Susan Shirk on Visas for Chinese Media
U.S. Proposal Would Crimp Visas for State-Run Media
11/07/2011
Brian Spegele,
The Wall Street Journal
Propaganda chief Li Changchun reiterated calls for the state-run Xinhua news agency to grow into a multinational news organization even as pending legislation from a California congressman could sharply limit the number of Chinese journalists allowed to work in the U.S.
Xinhua is the Communist Party’s primary mouthpiece, and Beijing has worked in recent years to spread its reach. This includes everything from a much-hyped billboard advertisement in New York’s Times Square to making its content more widely available in the developing world, particularly in Africa.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
