By Kevin McCauley
China’s People’s Daily Online, which is the Internet property of the official newspaper of China’s Communist party, has a memorandum of understanding with Ruder Finn to establish an interactive platform among government, media, academics and companies.
The partnership, according to RF’s announcement, will also study development of a PA communications system, assist the platform’s international launch, and promote the “development of social media for online public opinion supervision.”
The People’s Daily, the world’s No. 6 newspaper, founded PDO in 1998. It is published in 15 languages.
The PDO, on Aug. 3, rapped the U.S. for its “unilateral sanction of Iran” to punish those who assisted nuclear development. Kunlun Bank of China is on the U.S. sanctions list. The PDO’s editorial charged the U.S. uses its domestic law in its “pursuit of international hegemony and power politics.”
Another editorial criticized a “small number of western media” covering the London Olympics for making up stories about China that range from labeling Chinese athletes 'medal machines' to doping claims based on no evidence."
PDO believes elements in the west cannot deal with the rise of China to become the second biggest economy in the world.
“At the London Olympics, it is irresponsible for the Western media to pour filth on Chinese athletes who won because of hard training and years of arduous preparation,” the editorial said. |