Friday, June 26, 2015

China, Russia to Cooperate on Propaganda

Sorry, there's a whiff of Onion about this.
From Xinhua:

China, Russia vow to boost media cooperation
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, met with a senior Russian official Thursday on media cooperation between China and Russia.

In a meeting with Alexi Gromov, first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Liu said his department is willing to work with the Presidential Administration of Russia on the integrated development of traditional and new media.

The two sides should look to the future and aspire to innovate bilateral media cooperation based on the integration and development of new media and traditional media, so that they can have larger say in the world's mass media, said Liu, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee....MORE