A chilling article published by #China's state-run Xinhua News Agency on Tuesday, targeting Chinese journalists hired by western media, characterizing them as "pawns to propagate their China-bashing rhetoric."
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"Don't expect these anti-China stories to be convincing, even if narrated by Chinese journalists, most of whom are born in China and appear in front of television screens as so-called 'China experts,'" the article wrote.
"Manipulating these journalists to misrepresent China and stir up ideological bias against the country has once again revealed that so-called 'press freedom' touted by the Western media is just a handy tool to advance a narrow political agenda," the article added.
Specific examples raised by the article include western media's reports on the initial stage of the #COVID19 outbreak in Wuhan in 2020 and the ongoing persecution of #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang.
"It is a miscalculation by the Western media that their anti-China stories will enjoy more credibility if told by journalists with Asian faces," the article argued.
"Nothing could be further from the truth, but that hasn't stopped Western media from claiming their reporters are "China experts,'" it further argues.
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