The outlet run by China's Communist Party (CCP) has reportedly increased its spending on Time magazine. Time is one of the most popular publications in the US.
The Washington Free Beacon reported that China Daily, which is a state-run media outlet, spent over $660,000 on advertising in Time between May and October. In the previous six months, the company had paid more than $690,000 to the magazine. Some of the articles that the outlet published in Time talked about China's climate change initiatives and Chinese technology.
Marc Benioff, a prominent Democratic Party donor, is the owner of Time magazine. He has visited Joe Biden numerous times at the White House. In 2018, he started pushing for the magazine to expand its reach in China. In 2019, another company owned by him, SalesForce, partnered with Chinese tech firm Alibaba to provide a cloud computing service.
In recent years, China Daily has been spending a lot of money on advertising in various American publications, such as USA Today, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and the Financial Times. These activities have drawn the attention of the US Department of Justice. In 2020, the department ordered the outlet to disclose all of its American deals.
Since he started making deals with China, which are often criticized by the US government, Marc Benioff has praised the country's authoritarian regime. He noted that China was leading the way in the production of electric cars and claimed that the country had successfully eliminated the Coronavirus through its controversial "zero COVID" policies. This has led to mass protests in the country.
The preceding is a summary of an article that originally appeared on AM Greatness.
