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updated 10:20 AM UTC, Dec 13, 2023

Cooperation Between Associated Press (AP) & Xinhua News Agency Worries U.S. Lawmakers

Unic Press UK: 14 lawmakers of the United States have called into question a cooperation agreement between the Associated Press (AP) of the United States and [the state-run news agency] Xinhua of the People’s Republic of China, the Washington Post reports.

In a letter dated December 19, which was addressed to the president and chief executive officer of the Associated Press (AP), Gary Pruitt, the lawmakers’ led by Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and signed by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), recalled that under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of the U.S, the Xinhua news agency is required to register as a foreign agent.

It was in Beijing last month November that [the state-run news agency] Xinhua of China and the Associated Press (AP) of the United States signed an MOU to advance the mutually beneficial cooperation, which was initially inked by the two parties in 1972.

During the meeting in Beijing, Gary Pruitt of AP and the president of Xinhua News Agency, Cai Mingzhao welcomed the opportunities for sustaining/improving the news exchange agreement of 1972.

The areas of cooperation go beyond new media, application of artificial intelligence (AI), commercial interactions, new technology (media brain and AI anchor).

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