It presents itself as “the main channel of information between China and the rest of the world” reaching “almost 330 million readers”. Reporter Without Borders puts it, for its part, in a good place in what it calls “the information control apparatus in China”.
He is called the China Daily. It physically resembles any good quality daily newspaper and is the only newspaper distributed in the Beijing Games media center.
Like every newspaper in every country these days, it gives pride of place to local athletes who have won medals and made the grateful nation proud. On Monday, we saw the success of the measures deployed by President Xi Jinping to develop the practice of winter sports in China.
On Wednesday, we were pleased that the Chinese delegation was the one with the greatest ethnic and cultural diversity, with in particular an 18-year-old Tibetan cross-country skier and 20-year-old Uighur cross-country skier, Dinigeer Yilamujiang, who helped light the flame. Olympic at the opening ceremony. “We have a lot of fun together. We are like brothers, ”says an athlete.
It is obviously also a question of the COVID-19 pandemic, but essentially to say that the situation is under control in China, except in Hong Kong, but which we are fortunately lending a hand.
the China Daily very interested in politics. Its Friday headline reported that President Xi was sparing no effort to improve people’s living standards and rejuvenate the nation. We also learned that the Ministry of Education will henceforth require that the management team of each primary and secondary school include a representative of law enforcement in order, in particular, to “protect the rights of pupils, prevent juvenile delinquency and punish students who behave very badly.
In economics, the Ministry of Commerce ensures that China complies with the highest standards in terms of international rules, contrary to American claims. Experts are also quoted as saying that strong growth in manufacturing output will make it possible to achieve the targets set in the 14and five-year plan of the Chinese government.
On the editorial page, the United States takes up almost all the attention. In particular, it denounces their belligerent attitude towards China, their efforts to isolate it from other Western countries, their alarmism in the Ukrainian file, their inflation which threatens growth in other countries as well as the racist comments which heard there on Chinese-American snowboarding champion Gu Ailing.
Canada has occupied, in recent weeks, a significant place in the World pages with its story of “freedom convoy”, sometimes to talk about its economic impacts, sometimes to talk about the role played by the United States in the crisis. . This even earned Prime Minister Trudeau the subject of the cartoon of the day on Wednesday. We saw him supporting protesters who looked like thugs in Hong Kong – presumably in reference to the pro-democracy demonstrations of recent years – but condemning disgruntled truckers armed with placards.
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This report was financed thanks to the support of the Transat International Journalism Fund.The duty.