Pick up a Chinese newspaper this week, though, and you will find the state of Trump’s nation being described in rather less triumphalist terms. Hu Xijin, the newspaper’s editor, used an online opinion video to express incredulity at the mess the US was in. But [under Trump] the propaganda is in many ways converging more with the facts,” Bishop said. “Their jobs are much easier now: in many ways the propaganda writes itself and it’s not really propaganda anymore ... Domestic media reports had been largely factual and somber in tone, with little explanation of the attack’s context, Brady said.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2017 16:30 UTC