A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul
A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.
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On the surface, No Cold War is a loose collective run mostly by American and British activists who say the West’s rhetoric against China has distracted from issues like climate change and racial injustice.
In fact, a New York Times investigation found, it is part of a lavishly funded influence campaign that defends China and pushes its propaganda. At the center is a charismatic American millionaire, Neville Roy Singham, who is known as a socialist benefactor of far-left causes.
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Mr. Singham says he does not work at the direction of the Chinese government. But the line between him and the propaganda apparatus is so blurry that he shares office space — and his groups share staff members — with a company whose goal is to educate foreigners about “the miracles that China has created on the world stage.”
If he's so socialist and far-left, why in the world would he support China? They're politically communist in name only, and economically capitalist.
Well even though I'm old enough where I should have already known this term, my time on lemmy has introduced me to Tankies.
My guess is this guy is a Tankie: if it has communism in it in any way shape or form then it's the most amazing thing ever and anything you say about it that would say otherwise is a dirty liberal lie.
Something like that.
Sounds like a perfect fit, claim to be socialist actually just be a greedy capitalist.
Lavishly funded? In comparison to, what, the usual leftist media that runs on pennies and donations? I wonder how lavish the funding is compared to the anti-China think tanks that Raytheon and Boeing fund from their advertising budget each year.