CCTV regularly airs forced confessions, defends Xinjiang genocide.
WFB: The NBA is holding “ongoing business discussions” with China Central Television, the Chinese Communist Party’s chief propaganda network known for airing forced confessions of domestic dissidents.
The league told Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) in a March 30 letter that it is exploring a renewed partnership with the regime’s television organ. While the NBA has yet to finalize a deal for the 2021 season, deputy commissioner Mark Tatum wrote, the two sides are in “ongoing business discussions.” Tatum also revealed that NBA China CEO Michael Ma—whose father served as a top executive for CCTV Sports—is taking an “active role” in the negotiations.
The state-run network has attracted widespread criticism for its crucial role in advancing CCP propaganda. CCTV regularly airs forced confessions from journalists, human rights activists, and other dissidents. It has also likened pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters to ISIS militants. In 2018, the network dismissed China’s Xinjiang-based internment camps—where more than one million Uyghur Muslims are subject to forced labor—as “vocational centers” aimed at boosting employment.
Blackburn condemned the NBA for entering negotiations with the state-run network “at the same time when American companies like H&M and Nike are turning away from China and refusing to employ Xinjiang slave labor.”
“The NBA is attempting to cut a deal to air games on the same station that regularly broadcasts Communist propaganda and forced prisoner confessions,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. more
Those NBA “negotiations” likely have to do mostly with how often NBA execs have to suck ChiCom dick, and how often the ChiComs get to fuck NBA execs in the ass.
Then they don’t need any subsidies from taxpayers such as sweetheart deal for arenas as such.
Funny thing about sports arenas. They are sold to the public as generating a ton of tax revenue, but taxes are always raised to pay for them. If they were so good at generating tax revenue you would think that they would pay for themselves. Perhaps raise taxes for the up-front money but then drop them to lower than they were before once the money starts rolling in. Instead, they never seem to get dropped to where they were before much less lower.
Communism is way more involved than American’s even want to question.
How polite can one be to proclaim Christians, let alone non Christians to be enslaved once again by the same Christians/non Christians of old…Human beings are as selfish as they ever have been. But what do you care..?
Remember, getting screwed is an actual fact.
Have fun paying for shit you can’t pay for some more shit you can’t pay for….
I traveled to Moscow twice and Kiev (Ukraine) once, because there was Western Civilization music there…it had a connection. I recorded a number of CD albums with their music (mostly Tchai and Mussorgsky), which was a hard-line connection with people with different ideas, but had a connection I could understand.
With China…there is nothing.
Blacks were targeted by the communists way back in the 50’s and 60’s as being vulnerable and open to manipulation and recruitment due to their disenfranchisement in American society. Turning them anti-American was like taking candy from a baby.
The NBA is nothing more than a modern day target of that 60’s communist strategy. Same with the NFL, and any business that is heavily influenced and/or dominated by blacks.