Xi Jinping: A Year in the Headlines
China’s leader maintained a commanding lead in the headlines of the CCP’s flagship People’s Daily in 2025, despite a substantial decline over the past year. What do these mixed signals mean?
Xinhua President Meets with Reuters and AP Presidents
On June 12, 2024, Xinhua News Agency President Fu Hua (傅華) met with Associated Press President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham and Reuters President Paul Bascobert in New York. Fu and Veerasingham signed a new cooperation agreement on news and information services, and both sides discussed artificial intelligence’s impact on media and Olympic coverage. Fu expressed hope for strengthening cooperation with Reuters on emerging technologies and international news services, noting the partnership between the two agencies dating back to 1957. While Xinhua provided enthusiastic coverage of the meetings, neither the Associated Press nor Reuters reported on them. These partnerships allow Western news agencies to operate in China, while Xinhua views the cooperation as part of China’s broader efforts to shape global discourse and enhance its government’s international image.
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