ANY MEDIA WE SEE FROM ANY ORGANIZATION WITH BUREAUS IN CHINAā¦IS OUTPUT THATS BEEN APPROVED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY. Mary and Michael (two great Americans Iāve had the pleasure to work with in the fight against China) are spot-on with their analysis of the mediaās coverage of China. Lingling still has family living in China. Thatās always an important ātellā to determine if whatās being written is ātrueā or objective. A journalist canāt write anything the regime doesnāt approve of without putting themselves, their family, and their organization at risk. In early 2024, the Wall Street Journal completely disbanded their U.S.-based China team because their journalists were so good that the truth began to be written under this teamā¦and Beijing pushed back. The WSJ had to fire all of them (30 journalists dedicated to investigating China - from Washington DC).
In 2020, Chinese authorities revoked the press credentials and ordered three Wall Street Journal journalists to leave the country after publishing a controversial piece that Beijing hated. The three journalists were:
1.Josh Chin ā Deputy Bureau Chief (U.S. national)
2.Chao Deng ā Reporter (U.S. national)
3.Philip Wen ā Reporter (Australian national)
None of these journalists were involved in writing the column that sparked the dispute, which was titled āChina Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.ā The article printed truth and Chinaās Communist Party wasnāt going to allow it again.
ANYTHING you see Bloomberg News write out of China must be seen as āAPPROVED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTYā. After Bloomberg published a high-profile 2012 investigation into the personal finances of Xi Jinping and other leadersā¦and strong reporting on elite corruption amid the Bo Xilai saga..:the Chinese government punished Bloombergās news operations in a number of ways. These included blocking the Bloomberg News website in mainland China, prohibiting state enterprises from subscribing to its news service, and making it impossible to obtain visas for foreign journalists for a period.
ā¢Bloomberg editors decided to shelve or kill other stories that would further anger Chinese authorities, with internal and external reports suggesting that senior leadership worried the company would lose access or be pushed out entirely if it pushed certain investigations. Bloomberg had to plead with the Chinese Communist Party (under a new āunderstandingā with the CCP) to be turned back on with China.
If news organizations have bureaus inside the Great Wall, Chinaās Ministry of State Security has thugs embedded with all of them. When Eunice Noon is on the air with CNBC in China, there are multiple MSS goons on each side of her just off of the cameraās view. If she says anything controversial, they will have her physically removed from the set.
Understanding that the media emanating from news organizations with a presence in China or from journalists whose families still reside in China is simply what the CCP wants you to read should help frame how we all consume their output in the future. Thank you to and for sparking the idea to inform the X universe to these facts.
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Mary Kissel
@marykissel
I've long argued that U.S. media elites (CEOs, editors in chief, foreign correspondents) aren't aware of how Beijing manipulates their coverage (or worse, don't care). See thread below. @WSJ news the worst offender, often spreading propaganda as fact. x.com/Michael7ucci/sā¦