REPORTERS WOOED: Professor Shih Cheng-feng said that media manipulation was crucial to Beijing, but intimidation tactics could backfire in elections next month
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 28, 2018
By: Chung Li-hua and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Academics yesterday said that China has renewed its propaganda campaign against
A female honor guard of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army marches past the entrance to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 7. Photo: China News Service via CNA
Taiwan after China’s Taiwan Affairs Office invited Internet-based Taiwanese journalists to attend military demonstrations by a unit of the Beijing Military Region on Sunday last week.
A media exchange program from Oct. 18 to Nov. 12 was to showcase the accomplishments of Chinese reforms, with Taiwanese and Chinese Web-based news outlets invited, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesman Ma Xiaoguang (馬曉光) said prior to the event.
However, Chinese media reported that it was the first time members of the Taiwanese media were invited to a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) demonstration.
The PLA took photographs of its troops alongside Taiwanese reporters, while the commander of the unnamed Chinese battalion, identified as Liang Huaikun (梁懷琨), made a speech about the unit’s history, Chinese media reports said. [FULL STORY]
