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Who is spinning the propaganda?

Recently, the White House began a Facebook page, "promoting the Obama administration to young people". If a similar initiative took place in China, it would most likely be branded a "communist propaganda campaign".

The People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, and according to Britain's The Telegraph newspaper, the Chinese people need reminding by yet another communist "propaganda campaign". On May 10, the daily reported: "An Internet poll conducted across several leading Chinese websites as part of a propaganda campaign to mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic, has drawn a patriotic response".

Would The Telegraph's Washington correspondents ever write: "An Internet poll conducted across several leading US websites as part of a government propaganda campaign to mark the Fourth of July, has drawn a patriotic response."

By constantly labeling Chinese government initiatives as "commu-nist propaganda" the newspaper deliberately paints a sinister and very outdated picture harking back to the days of "reds under the beds" and the "yellow peril".

It appears The Telegraph reporters and the editors are trapped in a time warp, lost in a haze of the glory days of a colonial empire, long, long gone. I'm sure a few of these old chaps still rue the "loss" of Hong Kong.

Here's the irony. The Telegraph, that mouthpiece of the Britain's right-wing Tory Party, is only telling its old-school readers what they want to hear; and by presenting an outdated stereotype of China and the Chinese, the paper is guilty of spinning its own kind of propaganda.