[Animats]

The South China Morning Post has had the best English-language reporting on China for years. Both inside and outside China, that was what one read to get some idea of what was really going on. For comparison, read Xinhua.[1] Today's top story: "President Xi calls for structural reform, agricultural modernization". Story #2: "Premier Li urges Guangdong to pioneer reform". Story #3: "Top legislator delivers report on work of NPC Standing Committee". You get the idea. China Daily [2] on China is a bit better. But not much. "China to boost consumer goods quality: minister". "Top legislator lauds enhanced legislation on China's national security". There's also the People's Daily [3], which is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China. This is literally the party line. Good coverage of the 13th Five-Year Plan and the 2016 National Party Congress.

This is a big loss for China. The USSR suffered from having all the press toe the party line. Even the people running the country didn't have a good overview of what was going on. The downfall of the USSR was a surprise to the leadership of the USSR.

[1] http://www.news.cn/english/ [2] http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/ [3] http://en.people.cn/

[zghst]

SCMP was already going down the tubes in regards to journalistic integrity. I stopped reading more than a year ago due to the propaganda pieces they were shipping.