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SIG-SRB-045

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country
Serbia
date text
Aug 2024
actor text
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-003
confidence notes
Second foreign state authority (after Russia) deployed to legitimize domestic foreign agent narrative. China's NED report names specific Serbian organizations. Vučić then personalizes it: 'the Chinese warned me.' Extends foreign authority legitimization beyond Russia.
date confidence
month_year
excerpt
China's MFA publishes report on global 'colour revolution' tactics naming N1 and BCSP as examples; Serbian pro-government media amplify. By Dec 2024, Vučić states on TV Happy that Chinese officials personally warned him about an impending 'colour revolution' — second foreign authority (after Russia) instrumentalized for domestic delegitimization.
id
SIG-SRB-045
incident id
SRB-045
normalized date
2024-08-01
observation
country
Serbia
actor primary
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
actor type primary
Foreign State
campaign id
SRB-CAMP-003
campaign phase
Phase 3: Amplification
case id
SRB-045
channel primary
State/National TV
confidence notes
Second foreign state authority (after Russia) deployed to legitimize domestic foreign agent narrative. China's NED report names specific Serbian organizations. Vučić then personalizes it: 'the Chinese warned me.' Extends foreign authority legitimization beyond Russia.
consequence category
Social Trust Erosion
date confidence
month_year
escalation stage
3
event date normalized
2024-08-01
event date raw
Aug 2024
harm track
Track 2 — Social Trust Erosion
institutional consequence
Narrative damage
primary narrative code
NF-01
primary narrative label
Foreign Agent / Foreign Influence
secondary narrative code
NF-06
secondary narrative label
Destabilization Agent
signal id
SIG-SRB-045
source text excerpt
China's MFA publishes report on global 'colour revolution' tactics naming N1 and BCSP as examples; Serbian pro-government media amplify. By Dec 2024, Vučić states on TV Happy that Chinese officials personally warned him about an impending 'colour revolution' — second foreign authority (after Russia) instrumentalized for domestic delegitimization.
source type
State/National TV
tactic code
Foreign Authority Legitimization (Chinese MFA)
target
N1; Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP); CSO sector
target type
CSO
trigger type
TR-05: Foreign Authority Signal
source type
State/National TV
target text
N1; Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP); CSO sector

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