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Large Western media organisations could do nothing but shake their heads this week as reports came out of China that $US7 billion dollars was to flow into state media. While newspapers, television, radio, and even internet properties in the Western world were being gutted by their parent organisations, China spoke of expanding its reach in an aggressive global drive to improve “brand China”.
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An Australian mining company with a majority holding in China’s second-largest gold mine has been the focus of a scathing attack on Chinese state television. The claims have shocked the firm, and voiced a none-too-hidden view that foreign investment in Chinese mining could be unwelcome.
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China’s media network is by far the largest in the world.
More than 1.1 billion people have access to the 3,000 television stations nationwide. Chinese radio broadcasts in 43 languages worldwide, and 900,000 students are enrolled in just one of the many journalism schools.
But internationally, China’s media is often viewed as the mouthpiece of the central government, or to use the Chinese phrase — “the throat and tongue of the party”.
