China’s human-rights position, in and on its own terms
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Xinhua is the state-owned, state-controlled, international news service of the communist government of the People’s Republic of China. Like the United Kingdom’s BBC or France’s Radio France Internationale or Japan’s NHK broadcasting organization, Xinhua offers its news reports to a global audience in various languages. Unlike other countries’ government-supported news-and-information services, however, the Chinese organization is charged with carrying out a more clearly pronounced and obvious propaganda role on behalf of the government in Beijing. This is an essential characteristic of its institutional role that often can be detected in the tone or the specific content of its news articles and commentaries.
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