Why did China’s state media make a sudden turn towards friendlier US ties?
Al JazeeraControl over China’s media narrative seen in swift turn towards US friendship ahead of Biden-Xi meeting at APEC summit. In the weeks before the long-awaited November 15 meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC summit in San Francisco, China’s media softened its strident rhetoric. The abrupt change of perspective on the US by China’s media and public figures can seem very confusing, said Vicky Tseng, 34, who works with social media at an “But it is the Chinese government that sets the tone for Chinese media. “It doesn’t really matter what type of media you are these days,” said Titus Chen, a researcher on Chinese social media policies at the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. “And I have still found anti-US content on Chinese media the past weeks, so it never completely disappeared.” While the positive atmosphere appeared to survive Biden calling Xi a dictator at the end of the APEC summit, the day after the meeting the Global Times released a cartoon sketch meant to illustrate hypocrisy in US foreign policy.
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