China’s Response to Reports of Torture: ‘Fake News’ – The New York Times

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China’s Response to Reports of Torture: ‘Fake News’

The government has long denounced articles by Western news organizations as biased and dishonest, but Beijing has now adopted a very Western term to describe them.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/world/asia/china-fake-news-xie.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, mimicked Mr. Trump’s characteristic bluster — and his fondness for capital letters — on Friday in denouncing Western news coverage of a Chinese lawyer and human rights advocate who said he had been tortured.