This is the Tom Harbin Program.

While greetings here from sheltered in place, Tom Harbin here in my home in Portland, Oregon,

a question, what are America's largest newspapers doing, taking money from China to publish propaganda,

literally, that looks like news.

Chuck Ross is writing about this over the Daily Caller, the right-wing website.

He says, an English-language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda

department paid US media companies nearly $2 million for printing and advertising expenses

over just the past six months.

China Daily is the publication.

They paid the Wall Street Journal of Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, Financial

Times, Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, on and on the list goes, Washington Post.

What gets published are these little inside China things that talk about how wonderful

China is and everything wonderful about China and the Communist Party and what they're

doing is called China Watch.

The State Department has designated China Daily and for other Chinese news organizations,

news outlets, as foreign missions.

In other words, they have to be considered organs of the state, almost like embassies.

But our newspapers are taking money from them and not seeing in those newspapers much of

a discussion about the fact that China's economy is now larger than ours and their military

is growing by leaps and bounds in their threatening Taiwan and the whole discussion about

the Thucydides trap has kind of vanished, which I really think we should be having a conversation

about.

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