SCMP: Don’t mention the trade war: what China doesn’t want people to know in its dispute with the US
‘You can’t use trade war in your headline’, one media source says, as censors seek to control the way the dispute is reported.
China’s censors are scrambling to control the narrative about the trade war with the US by giving the media a list of dos and don’ts when reporting on the topic, sources have said.
Four separate sources working for Chinese media, who were briefed on these internal instructions, told the South China Morning Post that they were told not to “over-report” the trade war with US and be extremely careful about linking the trade war to stock market falls, the depreciation of the yuan or economic weakness to avoid spreading panic.
“When you report a fall in the stock market index or a weakening in the yuan’s exchange rate, you can’t use ‘trade war’ in your headline,” one source with an official Chinese media outlet, who declined to be named, said.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese love to make money and they are addicted to the ups and downs of their stock markets. A trade war will have a direct impact on their markets, and the idea that Beijing thinks it will be able to suppress information that impacts its markets .... LOL .... it is not going to work.
