{"id":18585,"date":"2020-06-30T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2020-06-30T17:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T21:11:41","slug":"just-how-much-does-the-chinese-communist-party-control-the-wapo-and-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=18585","title":{"rendered":"Just how much does the Chinese Communist Party control the WaPo and WSJ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington Post and Wall Street Journal Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party Newspaper<\/h1>\n

by Chuck Ross
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The Justice Department has for years required China Daily to disclose its activities semi-annually under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The most recent filing, which China Daily submitted on June 1, is the first to include detailed breakdowns of payments to American news outlets.<\/p>\n

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One of\u00a0China<\/a>\u2019s main propaganda outlets has paid American newspapers nearly $19 million for advertising and printing expenses over the past four years, according to documents filed with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

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China Daily, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, has paid more than $4.6 million to The Washington Post and nearly $6 million to The Wall Street Journal since November 2016, the\u00a0records<\/a>\u00a0show.<\/p>\n

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Both newspapers have published\u00a0paid supplements<\/a>\u00a0that China Daily produces called \u201cChina Watch.\u201d The inserts are designed to look like real news articles, though they often contain a pro-Beijing spin on contemporary news events.<\/p>\n

One insert<\/a>\u00a0from September 2018 touted an initiative pushed by Chinese President Xi Jinping with the headline: \u201cBelt and Road aligns with African nations.\u201d The same insert ran a story titled \u201cTariffs to take toll on U.S. homebuyers\u201d that asserted that U.S. tariffs on Chinese lumber would raise the cost of building homes in the United States.<\/p>\n

China Daily also paid for advertising in several other newspapers: The New York Times ($50,000), Foreign Policy ($240,000), The Des Moines Register ($34,600) and CQ-Roll Call ($76,000).<\/p>\n

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It spent a total of $11,002,628 on advertising in U.S. newspapers, and another $265,822 on advertising with Twitter.<\/p>\n

China Daily has also paid out more than $7.6 million to newspapers and printing companies for its newspaper for U.S.-based readers, the Justice Department\u2019s filings show.<\/p>\n

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The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle and The Boston Globe are all listed as clients of China Daily. The Chinese outlet paid the Los Angeles Times $657,523 for printing services, according to the FARA filings.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department has for years required China Daily to disclose its activities semi-annually under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The most recent filing, which China Daily submitted on June 1, is the first to include detailed breakdowns of payments to American news outlets. The outlet disclosed those expenditures for the period between November 2016 and April 2020.<\/p>\n

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It is unclear if China Daily submitted the more detailed filings under pressure from the Justice Department or on its own.<\/p>\n

Pro-democracy groups\u00a0have long warned<\/a>\u00a0about the Chinese government\u2019s attempts to push propaganda through American news outlets.\u00a0Freedom House<\/a>and the\u00a0Hoover Institution<\/a>\u00a0have both drawn attention to China Daily\u2019s paid inserts in reports on the Chinese government\u2019s efforts to influence the media.<\/p>\n

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China Daily and other Beijing-controlled propaganda mills have come under intense scrutiny amid the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese government officials\u00a0have tried to divert blame<\/a>\u00a0for the spread of the virus to the United States and other Western nations. Many of the regime-controlled outlets, including China Daily, have echoed the communist leaders\u2019 talking points.<\/p>\n

China Daily has slowed its advertising expenditures in recent months, the filings show. China Daily last paid The Washington Post for advertising in December 2019. Its payments to The Wall Street Journal have been less than half their average amount since February 2020, the documents show.<\/p>\n

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China Daily did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Image: Reuters.<\/em><\/p>\n

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