While the world is focusing on containing the spread of the Wuhan virus, communist China declared the largest expulsion of American reporters this week, further escalating a media war with the United States.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released a report in 2018 that showed 40 percent of its members saying the reporting conditions in China had been getting worse.
Cédric Alviani, the head of Reporters Without Borders' East Asia bureau, said that while Beijing harasses foreign journalists on China's soil, "The regime does its best to exploit the freedom available to journalists in democratic countries in order to develop its propaganda network there." For example, the New York Times and Washington Post have for years helped spread communist China propaganda by delivering to all of their subscribers a special advertising supplement called China Watch, which is produced by China Daily, a newspaper owned by communist China.
On Feb. 18, 2020, the U.S. State Department identified five Chinese state-owned media outlets, including the state news agency Xinhua, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily, and Hai Tian Development USA, as "Foreign mission[s] under the Foreign Missions Act, which is to say that they are 'substantially owned or effectively controlled by a foreign government.'".
On March 2, U.S. State Department officials imposed a personnel cap on four Chinese state-owned media companies, Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International, China Global Television Network, and China Daily, demanding they reduce their Chinese employees in the United States from 160 to 100 by March 13.
By expelling U.S. journalists from China in this critical moment, Beijing will further weaken the foreign press presence and intimidate other foreign journalists from telling the truth about communist China.
Without a doubt, Beijing views its media war with the United States as having only upsides: China gets rid of foreign journalists it doesn't like, intimidates those that remain behind, allows the regime to firmly control and spread only the narratives it desires, shifts blame onto others more easily, and increases control over Hong Kong.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/20/what-beijings-latest-journalist-expulsions-mean-for-the-u-s-china-media-war/
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China released a report in 2018 that showed 40 percent of its members saying the reporting conditions in China had been getting worse.
Cédric Alviani, the head of Reporters Without Borders' East Asia bureau, said that while Beijing harasses foreign journalists on China's soil, "The regime does its best to exploit the freedom available to journalists in democratic countries in order to develop its propaganda network there." For example, the New York Times and Washington Post have for years helped spread communist China propaganda by delivering to all of their subscribers a special advertising supplement called China Watch, which is produced by China Daily, a newspaper owned by communist China.
On Feb. 18, 2020, the U.S. State Department identified five Chinese state-owned media outlets, including the state news agency Xinhua, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, China Daily, and Hai Tian Development USA, as "Foreign mission[s] under the Foreign Missions Act, which is to say that they are 'substantially owned or effectively controlled by a foreign government.'".
On March 2, U.S. State Department officials imposed a personnel cap on four Chinese state-owned media companies, Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International, China Global Television Network, and China Daily, demanding they reduce their Chinese employees in the United States from 160 to 100 by March 13.
By expelling U.S. journalists from China in this critical moment, Beijing will further weaken the foreign press presence and intimidate other foreign journalists from telling the truth about communist China.
Without a doubt, Beijing views its media war with the United States as having only upsides: China gets rid of foreign journalists it doesn't like, intimidates those that remain behind, allows the regime to firmly control and spread only the narratives it desires, shifts blame onto others more easily, and increases control over Hong Kong.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/20/what-beijings-latest-journalist-expulsions-mean-for-the-u-s-china-media-war/
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