People’s Daily has said it is free to scrutinize pieces pitched to them, including a US ambassador’s op-ed which was rejected for being “inconsistent with facts.” The spat comes as US-China tensions hit new highs.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo locked horns with People’s Daily – an official newspaper of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) central committee and, in Pompeo’s words, “the main propaganda newspaper” – after it refused to publish a piece by Terry Branstad, the US ambassador to China.
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