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The 2025 China Daily Social Responsibility Report Is Classic Newspeak

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The 2025 China Daily Social Responsibility Report Is Classic Newspeak
A newspaper consumer reads a copy of China Daily's Africa edition in front of a news stand in the Kenyan capital on Dec. 14, 2012. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images
Stu Cvrk
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China Daily is the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) state-affiliated English-language newspaper, established in 1981, that serves as a major outlet for external propaganda and international communication. On May 30, it bravely declared that it had published the China Daily Social Responsibility Report (2025). The report ostensibly covers the newspaper’s performance in the areas of “political responsibility, humanistic care, cultural responsibility, and lawful operations.”

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Stu Cvrk
Stu Cvrk
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Stu Cvrk retired as a captain after serving 30 years in the U.S. Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience as an oceanographer and systems analyst, Cvrk is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education that serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.