The U.S. state department has designated the U.S. operations of six China-based media companies as foreign missions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Oct. 21.
The designations were applied to: Yicai Global, Jiefang Daily, Xinmin Evening News, Social Sciences in China Press, Beijing Review, and Economic Daily, the department said in a statement.
The Department of State said the outlets are “substantially owned or effectively controlled” by the Chinese regime.
The designations, which restrict the outlets’ operations in the United States but do not affect what they can publish, are in addition to the nine Chinese state media outlets that were designated as foreign missions earlier this year, in recognition of their roles as propaganda organs of the Chinese Communist Party.
Source: TheEpochTimes.com
