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news Scmp World 2026-06-17

Expert Suggests AI Algorithms Could Shape Global Narrative on Tibet

A media professional suggests that China must better utilize global AI-driven content algorithms to influence international perceptions of its Tibetan autonomous region.


To win the global war of words over Tibet, China’s western autonomous region that repeatedly makes international headlines, Beijing must stop fighting the West’s algorithms and start “dancing” with them. That was the blunt assessment of Zachary Lundquist, an American media professional with the state-run China International Communications Group (CICG), speaking in Lhasa, capital of China’s Tibetan autonomous region, on Tuesday. Lundquist – better known by his Chinese name, Huang Hao – was...

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