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...postman with registered mail gets past the portal guards unquestioned. The 40 inmates who work, eat, sleep, exercise and even procreate inside cannot leave without passing the muster of the sentinels. The roof bristles with six radio antennas, attentively tuned to Peking. This is the Hong Kong bureau of Hsinhua, or New China News Agency-the key link in the communications chain that is the West's only steady source of news from Communist China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News from China | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Line. In the 22 years since it was born in the caves of Yenan, Hsinhua has grown into a formidable propaganda machine. Its radio-teletype network throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America gets regular transmissions from Peking. It has 31 bureaus in Red China; outside, in addition to the big Hong Kong office, it staffs bureaus in most Western European capitals, in Moscow, Damascus, New Delhi, Baghdad, Cairo, Havana-an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News from China | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...What Hsinhua beams to the free world is carefully audited by Western newsmen because there is so much interest in Red China and so few ways to get the news.* Hsinhua correspondents, using the arts of Western journalism, often send out crisp, brief, seemingly impartial stories, but the party line is never missing: SALT PRODUCTION UP IN CHINA, headlined the Iraq Times, a Hsinhua user, over a recent dispatch. Often the line is tweezered in with surgical care. During President Eisenhower's late-summer tour of Europe, Hsinhua accounts sounded impersonal, but emphasized policy conflicts among the NATO allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News from China | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Hsinhuaese. Currently embarked on an ambitious expansion program, Hsinhua is concentrating its greatest effort among the nations wravering between East and West. Purveying its free service, not only to the press but to government departments, foreign embassies, important business firms and even individuals, Hsinhua is making a hard pitch in the struggle for the allegiance of undecided nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News from China | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Since both People's Daily and Hsinhua (also known as the New China News Agency) are directly responsible to the party's propaganda department. Editor Wu gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Voice of Red China | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

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