Senior officials say the State Department will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities with US operations the same as foreign embassies, requiring them to register their employees and US properties.
The Trump administration says it will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities with US operations the same as foreign embassies, requiring them to register their employees and US properties with the State Department.
The control over both the content and editorial control have only strengthened over the course of Xi Jinping's term in power, said one official.China's new hottest app on the block is a propaganda resource that teaches"Xi Jinping thought" and requires the Communist Party's 90 million members to read it daily.
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