Top U.S. Media Outlets “Compromised” by Communist China

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With funding from CUSEF, another key outfit involved in the wining and dining of “journalists” is BLJ Worldwide, a lobbying and “communications consultancy.” On its website, the controversial firm boasts that it is “proud” to “work with numerous nations and governments, among them some of the largest and most influential on Earth.” It uses its “powerful global network” that includes “thought leaders and media.” Whether the mass-murdering dictatorship enslaving China is among BLJ’s clients was not immediately clear, but one of its two listed vice-presidents serves “governmental, corporate, and nonprofit clients based in the U.S., China,” and other nations.

Another element of the BLJ package for CUSEF included crafting a “short-medium term U.S. campaign to influence key constituencies (politicians, academics, and experts) as well as general public opinion regarding China’s true efforts and intentions in Tibet,” where the regime in Beijing is engaged in what critics have referred to as “cultural genocide.” This scheme was supposed to help analyze how “leading United States high-school textbooks” portrayed Tibet and China, then help peddle Beijing’s talking points as recommendations for “countering the tide of public discourse.”

According to CUSEF’s federal disclosures required under U.S. law, the goal of the campaign is to “effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public” about the Chinese regime. “In order to develop favorable coverage in key national media, BLJ will continue to organize and staff ‘familiarization trips’ to China,” CUSEF added. “This includes recruiting top journalists to travel to China, selected for effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage.” It paid off, with the CCP getting its propaganda pushed in dozens of top outlets and hundreds of “news” and opinion pieces across America.

As this magazine has been documenting for years, CUSEF is also bribing American universities and educational institutions. As The New American reported this weekend, CUSEF is also flying top American politicians to China to be wined and dined. The list of politicians who have made the trek include congressmen, senators, governors, mayors, and prominent state lawmakers from both parties. Reports created by these politicians on their trips were then distributed with the help of CUSEF lobbyists to other political leaders and opinion molders.

The China Daily paper, a wholly-owned propaganda mouthpiece for the murderous regime in Beijing, paid U.S. media outlets some $2 million just in 2020 to promote CCP talking points. It paid almost $20 million throughout the Trump administration’s term in office so far, revealed official disclosures filed with U.S. authorities and required by federal law. Other newspapers listed as being on Beijing’s payroll include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, and Foreign Policy.

According to a report by Judith Bergman at the conservative-leaning Gatestone Institute, the strategy being pursued by the CCP propaganda machine is to buy huge “ads” in these newspapers in the form of “China Watch” inserts. These are carefully crafted to look like “news” coverage in the newspaper, misleading casual readers into believing the paid CCP propaganda is actually a news report by one of the newspapers on Beijing’s payroll.

“The practice does not seem to have caused any sort of actual uproar in those media circles that engage in it,” observed Bergman. “This reticence is odd … because so many journalists and editors consider themselves as standing up against racism, ethnic and religious discrimination, and human rights abuses. Taking money from the Chinese Communist regime in exchange for spreading its propaganda would seem to indicate that this stance is simply empty posturing.”

The coopting of Western media is all part of a coordinated strategy by Chinese dictator Xi Jinping. “China needs to strengthen media coverage … and use innovative outreach methods … to tell a good Chinese story and promote China’s views internationally,” Xi was quoted as saying at the National Meeting on Propaganda and Thought Work in August 2013. He has echoed those points repeatedly since then, including telling a 2018 National Meeting on Ideology and Propaganda how important it was to improve “international communication” to present “good images” of China while raising the regime’s “soft power” and the influence of its “culture.”

Aside from co-opting Western “presstitutes,” as the Western media has come to be ridiculed by critics for behaving like prostitutes, Beijing also has its own massive propaganda megaphone with global reach. Xinhua, an intelligence front masquerading as a news agency, has agents all over the world spread out across hundreds of bureaus gathering intelligence and disseminating CCP lies worldwide. Whistleblowers have been trying to expose this threat for almost a decade, but of course, the CCP-compromised Western media has largely failed to report it.

According to a 2018 Pentagon report, the regime has even been buying up radio stations – including American stations – using subsidiaries to conceal the ownership. “These radio stations broadcast pro-China content but have not registered as agents of a foreign government under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA),” explained the Defense Department report, headlined “Assessment on US Defense Implications of China’s Expanding Global Access.”

There exists a massive array of powerful organizations in the United States working to build up Communist China – and especially its economic and military power. One of the most powerful but obscure is the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, which has a leadership that reads like a who’s who of pro-Beijing powerhouse figures in the United States. The roster includes former U.S. Secretary of State Henry “New World Order” Kissinger, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, and more.