China’s attempts to infiltrate Western countries are commonplace, but the U.S. media have reported that mainstream U.S. newspapers are willing to accept large outreach advertisements from the Chinese side for profit-making purposes. In the past six months, the China Daily alone has placed nearly $2 million in advertisements in the U.S. media, and has spent a total of $19 million on advertising over the past three and a half years. Critics have criticized the complete loss of the frontline media as a defender of Western democratic values, which could help Xi Jinping further expand his “Red Empire dream.
The China Daily, which is controlled by the State Council and the Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department, has for years been pouring money into newspapers and magazines in the United States and other Western countries to publish pro-Beijing commentary.
The Daily Caller reported last Sunday that even as the U.S. tightened its censorship of Beijing’s propaganda, the English-language edition of China Daily was able to pay nearly $2 million in “propaganda advertising” and printing costs to various U.S. media outlets over the past six months.
Former student leader Wu’er Kaixi told the station that the Communist Party mouthpiece’s propaganda had little effect, so they instead poured money into overseas mainstream media to promote their propaganda with “soft ads” such as co-pages and grants.
According to Wu’er Kaixi, there is nothing wrong with advertising in a free market, but the U.S. mainstream media, knowing that China Daily is controlled by Beijing and designated by the U.S. government as a “foreign mission,” still use money as a “channel” for the CCP’s propaganda to the West.
According to Wu’er Kaixi, China Daily, Global Times, etc., do not have their own content that Western English-speaking readers would ever read. The U.S. government is aware of the danger, so it explicitly classifies China Daily as a foreign mission, but these mainstream Western media outlets that sell advertisements to China Daily are in collusion with the Chinese diplomatic corps, which is tantamount to doing them a favor and causing direct harm to the Western world.
In June of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice received financial statements from China Daily showing that over the past three and a half years, China Daily has supported nearly $19 million in advertising and printing costs to various U.S. media outlets.
British travel writer Ma Jian’s new book, China Dreams, warns of China’s expansion into the world. In an interview, he said that the U.S. Department of Justice document shows the CCP’s efforts to leverage Western media. He pointed out that the CCP’s latest propaganda campaign is aimed at eliminating the negative image of the Chinese government after the “Wuhan pneumonia epidemic”.
If this line of defense is lost, the world will not see the real issues of Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong, and Xi Jinping’s dream of a “Red Empire” will be pushed forward step by step.
Ma Jian said: The big outreach advertising is through soft (propaganda), you can only see the positive aspects of the Communist Party, the neo-crown virus terminology in which you can’t see a bit of Wuhan. The Western media did have a kind of value in the past, but I am now skeptical. The first step has already been taken, and it will influence the media and politics in the West. Xi Jinping’s “Dream of the Red Empire” is coming to us.
China Daily recently filed new financial information with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. According to the filing, China Daily spent more than $4.4 million on printing, distribution, advertising, and administration during the May-October half of this year.
China Daily paid more than $85,000 to The Wall Street Journal and $34,000 to the Los Angeles Times for advertising; it paid more than $100,000 to Foreign Policy magazine for advertising; and it paid more than $1,000,000 to the U.S. Department of Justice for advertising. 100,000 in advertising costs. In addition to advertising, China Daily also pays high printing costs to several newspapers.
The Wall Street Journal also has a China Daily-funded website, which has reprinted several articles first published by China Daily on Beijing’s handling of the Xinguan epidemic, including “China Watch,” a section on China’s economy, culture, and geopolitics. Articles. Several articles have criticized U.S. officials who criticized the Chinese government for misleading the West and causing the virus to spread around the world.
In August of this year, some U.S. newspapers cut their ties with China Daily. The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the New York Times had quietly removed news-style ads from China Daily.
China Daily had earlier failed to report to the U.S. Department of Justice, as it was required to do, information about its advertising purchases in the United States prior to 2012. In February, 35 U.S. members of Congress sent a letter to the DOJ requesting an investigation of China Daily and an assessment of the economic and legal consequences of its alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
In February, the U.S. State Department listed China Daily Distribution Company, Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, and Haitian Corporation, the U.S. distributor of the overseas edition of People’s Daily, as “foreign missions,” and State Department officials told the media that they were directly controlled by Beijing, qualified as diplomatic missions, and were part of the Communist Party’s propaganda machine.
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