Timothy Birdnow

Tucker Carlson delineates how China has bought Washington in a recent Fox News editorial.

From the article:

The New York Times once described the publication as "a newspaper on a mission to promote China's soft power." The South China Morning Postis owned by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. That's a company run by a Communist Party member. Like all Chinese companies, Alibaba is required by the country's 2017 National Intelligence Law to "support and assist and cooperate with China's government spy agencies."

Yes, spy agencies. That's Politico's partner -- and it shows.

What sort of content has Politico's partnership produced? Well, last October pro-democracy protests broke out in Hong Kong. Here's The LA Times headline from that day: "Hong Kong protesters defy police, set up roadblocks." The Washington Post: used this headline: "Police blast mosque with water cannon as hundreds of thousands protestin Hong Kong."

Politico is a blog based outside Washington, D.C. Conventional people read it for a conventional view on politics. Politico is one of the reasons everyone on television sounds the same and is usually wrong. It's also one of the reasons sucking up to China seems normal in Washington.

A few years ago, Politico entered into a so-called content partnership with the South China Morning Post.That's an English language newspaper based in Hong Kong that is widely understood to be a mouthpiece for the Communist Chinese government.

Now here, by contrast, is how The South China Morning Postdescribed it: "Rampaging mob stage an arson spree in Hong Kong." The Morning Poststory went on to describe how a group of criminals was marauding and looting and vandalizing and burning, as they conducted what the paper repeatedly described as"an illegal march."

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