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the State Council’s Overseas Chinese Affairs Office gave $800

SinoVision was established in 1990 as part of the PRC’s first push

and it is on the program lineups of cable

the service described the work of the top executives of

the Hong Kong–based Phoenix Satellite TV group

which also owns other media properties that tow Beijing’s line:

but in the late 2000s it began leasing local stations around the

was broadcasting in seven languages. Its programs

Rupert Murdoch’s News Group helped CCTV place

to launch the Chinese “Great Wall Platform” package

and in 2009 it began a TV broadcast in English.

the number of Xinhua bureaus around the world has now

and improve China’s international image.” 7

reported in 2009 that foreign propaganda

alleging that Western media outlets were

push the policies of reform and opening up

sending hundreds of stories a day to overseas Chinese-language media.

which had suspended operations during the Cultural Revolution

the number of magazines targeting overseas Chinese had shrunk

including the English-language China Daily