Western media being independent is a myth has been for the last 20-30 years specially when it comes to foreign relations. Most of the independent western media is sidelined which results in little or no spread of real news most of it is just propaganda of different political and financial interests. Go thorough this website is shows how much misinfo is spread by corporate media and different countries. But no main stream media picks up the stories or talk about it. https://www.disinfo.eu/
There is no such thing as independent western media.
Western media censors by omission. And when they report on China, they only report on news that casts China negatively, in order to make the western world appear morally superior.