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During NYE broadcast, China’s FM spokeswoman seizes on CNN’s mix-up of Thailand and Taiwan to attack U.S. policy. But a privately-owned news channel doesn’t speak for the United States.
“Seems a bit of geography and history lesson is in order for those who vow to defend Taiwan but really don't have a clue where it is.”During its New Year’s Eve show, CNN, the Atlanta-based, multinational cable news channel, made several errors in which Thailand and Taiwan were mixed up.
Will Ripley, a Taipei-based CNN senior international correspondent who participated in the New Year’s Eve broadcast, addressed the matter on Twitter. Fireworks explode over the Chao Phraya River during New Year celebrations in Bangkok on January 1, 2023. He acknowledged that confusing Taiwan and Thailand is a “sensitive topic for many.” Ripley added that his Hong Kong-based CNN colleague, Kristie Lu Stout, who took part in the live broadcast, “would never confuse” Thailand and Taiwan.But China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying used CNN’s broadcasting gaffes to attack U.S. Taiwan policy. Hua tweeted a screenshot of one of the mistakes. That image showed New Year’s fireworks, with a graphic identifying the location as “Bangkok, Taiwan.”"Seems a bit of geography and history lesson is in order for those who vow to defend Taiwan but really don't have a clue where it is,” Hua wrote. CNN, like any media company, is fair game for criticism. But it is misleading for a Chinese government spokesperson to seize on mistakes made by a privately-owned cable news channel to criticize U.S. government policy.On September 18, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden told CBS television’s "60 Minutes” program that U.S. forces would defend democratically-governed Taiwan if China launched an “unprecedented attack.”Washington recognizes the communist government in Beijing as “the sole legal government of China,” but only acknowledges “Beijing’s position that Taiwan is part of China.” The U.S. does not take a position on Taiwan’s sovereignty. Tensions ratcheted up on August 2, 2022, when then-U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi Taiwan to, in her words, “honor America’s unwavering commitment to supporting Taiwan’s vibrant democracy.”to that visit, carrying out live fire drills and other military maneuvers in the sea and air around Taiwan. Then U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi attends a meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen at the presidential office in Taipei on August 3, 2022. China, like other authoritarian regimes, regularly treats Western media as uniformly representing the interests of the U.S. government. In fact, U.S. media outlets have a variety of funding and ownership structures, not to mention editorial lines. Voice of America , , is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media , the U.S. government agency that oversees all non-military, U.S. international broadcasting. However, a legal firewall prohibits political interference in VOA’s reporting., China’s attacks on Western media often appear based on the assumption that they function like Chinese state media. In 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered state-run media to strictly follow the Chinese Communist Party leadership and focus on "positive reporting.” “All news media run by the Party must work to speak for the Party's will and its propositions and protect the Party's authority and unity,” China’s state-run Xinhua news agency
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