Do you know that the author of this article did a cut and paste job on a piece published in Mediaite last night by Joe DePaolo?
Plagiarism!
the influence of China in western media probably explains a lot:
18 Dec 2019: Washington Free Beacon: China Violates Disclosure Law to Publish Propaganda in NY Times, WaPo
China Daily gave media outlets millions to publish ads disguised as news stories
by Yuichiro Kakutani
China routinely broke federal law by not disclosing how much it spent to publish regime propaganda in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers, an expert review of foreign agent registration filings concluded.
China Daily, an official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has published hundreds of propaganda articles designed to look like ordinary news stories in some of America’s most influential newspapers...
China Daily has published propaganda in mainstream outlets for decades, but did not disclose its purchases of space in American newspapers to the Department of Justice until 2012...
China Daily has run more than 700 online ads designed to look like news articles and purchased 500 print pages in six American newspapers over the last seven years. These propaganda articles frame state oppression in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong in a positive light and run alongside actual news stories produced by reporters at the Post, Times, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets...
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-flouts-fed-law-to-publish-propaganda-in-ny-times-wapo/
in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald carries a China Daily insert. the paper is now owned by 9 Entertainment and one of Channel 9’s editors, Chris Uhlmann, has called them out:
Tweet: Chris Uhlmann, Political editor Nine News
Always exciting when the monthly China Daily insert appears in the Sydney Morning Herald. As it so rightly says “All You Need to Know”…
PIC
13 Feb 2020
https://twitter.com/cuhlmann/status/1228101347041370113?lang=en
rather creepy.