Diao Daming, a US studies expert at Renmin University of China in Beijing, told the Global Times that the reason why the five media outlets are listed is simple: “ideological bias against China, cooking up fake news under the disguise of press freedom, and breaches of journalism ethics,” and these five media outlets have shown all these tendencies in covering China story.  

The impact on the five US media is obvious, Diao said. “If they can’t report news about China based on facts, then their reports should be reduced and even banned, as they have lost qualifications to report China to the English-speaking world.”

Asked if the US government would escalate the confrontations against China, Diao noted that “based on current US actions against Chinese journalists, and some extreme insults and stigmatizations made by US senior politicians against China, it showed that the US government is losing basic rationality, and we can’t use normal logic to predict the US anymore.”
— Read on www.globaltimes.cn/content/1182956.shtml

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