{"id":1920410,"date":"2023-04-27T18:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-way-biden-campaign-co-chair-lavished-praise-on-china-in-interview-with-ccp-propaganda-outlet\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T22:56:54","slug":"the-china-way-biden-campaign-co-chair-lavished-praise-on-china-in-interview-with-ccp-propaganda-outlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-china-way-biden-campaign-co-chair-lavished-praise-on-china-in-interview-with-ccp-propaganda-outlet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The China Way\u2019: Biden Campaign Co-Chair Lavished Praise on China in Interview with CCP Propaganda Outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-china-way-biden-campaign-co-chair-lavished-praise-on-china-in-interview-with-ccp-propaganda-outlet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920410&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><h2>DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has come under fire for his close relationship with Beijing<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\"> \t\t \t\t \t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-chairman for President Joe Biden\u2019s reelection campaign, heaped praise on China in an interview with Chinese state television, saying &#8220;doors opened&#8221; for his movie studio in the communist regime after he learned &#8220;the China way.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks, said in a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-Sol1x1rgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with CGTN America, a subsidiary of the CCP\u2019s propaganda department, that business in China had proved &#8220;extremely rewarding.&#8221; He praised China\u2019s technological innovation as &#8220;way ahead&#8221; of other countries, and downplayed concerns about China\u2019s reputation for censoring American movies.<\/p>\n<p>Katzenberg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-campaign-co-chair-has-deep-china-connections-met-with-xi-jinping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friendly relationship<\/a> with China could present a political liability for Biden, who has come under scrutiny for failing to stand up to Beijing and for his son Hunter\u2019s dealings there. National security officials have warned that the Chinese government increasingly tries to influence American foreign policy through business leaders and other influencers outside government.<\/p>\n<p>Biden may have had a hand in opening doors for Katzenberg in China. In 2012, the<em> New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/25\/business\/global\/sec-asks-if-hollywood-paid-bribes-in-china.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that then-Vice President Biden negotiated with Chinese president Xi Jinping to secure a deal that would open the Chinese market to more American films. Katzenberg, who attended a State Department event with Biden and Xi around the time the deal was sealed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/dbf3064e-59a9-11e1-8d36-00144feabdc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> it an &#8220;honor for us and a huge opportunity&#8221; to have more access to China. One of Katzenberg\u2019s earliest business partners was Jiang Mianheng, the son of former Communist Party leader and Chinese President Jiang Zemin.<\/p>\n<p>Katzenberg\u2019s status in China was on display at a 2015 White House dinner, when the Hollywood mogul was <a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:4LFK2DeJ54cJ:https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/reliable-source\/wp\/2015\/09\/25\/who-will-sit-at-the-head-table-at-the-chinese-state-dinner\/&#038;cd=1&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;gl=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seated<\/a> at the head table with Xi and a few other American executives.<\/p>\n<p>Katzenberg, one of the Democratic Party\u2019s biggest donors, is the only Biden co-chairman from the private sector. Sens. Chris Coons (Del.) and Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Reps. Jim Clyburn (S.C.), Veronica Escobar (Tex.), and Lisa Blunt Rochester, and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (Mich.) will serve in the role.<\/p>\n<p>Katzenberg has faced some scrutiny over the years for his China ties. The Securities and Exchange Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/co-host-of-obama-hollywood-fundraiser-under-sec-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigated<\/a> whether DreamWorks, which Katzenberg founded in 1994, paid bribes to Chinese officials to expand its business. One of Katzenberg\u2019s first projects in China was a film called <em>Tibet Code<\/em>, which came under fire because it put forth a pro-Beijing view of the longstanding feud between Tibet and China.<\/p>\n<p>Asked in his CGTN interview about China\u2019s well-earned reputation for censoring Western films, Katzenberg said he &#8220;was never restricted&#8221; by Chinese authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve never been censored on anything that I have done. Maybe that\u2019s the choices of the kinds of things and the type of content that I make in that there wasn\u2019t any sensitivity around it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not that China\u2019s censors have given Katzenberg a free pass. The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/01\/15\/business\/media\/in-hollywood-movies-for-china-bureaucrats-want-a-say.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> in 2013 that Chinese officials visited DreamWorks\u2019s Los Angeles headquarters to sign off on the studio\u2019s &#8220;Kung Fu Panda 3.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The story line, production art and other creative elements have met their approval,&#8221; the <em>Times<\/em> reported of China\u2019s visit to DreamWorks.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden campaign and Katzenberg did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg has come under fire for his close relationship with Beijing Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, a co-chairman for President Joe Biden\u2019s reelection campaign, heaped praise on China in an interview with Chinese state television, saying &#8220;doors opened&#8221; for his movie studio in the communist regime after he learned &#8220;the China way.&#8221; Katzenberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1920411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[7126,6962,3620,4087,4501,25224,6234,25328,5209,8705,4488,10075],"class_list":["post-1920410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-ccp","tag-the","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-china","tag-co-chair","tag-interview","tag-lavished","tag-outlet","tag-praise","tag-propaganda","tag-way"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1920411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}