U.S.imposes new rules on state-owned Chinese media over propaganda concerns
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 Chineseflag flutters in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trumpadministration said on Tuesday said it will begin treating five major Chinesestate-run media entities with U.S. operations the same as foreign embassies,requiring them to register their employees and U.S. properties with the StateDepartment. Two senior state department officials saidthe decision was made because China has been tightening state control over itsmedia and President Xi Jinping has made more aggressive use of them to spreadpro-Beijing propaganda. “The control over both the content and editorial control have onlystrengthened over the course of Xi Jinping’s term in power,” said one official.“These guys are in fact arms of the CCP’s (Chinese Community Party’s)propaganda apparatus.” The State Department informed the fiveentities of its decision by letter on Tuesday, the official said. The Chineseembassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Beijing's control of China's state-ownedmedia has become "more and more draconian," the second official said. Both officials spoke to reporters oncondition of anonymity. Tensions between the two superpowers haveescalated since President Donald Trump came to office three years ago, withdisputes ranging from trade tariffs to accusations of Chinese spying in theUnited States and to U.S. support for Taiwan. Tuesday's decision, the officials said, isnot linked to any recent developments in Sino-U.S. relations and has been underconsideration for some time. The new determination is being applied tothe Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China RadioInternational, China Daily Distribution Corp. and Hai Tian Development USA,Inc., the officials said. China Daily is an English-languagenewspaper published by the Chinese Communist Party. Hai Tian Development USAdistributes the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the party’s CentralCommittee. The five entities’ U.S. operations willhave to disclose their personnel rosters and hiring and firing decisions andregister properties in the United States that they rent or own with the StateDepartment, the officials said. They also will have to seek advancedapproval before they lease or purchase new U.S. properties, they said. One official said that the disclosureswould help the State Department better understand how the entities operate inthe United States. Asked if there are concerns that Beijingwill retaliate against Western media based in China, one official noted that foreignnews outlets there already work under strict rules and that the new disclosurerules impose no restrictions on the five state-owned Chinese entities’ U.S.operations. “These guys operate in a far more liberal environment here in theUnited States than any foreign press enjoy in the People’s Republic ofChina," the official said. 来源：Yahoo 作者：Jonathan Landay 原编辑：Mary Milliken, David Gregorio and Sonya Hepinstall 编辑：冯梦玉 |
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