How much is CNN being paid to publish Chinese Communist Party propaganda? Network publishes 'article' paid for by Beijing that glosses over human rights criticism of Olympics and calls it a 'winter sporting event like no other'

Daily Mail ^ | 02/14/2022 | ALYSSA GUZMAN

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CNN is facing pressure to reveal how much is was paid to run sponsored content from a Chinese state-run newspaper on its website promoting the Winter Games in Beijing.

The content supplied by Xinhua News Agency - a newspaper founded and run by government agency State Council of the People's Republic of China - promotes the Beijing Olympics as a 'winter sporting event like no other.'

In an upbeat article, it focuses on the dazzling effects of the Games - which runs from February 4 to 20 - from 'green construction' to the extensive 'safety protocols.'

Remarkably absent is any mention of the current criticism surrounding the Winter Games - including the human rights issues with the Uyghur, athletes and journalists being warned to used burner phones to protect themselves from censorship and hacking, as well as extreme COVID-19 measures causing athletes to slam the unbearable quarantine hotels.

'The 2022 winter games in Beijing will provide a stage for the world's top winter sports athletes and highlight China's efforts to host a safe, sustainable global-scale event,' the sponsored content read on the site. 'It's an event like no other for winter sports athletes and fans.'

It also boosts about China's new 'state-of-the-ark Fuxing bullet train' that was unveiled earlier this year to 'serve the Games.'

It is unknown how much CNN was paid by the Chinese newspaper to post the content on their site. DailyMail.com has contacted CNN for a comment.

But, regardless, many Americans and other Western countries are boycotting the Games - largely over the reported genocide to the Uyghur people.

China has denied any wrongdoing, and even featured a Uyghur cross-country skier in the opening ceremony. However, China refuses to allow the UN in the region.

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Reports of the mass genocide and sterilization have been pouring out recently, causing many countries to pull support from the Games.

Recently Gulbahar Haitiwaji, who was imprisoned in one of the facilities, wrote for Mail on Sunday that 're-education camps' were meant to 'eradicate an entire ethnicity.'

'The camps, which China describes as 'schools,' claim to 'eradicate Islamist terrorism from Uighur minds,' she wrote for the paper in January. 'In reality, they aim to eradicate an entire ethnicity.'

She spoke of receiving a 'vaccine' that many other women in the camp had said stopped their periods.

Haitiwaji was sentenced to re-education for seven years after being tried as an Islamic terrorist in a nine-minute trial. She recalled the experience as 'dragging my body through hell and my mind to the brink of madness' and being 'stripped of your individuality.'

Uyghur Muslims have also been shackled with 'tiger chains,' tortured and sterilized in brutal camps in China.

More than 1 million Uyghurs are missing in China.

[TexasFreeper2009]

well... its a winter sporting event with no snow in a brutal communist country...

soo... in a way the statement is true, a “winter sporting event like no other”

lol

[Secret Agent Man]

Well they are right.

Its a winter event like no other. That’s dam true.

Not for the reasons they’re shilling though.

[SaxxonWoods]

“a ‘winter sporting event like no other’”

I hear that is the fervent hope of the athletes.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Now you know why CNN stands for the Chinese News Network!

[neverevergiveup]

What would one expect from a network founded by a guy who said “Christianity is a religion for losers”?