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Looks like our unbiased, reputable newspapers have been paid millions of dollars from China for the last 4 years to shit on the US and Trump while promoting their country and distancing themselves from the Wuflu. Weren't these "journalists" supposed to learn how to code? Such trash.
Beijing-Controlled News Outlet Paid US Newspapers Millions To Publish Propaganda This Year
An English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda department paid U.S. media companies nearly $2 million for printing and advertising expenses over the past six months, even amid heightened scrutiny over Beijing’s disinformation efforts in the West.
China Daily paid The Wall Street Journal more than $85,000 and the Los Angeles Times $340,000 for advertising campaigns between May and October 2020, according to a disclosure that the propaganda mill filed this week with the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
China Daily also paid Foreign Policy magazine $100,000, The Financial Times, a U.K.-based newspaper, $223,710, and $132,046 to the Canadian outlet Globe & Mail for advertising campaigns, according to the filing.
The Beijing-based outlet paid several newspaper companies a total of $1,154,666 for printing costs, including $110,000 to the Los Angeles Times, $92,000 to The Houston Chronicle and $76,000 to The Boston Globe. (RELATED: China Watch: LA Times Publishes Paid Chinese Propaganda)
Overall, China Daily spent more than $4.4 million on printing, distribution, advertising and administration expenses over the past six months, according to the FARA filing.
China Daily, which is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party’s State Council Information Office, its propaganda agency, has for years paid newspapers and magazines in the U.S. and other Western countries to publish advertorials designed to look like legitimate news articles.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian at the daily media briefing in Beijing on April 8, 2020. (GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
China Daily paid The Washington Post more than $4.6 million from late 2016 through October 2019, according to a FARA disclosure China Daily filed in June.
The Journal received $6 million for advertorials from 2016 through April 2020, according to the disclosure.
So far in 2020, The Journal has received $461,489 in advertising revenue from China Daily.
China Daily’s inserts, which are entitled “China Watch,” have typically offered a pro-Beijing spin regarding the Chinese economy, Chinese culture or China’s geopolitical views.
The Journal, which maintains a website of its sponsored China Daily content, includes numerous articles first published by China Daily touting Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in Wuhan last year.
“Apple CEO: China Getting Outbreak Under Control” is the title of one article on the Journal’s site.
Several articles are critical of U.S. officials who have accused the Chinese government of misleading the West about the pandemic, and allowing the virus to spread globally.
“Trump’s China Remark Rebuked” and “US Spin On Virus’ Name Condemned” are the headlines of two articles on the Journal’s site.
The Journal has not published any articles on its sponsored page since July. China Daily’s FARA filing does not list any payments to the newspaper since the month ending June 30, 2020.
Some American newspapers have cut ties with China Daily in response to the criticism of the pay-for-print arrangements. The Washington Free Beacon reported in August that The New York Times quietly scrubbed its website of advertorials it had published as part of a deal it had with China Daily.
In February, the State Department designated China Daily and four other Beijing-controlled news outlets to be “foreign missions,” which treats them the same as foreign embassies because of their close ties to the Chinese government.
The Wall Street Journal did not respond to a request for comment about its relationship with China Daily. The Los Angeles Times also did not respond to a request for comment.
This is one of the many articles(?) bashing Trump from The Journal's website of sponsors China Daily content
A prestigious medical journal has refuted claims made by US President Donald Trump in a letter that criticized the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened permanent funding cuts.
Trump wrote Monday to the international health body that it had ignored “credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal.”
He also criticized the organization’s relationship with China and gave it 30 days to “commit to major substantive improvements” or he would permanently withdraw US funding and membership.
In response to the letter, the British journal Lancet issued a statement on Tuesday calling Trump’s mention of the reports as “factually incorrect.”
“The Lancet published no report in December 2019, referring to a virus or outbreak in Wuhan or anywhere else in China,” the journal said in its statement. The first two such reports published by the Lancet were on January 24, and both studies were led by scientists and physicians from China, according to the journal.
“The allegations leveled against WHO in President Trump’s letter are serious and damaging to efforts to strengthen international cooperation to control this pandemic,” said the Lancet. “It is essential that any review of the global response is based on a factually accurate account of what took place in December and January.”
Trump is “trying to create drama and hate towards China to deflect his own incompetence and inability to deal with the pandemic,” Julie Tang, a civil rights advocate and retired Superior Court judge in San Francisco, told China Daily. “He should stop his provocation with China and start cooperative and peaceful engagements with China to address this crisis.”
