China is winning the global media war as Beijing quietly builds its presence in the West


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Previous Next China is winning the global media war as Beijing quietly builds its presence in the West The i 1 hour ago David Connett Rishi Sunak calls China “a threat to our national security” and Liz Truss talks blithely of “cracking down” on the Chinese-owned video app TikTok but there seems little either can do to reverse Beijing’s relentless reshaping of global media. While Western news outlets have endured years of economic headwinds and cuts to resources, Chinese state journalism has been swimming in yuan since a global media expansion fund worth £5.4bn was created in 2009. Cash from...