{"id":396466,"date":"2021-04-07T13:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=396466"},"modified":"2021-04-07T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:58:24","slug":"nba-in-ongoing-business-discussions-with-chinese-propaganda-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-in-ongoing-business-discussions-with-chinese-propaganda-network\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA In \u2018Ongoing Business Discussions\u2019 With Chinese Propaganda Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fnba-in-ongoing-business-discussions-with-chinese-propaganda-network%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=396466&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 readability=\"30.525\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">CCTV regularly airs forced confessions, defends Xinjiang genocide<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-749.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-748.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NBA-Black-LIves-Matter-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NBA-Black-LIves-Matter-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NBA-Black-LIves-Matter-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NBA-Black-LIves-Matter-702x491.jpg 702w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" rel=\"author\" class=\"text-red-700\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 April 7, 2021 1:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"87.329198793161\">\n<p>The NBA is holding &#8220;ongoing business discussions&#8221; with China Central Television, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s chief propaganda network known for airing forced confessions of domestic dissidents.<\/p>\n<p>The league told&nbsp;Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) in a March 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/services\/files\/7172647F-3B5B-4141-A982-676F4CDD099C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;that it is exploring a renewed partnership with the regime&#8217;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 &#8220;ongoing business discussions.&#8221; Tatum also revealed that NBA China CEO Michael Ma\u2014whose father served as a top executive for CCTV Sports\u2014is taking an &#8220;active role&#8221; in the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2495151990809474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">likened<\/a> pro-democracy Hong Kong protesters to ISIS militants. In 2018, the network dismissed China&#8217;s Xinjiang-based internment camps\u2014where more than one million Uyghur Muslims are subject to forced labor\u2014as &#8220;vocational centers&#8221; aimed at boosting employment.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn condemned the NBA for entering negotiations with the state-run network &#8220;at the same time when American companies like H&amp;M and Nike are turning away from China and refusing to employ Xinjiang slave labor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NBA is attempting to cut a deal to air games on the same station that regularly broadcasts Communist propaganda and forced prisoner confessions,&#8221; she told the <i>Washington Free Beacon<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Such a deal would prove lucrative for the league, which, according to Tatum, lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the 2019-2020 season due to a CCTV ban. The network&#8217;s moratorium on NBA games came after then-Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey spoke out against Chinese human rights abuses in October 2019. CCTV refused to air NBA contests for a year following Morey&#8217;s comments and has yet to broadcast a 2021 regular season game.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA&#8217;s relationship with China goes far beyond CCTV. The league for years ran a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/blackburn-rubio-blast-nba-for-covering-up-chinese-training-center-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">basketball training camp<\/a> in Xinjiang, where Chinese partners reportedly subjected coaches and young players to routine physical abuse. One former employee compared the Xinjiang academy to &#8220;World War II Germany,&#8221; and American coaches were surveilled and detained by CCP officials without cause.<\/p>\n<p>NBA leaders were seeking coaches to move to Xinjiang &#8220;well into the summer&#8221; of 2019, years after human rights groups revealed the existence of internment camps in the region.<\/p>\n<p>NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/2020-election\/nba-commissioner-adam-silver-maxes-out-to-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maxed out donations<\/a> to President Joe Biden in 2020, has praised the league&#8217;s &#8220;long history of supporting important issues around social justice&#8221; while ignoring Chinese atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our business has continued there,&#8221; Silver said of the communist nation in March. &#8220;We have hundreds of millions of fans in China and we see it as our business to serve those fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NBA did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCTV regularly airs forced confessions, defends Xinjiang genocide  Getty Images  Collin Anderson \u2022 April 7, 2021 1:45 pm The NBA is holding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311805,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-749.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"NBA In \u2018Ongoing Business Discussions\u2019 With Chinese Propaganda Network","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-749.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"NBA In \u2018Ongoing Business Discussions\u2019 With Chinese Propaganda Network","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}