US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a press conference with Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics at the National Art Museum in Riga, Latvia, Monday March 7, 2022. (Olivier Douliery/Pool via AP)
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UPDATED 1:15 PM PT – Wednesday, May 4, 2022
The State Department recently took a swing at authoritarian governments for their suppression of the press. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed World Press Freedom Day and commended independent fact-based journalism as a beacon of shining light on disinformation.
Blinken specifically called out China for spreading disinformation through Taiwanese media outlets. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been accused of publishing false reports of US delegates meeting Taiwanese officials and China’s military launching an invasion into the island nation.
In recent years, the CCP has…
