Economist Publishes Chinese Propaganda

A senior figure in the Chinese Communist Party’s political influence networks penned a column for the Economist in which he urged greater U.S.–China cooperation. The article’s author, Wang Huiyao (Henry Huiyao Wang), is the founder and president of a think tank overseen by Beijing’s political-influence bureau.

While the influential British weekly’s biographical note for Wang states that he is a former Chinese government adviser and the founder of the Center for China and Globalization, it describes that organization merely as “a think tank in Beijing,” without specifying its ties to a key CCP influence bureau. That’s a significant detail, in light of the argument that Wang advances in the piece.

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A senior figure in the Chinese Communist Party’s political influence networks penned a column for the Economist in which he urged greater U.S.–China cooperation. The article’s author, Wang Huiyao (Henry Huiyao Wang), is the founder and president of a think tank overseen by Beijing’s political-influence bureau.

While the influential British weekly’s biographical note for Wang states that he is a former Chinese government adviser and the founder of the Center for China and Globalization, it describes that organization merely as “a think tank in Beijing,” without specifying its ties to a key CCP influence bureau. That’s a significant detail, in light of the argument that Wang advances in the piece.