A hard hat-clad American TV host grips the bamboo-and-steel scaffolding, the dizzying urban landscape of China's commercial centre Shanghai unfolding far below him. "I'm bringing cameras and questions to places outsiders are rarely permitted, to investigate the aspirations of the world's fastest-growing middle class," architect Danny Forster tells Discovery viewers. There is just one catch: both the cameras -- and the questions -- are co-funded by the Chinese government. Beijing has long sought to boost its "soft power" abroad, spending billions of yuan on expanding the international presence of its state-run media -- including broadcaster CCTV and official news agency Xinhua -- and through its ubiquitous government-sponsored language centres, known as Confucius Institutes.
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