A recent piece from the most excellent free press newspaper The Epoch Times has commented on the herd of elephants in most Western rooms, of a massive number of traitors to their nation, but loyal to Chinese communist money. Academics, but arguably entire governments of former Western countries, led by socialist feminists, are examples. Clearly, once the dust settles, if ever, there needs to be treason trials. Not kangaroo courts, as in the former USSR, but fair trials, modelled after say, the Nuremburg Trials. That would be good, yes please!
“The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) propaganda mouthpiece has continued to pour millions of dollars into U.S. publications to spread its influence, a new document filed with the Department of Justice has shown.
China Daily, an English-language media outlet controlled by Beijing’s propaganda department, spent roughly $3 million on major Western outlets and publishing agencies over the past six months, according to a filing dated May 24.
Approximately $1.6 million in advertising dollars went to the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, and Time Magazine. An additional sum of $329,898 went to The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper.
China Daily also disbursed more than $1 million, a majority of which was spent in the United States, to have its newspaper printed. Notable recipients of the disbursements include the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Houston Chronicle.
The overall spending for printing, advertising, and other expenses totaled $5.56 million between Nov. 1, 2020, and April 30, marking a jump of roughly $1.1 million compared to half a year earlier.
China Daily was one of more than a dozen Chinese state-run media entities that the State Department designated as foreign missions of the CCP last year, requiring them to register their employees and U.S. properties.
Calculations by the Center for Responsive Politics, a Washington-based government transparency group, revealed that Chinese foreign-agent spending in the United States has soared six-fold over the past few years, from just over $10 million in 2016 to almost $64 million in 2020.
“China Daily’s sole purpose is to cover for the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing atrocities,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) told The Epoch Times.
“Every U.S. outlet that supports China Daily has no right to talk about human rights or democracy. They should be ashamed of their complicity.”
A number of major U.S. outlets have ceased running advertorials from the Chinese newspaper amid growing scrutiny of Chinese propaganda influence.
The New York Times deleted hundreds of paid content items from its website after ending its relationship with China Daily, according to The Washington Free Beacon, which first reported on the FARA disclosure.