A school in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, has students place their hands on a Communist Party flag while indoctrinating them in the ideology of the Chinese Communist Party.
The National Pulse, a conservative U.S. media outlet, revealed on 29 June that many Western mainstream media outlets have attended private dinners and trips sponsored by the CCP’s United Front Work Organization, becoming the CCP’s big foreign propaganda effort and providing “effective positive coverage” for the CCP.
According to the report, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) files reveal that Western mainstream media outlets, including CNN, The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC, have had a decade-long relationship with the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), which is considered a Communist Party united-war organization.
According to the DOJ report, CUSEF funded private dinners and sponsored travel events in order to gain “favorable coverage” and “effectively disseminate positive information (about the CCP) to the media, influencers, opinion leaders, and the public.
Other Western media participating in the event included Forbes magazine, the Financial Times, Newsweek, Bloomberg, Reuters, ABC News, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Time, the Los Angeles Times, The Hill, the BBC, and the Atlantic Monthly, among others.
The report reveals that the China-US Exchange Foundation, through the U.S. lobbying firm BLJ Worldwide (BLJ), solicited these Western media outlets in order to “select and eliminate potential sources of opposition to the policies and authority of the Chinese Communist Party. Its unification strategy is to “use a range of methods to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other institutions to adopt and support Beijing’s actions.
To this end, the China-US Exchange Foundation targets “working journalists” and “journalism students” in the United States for “study tours” to mainland China organized and arranged by BLJ, including recruiting top journalists to travel to China, where the selected journalists are given the opportunity to do “very effective positive reporting.
In 2009 alone, the China-US Exchange Foundation arranged 28 media encounters for the four journalists’ visits, and BLJ secured “26 opinion articles and quotes out of 103 separate articles” for the foundation.
A document dated January 1, 2012, shows that several mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and CNN, participated in “private dinners” hosted by BLJ’s CEO at his home.
In 2013, a delegation from The Washington Post joined such private trips. Later, the Associated Press, Harvard Business Review, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost and other media outlets joined the list, including visits to huawei, a company with a Communist Party military background and considered a “national security threat” by the U.S. government. Huawei, which is considered a “national security threat” by the U.S. government.
The China-United States Exchange Foundation is “a registered foreign agent funded by senior Chinese government officials and closely tied to a large Chinese Communist Party organization that extends overseas and handles overseas power operations,” said the report, whose executive director is currently Alan Wong.
Based in Hong Kong, the foundation was nominally founded by Hong Kong’s first chief executive, Tung Chee-hwa, but was in essence funded by the Chinese Communist Party, of which Tung himself is one of the vice chairmen. The U.S. Congressional Committee on U.S.-China Economic and Security Review (USCC) has confirmed that the CCP is one of the key nuclei of the CCP’s United Front.
In addition, the China-US Exchange Foundation provides funding for policy research, high-level dialogue and exchange programs at U.S. universities.
The report suggests that this collusion in the news media community implies a conflict of interest, or worse, that the mainstream Western news media has been bought out by the CCP.
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