Comment on Australian Cheng Lei's first message from Chinese prison describes harsh conditions

• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Working as a propagandist of foreign powers absolutely is evidence of where your loyalties lie.

  She made her bed and she can rot in it.

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  • Moc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Articles. Show me evidence of your assertion that she is a propagandist. Defend your argument with facts

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-10/…/102712716

      Ms Cheng, now 48, was working as a broadcast journalist at Chinese state-owned media, CGTN

      theguardian.com/…/china-plan-for-global-media-dom…

      CGTN was created to serve one purpose; to push China’s narrative on events to a global audience.

      chinamediaproject.org/…/the-fable-of-the-master-s…

      Lets look at ownership and direction the broadcaster. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN_(TV_channel)

      under the control of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

      economist.com/…/china-is-spending-billions-on-its…

      The channel is owned by State media and directed by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party, it doesn’t get any more clear cut that Cheng Lei was employed as part of the CCPs propaganda machine.

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      • Moc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Excellent, thank you.

        Now /c/surreptitiouswalk, do you have any evidence to the contrary?

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