@NickKristof Nope. I do international coverage. I am allowed in China.
China doesn't give press passes to people who are doing anti-China propaganda. If you want to cover China, do it with facts, not slander.
Press passes are for the press, not undercover CIA-assets.
Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be.
This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War.
Read this part:
"In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power."
Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏
Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War.
Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline.
Truth matters.
Japanese protesters gathered in Tokyo chanting "We're sorry, China" to protest policies of right wing Japanese PM Takaichi that plunge Sino-Japanese relations to its lowest point since normalization of ties in 1972
Over 100,000 (estimates go up to 200,000) people came out on Saturday, April 26, to protest Lai Ching-te's governance. Funny how western MSM is silent and continues to present Lai as popular in the media.
@jimsciutto@kevinolearytv Is this blow hard off his meds? China brought 800m out of poverty, made us Americans rich, and hasn’t fired a bullet in 45 years. Sounds like he’s got sour grapes from a failed business venture in China.