The State Dept. has notified five Chinese media outlets that they must register as 'foreign missions,' requiring them to share information on all their U.S.-based employees and properties with the U.S. government.
"We're not seeking conflict by any stretch of the imagination, but we're going to call it straight, we're going to call it as we see it," said a senior State Department official who briefed reporters on the announcement,"And the fact of the matter is each and every single one of these entities does in fact work 100% for the Chinese government and the Chinese communist party.
A portrait of China's President Xi Jinping is seen during a tour arranged for the media at a camp on the outskirts of Beijing on Sept. 25, 2019.These designations were similarly used for Soviet outlets, such as Pravda, during the Cold War, although currently, Russian outlets including RT or Sputnik have not been required to register as foreign missions.
Asked about the timing, they said the outlets had increasingly come under party control under the rule of Xi Jinping, China's president and the Chinese Communist Party's general secretary, even reading a quote from Xi about the importance of party control over the media.A flag flies outside the Chinese Embassy on May 18, 2012, in Washington, D.C.
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