In a 45 billion yuan (US$6.57 billion) burst designed to challenge the American, European and Al Jazeera networks for television programming primacy and seeking to change the country's image, China has set out to establish a 24-hour English language channel. But its rigid and unreformed system of news censorship threatens to torpedo its ambitious plans.
China Sets Out to Build a CNN
China Sets Out to Build a CNN
China Sets Out to Build a CNN
In a 45 billion yuan (US$6.57 billion) burst designed to challenge the American, European and Al Jazeera networks for television programming primacy and seeking to change the country's image, China has set out to establish a 24-hour English language channel. But its rigid and unreformed system of news censorship threatens to torpedo its ambitious plans.