High‑profile American journalists are among those named in a new investigation as having taken fully funded 'exchange' trips to China, paid for by a foundation linked in US records to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), raising questions about foreign influence and transparency in the media.
Reporter Natalie Winters, writing on Substack, draws on rosters, programme descriptions and lobbying filings for the China–United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) to argue that the delegations were intended to generate 'favourable coverage' and 'positive messages' about Beijing rather than offering straightforward cultural exchange.
