and how China plans to help develop the regions it once passed through.<br />So for parents struggling to get their little ones to rest their eyes for the night, China’s state propaganda apparatus has a suggestion:<br />Tell your child about President Xi Jinping’s ambitions to extend China’s political and economic power across Asia and the Middle East.<br />China Daily, a state-controlled media organization<br />that aims primarily at an international audience, began releasing English-language videos this week describing a huge spending and infrastructure push called the Belt and Road Initiative, in the form of a child’s bedtime story.<br />“They’re building new things like highways and railways<br />and airports, and even pipeline and internet cables,” says a father trying to put his daughter to bed.<br />China’s Newest Propaganda Format: Children’s Bedtime Stories -<br />By CARLOS TEJADAMAY 9, 2017<br />HONG KONG — Sometimes “Goodnight Moon” just won’t do the trick.
