MEDIA PACKAGE: Select Committee on CCP Roundtable: "The CCP's Propaganda and Censorship"
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Chairman Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ranking Member Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), and members of the Select Committee on the CCP hosted a roundtable discussion with experts at an event titled, "The Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda and Censorship".
The Select Committee was joined by witnesses Ms. Sarah Cook, Senior Advisor for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan at Freedom House, Dr. Matthew Johnson, Research Director at Garnaut Global, and Ms. Bay Fang, President, Radio Free Asia.
Watch highlights from the roundtable below.
Video & B-roll for public broadcast and distribution is available HERE
Click HERE for Chairman Gallagher's opening remarks
Chairman Rep. Mike Gallagher kicks off the roundtable on CCP censorship:
“After the 1997 release of “7 Years in Tibet”, Beijing banned all Sony pictures from the Chinese market. The ban was dropped after executives undertook an apology tour…
Today, companies like Disney bend over backwards to avoid portraying the CCP in a negative light.”
View a downloadable clip of Chairman Gallagher HERE
Ranking Member Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi shares an example of Chinese Communist Party propaganda that he received while visiting the 9/11 Memorial this week.
View a downloadable clip of Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi HERE.
Bay Fang, President of Radio Free Asia:
“One of the first stories I covered was Clinton’s granting permanent normal trade relations… at the time Clinton famously said that China trying to control the internet would be like nailing jello to the wall… words that haunt us all.”
View a downloadable clip of the exchange HERE..
Sarah Cook, Senior Advisor at Freedom House:
“Not surprisingly, the CCP is accelerating it’s multi-billion dollar campaign to shape public opinion and secure both its hold on power in China and its foreign policy priorities.”
View a downloadable clip of Ms. Cook HERE.
Matthew Johnson, Research Director at Garnaut Global:
“There’s a tendency to normalize China as a nation-state. But it’s a totalitarian single party state…
[Propaganda] is not just media, but includes mobilization, person to person networks… espionage and counter espionage.”