Report Examines CCP-Linked Media Outreach to U.S. Journalists

China Handpicks American Journalists for Program to Spread CCP Propaganda in American Media

For years American conservatives have suspected the intentional infiltration of communist ideas in American mainstream media. New investigative reporting by Must Read Alaska and independent journalist Natalie Winters reveals the names of the American journalists who sold out to the Chinese Communist Party’s interests and the millions spent by China to deliberately shape American minds. […] The post China Handpicks American Journalists for Progra…

Pay-to-play: China influence group targeted dozens of U.S. journalists for positive coverage of CCP

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2026 Non-AI Real World News In a highly structured pay-to-play operation, a Chinese influence group offered American journalists all-expenses-paid trips to China and access to top officials with the goal of the journalists returning to the U.S. with a significantly improved opinion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Better […]

Report Examines CCP-Linked Media Outreach to U.S. Journalists

An investigation by International Business Times, citing reporting by Natalie Winters and publicly available Foreign Agents Registration Act filings, examined the China–United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a foundation the article describes as linked to the Chinese Communist Party. According to the filings, CUSEF hired Washington lobbying firms to help generate favorable media coverage of China and disseminate “positive messages” about Bei…

Reporting or Propaganda? Why Listening to China Matters

Was China trying to influence us by offering a trip? Of course. Nothing wrong with that; the U.S. Department of State hosts foreign journalists. Lots of governments do it. Each wants to tell its side of the story.