First appearance on Fox: Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is calling on nine CEOs of mainstream U.S. media outlets to sever ties with China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department. of the government.
“The Chinese Communist Party’s efforts to infiltrate American institutions are widespread, and news organizations are not immune to these operations. ,” Rubio said in a letter Monday. Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Time, USA Today, Financial Times, Sun Sentinel, Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Rubio said China Daily’s goal is to “subvert America’s news media by expanding the party’s goals and ambitions.” The media published several articles claiming that the US’s “anti-China” reporting on the persecution of Uighurs in Xinjiang is “a complete lie.”
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Sen. Marco Rubio said China Daily’s goal is “to subvert America’s news media by expanding the party’s goals and ambitions.” (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) co-signed the letter.
In 2021, multiple U.S. news organizations received hundreds of thousands of dollars from China Daily, according to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings. China Daily registered with FARA in 1983 and was one of more than a dozen Chinese media outlets recognized by the U.S. State Department as diplomatic missions of the People’s Republic of China.
“China Daily is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party. This is a well-known fact, and there are no shortage of examples of its loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. From covering up the Uighur genocide in Xinjiang to “From exonerating the Communist Party’s continued funding of Russia to the war against Ukraine, China Daily’s mission is to promote the party’s goals,” Rubio wrote.
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In 2021, multiple U.S. news organizations received hundreds of thousands of dollars from China Daily, according to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
The letter goes on to say, “No U.S.-based company, including news organizations, should be complicit in justifying the heinous actions of the Chinese Communist Party or promoting the regime’s blatant lies.” Ta.
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by Latest FARA disclosure, The nine publishers collectively received more than $500,000 in both ad revenue and print in 2023.
Fox News Digital has contacted the Seattle Times, Houston Chronicle, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Time, USA Today, Financial Times, Sun Sentinel and Chicago Tribune for comment.
