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he expansion of Chinese state-owned English-language media in the United States and Beijing’s increasing control of Chinese-language media outlets in the United States are very problematic for an open dialogue. For one, these media are under the Section 6 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020554 96 control of a foreign government

day life or teach American-style English to Chinese listeners. An example would be a program called Cultural Odyssey, a VOA TV series that focused on Americana, such as fried chicken, doughnuts, and national parks. For years, Cultural Odyssey ate up one-third of the Mandarin service’s travel budget. Another

2018, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-travel-visa-bergen -1.4314000. Appendix 2 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020614 156 7 James Kynge, Lucy Hornby, and Jamil Anderlini, “Inside China’s Secret ‘Magic Weapon’ for Worldwide Influence,” Financial Times (London), October 26, 2017, accessed October 11, 2018, https://www.f

me.? A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or Iran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case t

h the crimes of the Mao era has enabled a revival of the former leader's personality cult that has captured the support of millions of Chinese. As Jamil Anderlini wrote in the Financial Times, Mao has come to be seen as a symbol of a "simpler, fairer society—a time when everyone was poorer but at least they

.’ A prominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the

rominent theme that runs through authoritarian media is the imperfect nature of electoral processes in the leading democracies, especially the United States. The goal is less to portray elections in Russia, Venezuela, or |ran as paragons of democratic practice than to muddy the waters—to make the case th

may feel emboldened to drop their quasi-democratic camouflage due to the lack of diplomatic repercus- sions for such actions. The European Union and the United States have criticized Belarus as “Europe's last dictatorship,” but they always seem willing to give Lu- kashenka another chance to improve relations based

rists to sabotage the Russian commercial airliner that was destroyed after takeoff in the Sinai in 2015. ¢ A three-year-old boy was crucified by the U.S.- backed Ukrainian army in Slovyansk in 2014. ¢ The United States is planning a major war in Eu- rope to enable Washington to cancel its national debt

ductivity Slowdown,” University of Chicago Booth School of Business, June 2016. David M. Byrne, John G. Fernald and Marshall B. Reinsdorf, “Does the United States Have a Productivity Slowdown or a Measurement Problem?” Brookings nstitution, March 1, 2016. David Byrne and Carol Corrado, “ICT Prices and I

euters, December 23, 2016. Daniel Victor, “LinkedIn Says Hackers Are Trying to Sell Fruits of Huge 2012 Data Breach,” New York Times, May 18, 2016. Jamil Anderlini, “Beijing Clamps Down on Forex Deals to Stem Capital Flight,” Financial Times, September 9, 2015. Frank Tang, “China’s Foreign Reserves Fall Again i

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