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

nternational News Agency (founded in 1938), to appeal to overseas Chinese for support of the new revolution. The Party placed this news service under the State Council’s Office for Overseas Chinese Affairs. Other propaganda campaigns targeted allies in the Western world, such as black nationalist figures from the Unit

tivities Police forces across China must record the whole proc- esses of their law enforce- ment activities, under a guideline released on Tuesday by the State Council, China’s Cabinet. The regulation calls for police authorities to better digitalize officers’ activities, and present all cases on the internet, exce

ciding who could enter the race was unpalatable. The State Council's white paper on the governance of Hong Kong, inten

it can," said Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who served as a senior Middl