I'm getting so many Wayfair adds now, lol.
Good Lord as if our property taxes in Texas aren't already high enough. Okay, give the schools the damn money and then go away and shut up Schumer. What does this man ever do that helps anyone, really.
China is buying good press across the world, one paid journalist at a time
Ananth Krishnan 24 November, 2018 10:02 am IST
It coincides with launch of Belt and Road initiative and president Xi Jinping’s call to “tell China’s story better” to the world.
“Visiting journalists give glowing report”, read a headline in the Beijing edition of the China Daily, an English-language newspaper that’s run by the Chinese government.
Not unusual in China, no doubt, where the state controls the media with a firm hand.
But what was unusual about this particular news report last year was where the journalists were from: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and more than a dozen countries from Southeast Asia and Africa.
They were all part of a unique Chinese experiment that may yet be Beijing’s most successful – and least known – attempt to better shape the world media’s reporting on China.
For 10 months every year, starting 2016, China’s foreign ministry has hosted around 100 foreign journalists from leading media houses in Asia and Africa. They have been given the red-carpet treatment: apartments in one of Beijing’s plush residences, the Jianguomen Diplomatic Compound, where a two-bedroom apartment costs 22,000 Yuan (Rs 2.4 lakh), a 5,000 Yuan monthly stipend for some (Rs 50,000) and free tours twice-every-month to different Chinese provinces. They are also given language classes and at the end of the programme, they are given degrees in international relations from a Chinese university.
Perhaps above all, they are given what other foreign correspondents in China are usually denied — access to Chinese government officials and ministries.
This initiative coincides with two major Chinese government objectives: the launch of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, and Xi’s call in 2016 to “tell China’s story better” to the world.
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https://theprint.in/opinion/china-is-paying-foreign-journalists-including-from-india-to-report-from-beijing/154013/
Will we ever know this correction from The Hill's reporting?
Correction: China calls for the US to reduce its nuclear stockpile to the Chinese level (a 95% reduction) as a prerequisite to nuclear arms control talks.
The media framing of Chinese aggression is a lie. The story is the US rejects peace in favor of continued nuclear hegemony.
JUST IN: China turns down nuclear arms control talks with US and Russia
http://hill.cm/qf74Rme
They're getting good at this!
Another #MichaelJackson wax statue is in the making.
WTH? Look what they make (turn your volume down).