Chris Fenton

So if you peel it back even further to, say, circa 1980s, when I was growing up and in junior high and high school, when somebody said to me, what do you think of when you think of the Soviet Union? I would immediately think of sort of a gray... dreary Cold War type of thriller or a gorky park or something like that. And that was the way I thought of the Soviet Union.

So if you peel it back even further to, say, circa 1980s, when I was growing up and in junior high and high school, when somebody said to me, what do you think of when you think of the Soviet Union? I would immediately think of sort of a gray... dreary Cold War type of thriller or a gorky park or something like that. And that was the way I thought of the Soviet Union.

I never saw it in a blue sky and people happy walking around and milling. China's trying to do the opposite. There's generations of kids that have never seen, obviously, Tank Man, the guy holding back the tanks during the Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989 episode. There's lots of kids that have never seen bad weather in China in the form of television or films. They've never seen drug use.

I never saw it in a blue sky and people happy walking around and milling. China's trying to do the opposite. There's generations of kids that have never seen, obviously, Tank Man, the guy holding back the tanks during the Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989 episode. There's lots of kids that have never seen bad weather in China in the form of television or films. They've never seen drug use.

They've never seen criminals. Or if they've seen criminals, they've only seen criminals get caught by the police. So eventually, China is going to look like they're the ultimate system, the utopian part of society on a global basis to everyone, because no one's going to see any of the bad that happens inside of that country the same way it would happen anywhere else in the world.

They've never seen criminals. Or if they've seen criminals, they've only seen criminals get caught by the police. So eventually, China is going to look like they're the ultimate system, the utopian part of society on a global basis to everyone, because no one's going to see any of the bad that happens inside of that country the same way it would happen anywhere else in the world.

Not every country is perfect, but China wants to make it look perfect. So if you extrapolate that to COVID, you start to realize what that narrative was.

Not every country is perfect, but China wants to make it look perfect. So if you extrapolate that to COVID, you start to realize what that narrative was.

oh so so at least the the heavy hand of china was in there you could you feel it you see it i'll give you one other example we have one other example when you're in china everything that you see on the news every part of the news anything that got information wise press wise is controlled by the ministry of propaganda

oh so so at least the the heavy hand of china was in there you could you feel it you see it i'll give you one other example we have one other example when you're in china everything that you see on the news every part of the news anything that got information wise press wise is controlled by the ministry of propaganda

They don't want you to see certain things, particularly handguns or gun violence. But I happened to be there shooting Iron Man 3 late 2012 during Sandy Hook. And I'll tell you what played the whole week I was on the ground in Beijing, 24-7 on every station.

They don't want you to see certain things, particularly handguns or gun violence. But I happened to be there shooting Iron Man 3 late 2012 during Sandy Hook. And I'll tell you what played the whole week I was on the ground in Beijing, 24-7 on every station.

sandy hook and the sandy hook coverage why because they wanted to make the united states look like the wild west a completely violent place with no rules or laws and people shooting each other and look at us beijing we run the best system in the world that is the way they work when it comes to manipulating narrative and they're not far off but anyway but

sandy hook and the sandy hook coverage why because they wanted to make the united states look like the wild west a completely violent place with no rules or laws and people shooting each other and look at us beijing we run the best system in the world that is the way they work when it comes to manipulating narrative and they're not far off but anyway but

It's terrible. It's something that has affected me personally. I've been a lifelong Democrat my whole life. I did come out and vote for Trump in the last election. But I can say when my book came out, There was a lot of hesitancy from the left side of the aisle to allow me on those shows to talk about things that I experienced over 20 years working between the US and China.

It's terrible. It's something that has affected me personally. I've been a lifelong Democrat my whole life. I did come out and vote for Trump in the last election. But I can say when my book came out, There was a lot of hesitancy from the left side of the aisle to allow me on those shows to talk about things that I experienced over 20 years working between the US and China.

I have lots of Chinese friends. I love that country. I have a problem with Beijing. But for some reason, the narrative was, oh, he's preaching Asian hate. or he's being tough on China or ally. And, you know, that's something that the right mega side of the aisle only deals with. So it was really disheartening.

I have lots of Chinese friends. I love that country. I have a problem with Beijing. But for some reason, the narrative was, oh, he's preaching Asian hate. or he's being tough on China or ally. And, you know, that's something that the right mega side of the aisle only deals with. So it was really disheartening.

I mean, I could do Tucker Carlson's and Laura and Bartiromo as much as possible, but CNN would never have me on. And it was really it was quite shocking to me to realize how bifurcated we were in terms of messaging and how powerful that bifurcation of messaging is.

I mean, I could do Tucker Carlson's and Laura and Bartiromo as much as possible, but CNN would never have me on. And it was really it was quite shocking to me to realize how bifurcated we were in terms of messaging and how powerful that bifurcation of messaging is.