China’s response to criticism about its overbearing speech codes, government control of industry, and increasingly aggressive foreign policy came in an editorial by the state-run Xinhua news service on Monday: You’re welcome, world!
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency claims to be aghast at the U.S. presidential election, which “shames Uncle Sam abroad” with all its scandals, but it is difficult to avoid the sense they are enjoying the show.
A three-minute propaganda video promoting Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea has begun playing in New York City’s Times Square, raising immediate objections from a British politician who says she was deliberately misquoted in the film.
Fresh off a crackdown on independent journalism in China, Beijing is lashing out at India for refusing to renew the visas of three journalists from China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua.
China’s Communist government has lodged a formal diplomatic complaint with the U.S. government for what it is calling a biased and distorted “attack” on China’s religious policies, after the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a scathing report on the state of religious liberty in the country.
