kurtsh, Does your paper have this manipulative pro-China "advertisement" in your local paper?
This "China Watch" newspaper supplement has been added into the LA Times every Sunday for years - focusing on older, more gullible voters. And it's pretty insidious.
"Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign" | China | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping