CNN’s Sciutto: It Was a ‘Remarkable Propaganda Victory’ for Xi and China Not to Have U.S. Media in the W.H.

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SCIUTTO: “And those polite reporters that President Trump was praising are state media reporters under the thumb of the Chinese government. So that contrast here, the land of the free, where we have press freedom, it’s our White House that banned CNN and others, in the midst of a Chinese visit, is truly remarkable. China puts journalists in prison. And that’s just — it’s a remarkable propaganda victory, I think one can say, for China. Big picture for the summit, I think you can say it’s a all pomp, no breakthrough summit, that the best outcome, when I speak to diplomats involved, is just a continuation of the truce that Xi and Trump reached a little more than a year ago.”