90 Miles From Tyranny : Chinese Communist Party News Outlets Are Fawning Over The ‘NeverTrump’ Lincoln Project

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Monday, July 20, 2020

Chinese Communist Party News Outlets Are Fawning Over The ‘NeverTrump’ Lincoln Project










SEVERAL CHINESE STATE MEDIA OUTLETS HAVE PENNED FAWNING REVIEWS OF THE LINCOLN PROJECT, A NEVER TRUMP “REPUBLICAN” GROUP, THE NATIONAL PULSE CAN REVEAL.
Launched in 2019 by a cohort of establishment, so-called “Republicans” dedicated to “defeating President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box,” the group is routinely praised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) run media outlets such as China Global Television Network (CGTN) and China Daily.

Both outlets are registered as foreign agents in the U.S. under the same law designed to stop Nazi propaganda in the 1930s.

CGTN editor Ceng Jing dedicated an entire op-ed – “Lincoln Project and the Republicans for President Biden” – to chronicle the group, hailing it as “a leading voice in the online political crusade against Trump” and “gaining particular attraction in the anti-Trump camp.”

“Taken together, the one-minute clips are nothing short of a psychological warfare campaign, some laced with extremely personal messages aimed at provoking Trump’s deepest insecurities,” the piece continues.

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY WELCOMES THE LINCOLN PROJECT

CGTN also praises the Lincoln Project founders’ alleged “knowledge and resources in Republican politics,” and leverages the group to demonstrate “critics of the most polarizing American president is not uncommon.”

Another CGTN editor, Liane Ferreira, heaped praise upon the group in a piece entitled “A World of Regrets: Republicans Turn Their Backs on Trump.”

Declaring “the end of Trumpism at the hands of Lincoln,” the article quotes several of the group’s anti-Trump ads and insists its comprise of “high-profile Republicans.”

CGTN also uses the Lincoln Project’s criticism of President Trump’s coronavirus response as part of the country’s broader campaign to deflect blame for spawning and spreading the virus, noting “the project puts the spotlight on...


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