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The State Department is designating five Chinese media outlets “foreign missions,” calling them, in essence, state-sponsored propaganda and agents of the Communist Party of China, officials announced Tuesday.
State Department officials said the action came after repeated examples of how much of a “function of the state” the companies have become. It took effect immediately, one senior department official said.
The U.S. offices of the five Chinese media outlets designated “foreign missions” were:
-Xinhua News Agency
-China Global Television Network
-China Radio International
-China Daily Distribution Corporation
-Hai Tian Development USA
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With the designations, the media companies will have to notify the Office of Foreign Missions of their personnel in the U.S. and any other changes to that, along with their current real property holdings in the U.S.