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Chinese Americans line up outside of the Sing Tao News offices to donate money for the victims of the earthquake in China, in the Chinatown neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif., on May 14, 2008. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Sing Tao, the Beijing regime’s most influential propaganda outlet in overseas Chinese communities, has been required by the U.S. Department of Justice to register its U.S. subsidiary as a “foreign agent.” This is the first Hong Kong-based news outlet to be thus labeled.
Ching Cheong is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong. In his decades-long journalism career, he has specialized in political, military, and diplomatic news in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, and Singapore.