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@MrSeanHaines
Ex-China state media. I used to get paid to catch all these blunders—now I do it for free.🍹😎
Apr 21, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
RIP "China state-affiliated media" tags~ ImageImageImageImage I'm sure none will go back to hiding their employers, pretending to humble journalists/influencers, right. Right..?
Jan 22, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
While everyone was distracted by Chinese New Year, the CPC hammered another rusty nail into its supposed independent judicial system.

Yesterday, an official paper instructed all courts to "adhere to the absolute leadership of the Party" 🧵 The story in People's Court Daily, instructs:

"Efforts should be made to.. adhere to the absolute leadership of the party over the work of the courts"

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Jan 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
A trick I learnt working in state media: bad news is often buried in the penultimate section.

True for today's NBS data. Most are focusing on the GDP and population drop. For me, the CPC's biggest discomfort is slowing income growth. Means their economic strategy is stalling. First: Context
China's big economic policy is "Dual Circulation"
+Less reliance on exports
+More reliance on domestic market
+More consumption
..essentially, a euphemism for "China First"

(A cynic would say they're anticipating a future event & so decoupling from the world 🤔)
Dec 23, 2022 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
Chinese state media tweets that haven't aged well. Part 2.

✨China Daily cartoon special✨ "Back to work"
Dec 19, 2022 • 17 tweets • 10 min read
It's amazing the 180 Chinese state media have done on their Covid messaging of late.

Someone should make a short thread of interesting quotes.

Oh. WAIT. *cues music*.. 🧵👇 "Omicron is not flu."

... until it was.
Dec 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Dope, who didn't breathe a word about the protests, aside from a few deleted tweets, until he could copy MoFA's words, uses a nationalist rag that answers directly to China's Ministry of Propaganda to complain about censorship.

Stop. Stop. The IRONY. 😂 Image "Andy was offered the job as a full-time journalist"
No he wasn't. 🙄

Note he only claims this in English..
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May 31, 2022 • 24 tweets • 12 min read
🎉 Exciting news everyone 🎉

China state media network CCTV quietly released their annual Social Responsibility report on Saturday, where they apologised for "shortcomings"—but committed to "do a good job of Leader propaganda"

Don't worry. I read it, so you don't have to~ 😉 Image So. You might have noticed, CCTV staff have spent recent years grumbling they somehow.. *gasp*.. take instructions from Beijing, or lack editorial independence.

Thus. You'd expect them to delicately tip-toe around political affiliation, right? Media integrity, yes..? ImageImageImageImage
Nov 5, 2021 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
This guy gets it...

It's sad. When I first started working in Chinese state media, was shocked at the low level, lack of professional skills, lack of wider intl knowledge.

And staff trying to impress bosses, who are entombed in old era thinking.

It's all so insular.. The vast majority of staff I met had no media experience. Hired as they'd done an English degree, or a Masters abroad.

(Aside from presenters - who nearly all came from a single course at Communications Uni, Beijing where you're taught to read a teleprompter and look pretty.)