western media coverage

Taiwanese Perspectives Overlooked on Pelosi Visit

In the lead-up to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan this week, much of the Western media coverage was saturated with dramatic speculation about the prospect of war and other Chinese government retaliation....

Beijing Hits Back Against U.S. Media Restrictions, Arms Sales

China’s Foreign Ministry announced a series of retaliatory measures against U.S. media organizations and defense corporations on Monday. This is the latest move in a protracted tit-for-tat battle with the Trump administration...

Did Xi Snub North Korea in Boao Speech?

‘Tis the season for North Korea to escalate its rhetoric, and recent threats from the Hermit Kingdom have many wondering if China is growing frustrated with its longtime ally. President and CCP Secretary General Xi Jinping...

Sinica: Critical Media, Foreign and Domestic

This week’s Sinica podcast, hosted by Kaiser Kuo, features the Guardian’s Tania Branigan, Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn, and entrepreneur Bill Bishop talking about foreign media coverage of China: Is the...

James Kynge: West Miscasts Tiananmen Protesters

From the Financial Times, James Kynge provides a critique of Western media representation of Tiananmen and provides an interesting perspective: When I think about the massacre in central Beijing that followed weeks of...

China: A Hard Place to Defend.

From Angry Chinese Blogger blog: It’s not an ancient saying, but maybe it should be “If you want to set yourself a hard task, try defending Mainland China without resorting to lies or name calling”. It’s...

Video: Don’t Be Too CNN

In the latest Internet video — this time a musical one — criticizing Western media’s biased coverage of recent unrest in Tibet, Mu Rongxuan takes on CNN. Mu opens the video by singing, “That day on the...

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