Foreign Office interpreter accused of running Chinese propaganda website from Britain as part of 'veiled global network' of Communist Party sites
A Foreign Office interpreter has been accused of running a Chinese propaganda website from Britain as part of a 'veiled global network' of Communist Party sites. Mr Shirong is the sole owner of Foremost4Media, which Microsoft flagged after alleging it forms part of a 'veiled global network of Chinese Communist Party news websites' in 2023. Chen Shirong sat two places away from President Xi Jinping at a lunch in Manchester in 2015, which former Prime Minister David Cameron was also present Mr Shirong has been accused of running a website that formed part of China's 'propaganda' network while he had access to the Foreign Office in Whitehall Mr Chen's website, which is no longer online but is still advertised on the interpreter's LinkedIn profile, was named by Microsoft as as one part of 'a network of more than 50 predominately Chinese-language news websites that support the CCP's stated goal of being the authoritative voice of all Chinese language media worldwide'. Pictured: The Foreign Office building in Whitehall And in 2019, Mr Chen attended the Global Chinese Language Media Forum, an event organised by the China News Service.
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