The US State Department has announced that they will require five Chinese media outlets with operations in the United States to register all personnel and property with the US government and will be treating them as additional foreign missions.
The Foreign Missions Act allows the US to demand large amounts of additional reporting from “foreign missions” compared to ordinary media outlets, and allows the Secretary of State to force them to divest certain property if it is believed to be in the “interests of the United States.”
Considering US diplomatic ties with China are not ideal, it is also possible that the Administration can use this as leverage, expelling Chinese media outlets in a way that would ordinarily be akin to closing a consulate.
The media outlets are China Global Television, China Radio, the parent companies of two large newspapers, and Xinhua News Agency. These are all effectively state media, in as much as they all tend to ultimately be owned by the Chinese government. Still, it is rare for foreign state media to be restricted in this manner.
So what about Aipac and MEMRI (the Middle East Media “Research” Institute?
Better still, who are the dual US-Israel citizens in government???
But Israel is in charge of our government, not a rival like China …
Will US certainly knows that media outlets are typically just propaganda for their respective governments so it’s not entirely unfounded…
It looks like the trade talk did not go as planned. First the Coronavirus now this.
This trade war is not about Chinese military danger to US, but about US based Industry and Financial interest failing miserably.
US Treasury and Federal Reserve are pouring hundreds of millions , and billions daily into propping up the Stock markets and Banking systems of they who lag far behind in future innovation and expertise in all but military technology.
Without those huge inflow of cash we would.see a world wide economic crash, one that but three nations that would benefit from, Russia and China and India, as they are without doubt home to the most innovative mindsets
Oh they would be hurt, Russia far more than China, but they are close partnered and already lead world in technological innovation and have the abilities to mass their populations in directions they need.
Israel is another entity that will survive as already their cyber industries are far ahead of US, and as for Europe they have been stagnated and but consumers of others tech breakthroughs.
And that also applies to their financial and Industrial sectors.
The danger is that US and its European allies may well decide the only way they can retain prominence in world is by warfare, and Hense France call for stronger EU military, they are a nuke weapon nation and all NATO nations upping their numbers of manpower and increases of military hardware.
I would not be investing in any Iranian financial assets or those of any ME except Israels, that’s for sure.
As for US its currency value is holding up only due to its export of raw minerals, coal, oil , forestry which is under agriculture, and Natual Gas, all of which are not predominately owned by US investors
As for US agricultue they went from being worlds largest exporter to being an debtor importer of ag goods and equipment.
The amounts towards subsidizing its agricultural sector is today higher than its educational outflows.
Trump led his buddies, and Democratic party members are also pigging out, into a world wide trade- economic and war footing, a war it cannot win, that while they personally gain wealth, is ripping the economic future out of US.
A full blown military war would cover their and their financial backers thieving butts, and they know it.
Looks like China is going to be the next enemy. The military-industrial needs a good supply of enemies in order to keep their profits rolling in.