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03.01.18Why Chinese State Media Love Elon Musk’s Latest Tweets
CNN
The Tesla CEO tweeted out a link to a video about a Chinese rail station that was built in less than 9 hours.
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02.15.18Chinese Envoy Says It’s ‘Dangerous’ for U.S. to Confront Beijing
Bloomberg
China’s ambassador to the U.S. warned the Trump administration against adopting a confrontational approach to the world’s second-biggest economy.
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11.15.17U.S. Congress Urged to Require Chinese Journalists to Register as Agents
Reuters
A report to the U.S. Congress released on Wednesday accused Chinese state media entities of involvement in spying and propaganda and said their staff in the United States should be required to register as foreign agents.
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08.01.17Chinese State Media Mocks Trump’s “Emotional Venting” on Twitter
“Only the Fake News Media and Trump enemies want me to stop using Social Media,” Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, referring to himself, characteristically, in the third person. “Only way for me to get the truth out!” Of course, the list of...
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08.01.17China Rebukes Trump: ‘Emotional Venting’ Is Not Policy
Politico
President Donald Trump's tweets and “emotional venting” aimed at China over the weekend can't serve as a substitute for substantive policy discussions, the country’s state news agency said late Monday.
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03.02.17China Accuses Western Media of ‘Fake News’ about Human Rights
Guardian
China has launched a Donald Trump-style attack on foreign media, branding claims that a leading human rights lawyer was tortured by government agents “fake news.”
The China Africa Project
04.07.16
A Chinese Journalist Reflects on Reporting the China-Africa Story
How foreign journalists report on the China-Africa story is often determined by the national origin of their news organization. While there are no doubt exceptions, the U.S. news media frequently frame China as the neo-colonial aggressor and Africa...
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04.01.16No April Fooling Please, We’re Chinese
New York Times
Chinese state news agency Xinhua warned against people using “Fools’ Day” to start or spread rumors online.
Conversation
03.15.16
What’s Driving the Current Storm of Chinese Censorship?
The latest lightning flashes on China’s shifting media horizon this month took the form of the banishment from social media of a real estate tycoon who voiced support for constructive criticism, the firing of an editor at a newspaper that appeared...
Media
07.20.15
Taming the Flood
In August 1975, Typhoon Nina, one of the most powerful tropical storms on record, surged inland from the Taiwan Strait, causing floods so catastrophic they overwhelmed dam networks around the city of Zhumadian in China’s Henan province. When Banqiao...
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01.23.15Reporter Honored for Clearing Dead Man’s Name
China Daily
Hugjiltu, a man of Mongolian ethnicity, was sentenced to death for rape and murder in Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in 1996. The 18-year-old was executed 62 days after being charged, despite doubts about the evidence...
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10.29.14China Quietly Gives Global News Awards
China Media Project
Although the WMS was, according to Chinese state media, “co-launched by Xinhua News Agency and other major media organizations around the world,” the event has always been solidly China’s prerogative.
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04.08.14Conflicting Reports of Potential Flight 370 Pings shows China’s confused status in investigation
Washington Post
Despite China's interest in finding Flight 370 and its efforts in the search, the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation does not offer it an official role.
Caixin Media
03.03.14
Kunming Attack Is ‘China’s 9/11,’ State Media Says
In the days after a major terror attack in Kunming, state media outlets are calling for a united front to combat terror and warning against excusing the attackers or criticizing the government’s policies on minorities.On the evening of March 1, a...
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09.11.13Head of Xinhua Says Western Media Pushing Revolution in China
Reuters
Western media organizations are trying to demonize China and promote revolution and national disintegration as they hate seeing the country prosper, the head of China’s official Xinhua news agency said in comments published on...
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06.14.13Johnson & Johnson is Treating Chinese Customers Like “Second-Class” Citizens, Say The Chinese Media
Quartz
While Johnson & Johnson has held 51 global product recalls since 2005, China has been excluded from 48 of them, according to Xinhua. "Any drugs recalled outside China must be recalled in China as well," the China...
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03.21.13China Mourns “Most Famous Peasant” With Fake “Time” Cover
Quartz
Xinhua erroneously reports that Party Secretary of Jiangsu province, Wu Renbao, was once featured on the cover of Time magazine. Other Chinese media follow suit, in the latest embarrassment for Xinhua.
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03.01.13China’s Divorce Rate Rises For Seventh Consecutive Year
International Business Times
According to a survey by Tsinghua University and lifestyle magazine Xiaokang, a total of 2.87 million marriages ended in divorce in 2012, which is a 7.65 percent increase from the previous year.
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02.28.13Pollution Data A ‘State Secret?’ State Media Cry Foul
Wall Street Journal
This marks the second time in less than two months that state media have come out swinging against the government over environmental issues.
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09.04.12Online Criticism Leads to Suspension of Military Official over Flight Fight
WSJ: China Real Time Report
A Chinese military official accused last week of assaulting a flight attendant has been suspended following an explosion of outrage online fed in part by rare criticism from state-run media. Col. Fang Daguo, a political commissar for the...
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08.21.12China's Party Papers, Losing Touch?
China Media Project
The influence of China’s Party-run newspapers has been sliding steadily for almost two decades now. Ever since the mid-1990s, these “mouthpieces“, operated by top Party leaders at various levels of China’s vast bureaucracy — and full of tinder-dry...
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08.18.12Pursuing Soft Power, China Puts Stamp on Africa’s News
New York Times
China’s investment prowess and construction know-how is widely on display in this long-congested African capital. A $200 million ring road is being built and partly financed by Beijing. The international airport is undergoing a $208 million...
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08.02.12China Blasts ‘Western media’ For ‘Arrogant’ Olympic Coverage
Washington Post
China’s state media on Thursday attacked what it said were arrogant and prejudiced views of the country’s athletes at the London Olympics. After several days where Chinese competitors have been in the spotlight for winning golds, and...
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07.16.12China Commentary Says U.S. Uniform Row Olympic "Blasphemy"
Reuters
An uproar over the U.S. Olympic team's made-in-China uniforms is a blasphemy on the Olympic spirit which is supposed to separate sports from politics and a show of pure ignorance to boot, China's official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
Media
05.25.12
Can CCTV Become the Next Al Jazeera?
In a recent piece published in the Columbia Journalism Review, Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi assesses the early stages of China's multibillion dollar efforts to expand its domestic media empire onto the global stage. Just this year, CCTV launched two...