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How China Won the War Against Western Media

A Chinese police stops foreign journalists at a gate of the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing, where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be getting a check up, in Beijing on May 2, 2012. Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy to seek medical care and join his family, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing demanded a US apology on the eve of key talks between the two powers. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/GettyImages)

A Chinese police stops foreign journalists at a gate of the Chaoyang hospital in Beijing, where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is believed to be getting a check up, in Beijing on May 2, 2012. Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy to seek medical care and join his family, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing demanded a US apology on the eve of key talks between the two powers. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/GettyImages)


<The one-two punch of censorship plus propaganda has discredited Western journalism in the eyes of many Chinese.
just how biased do Chinese think Western media is against China? Wang Qiu, a member of China’s legislature and head of state-owned broadcaster China National Radio, claimed he had an answer: Sixty percent of all mainstream Western media reports smear China. Wang did not say where he found the absurd statistic, but he did use it to argue that criticism harmed China. “During economic development, it’s normal for a few problems to appear,” he remarked in March 2015 during China’s annual legislative meeting. “If these problems are magnified, China will no longer be able to move forward.”source: FP