Telling China’s Story, One Bottle at a Time
As China’s leaders gathered in Beijing to chart the country’s future amid economic uncertainty, state media sought to shift the focus — bottling up more critical coverage.
Want Want China Times Media Group Chairman Meets CPPCC Chairman Wang Yang in Beijing
Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing in July 2018, visiting several Chinese state media organizations and meeting with Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) chairman Wang Yang (汪洋), a Politburo Standing Committee member and one of the six most senior officials in the CCP hierarchy. The visit was reported by CitiOrange in an April 2019 investigation citing a Reporters Without Borders report on Chinese media expansion. Wang Yang subsequently referenced his meeting with Tsai at the Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit in May 2019, recounting that Tsai had told him that maintaining the 1992 Consensus position was making his situation very difficult.
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