{"id":33623,"date":"2018-08-18T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=33623"},"modified":"2018-08-17T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T13:18:10","slug":"inside-radio-sale-of-border-station-raises-chinese-propaganda-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/inside-radio-sale-of-border-station-raises-chinese-propaganda-worry\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Radio: “Sale of Border Station Raises Chinese Propaganda Worry”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: Inside Radio<\/a> via Dennis Dura)<\/p>\n

The proposed sale of an AM station along the Mexico-U.S. border to a group of Chinese investors has stoked fears that the 50,000-watt station will be used to infiltrate the U.S. with Chinese propaganda. Spanish news-talk \u201cW-Radio 690\u201d XEWW (690), which blankets Southern California from Tijuana, is being sold by Mexican broadcaster GLR to Chinese investment group H&H Group USA, owned by Vivian Huo, a U.S. citizen who runs the investment firm H&H Capital Partners.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Inside Radio via Dennis Dura) The proposed sale of an AM station along the Mexico-U.S. border to a group of Chinese investors has stoked fears that the 50,000-watt station will be used to infiltrate the U.S. with Chinese propaganda. Spanish news-talk \u201cW-Radio 690\u201d XEWW (690), which blankets Southern California from Tijuana, is being sold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,433,3,1850],"tags":[5875,7219,4119,7218,7217],"class_list":["post-33623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-propaganda","tag-dennis-dura","tag-inside-radio","tag-propaganda","tag-w-radio-690","tag-xeww"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8Kj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15420,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/reuters-fcc-and-justice-department-investigate-chinese-radio-network\/","url_meta":{"origin":33623,"position":0},"title":"Reuters: FCC and Justice Department investigate Chinese radio network","author":"Thomas","date":"November 3, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow--seems the FCC and Justice Department took notice of Reuters' CRI investigation\u00a0reported earlier: (Source: Reuters via Mike Terry) The Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department are investigating a California firm whose U.S. radio broadcasts are backed by a subsidiary of the Chinese government, officials said. 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