Americans working for Chinese media are having to share personal details
CNNLondon CNN Business — The State Department is asking all US-based employees of Chinese state TV network CGTN to fill out detailed questionnaires with personal information, alarming American employees of the network, CNN has learned. “Such information is managed in accordance with any protections that exist under Department policy and the Privacy Act of 1974.” CGTN, the international arm of Chinese state television, has staff in more than 70 countries. The five Chinese state media outlets labeled as foreign missions – CGTN, Xinhua, China Radio International, the China Daily and the People’s Daily – now require US government approval to buy or lease office space, are limited in the number of Chinese employees they can have on staff, and must register personnel changes including new hires and staff departures with the State Department, just as foreign diplomatic missions do. But in a statement posted to its website in March, the channel slammed the foreign mission label as “hypocritical.” “The US State Department has increased its control over Chinese media, while violating hallowed US commitments to freedom of speech and the press,” the statement said.
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