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Crossing the Border Reveals a Stark Contrast in Reporting by Xinhua News Agency

China

 On August 26, a sudden and massive mudslide struck the Jilong port in northern Nepal and Tibet, China. Although it was the same disaster occurring at the same time, the media coverage from both sides of the China-Nepal border presented a strikingly different narrative: Nepalese media focused on the human stories of the disaster, while the Chinese Communist Party's official media concentrated on 'how official agencies operate.'...

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