Rubio calls on US media outlets to cut ties with CCP propaganda outlet China Daily

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FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is calling on nine U.S. mainstream media CEOs to sever their ties with China Daily, an English-language newspaper owned and operated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Propaganda Department that often gives flattering coverage of the regime.

"The CCP’s efforts to infiltrate American institutions are extensive, and news outlets are not immune to these ventures. China Daily is one of the CCP’s leading organs to subvert U.S. news media by amplifying the goals and ambitions of the party," Rubio wrote Monday to The Seattle Times, the Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Time, USA Today, the Financial Times, the Sun Sentinel, and the Chicago Tribune.

Rubio said China Daily's goal is to "subvert U.S. news media by amplifying the goals and ambitions of the party." The outlet has published several articles claiming the U.S.'s "anti-China" reporting on the persecution of Xinjiang Uyghurs is an "outright lie."

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Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, co-signed the letter.

In 2021, Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings showed that multiple American outlets received hundreds of thousands of dollars from China Daily. China Daily registered with FARA in