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‘She’s got a Chinese husband,’ they say. ‘She works here, and she won’t run away or exhibit any freethinking.’”
In 2018, China Media Group was created through the merger of several predominant Chinese state radio and television broadcasters. Its aim was (is) to increase China's 'discursive power' (huayuquan) i.e. its ability to influence international opinion, and, ultimately, decision making.
That same year, China Media Group signed a strategic partnership with the Russian state news agency “Rossiya Segodnya”. Under the agreement, Chinese and Russian state media would publish a defined number of positive news stories about each others viewpoints and achievements.
The contract turns out, in practice, to be rather one-sided.
While Rossiya Segodnya publishes more than 100 stories a month, sourced by China Media Group, the number of stories published in China, based on Rossiya Segodnya reporting, is practically non-existent. Even an essay written, and signed, by Vladimir Putin himself about the second world war didn't get the OK of China's propaganda department and, hence, was not published.
Meduza.io, the new home of lenta.ru newsroom exiles, investigates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @12:41PM (1 child)
In their defense, there's only so much you can do to glorify the alcoholic has-been superpower.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 01 2020, @02:08PM
Ex-superpower? I thought Putin has superhuman power, being that he is supposed to be Trump's master according to the MSM. That relationship must have turned Russia into the world's powerhouse country.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 01 2020, @02:41PM (2 children)
(Score: 2, Disagree) by quietus on Saturday August 01 2020, @03:15PM (1 child)
The bad quality of the propaganda is not the sensitive part, in my opinion: it's about the position of Russia versus China, and this goes far further than anything achieved by a mere cash flow.
Here are the official read-outs of a telephone conversation between Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov and his counterpart, Wang Yi: the Russian version [www.mid.ru], and the Chinese vision [fmprc.gov.cn] of things.
The Russian version is crisp, diplomatic, and to the point. The Chinese version is quite different and has, among other things, the following to say (emphasis mine):
The Chinese are very big on not losing face and, hence, choosing your words (very) carefully. Just like with refusing to publish Putin's essay, they're making very clear here what they consider Russia's position to be: a lowly supplicant, taking orders.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday August 01 2020, @04:14PM
Who isn't? I've criticized the Chinese for a lot of things, but this sort of posturing isn't one of those things. Among other things, it's a sign of weakness.