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US State Department officials said the four organisations — the state-run CCTV, China News service, the People’s Daily newspaper and the Global Times — are essentially mouthpieces for the Chinese Communist Party and the government and should not be treated like ordinary foreign media.
The China News service, the People’s Daily newspaper and the Global Times are among the the four organisations. (Image for representation: Reuters)
The Trump administration said Monday that it is designating the US operations of four major Chinese media outlets as “foreign missions” in an action that could force some of their journalists to leave the country and further worsen diplomatic relations.
State Department officials said the four organizations are essentially mouthpieces for the Chinese Communist Party and the government and should not be treated like ordinary foreign media.
The four, which include state-run CCTV, will be required to submit a list of everyone who works for them in the US and any real estate holdings. None are being ordered to leave at this time, but a similar action in February against five other outlets preceded a cap on the number of people who could work for those organizations in the US.
The other three are the China News service, the People’s Daily newspaper and the Global Times.
“The Communist Party does not just exercise operational control over these propaganda entities but has full editorial control over their content,” said Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell.
“This foreign mission designation is an obvious step in increasing transparency of these and other PRC government propaganda activities in the United States.”
In February, the administration took the same action against the Xinhua News Agency, China Global Television Network, China Radio International, the China Daily Distribution Corporation, which distributes the newspaper of the same name, and Hai Tian Development USA, which distributes the People’s Daily newspaper.
Then in March, the US administration capped the number of journalists from the five allowed to work in the US at 100, down from about 160. At the time, the US cited China’s increasingly harsh surveillance, harassment and intimidation of American and other foreign journalists in China.
It was not yet clear how many journalists work in the US for the organisations designated Monday.
As of this spring, there were about 75 Americans and other foreigners authorised to work for US news outlets inside China.
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