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Unlike the previous two occasions, half of the six media are in Shanghai, and the responsible unit is the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Before the US elections, the US government further tightened restrictions on the CCP’s public opinion propaganda agencies. On October 21 local time, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that six Chinese media outlets would be added to the “foreign missions” list.
This is the third time the US government has taken this approach this year. So far, 15 Chinese media have been named “foreign missions.”
The difference with the two previous occasions is that half of the six media outlets this time are run by local units, and there is a clear gap between their international recognition and the main Chinese media from the previous list, which shows the scope. of the official Chinese media targeted by the US become more widespread.
Pompeo said these media are “substantially controlled by a foreign government” and this step is to respond to the “CCP’s propaganda work” in the United States.
The six media are “Yi Cai International”, “Jiefang Daily”, “Xinmin Evening News”, “China Social Science Magazine”, “Beijing Weekly” and “Economic Daily”.
The competent units of “Yi Cai International”, “Liberation Daily” and “Xinmin Evening News” are all local level units, while “China Social Science Magazine”, “Beijing Weekly” and “Economic Daily” are managed by units of central level.
These units will need to provide the US Department of State with a list of employees in the United States and a list of real estate leased or retained in the United States. Pompeo said the United States will not restrict content published by these institutions in the United States.
“We just want to make sure that Americans, as consumers of information, can distinguish between news written by free media and Chinese Communist Party propaganda. They are not the same.”
Local media accounted for half
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China’s Xinhua News Agency rented billboards in Times Square in New York, USA in 2011, attracting demonstrations.
Unlike the previous two occasions, not the six media named by Pompeo are national media. Among the six media outlets, “Yi Cai International”, “Liberation Daily” and “Xinmin Evening News” are all in Shanghai.
Both “Liberation Daily” and “Xinmin Evening News” are affiliated with the Shanghai Poster Group. Shanghai Poster Industry Group is an institution directly under the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Among them, the “Xinmin Evening News” has an American edition, which has been simultaneously printed and distributed in the United States since November 1994.
“Yi Cai International” is the English version of the Chinese financial medium “China Business News”, which is affiliated with Shanghai Culture, Broadcasting, Film and Television Group Co., Ltd. (SMG), and SMG is also in charge of the Committee. of the Shanghai Municipal Party.
Among the other three outlets, China Social Sciences Magazine is a newspaper publishing unit directly under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. “Beijing Weekly” is China’s only national English-language news weekly, and the responsible unit is the China Foreign Language Publications and Distribution Office. The “Economic Daily” is a party newspaper directly under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which is administered by the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China.
According to the regulations of the Chinese authorities, all Chinese media must have a sponsoring unit that belongs to the internal party system or the government system. This is far from the western definition of independent media organizations.
Chinese reaction
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian stated at a regular press conference on October 22 that the US approach was “the political suppression and stigmatization” of the Chinese media and reporters stationed in the United States, which was “based on Cold War mindset and ideological bias”. Expose the hypocrisy of your self-proclaimed freedom of the press ”.
Zhao Lijian also stated that China will give a “just and necessary response.”
This year there have been several media “clashes” between China and the United States.
Prior to this, the US State Department had already assigned the Xinhua News Agency, the China Global Television Network (CGTN), China International Radio (CRI), the China Daily editorial, the Haiti Development Corporation, the publisher of the People’s Daily, China Central Television (CCTV), China News Agency, People’s Daily and Global Times are listed as “foreign missions.”
Both parties also imposed restrictions on the other party’s resident reporters. Washington called on Chinese state media agencies in the United States to cut 60 Chinese employees and restrict visas for Chinese journalists, while Beijing expelled 11 American journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Communist Party of China official media “Global Times,” declared on October 21 that if the work of the Chinese media in the United States is truly damaged, Beijing will inevitably strike back, and the operations of US media organizations in Hong Kong can be included in that of China. Retaliation options.
