Of particular interest and relevance for the post is the following:

“Beijing still invests a huge amount of energy — and now capital — in molding Western perceptions of China. (Estimates for the build-out of China’s media operations overseas hover well over $200 million.)”

Makes you wonder just how ignorant Labour leaders have to be to stop short at seeing in China only what the Chinese Communists want them to see and taking everything at face value.

Is he also referring to the EU? As since the PL has been in office we did not give a good impression to the EU especially with the citizenship issue.

Mallia is the minister responsible for public broadcastng services. His speech wasn’t mere niceties. It was an ominous warning

The man doesn’t know the meaning of freedom and democracy, nor anything about the role if independent media and public broadcasting in a supposedly democratic society.

Xinhua is owned and run by the Chinese government. It serves to support the government, rather than scrutinising it and holding it to account.

And our very own minister of broadcasting thinks that’s brilliant.

It used to be “Moscow’s eyes” as experts in Kremlinology would put it. Now, it’s Beijing’s eyes…

The first thing that comes to mind is the aerial shot of Berlin recently, locating all the potential NSA surveillance positions on administrative buildings, following Merkel’s outrage.

Quite handy that broadcasting falls within his same remit.

Sometimes it quotes Belarus to deliver more of the same accusations. Belarus is a place where it was made illegal to applaud following demonstrations in 2010, earning the country’s president the spoof Nobel.