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Inside Canada’s Chinese-language media: 'Beijing has become the mainstream,' says ex-Sing Tao editor
Chinese language newspapers in Canada are not free from Chinese interference or censorship, says Victor Ho, previous editor-in-chief of Vancouver’s edition of Sing Tao. In 2017, he wrote that a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s persecution from the CCP “violated universal values of decency and human rights”, which took many of his colleagues by surprise. They told him “You cannot go back to Hong Kong, you cannot go back to China.”
Gloria Fung, a Toronto-based Hong Kong democracy advocate also experienced “blacklisting” from the CCP after her views were broadcast on the Chinese-language Fairchild TV. She states that the CCP is “brainwashing their nationals with propaganda, with fake news,” even in Canada.
The two have raised awareness regarding the variety of ways in which the CCP reaches its overseas Chinese community, including “indirect pressure on news outlets from advertisers and community groups allied with Beijing, and the availability of state-run CCTV channels on Canadian cable television”, as well as the distribution of free newspapers to the Chinese-Canadian community, “some of which Ho suspects are actually being funded — directly or indirectly — by the People’s Republic.”
Source: The National Post #Dec03
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/inside-canadas-chinese-language-media-beijing-has-become-the-mainstream-says-ex-sing-tao-editor
#Canada #CanadaChineseMedia #CCP
Chinese language newspapers in Canada are not free from Chinese interference or censorship, says Victor Ho, previous editor-in-chief of Vancouver’s edition of Sing Tao. In 2017, he wrote that a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s persecution from the CCP “violated universal values of decency and human rights”, which took many of his colleagues by surprise. They told him “You cannot go back to Hong Kong, you cannot go back to China.”
Gloria Fung, a Toronto-based Hong Kong democracy advocate also experienced “blacklisting” from the CCP after her views were broadcast on the Chinese-language Fairchild TV. She states that the CCP is “brainwashing their nationals with propaganda, with fake news,” even in Canada.
The two have raised awareness regarding the variety of ways in which the CCP reaches its overseas Chinese community, including “indirect pressure on news outlets from advertisers and community groups allied with Beijing, and the availability of state-run CCTV channels on Canadian cable television”, as well as the distribution of free newspapers to the Chinese-Canadian community, “some of which Ho suspects are actually being funded — directly or indirectly — by the People’s Republic.”
Source: The National Post #Dec03
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/inside-canadas-chinese-language-media-beijing-has-become-the-mainstream-says-ex-sing-tao-editor
#Canada #CanadaChineseMedia #CCP
National Post
Inside Canada’s Chinese-language media: 'Beijing has become the mainstream,' says ex-Sing Tao editor
At most Canadian news organizations, the opinion column would have barely raised an eyebrow.