The Canadian Parliamentary Press Guild (CPPG) has confirmed that Xinhua News Agency, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, is no longer a member of the CPPG.
The association’s president, Ms. Catherine Lévesque, said in a statement that Xinhua did not submit its annual membership review application last year, as required, and that Xinhua and its staff are no longer members of the association and must submit a new annual review application in order to become a member.
Previously Xinhua had been a member of the CPPG for 57 years. in 1931, the Red China News Agency (Red China News Agency) was founded in the Communist Party’s Soviet Union, renamed Xinhua in 1937, and became the mouthpiece of the Communist Party after its usurpation of power in 1949, followed by rapid global expansion.
A mouthpiece, big foreign propaganda and spy agency
Freedom House believes that Xinhua, like other major CCP foreign propaganda, aims to whitewash its international image, marginalize, demonize and suppress Anti-Communist rhetoric and all disclosures that are detrimental to the image of the CCP authorities and its head.
Over the past years, Xinhua has ignored many reports and revelations from the outside world, trying to cover up and deny the crimes of the CCP’s live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and its brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. In January, when the European Union called on the CCP to immediately release the 53 pro-democracy activists arrested by the Hong Kong authorities, Xinhua immediately issued a statement from the CCP’s EU mission, accusing the EU of misleading the public and insisting that the matter was an internal affair of the CCP and that outsiders had no right to interfere.
On February 24 of last year, the Trump administration designated Xinhua and several other major Communist Party mouthpieces as foreign missions, meaning that Xinhua and other overseas mouthpieces are considered foreign embassies or diplomatic institutions by the U.S. government and no longer enjoy the privileges of news organizations, and all their employees and assets in the U.S. must be reported to the U.S. State Department.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision was made because Xinhua was a major promoter of Chinese Communist attempts in the United States under the control of the Communist Party, and it was only right that it be classified as a foreign mission.
In fact, the U.S. and the West should have done so long ago. In November 2017, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission report concluded that Xinhua was no different from an espionage intelligence agency in its domestic and foreign activities, gathering information and submitting classified reports to top Communist Party officials.
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