Chinese State-Owned Media Uses Gov. Newsom in Massive Propaganda Blast

Governor of California Gavin Newsom attends a press conference in Beijing on Oct. 25, 2023. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images

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The Global Times has run at least 16 stories on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s week-long junket to communist China. Wikipedia describes the outlet as “a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, the People’s Daily.”