The rejection of Southern Media and Chengdu’s B-Ray Media’s offer to purchase the ailing U.S. magazine Newsweek is just the latest setback the Chinese have encountered in their desire for acceptance by the international media. …

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Another year, another plan by China’s propaganda divisions to build giant media empires that it feels will help better position the country in the global media marketplace.  After the Olympic torch relay debacle last year, …

It comes as huge surprise to most observers that across the Pacific, far away from Greater China, a brutal media battle is underway with many of the world’s largest Chinese media brands.  LA’s Mandarin language …