Posted on 12/17/2021 6:04:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Move fast, break everything.
Amazon partnered with an arm of China's propaganda apparatus to create a selling portal on the company's U.S. site, Amazon.com – a project that came to be known as China Books.
Which still exists.
Now this wasn't a domestic propaganda operation, but Amazon was working with the Communists to promote Chinese Communist disinformation aimed at Americans. And that's a company whose boss owns the Washington Post which keeps accusing conservatives of working with foreign enemies and claiming that they need to be censored because of "disinformation".
The 2018 briefing document spells out the strategic stakes of the China Books project for Jay Carney, the global head of Amazon's lobbying and public-policy operations, ahead of a trip he took to Beijing.
Jay Carney, also known as Obama's former press secretary.
"The key element to safeguard" against its license problem with the Chinese government "is the Chinabooks project," the document stated.
The document also noted: "Amazon.com/China books project has also gained wide recognition among Chinese regulators."
This is Amazon specifically trading its ability to do business in China for pushing Chinese Communist propaganda to Americans.
How bad was this propaganda?
One book extols life in Xinjiang, where United Nations experts have said China interned one million ethnic Uyghurs in a network of camps. The book – "Incredible Xinjiang: Stories of Passion and Heritage" – discusses an online comedy show situated in the region. The book quotes an actor who plays a Uyghur "country bumpkin" saying that ethnicity is "not a problem" there. That echoes the position of Beijing, which has denied mistreating minority groups.
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Our Government and system is very corrupt
Ping.
Let God be true, and every man a liar (especially commies).
Jay Carney, one of Obama’s worst press secretary besides
Lockhart, Harf and Sack of Shitski.
I wonder how many were on or got on the Communist world’s payroll.
PBS just aired a show on China building: China’s incredible Ice World
If not china it will be about cuba. How great they are.
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