CHINA/FOREIGN POLICY/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “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.
The annual report of the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission said that while China had tightened restrictions on domestic and foreign media, Chinese state media had rapidly expanded overseas.
The commission, created by Congress in 2000 to monitor national security implications of U.S.-China trade relations, said China’s state media expansion was part of a broader effort to exert greater control over how China is depicted globally, as well as to gather information.
The report highlighted the rapid growth of the Xinhua news agency and noted that it had offices at the United Nations in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston and San Francisco…
It quoted testimony to the commission by the U.S. Government-funded rights organization, Freedom House, as saying it was a ‘loophole’ that individuals working for Xinhua and China’s People’s Daily newspaper were not covered by the Foreign Agents Registration Act.”
-David Brunnstrom, “U.S. Congress urged to require Chinese journalists to register as agents,” Reuters, Nov. 14, 2017 09:06pm