Despite the call for collaboration with China from US and international scientists, Trump and his Republican allies have been aggressively blaming China for the pandemic, such as calling the disease the “Chinese virus” and saying Chinese Americans are mostly angry with China.
“We are proud of what China did to stop the virus and tried to prevent its spreading. We wish our president can do half as good a job as China has done. If he had, we wouldn’t be still sheltering,” said Tang.
While Trump threatened the WHO, China pledged to the international organization on Monday that it will provide $2 billion over two years to help other countries respond to the impact of the pandemic and produce a vaccine for the global public good.
The pledges demonstrate “China is doubling-down on commitment to WHO and the multilateral system. The US really risks not only being left behind by China but by the rest of the world,” Alexandra Phelan, assistant professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University, wrote on Twitter.
In contrast to China’s pledges, Trump’s accusations against the WHO could damage “America’s reputation and global standing over COVID-19,” warned Tom Fowdy, a British political and international relations analyst. “Its [China’s] pledges of support for others and international cooperation still paints a massive contrast to the absolute disaster in the United States,” he said.
Evan Feigenbaum, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, suggested that there’s more to Trump’s threat to the WHO.
“If you really think that letter to Tedros (WHO director) had anything to do with a deep desire to ‘reform global institutions’ then you haven’t been paying sufficient attention for the last three years,” Feigenbaum said on Twitter.
He said Trump is a “grievance politician” and has shown “no interest in multilateral institutions.”
“Existential debates about ‘global governance’ aren’t his thing,” he said.
A prestigious medical journal has refuted claims made by US President Donald Trump in a letter that criticized the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened permanent funding cuts.
Trump wrote Monday to the international health body that it had ignored “credible reports of the virus spreading in Wuhan in early December 2019 or even earlier, including reports from the Lancet medical journal.”
He also criticized the organization’s relationship with China and gave it 30 days to “commit to major substantive improvements” or he would permanently withdraw US funding and membership.
In response to the letter, the British journal Lancet issued a statement on Tuesday calling Trump’s mention of the reports as “factually incorrect.”
“The Lancet published no report in December 2019, referring to a virus or outbreak in Wuhan or anywhere else in China,” the journal said in its statement. The first two such reports published by the Lancet were on January 24, and both studies were led by scientists and physicians from China, according to the journal.
“The allegations leveled against WHO in President Trump’s letter are serious and damaging to efforts to strengthen international cooperation to control this pandemic,” said the Lancet. “It is essential that any review of the global response is based on a factually accurate account of what took place in December and January.”
Trump is “trying to create drama and hate towards China to deflect his own incompetence and inability to deal with the pandemic,” Julie Tang, a civil rights advocate and retired Superior Court judge in San Francisco, told China Daily. “He should stop his provocation with China and start cooperative and peaceful engagements with China to address this crisis.”
Despite the call for collaboration with China from US and international scientists, Trump and his Republican allies have been aggressively blaming China for the pandemic, such as calling the disease the “Chinese virus” and saying Chinese Americans are mostly angry with China.
“We are proud of what China did to stop the virus and tried to prevent its spreading. We wish our president can do half as good a job as China has done. If he had, we wouldn’t be still sheltering,” said Tang.
While Trump threatened the WHO, China pledged to the international organization on Monday that it will provide $2 billion over two years to help other countries respond to the impact of the pandemic and produce a vaccine for the global public good.
The pledges demonstrate “China is doubling-down on commitment to WHO and the multilateral system. The US really risks not only being left behind by China but by the rest of the world,” Alexandra Phelan, assistant professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University, wrote on Twitter.
In contrast to China’s pledges, Trump’s accusations against the WHO could damage “America’s reputation and global standing over COVID-19,” warned Tom Fowdy, a British political and international relations analyst. “Its [China’s] pledges of support for others and international cooperation still paints a massive contrast to the absolute disaster in the United States,” he said.
Evan Feigenbaum, vice-president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, suggested that there’s more to Trump’s threat to the WHO.
“If you really think that letter to Tedros (WHO director) had anything to do with a deep desire to ‘reform global institutions’ then you haven’t been paying sufficient attention for the last three years,” Feigenbaum said on Twitter.
He said Trump is a “grievance politician” and has shown “no interest in multilateral institutions.”
“Existential debates about ‘global governance’ aren’t his thing,” he said.