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twelfth among all the Chinese websites in the United States. Its reporting hews closely
to China’s official media:
¢ Example 1: On June 27, 2017, the US Department of State, in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report 2017, put China at Tier 3, the lowest class. In reporting this news, SinovisionNet simply reposted comments from the official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China attacking the human rights record of the United States.'
e Example 2: In March 2017, the US State Department published its 2016 Human Rights Report. SinovisionNet published two stories on this topic. One reported the reaction to the story by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The other story came from Xinhua, which was highly critical of the US human rights situation. SinovisionNet also published two reports by the Information Office of the State Council of China on America’s human rights record. It did not publish State
Department’s human rights report.’
e Example 3: On the tensions in the South China Sea, almost all the stories posted on SinovisionNet are from official Chinese media outlets and websites. They are
naturally critical of US actions in that area.?
Qiaobao and the Sino American Times
Qiaobao, or the China Press (#%, http://www.uschinapress.com), is the flagship pro-PRC newspaper published in the United States. Its website ranks forty-first among all the Chinese websites in the United States. Qiaobao was established in 1990. It is headquartered in New York City with branches in twelve major metropolitan areas of the United States. The Sino American Times (HN) is a free paper and not a major
media presence in the United States.
Independent Media
Over the course of the last decade, most of the independent Chinese-language media outlets in the United States have been taken over by businessmen sympathetic to the PRC.
e Wenxuecheng (34%, wenxuecheng.com) is the most popular Chinese-language
website in the United States. In 2003, it was purchased by a Taiwanese American
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