CHINA-US: US ENDS FIVE CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES
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Reuters (December 4) reported that the US State Department announced on December 4 that it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China because they are "soft power propaganda tools." The programmes terminated are: the Policymakers Educational China Trip Program; the U.S.-China Friendship Program; the U.S.-China Leadership Exchange Program; the U.S.-China Transpacific Exchange Program; and the Hong Kong Educational and Cultural Program. The State Department statement said "While other programs funded under the auspices of the MECEA are mutually beneficial, the five programs in question are fully funded and operated by the (Chinese) government as soft power propaganda tools."
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