Yep.
NYT needs to give the NBA some cover. They know that the American public and even NBA fans won’t kowtow to China at least right now.
Now if NYT felt that America was ready to accept Chinese hegemony, they would be out there cheering the commies.
The NYT takes the LSE, Fabian socialist approach; just shift the Overton window a little bit towards totalitarianism without going too far too fast.
Nothing gets into that paper by accident. They always have their agenda and they are more sophisticated than wapo or the dumbed down cable outlets.
Agree!!
The Marxist Left has always had a toehold or more in the NY Times and Wash. Post. You just had to know who to look at (read) and who they associated with.
Did you know that NYT Times leftist Vietnam reporter Elizabeth Becker was the only major newspaper journalist to participate in a “Hanoi Lobby” created/run anti-Vietnam protest? (In NY, about 1972. Will try to find the exact article). Other NYT writers and guest Op-Ed writers were KGB or Communist Party members/sympathizers, including Wilfred Burchett (KGB, Australian CP, Red Chinese operative during the Korean War), Anthony Lewis (communist disinformation specialist on Vietnam), and Obit page manager/writer, former 12 year CP member who the Party continued to count on to “write well about the left dead” (possible paraphrase from one of their theoretical journals (possible Political Affairs).