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China Daily guest editorial government propaganda?

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Regarding the China Daily guest editorial published March 8, Wikipedia describes this newspaper as a media outlet under the control of the authoritarian XI Jinping's communist government.

The Wiki article says that up to the time of the Tiananmen Square uprising, the China Daily had a substantial amount of freedom and that it supported the efforts of the pro-democracy demonstrators.

But after the deadly putdown of the protest, the China Daily was reined in by the communist party and has effectively become a government propaganda tool.

I question whether it was in the interests of your readers to be told by such a source that our government is spending too much on defense.

Especially when the Chinese government has been in a full-on race to achieve equity or superiority to our own military.

Ron Schoenherr

Wailuku

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