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In deafening silence over protestors holding white paper, China’s state media kept busy posting unfavorable American stories
This newsletter has been watching China’s party-run state media, what it picks, translates or re-prints from everyday news stories in America’s free…
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November 2022
Child labor, along with racial inequity, transgender deaths, is ‘pulling off fig leaf’ over U.S. human rights, China says
The Chinese Government/Communist Party gets very annoyed and defensive when the United States criticizes China over its human right practices, in…
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‘The Divided States of America,’ ‘Over $16.7 billion,’ China’s media has embraced U.S. news reports on 2022 midterm elections
President Biden has often described the differences in international politics as those between democracies and autocracies. One person who really does…
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A darling of China’s state media, economics professor Jeffrey Sachs is also seen a ‘CCP propaganda machine’
According to the website of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Jeffrey D. Sachs is the University Professor and Director…
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The United States is a failure, loser, China says, and counts the ways via American media
We already know how the Chinese government is defiant and proud about its zero-Covid policy, especially when it compares China’s case numbers and deaths…
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October 2022
China’s one-party media borrows from American free media: U.S. democracy is losing shine
China’s party-state-controlled media follows closely what is going on in the U.S., the negative or problematic side of things mostly, from gun violence…
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Never mind China’s slowing economy, Chinese media ‘cares’ more about U.S. inflation, recession
“China’s economy is slowing,” LA Times wrote on Sept. 11. “China Braces for a Slowdown That Could Be Even Worse Than 2020,” Bloomberg News declared on…
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Defiant with its ‘dynamic zero Covid,’ China relishes ‘endless’ U.S. pandemic woes
In its daily briefing, for Oct 11, China’s National Health Commission reported 417 new cases of confirmed infections of novel coronavirus in the 31…
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Fake accounts on social media? China hits back with Graphika report on pro-U.S. influence operation
You may remember in the summer of 2019 we first heard about the Chinese government running fake accounts on American social media attacking Hong Kong…
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September 2022
China quotes WaPo: U.S. used to be known for Coca-Cola, Levi’s, now gun violence
China’s official media closely and diligently follows, gathers, and reworks any negative news coverage in the American media. In this issue, we look at…
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Forced labor in Xinjiang? China borrows U.S. data and claims forced labor a chronic American disease
With comments from Prof. Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University
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China embraces Georgetown Law report: U.S. runs dragnet surveillance
With comments from author Bruce Ramsey
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