The ‘soft-pedal coverage’ of the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the Communist Party centenary has left US experts sounding the alarm bells. Geopolitical experts believe that commercial motive could be behind the mellow reporting of the communist nation by American media. According to Fox News, the mainstream media in the United States had a celebratory tone leading up to the 100-year anniversary of CCP, despite its poor human rights record.
China expert Gordon Chang believes that a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and as a result, they are willing to mellow down their coverage. “I think it’s because a lot of news organizations want to do business in China, and so they are willing to soft-pedal coverage and they are not willing to give context where context is required,” Chang told Fox. “I think there’s the commercial motive there.”
During the 100th founding anniversary of the CCP, Xi threatened that any nation that gets in the way of China’s priorities “will find their heads bashed bloody against a great wall of steel”. According to Chang, the mainstream media didn’t pick up on an “important message” that was sent to America through the communist leader’s rhetoric.
