Epstein Secrets

own University JAMES MULVENON SOS International ANDREW J. NATHAN Columbia University MINXIN PEI Claremo

e. Zhu Muzhi, the former chief of the Xinhua News Agency and a vice minister of propaganda, was its first head. In 1991, the group was transferred to the State Council, where it was still internally referred to as the External Propaganda Group. For foreign consumption, however, it was called the State Council Infor

the political aisle. The Liberal trade minister, Andrew Robb, was shown to have stepped directly from off

Propaganda Office, 447»). The reason for the two names is because it straddles two bureaucratic systems—the party and the state. It is formally under the State Council, but it is also overseen by the Chinese Communist Party’s External Propaganda Leading Group (or EPLG). This bureaucratic duality is what the Chinese

SOS International. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020656 198 Andrew J. Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor of Polit

d PRC-Controlled Media Outlets The Chinese Communist Party liaises with Chinese-language media mainly through the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (or Qiao Ban {*7). The Qiao Ban holds an annual conference on Chinese-language media called the World Chinese Media Forum. These media outlets are re