The National Pulse is today publishing a full list of news outlets said to have granted the Chinese Communist Party and its propaganda outlets “favorable coverage” or “positive messages” following an investigation into the China-United States Exchange Foundation and ‘BLJ Worldwide’.
The full list follows a National Pulse exposé on the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), founded by the Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which has been identified by the U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission as a key component of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Work Front.
The effort, according to the U.S. government report, aims to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”
Evidenced through the Department of Justice’s Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings, a relationship spanning over a decade between establishment media outlets and CUSEF can be discerned.
Sponsored Trips.
With the assistance of BLJ, CUSEF has sponsored trips to China for the following outlets with the explicit goal of “effectively disseminat[ing] positive messages to the media, key influencers, and opinion leaders, and the general public” according to FARA filings.
Dubbed “familiarization trips,” the criteria for participants included “effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage” in order to secure “favorable” coverage”
In order to develop favorable coverage in key national media, BLJ will continue to organize and staff “familiarization trips” to China. This includes recruiting top journalists to travel to China, selected for effectiveness and opportunities for favorable coverage.
Outlets:
- Vox
- Slate
- Boston Herald
- Boston Globe
- Huffington Post
- The Atlantic
- Fox News
- New York Times
- NPR
- CNBC
- Newsweek
- Los Angeles Times
- Baltimore Sun
- Chicago Tribune
- The Guardian
- The New Yorker
- The Financial Times
- Foreign Policy
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- New York Magazine
- Yahoo Finance
- National Journal
- Washington Post
- Forbes
- Bloomberg
- Minneapolis Star Tribune
- U.S. News & World Report
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Harvard Business Review
- The Hill
- Chicago Magazine
- MSNBC
Private Dinners.
In addition to CUSEF-sponsored travel, outlets also met with CUSEF officials and the BLJ CEO in various U.S. cities including New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago. Often times, the meetings were described as “private dinners” in FARA filings.
Outlets:
- Washington Post
- Associated Press
- TIME Magazine
- New York Times
- CBS
- Forbes
- PBS
- The Atlantic
- The Economist
- CNBC
- Wall Street Journal
- Financial Times
- National Journal
- NPR
- Politico
- Chicago Tribune
- Bloomberg
- BBC
- Los Angeles Times
- Quartz
- Agence France Presse
- McClatchy Newspapers
- Congressional Quarterly
- Businessweek
- CNN
- The Hill
- Reuters
- ABC
- Nation
- Yahoo!
- Newsweek
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