Watch: Xinhua journalists are ‘spies’ for the Chinese Communist Party

Author Doug Young claims in his new book, The Party Line: How The Media Dictates Public Opinion in Modern China, that as well as carrying out reporting tasks, journalists for Xinhua also fulfil a similar role to that of the CIA in the United States.
Young is a former Reuters reporter and teaches financial journalism at Fudan University in Shanghai. He blogs at Young’s China Business Blog.

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